Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30
FROM A REPUBLICAN VIEWPOINT

+ hum A hEt UbLICAN VIE WfU1NI
AS our readers must know, the re-
suit was not entirely to the liking of
Golfers. While we do not wish to
say anything that would mar the per-
feet day of our friends who did not
see the situation as We saw it, we
feel bound to declare, as Mr.. Wilson
might express it, very candidly and
very sincerely and very, very solemn
ly, that majority of two or three
thousand votes in the state of Cali
fornia has not changed our opinion.
The views which we have expressed
from time to time as politely as we
could about Mr. Wilson's handling of
the question of the navy, the Lusitan-
ia correspondence, the administra-
TONS Mexican policy, and the rur-
render of the powers of government
to the railway brotherhoods, were ar
rived at after close and patient study
Of the subjects. Nothing happened on
December to modify them. They
were not changed by the soft elo-
quence of Shadow Lawn, and they
were not altered by the results of the
election. If it was wrong to allow
the destruction of Americans on the
Lusitania to go unrebuked in the
summer Of 1915, it Is still wrong in
1916. If the Mexican pol
.cy which has cost so many lives was
bad policy, it is no better because
If it's apparent Endorsement by pop
liar vote.
The question, as we saw it, Is not
me to be decided atany single cleo
lion. We firmly believe that if Mr..
Hughes and his managers had pres
snted a more vivid picture of Ameri
an ideals to the country, if they had
made more direct appeal to manli-
less of character and united nation
.lity, the result would have been diff
erent. But the returns give no rea-
son why the fight for, we will not say
higher, but other ideals of national
conduct than some of Mr.. Wilson's
supporters appear to cherish should
lot go on. The tendency to "Asia-
.ize' American thought, to permit
bodily comfort to become the chief
lim Of life, to put temporary peace
md Temporary prosperity ahead of
Ill other considerations, has not gain
ID so much Roadway that it cannot
e resisted successfully. We believe
hat Mr.. Wilson himself has acquired
/ much broader conception of the
,ountry's future and much more
cute sense of it's dangers than he had
| few months ago. If he is properly
dated over his victory in the south
nd the far west, he must have some
nisgivings when he sees the over
yhelming majorities against him in
Iew York and Illinois and in his own
ZONE state.
1t is hard to shake people out of
ondition of mind in which they have
zen long settled. 1t took the admin
stration nearly two years to see the
cal meaning Of the European war as
N event which might have a direct
gearing on the future of this country,
nd to- make even the slow and I'M
.ystemized preparations for national
License which are now under way.
How could anyone expect by short
;anvass conducted without the least
ign Of inspiration to open the eyes
If easy-going, prosperous people to
he fact that new conditions abroad
lad changed responsibilities and rails
I'd new perils for this country?
Viewed from this standpoint, the
vote, far from being discouraging, af-
lords sure ground for hopelessness
o those who believe in firmer and
more prophetic national policy. There