Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-09-08
The People Know


President Wilson will make no
swing around the states. His speech
of acceptance, made at his summer
home may be supplemented from
time to time by appropriate short adj
dresses. These will enable the people
to keep in sufficiently close touch
with his views upon issues that may
arise or plans that may be devised or
conditions that may develop.
This plan of campaigning is in
keeping with the lofty dignity of his
high office. Besides, the great mass
es of the people of the country are
already familiar with the achievements
of his administration-their purposes
and their already developed results.
For four years he has been the CEN
trail figure of American politics. The
fierce light of publicity all that while
has beaten upon him and his acts
Publicity has been given to his every
made plumbers, the people have
had their abundant opportunity to
know and to consider them. If he
has been guilty of Inconsistencies. he
has avowed them and they as we'll as
his avowals have been given to the
world. If he has rendered loyal and
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shown.
If he has taken seriously and with
all his energy to the sacred task en-
trusted to him four years ago, the vot-
ers know it. If he has burned mid.
night oil in his study of the tremend-
Gus and unforeseen problems, which
have confronted him as they have con.
fronted no other President, that, too,
is known.
If he has at times differed with his
party leaders. the public has been
promptly advised. If he has kept the
faith, the public knows it. If he has
shown patience and tact and states
manship. no speeches from him are
needed to enlighten the country.
If he has been bold when boldness
was demanded. diplomatic when
greater results could be secured by di.
plomacy than by impetuosity, they who
are to decide the coming contest,
know it.
If he has kept the country out of
war, the tragedies Of which no man
could overestimate, they know it.
If he has fortified the country by a
vast scheme of preparedness, they
know it,
If he maintained his country's honor.
unsullied and above reproach and its
respect acknowledged by the world,
they know it.
If he has been callous to the attacks
of political enemies or captious crit
les for self or party advancement, they
know it.
If he has shown his own and the
country's sympathies with those who
must suffer from the raging conflicts
that are holding civilization in state
of amazed horror. they know it.
If he wishes no unfair advantage
to come to his own people from the
calamities Of those of other lands,
they know it.
If he has brought to his country out
of these dire conditions such a pros
perity as no nation in all history has
achieved. they know it. If by the
legislation he has epoused, he has
helped all classes of our people. those
who labor and those who loaf. has
given equality in all honest endeavor
10 the former and stimulus to energy
to the latter. they know it.
If the nation today is rallying to
loftier ideals than ever before success
fully appealed to it, they know it.
Therefore, and in all confidence of
vote of approval by the country, he is
resting his case upon his deeds. the
character he has shown. the policies
he has advocated; and will leave the
use of words to those who are his op-
ponents in this campaign.