New Britain herald., 1916-04-22
Temperament An Issue.
(New Haven Journal Courier.

We warned all political sages and seers a week ago to go slow in pre- dieting the outcome of the days ahead of us; that the water was rushing madly over the dam and making it's way out into the great ocean of life in a manner to confuse exact reason ing and confound conventional con- clusions. This is truer today than the day upon which it was uttered. The past alone is secure; the future lies ahead with a grin upon it's fea- lures which deties analyzation
 It might seem, however, that one thing has been made moderately cer- tain. The temperament of a man of Wilson's nature contra sted with that of a man of RoOsevelt'S nature must become an issue in the campaign among thoughtful men if ultimate po- litical conditions thus shape the bat tie. MT. Wilson's method of meet ing the grave issues which have been thrust upon the country as cOnSe- quence of the European war, has been grounded upon profound sense of confidence in the final understanding of our unselfshness by the other na- lions of the world. accompanied by the exercise of a patience that could not fa1l in the long run, to make it's deep impression. It is notEto the point that there have been moments
 and days and weeks when, to the un-
 initiated, the display Of confidence and the exercise of patience seemed to bo individual arrogance. It is not to the point that the stage now
 reached Tn our controversy with the
 Imperial Government of Germany was
 1oo 1J,y i,~ T in1
 everlastingly 10 the point that. having
 finally been forced 10 the acceDtance
 of the inevitable, we can plead re-
 luctance and disappointment The
 finger of suspicion can not be pointed
 at the government of the United
 States on account of the policy it has
 followed amid the jcers of the
 thoughtless and reckless. The rec
 ord is as straight as the flight of the
 bird
 MT Roosevelt has so conspcuouslv
 been the spokesman of the party of criticism, as applied to the admin istration of MT. Wilson. that until now
 he has been hailed from the network of humiliation and distress of shame
 and dishonor, laid by the man in the White House. His has been the in temperate voice raised in the market
 place demanding instant action, re-
 wiling the motives of a friendly nation
 and disregarding the simplest obliga-
 tion of human responsibility Like an
 angry boy he would have struck the blow and taken into consideration the consequences later. Today he has no more coherent comment to make upon
 a situation which is terribly logical because it has been permitted to make itself such and has not been forced by sinister motives, than that it should have been met, as it is now being met months ago. when he said it should have been met. DiSappOint-
 ment. rage or whatever emotion it
 may be- leads him one more step into the zone of fatal philosophy and tempts him to charge that. having awaited what was clear to him months ago. MT. Wilson is made responsible for the loss of human life upon tor ped doed ships and of human property. For once the political sagacity of the man deserts him and we see him as he is, a man not to be trusted with the affairs of government at crit 1 ical moment in it's history. He is not 1 likely to be the nominee of the re- publican convention nor, if nominated l is he likely to be the next president l of the United States.
 Unless all signs change, and they may, we are likely to see the great American electorate take as much l heed in November of the temperam CT [ ! of the candidates for the presidency as of the avowals they make It is an election the country is going to 1 hold, not a three-ring circus.