Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-08

at all, "and furthermore don't think you could
get them passed except by the methods you
using"
A bad CLEAN came into the Governors eye.
"What methods do you mean?" he demanded.
IL mean your using your patronage"
1t was not the kind of charge that Governor
Wilson cared to debate. He rose to his feet, his
eyes flaming and pointed to the door.
"Good day, Mr.. Nugent," he said; good day."
you're gentleman" cried the boss, as he
stumbled toward the door.
81 don't think you're any judge responded
the Governor and settled himself to work again
as if nothing had happened
In twenty-four hours the news had travelled
through the State that Woodrow Wilson, the col
lege professor and political theorist had kicked
the boss of New Jersey through his Office door.
THERE is Biblical injunction that bids a man
beware when all speak well of him. If
President Wilson read the newspapers at the time
of his inauguration-pa particularly if he remem-
bered the newspapers at the time of President
Tafts Inauguration and what happened to Taft
afterward-he must have been a bit troubled by
that verse. For eighteen months Mr.. Wilson and
his administration went their quiet ways, with
comparatively little criticism. The record of
those months has been pretty well overshadowed
in popular memory by the events in Europe and
Mexico, but it is a record worth noting.
In those months this legislation placed on
the statute books, in accordance with the promise
of the Platform:
A revision of the tariff.
The Federal Reserve Bank Law.
The income tax
The Clayton Antitrust Act.
The Alaska Railroad Bill.
The repeal of the Panama Canal Tolls Bill.
Since then there have been added the act
creating the Trade Commission; the Rural Credits
Act and the National Child Labor Bill.
He has had no "Wson program" All of these
things were promised in the platform of 1912,
except the Child Labor Act, which is promised
in the platform of 1916. When Senators in his
party have baked he has simply pointed to the
platform. When ladies have demanded his sup
port, when business men have wanted to know
why Congress was not doing something to meet
this or that condition created by the war,
his answer has been that he was engaged III
making good on the promises already given. His
is "single-track mind. You may doubt its
wisdom its ability, but those who want to
know how it will act in the next four years need
not be in any doubt 1t will go forward along
the lines of the Democratic platform patiently,
toilfully turning that platform into law.
Had it not been for Mexico and the European
War there would be little question about the out
come of the next election. For the first time in
America we are to have Presidential campaign
wherein foreign affairs will overshadow all other
issues. Our old-tme isolation is lost: the steam
ship and the cable have moved our snug old house
up into the very same block with England and
Germany. and have put Mexico into our very
back yard
Mr.. Hughes recognized this in his speech of
acceptance Except for his attack on those APP
pontments of the President which We're inspired
by MIR. Bryan and some of the other members of
his Cabinet, almost his whole charge was delivered
against the administrations conduct of foreign
affairs.
The President, if one may accept the testimony