New Britain herald., 1916-06-26

public actions before or after election. His entire public life is guarantee of this.
 Mr. Wilson.
 The events of the last three and a 1 half years have shown that as much 1 cannot be said for MT. Wilson. In 1 MT. Wilson's case we do not have to i consider his words, but his deeds. His deeds absolutely contradict his l words; and for the matter of that his words absolutely contradict one
 another. It is folly to pay heed to any of the promises in the platform cn which he now stands in view of the ] fact that almost every important 1 promise contained in the platform on which he stood four years ago has since been broken. We owe all of
 our present trouble with the profcs- 1 siOnal Germ Ian American element in
 the United States to Mr. Wilson's
 timid ond vacillating course during the last two years. The defenders of
 MT. Wilson have alleged in excuse for him that he confronted a diff l cult situation. AS regards Mexico, the situation which MT. Wilson con- fronted was nothing like as difficult as that which President Mckinley confronted in connection with Cuba
 and the Philippines at the time of the Spanish war Under the actual circumstances we could With only a
 minimum of risk have protested on behalf of Belgium, a small, well-be- Eaved nation, when she was exposed to the last extremity of outrage by the brutal violation of her neutral
 rights; this violation being itself a violation of The Hague conventions to which we were a signatOry power. As regards the foregn situation gen. orally during the great war, the fact Of the existence of the war made it
 far easier and safer for MT. Wilson
 to assert our rights than if he had had to deal with some single strong power which was at the time un- hampered by war. During the past twenty years questions have arisen with powers of the first rank, such as
 England, Japan and Germany, each of which has necessitated far greater courage, resolution and judgment on the part of the president dealing with it than President Wilson need have shown in order to put a complete stop to the continually repeated murder of American men, women and children on the high seas by German sub- marines-the Lusitania being merely the worst of many such cases. The same feeb1eness that was shown by President Wilson in dealing with Germany abroad was also shown by him in dealing with the organized German outrages within our own land, and finally, in dealing with the organized German-American vote l The continued existence of the German-Am erican menace at home is directly due to MT. Wilson's course ! of action during the past two years.
 Certain of my friends who feel i that the progressives should run a ]; third ticket base their feeling on ! objection to the character or actions Ct the republican national conven- i ton. As regards this point, it is | sufficient to say that the members of ! the republican national convention 1 were unquestionabIy induced to nomi- ! nate MT. Hughes primarily because of . the belief that his integrity and force . of chara cter, and his long record of admirable public service, would , make him peculiarly acceptab ble, not | only to the rank and file of the re- 1 publican party, but to the people i generally. I do not believe that MT. Hughes would have been nominated | if it had not been for the fight on behalf of public decency and efficiency /. which the progressive party has Waged during the past four years.
 National Honor Above Everything.
 In any event, and without any re- gard to what the personal feelings of !! us may be as regards the action of the republican convention, I wish very sOlemnly to ask the representa- t1ves of the progressive party to con- slder at this time only the welfare of l the people of the United States We | shall prove false to our ideals and our professions, if, in this grave crisis of the nations life, we permit ourselves to be swerved from the one prime duty of serving with cool judgment and single-minded devotion the na- tion's needs. Our own political for tunes, individually and collectively, are of no consequence whatever when compared with the honor and welfare Of the people of the United States. Such things do not count when weigh ca in the balance against our duty to serve well the country in which, alter we are dead. our children and our children's children are to live.
 The world is passing through a great crisis and no man can tell what trial and jeopardy will have to be faced by this nation during the years imm ediately ahead. There is now no longer before us for decision as to what particular man we may severally most desire to see at the head of the government. We can decide only whether during these possibly vital years this country shall be entrusted