Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-24
POLITICAL
Twenty Reasons for Voting Against
 Wilson.
By Frank Jewett Mather. Jr.

| Twenty Reasons for Voting Against Wilson.
 By Frank Jewett Mather, Jr. Professor in Princeton University. Four years ago I voted for Mr. Will son. In my limited civic life there is no act l regret so bitterly. Although l am Democrat, I shall, as the most direct way Of opposing Mir. Wilson s reelection, vote for MT. Hughes. have reversed my estimate of MT. Wilson for the following reasons:
 l. He 8cCuteSced in legislation eX- enpting labor Gnions and agricultural societies from federal prosecution under the law of conspiracy. This undemocrattealIy exempted favored classes from the equal pressure of the law.
 ?. Rashly occupying Vera Cruz, he ended a futile aggression by a hunlil- iating withdrawal. His orders to our Marines, not to shoot till fired upon by the Mexicans, sacrificed many Of their lives to maintain his fiction of q peace ful. coercion.
 3. When hundreds of Americans were in peril at Tampico, he dejib- erately ordered our Warships away from that port, depriving OUT citizens of the protection of their flag. 4. His macfuinaticns against the de facto President of Mexico, Huerta, were as unwaTrantahle interference with the domestic affairs of Q foreign state. Mr. Wilson took such action in moral indignation against Huerta's al leged assassile- tiCn Gf 1Iadefo; but soon showed the insincerltg of his stand by openly dealing with the bloodstained ravisher Villa.
 ,. In all lis Mexican dealings, MT. Wilson employed and took counsel of grotesquely unfit and discredited ad- visers.
 G. After Villas Columbia raid. Mr Wilson sent our punitive expedition far enough into Mexico bitterly to offend the MeXicans, but not far enough to serve any useful purpose. In his i1-corsidered agSressions, as formerly at Vera Cruz, he was guided ton. He is now 5lundering sha'bbily out of an adventure which he rashly blundered into.
 T. He has condoned and ignored the treacherous killing of our soldiers by the forces of Carranza, to the lasting impairment of our prestige.
 8. By his vacilIatins and ainless policy in Mexico, he has seriously inn paired the leadership and initiative in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere, which this country has traditionally exercised under the Monroe Doctrine; and has run up an account which will cause us serious trouble with the Eu- ropear nations after the Great War.
 g. For partisan advantage. he has played fast and loose with the civil service, showing a cynical disregard of efficiency and merit in many of his ap- pointments.
 10. When the European War brought this nation to consciousness of the need of military preparations, he first met the movement with ridi- cule.
 H. Later, when the movement was {1n r4+-r 4-, T., f1I1 poused it insincereIy. This was shown by his failure to support Secretary Garrison, who had the fault Of wanting a real army Of defense, and by his ac- qufescence in the absurd malzesh1ft of the Hay Law. The slow, costly and ineffective concentration of the Ma tional Guard on the border has already demonstrated the folly of the legisla- ticn which the President approved. He was apparently not interested in the