Arizona republican., 1916-09-17
WHY P|NCH0T
 LOST REGARD
 FUR PRESIDENT

To Editor of the Arizona Republicans: It is the duty of every American cit zen to make and support openly his choice among the candidates for the presidency That duty Is especially sol emn this year because great events and great decisions are certain to con- front us during the next administra tion. l am writing to give you my reasons for my own choice. If you care to lay them before your readers, please do so, but not before Monday morning, September H.
 l am neither a Democrat nor a Re publican, but progressive. Yet, there | being no progressive nominee, unless l choose to support a candidate who can | not be elected, l must vote for either | Wilson or Hughes. For many months after his inaugu- | ration, l thought well of President | Wilson. In many respects liked what 1 | he said about what he was going to do. | He talked well and made a good inn precision. It was only when l began to | check up what he said by what he did that I was forced to change my view. | In the end l came to see that Pres | ident Wilson has a greater power than any other man in public life to say one thing but do another. and get away with it.
 The facts which justify this state ment are common knowledge.
 We have all heard him tell Ger many publicly that she would be held to strict accountability; and have learned afterward that he had actually let her know secretly at the time. by the mouth of his secretary of state through the Austrian ambassador, that | what he said he did not mean. We have all seen him prove that he did not mean 1t by his total failure to exact reparation, apology. or even disavowal for the murder of Americans on the Lusitania.
 do not say that Wilson should have thrust us into war. There was no need of war. But there was need of courage to give us peace with self respect. If Wilson had shown courage this country would not have skidded from one crisis to the next, again and again narrowly escapin~ disaster.
 We have all heard him declare against intervention in Mexico. while actually intervening to dictate who should and who should not hold office there. and denounce war against Mexico while actually engaged in war.
 With war on every side of us, We all heard him. in his second annual mes sage. solemnly assure the country that We had not been negligent of National defense. It was not true, and later on he himself proved that it was not true by proclaiming aloud the need for what he had solemnly assured us We already had.
 For more than a year after the world war began, Wilson did not raise a finger to put us in a condition of de fense. Only the proverbial good luck of America has kept us from payinl I ..gf- Tor fore a neglect
 We have all heard him rldicule thu idea of a greater navy. then declare fol incomparably the greatest navy in tn world. and then go back on that.
 We have all heard him declare fo exempting our coast-wise trade iron tolls in the Panama Canal; and hay seen him show our own people and tn English that he did not mean it.
 We have seen him elected on plat form which pledged him to singl term as president, and then become candidate for another term.
 We have all heard him declare fo the conservation of our natural re sources; and have seen him neglec that policy, and refuse his help to de feat the Shields waterpower bill. th most dangerous attack on conservatIo since Ballinger's effort to turn flask over to the Guggenheims.
 We have all heard him declare fa efficiency in government, and haH seen him set the pork-barrel first an throw efficiency away. l have know official Washington from the inside l. six administrations. In that time th government business has never been s badly done and so extravagantly as is now done under Wilson.
 We have all heard him annount himself as the champion of civil SCI vice reform; and have seen him tur the government departments over the spoilsmen as no other presidei has done In twenty years
 We have all heard him declare f pitiless publicity: and have seen hi conduct the most secret administratie of our time.
 We have all heard him announ' himself as president of all the peopl and have seen him. as the most part san president of his generation, flol and oppose the progressives, who now because he needs them, he seel 70 conciliate and enlist.
 Worst of all is this: When eve
 principle of freedom and equality f
 which our fathers fought was at sta