Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-08-28
WHY 4 DEMOCRAT OPPOSES WILSON.

is very noticeable that the thousands OF Democrats
who intend TO scratch Wilson and vote for Hughes
this year not taking that view because of personal
grievances but because they realize that Wilson has
not made good President and that the welfare of
the country demands the substitution of a man and
party that adequately represent the real opinions
and aspirations of the country.
Among the Democrats who have vigorously
pressed their views is Louis e. Rowley. of Lansing
Michigan whose letter giving his reasons for voting
for Hughes placed in the Congressional Record
days ago by Representative J. w. Fordney of the
same State portion Of Rowley's letter reads
follows:
Il supported woodrow Wilson in 1912 in the full
viction that he would make great and worthy Demo-
cratic successor Of Cleveland, who combined
high idealism with powerful practical Judgment
Il am opposing Woodrow Wilson in this campaign
the equally firm conviction that he has neither the
intellectual conscientiousness nor the Saving com
of the whose administration shed such
lustre the Democratic name.
81 supported woodrow Wilson in 1912 because he
stood open and dsentanged processes Of govern
ment for ptess publicity and for the restoration Of
the authority of legislative bodies which he de-
clared was necessary to the recovery of thor self
possession and sefrespect and in order that the peo-
pie may again depend and depend with confidence upon
their legislators and not, lean If for rescue, upon
their executive
Il am opposing Woodrow Wilson in this campaign be-
cause as President he has done more to discourage
open and disentanged processes Of government to
stine publicity 10 bettle legislative bodies, and to
teach the people to lean as II for upon their
executive than any American President since Andrew
Jackson whose arbitrary conductto quote from that
distinguished work. Woodrow Wilson's History OF the
American People-broke the course OF all settled pol
lev forced every question TO square itself with the
Presidents standards altered the elements of parteg
because in a word by his secretveness, his academic
M N-~ C1vrr hn
has wifuly and perssentIy beed his own oftrepeated
and fascnangly phrased pronouncements on these mat
tiers Of supreme Democratic concern.
81 supported woodrow Wilson in 1912 because firmly
believed that he could be counted to carry out with
measurable degree faithfulness the pledges con-
tanned in the Democratic platform of that year
pledges which himself vauntngy declared say what
they mean and what they say
Il am opposing woodrow Wilson in this campaign be-
cause he has repeatedly and dehanty houted and re-
pudated some Of the most important Of these pledges,
thus paltering with both his party and the country
in a double sense breathing the word OF promise to
the ear and breaking IL TO the heart
II have briefly set forth in the foregoing of the
principal reasons why four years gave my voice
and vote for Woodrow wilson but have stated only a
few OF the reasons which have impeed me to take my
stand against him in the present campaign"
The United States is full OF Rowley Democrats. Few
OF them could express their for turning
their back upon the President Mr.. Rowley has done
but most OF them. including those in Delaware, are
possessed Of equal determination to vote for Hughes IN
November.