Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-28
Mr.. Wilson As President
rChicago Daily News.l

When the question of national lead
eTsi7:p came before the country fonr
years ago the Daily News strongly ad-
yised the democratic party to make
Woodrow Wilson its candidate Tor
president. The arguments PERSISTENT!
advanced on his behalf by this news
paper are known to have contributed IN
no inconsid@-able degree TO Mr.. VIII
sons nomina ton BY the Baltimore con-
vention. In the succeeding campaign
the Daily News heartily supported NE
Wilson's candidacy. Many of his ac-
tons as president have received its tuii
approval However, certain character
istics OF this remarkable chief execu-
tive of the nation, characteristics clear
" revealed BY his official course, nave
led him into actions that appear 70
the Daily News to be subversiVe OF
popular government and even OF the
foun da lions of public order and safety.
Therefore it believes that the interests
of the republic require the retirement
of Mr.. Wilson from the presidency at
the end of his present term OF ONCE.
Mr.. Wilson is a scholarly egoist who
measures all things by personal stand
ards which are subject to no modinca-
tons other than those resulting from
his confirmed policy of opportun!sm
do the easiest thing and make viz
tue Of it, might be the accepted motto
Of this eminently plausible president
Having no real advisers and no caoi-
net except in name-this was made
clear by the resignation OF secretary
Garrison-he has felt free to follow MS
own inclinations at all times. has IN
clinations have been right in many IN
stances, and ne has accomplished much
that should prove OF lasting value 20
:se ...!c. Blessed with safe party
majority in each house OF congress
turnout the whole period OF his admin
istration, and having not an atom OF
that desirable passion for wise economy
which characterized another democratic
president, Grover Cleveland he mas
found ways Of keeping under his hand
a ready instrument for the enactment
of such measures as he chose TO ap-
prove and of Staying measures tnat
were not to his liking In short, 10 an
extraordinary degree, he has nad MS
way in legislative affairs.
Material success rewards his admin
istration II large part because the
great war which has deluged europe
with blood has deluged the United
States with prosperity. The Daily
News has approved those actions o.
the presidents that tended to uphoia
against the ruthlessness OF war the
rights Of neutrals and other noncom-
batants, tho many voices now raised
for Mr.. Wilson were raised not 30 long
ago in shrieks of alarm, voices that
prophesied red ruin as q sure result Oh
the presidents display Ct armness. In
the opinion of the Daily News the
president in honor and safety could not
| have done less than he did In dealing
| with the submarine and other ques-
tions, whereas considerations OF honor
and safety might well have caused ham
to do more than he did Because OF
unprecedented conditions in the foreign
field, the president has accomplished no
remarkable feat In keeping the nation
| out Of war, tho the fact that we are
not now at war is the chief boast Of
his supporters. Yet for more than two
years there has been nobody anywhere
who could have been persuaded to 30 q
war with US. nearly all the world
fighting men being locked ii Gee dls
struggle amid the trenches OF EUROPE
The administrations Mexican policy,