The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-05-04
LET THE REPUBLICANS ALSO
NOMINATE WILSON.

LET THE REPUBLICANS ALSO
NOMINATE WILSON,.
Were Woodrow Wilson republi-
can president, with record OF
achievement identical with his record
as a democratic president, the repub-
licans would renominate him by ac-
lcamation.
They would point to the revision
of the tariff under his administration
as the fulfillment of Mckinley's dy-
ing pledge which Roosevelt shirked
and in which Taft failed.
They would point to the banking
and currency law as the greatest
piece of financial legislation yet en-
acted-a law which has made it pos
sible for the United States not only
to weather successfully the most
devastating war in human history, but
to aspire to the financial mastery OF
the world.
They would point to the income
tax law as just and equitable means
of making wealth bear it's due pro-
portion of the cost Of government,
for which the republican party was
entitled to a double share of credit
because republican congress had
submitted the amendment to the con-
stitution which made the levying of
an income tax possible.
They would point to the corpora
tiCn tax as the extension of an act
which the republican party original
ed and which helped to transfer to
organized capital some Of the bur
dens of government previously borne
:. by poverty and labor.
rhey would point to the repeal of
the coastwise provision of the Pana-
ma Canal tolls act as proof that the
United States is faithful to it's treaty
pledges, and cannot be swayed from
the ways of international honor and
Justice by the mercenary greed Of
special interests.
They would point to the Federal
Trade board as progressive meas
ure of constructive legislation by
which honest and law abiding busl-
ness was protected from indiscrlmin-
ate prosecution and enabled to work
in harmony with the Sherman anti
trust act, in fairness to competitors
and in fairness to the public.
They would point to the record of
the department of justice as proof
that business had been emancipated
from political blackmail and that in
dustrial organizations were no long
er prosecuted from motives of parti-
san advantage or private revenge.
They would point to the presi-
dents Mexican policy, identical as it
is with Lincoln's Mexican policy, as
evidence that the American people
were no less determined than ever to
give the backward nations of this
hemisphere the fullest opportunity
to work out their destiny, and final
ly achieve that liberty under laws
which even the most enlightened of
peoples have had to gain by struggle
and sacrifice.
They would point to our new rela-
tons with Latin-America as the re-
alization of James G. Blaine's dream
of Pan-Americanism- dream that
became reality only through the
far-sighted craftsmanship of Wood
row Wilson.
They would point to the foreign
policy of the president during the
most difficult and critical period OF
history since the civil war as SUI
preme endeavor to maintain the
highest American ideal of peace with
honor. And they would say OF his
ultimatum to Germany as LeMatin OF
Paris says of it-voicing the idealism
which makes France and the United
States forever kin-"one OF the
noblest acts in the history of man
kind
They would point to his leadership
of congress as the solution OF prob
lem that has so long vexed the
American government, by which COM
prehensive legislative programs can
be enacted into law without the pres
ident's coercing congress or bribing
it with patronage.
They would point to his prepared
ness measures as full atonement for
past derelictions on the part of the
republican party, and as an example
of leadership that knows how, in
times of national peril, to bring ir-
reconcilable political elements into
harmony for the public welfare.
They would point to the admins
tration of Wilson as second only to
the administrations Of Washington
and Lincoln in the record of mighty
achievements in behalf of the Amer
lean people.
Ill this and more would republi-
IS say of Woodrow Wilson if he
were republican president. Why
should the fact that he is demo-
cratic president preclude their saying
II!
They have no presidential candi-
date of their own who measures up
to the situation, and they do not
know where to find one. They have
no issue. Why not nominate Wood
row Wilson, as the democrats are go
ing to do, and to give the world tAe