The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-11
Courage Would Have Given Us
Self-ReSpect as Nation and
Not Skidding Acts.
NEGLECT is UMFoRGIVABLE
Leaves Us without a Friend
among Great Nations of the
World as War Nears End.
(By clifford Pinchot. j


PHILADELPHIA, Sept. lit n
the duty OF every American citizen Ia
make and support openly his choice
among the candidates for the presi-
uehcy. That duty is especially SOL
elih TINS year because great events
ana great decisions are certain 10
confront us during the next admins
tration.
am neither Democrat nor a RE-
publican. but Progressive. Yet
there being no Progressive nominee.
unIess choose to support Il candidate
VINO can not be elected l must vote
Tor either Wilson or Hughes.
FORCED TO Change View.
TOT many months after his inau.
gnration. ! thought well of President
wilson In many respects / liked
whnt he said about what he was 90
ing to do. He talked well and mazda
good Impression. II was onIv when
! began TO check up what he said nv
what he did that / was forced IL
change my view.
In the end ] came to see that Pres
.Ient Wilson has greater power
than any other man in publlc,iife 10
say one thing but do another, and Ret
away with II. 49, sss
The facts which justify this state.
ment are common knowledge.
we have all heard him tell Ger
many publicly that Il would be held
70 strict accountability: and have
learned afterward that he had actu-
aliy let 1t know secretly at the time.
by themouth OF his sevretary al
state through the Austrian ambassa-
COR that what he said he did NOT
mean. We have all seen him prove
that ne did not mean 1t by his total
Iaiinre to exact PREPARATION, apology.
or even disavowal for the murder Of
Americans on the Lusitanla.
DO not say that Wilson shonld
nave thrust us into war. There was
no need OF war. But there was need
OF courage TO give us peace with self
respect II Wilson had shown cour.
ass tnIs country would not have skid
ueu from one crisis to the next.
disaster. pns
we have all heard him declare
against Intervention in Mexico. whilo
aslu1iiy intervening to dictate who
should and who should not hold o.
flee there: and deuounce war against
Mexico while actually engaged Il
Wilson Convicts Self.
with war on every side of us va
all heard him. in his second animal
message Bolemnly assure the conntrg
that we had not been negligent Of
national defense. 1t was not true:
and later on he himself proved that
u was not true by proclaiming alou,i
the need for what he had solemnIv
assured us we already had.
For more than a year after the
world war began. Wilson did moi
raise q finger to put us in condiz
non OF DEFENSE. Only the proverbIal
good luck OF America has kept ~
from payipg the bltterest price for
mis- unforgivable neglect.
We have all heard him ridicule
me idea OF a greater navy. then de-
clare Tor incomparabIy the greatest
navy In the world, and then 70 bach
on that. 81 $50
We have all heard him declare for
ex9npting our coast-wise trade from
tolls In the Panama canal; and have
seen, him show our own people and
the English that he did not mean Il.
Disregards His Pledge.
We have seen him elected ON n
platform which pledged him to a
single term as president, and then
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