The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-09-27
No Five Administrations
Have Accomplished
so MUCH OF GENERAL BENEFIT
To the PeopIe-Hughes Was
Turned Loose Without
q Definite Issue.
WILSON Is NATIONS LEADER


may, but, after all. it rests not on
mere maudlin sentiment, but upon
the doctrine of Burke-''For us to
love our country, our country must
he lovely" Stop over as We do
about an indissoluble Union and an
indestructible State, but when in
terest, sympathies and dependence
cease to be mutual. the fire is out
and the whole fabric gone up In
smoke.
SO the chief concern of every cit
izen should be to choose representa-
tives in every department of public
! service equipped with honesty. eff
cheney and wisdom to make our
country lovable,> always bearing in
mind that nothing is easier or less
convincing than mere criticism of Il
public servant, than to descend to a
common scold haggard with virtue,
faint with gall and dry shank ;
twitching at the name of-of-say
of Woodrow Wilson-especially if
we have no experience, nothing bet
ter to offer, and when wild horses
couldn't draw from MS statement
of just what We would do if in the
shoes of the criticised.
In the face of the practical results
of Wilson's administration-the ca
pacity of every mill and factory
strained to its utmost, wage earnings
beyond all presidents, banks groan-
ing under the weight of undreamed
billions and the railroads utterly
swamped in business--it is not ar
gument but nonsense to say his pol
icies are all wrong and expect q SEN
sible voter to throw fit for Hughes,
man untried, inexperienced and
who may lack poise, patience. fore
sight. moral courage and other quail
tiles of mind never more essential
in the man at the helm.
The past being our safest guide
to the future. we may fairly judge
what Wilson will do by what he has
done, but who the thunder knows
what Hughes would do except to
take the railroad side of a labor
strike. bolt his platform and declare
for Federal supervision of the fran
extraordinarily an exclusive right
of the State-proudly announce
himself the authorized spokesman
of the Stand Pat Republicans and
deliberately rebuff the astonished
and betrayed Progressives?
No President has ever been so Ov-
erwhelmed with so many grave and
perplexing international and domes-
tic difficulties through which no
path has ever been bla2ed, as vii
son. No five administrations have
ever accomplished so much remedial
and constructive legislation to make
our country lovable.
1t is only human nature to err
and if he has blundered, he with
singular urGnimity hundred f.
ward. Would it be wise then to
risk change, to swap horses in the
middle of so turbulent stream
running bank full?
No pilot has ever held the old
ship of State truer to her course in
times of stress aud storm. II Judge
Hughes would have us believe he
would be safer man at the helm,
for the love OF Mike why doesn't he
tell. after being asked thousand
times, what he would do with MeXi-
co, with the violation of Belgian
neutrality, with the Austrian Am
bassador, the Federal Reserve Act,
the German submarine outrages. the
Clayton Antitrust act that explodes
the doctrines that human labor is
merely and only commercial COM
modify. the Agricultural Extension
act, the worthless" Good Roads act
and all the others for which this
administration is responsible and
upon which il cheerfully rests its
case to stand or fall? The people
would like to know so as to Judge
of his fitness.
OF all times in our checkered ca
reer. this is one in which the people
should rise above self, section and
party and think and act nationally
So much at stake. so many grave
problems to solve that in no way in
volve party differences. and yet so
tremendous in their character, that,
for once, We should cease to be par
tisans and become active, whole
hearted Americans.
In truth the Tariff about covers
the difference between the two par
ties. and since both demanded a
downward rauioian four vaorg 90,