The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-10-27
Quits Wilson as DANGEROUS

THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS EDlToRlALLY WTHDRAWs
ITS SUPPORT FROM PRESIDENT WILSON. AFTER STATING
THAT THE NEWS HAD URGED THE SELECTION OF Mr. WILL
SON BEFORE THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION FOUR YEARS
AGO AND HAD SO ABLY SUPPORTED Kim DURING THE CAM
PAIeN THE NEWS SAYS:
MANY OF HIS ACTIONS AS PRESIDENT RECEIVED iTs
FULL APPROVAL. HOWEVER, CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS
OF THIS REMARKABLE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE NATION
CHARACTERISTICS CLEARLY REVEALED BY HIS oFFciAE
COURSE HAVE LED HIM INTO ACTIONS THAT APPEAR TO
THE DAILY NEWS TO sURVERsIVE OF POPULAR Gov
EMINENT AND EVEN OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC Or
DER AND SAFETY THEREFORE, 1T BELIEVES THAT THE IN
TEREsTs OF THE REPUBLIC REQUIRE THE RETIREMENT OF
MR. WILSON FROM THE PRESIDENCY AT THE END OF HIS
PRESENT TERM OF OFFICE
MR. WILSON is A SCHOLARLY EeosT WHO MEASURES
ALL THINGS BY PERSONAL STANDARDS WHICH ARE SUB
JEcT TO NO NOTIFICATIONS OTHER THAN THOSE RESULT.
ING FROM HIS CONFIRMED POLICY OF oPPoRTUNlsM "Do
THE EASIEST AND MAKE VIRTUE OF IT." MIGHT Be
THE ACCEPTED MOTTO OF THIS EmlNENTLY PLAUSIBLE
PRESIDENT. HAVING NO REAL ADVISERS AND NO CABINET
EXCEPT IN NAME-THIs WAS MADE CLEAR BY THE REslG-
NATION OF SECRETARY eARRIsoN-HE HAD FELT FREE TO
FOLLOW HIS OWN NcLNAToNs AT ALL TIMES.
IT WAS IN HIS METHOD OF DEALING WITH THE STRIKE
OF THE RAILROAD eRoTHERHooOs THAT PRESIDENT Will
SON MOST CLEARLY DISCLOSED HIS POLICY OF GOVERN
MENT THAT PERILoUs POLICY OF FOLLOWING THE LINE
OF LEAST RESISTANCE is SHOWN HERE IN ITS PERFECTION
HERE ALSO is SHOWN DEsTRUcTWENEss OF THE
FORM OF CRAFTSMANSHIP WHICH DEALS WITH A CRISIS BY
posr9oNINe THE DAY OF SETTLEMENT AND, AT ca..E
TIME BY WEAKENING ESTABLISHED SAFEGUARDS, AUG
mENrlNe THE ELEMENTS OF DANGER CONTAINED IN 1T.
CONFRONTED THE FACT THAT LEADERS OF CERTAIN
RAILROAD EMPLOYEES REFUSED TO ARBlTRATE THE
QUESTION OF HIGHER WAGES, AND HAD REJECTED THE
PFRoFFERED HELP OF THE FEDERAL BOARD OF MEDIATION
AND coNcLrATloN PRESIDENT WILSON CHOSE TO ASSUME
THAT THE QUESTION INVOLVED WAS THAT OF THE ESTAB-
LlsHMENT OF THE EIGHT-HoUR DAY, THOUGH THE EIGHT
HOUR DAY IN REALITY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. HE
TO PREVENT THAT THREATENED OUTCOME, THAT NATION
WIDE STRIKE TYING UP RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION FROM
COAST TO COAST RESULT SPEEDILY UNLESS HE Sc
CURED BY LAW WITHIN A FEW HOURS SETTLEMENT TO
THE LIKING THE MEN WHO HAD ENGINEERED lHE>
STRIKE ORDER.
INSTEAD OF SAYING TO THOSE MEN, "THIs NATION WILL
NOT BE coERcED INTO PASSING A LAW INCREASING YOUR
WAGES WITHOUT INVESTIGATING" HE FASTENED TO RE-
WARD THEM FOR FIRST REFUSING ARBITRATION AND THEN
SETTING THEIR scANTY TIME LIMIT OF HOURS IN WHICH
CONGRESS MIGHT ESTABLISH LAW THEIR MINIMUM DE-
MAND OF 25 PER CENT. INCREASE IN WAGES NOTORIOUS
ly MIsRRANDED BY THE PRESIDENT THE EIeHT-HoUR DAY
TIE NATIONS CHIEF EXECUTIVE REJECTING PLEAS TO
THE CONTRARY THRUST ASIDE THE PRINCIPLE OF ARsl-
TRATIoN THRUST ASIDE ALL QUESTIONS OF RIGHT AND
WRONG YIELDED TO A BARE-FAcED HolD-uP IN OERo-
CATION OF JUSTICE AND ORDERLY GOVERNMENT. TO GIVE
HIS ACTION SHADY EXCUSE, HE DEMANDED ONE THING
WHILE CALLING 1T ANOTHER THING A sTAMPEDE0 CON-
eREss CARRIED OUT HIS ORDERS IN JIG TIME
HERE WAS A SHAMELESS, DESTRUCTIVE SURRENDER TO
A THREAT OF FORCE MADE WITH A DELIBERATE PURPOSE
BY AN ORGANIZED MINORITY. ON THE PART OF THE PREsF
neN7 IT WAS AL so A DISPLAY TMDITY AND CRAFT: If
ESTABLISHED A PRECEDENT BOTH DANGEROUS AND HUMlL-
ATING.
IN CONCLUSION THE NEWS SAYS: IN THE OPINION OF
TILE nAuv NEWS THE SAFETY OF THE NATION AND THE
INTEGRITY OF ITS INSTITUTIONS CANNOT WISELY BE IN
TRUSTED TO PRESIDENT WILSON FOR ANOTHER TERM