Graham guardian., 1916-07-21

the submarine controversy with
Germany?
If you had been President, would
you have used craftsmanship and
the usual diplomatic channels to
preserve peace, or would you have
gone to war with Germany?
Would you have gone to war with
Mexico? If you had been President,
would you have declared wal?
Would you declare war now? Would
you have called out the National
Guard?
Do you feel that any hyphenated
conspiracy worked to bring about
the defeat of Roosevelt in the re-
publican convention and to bring
about your own nomination? If a
hyphenated conspiracy did bring
about Roosevelt's defeat, how do
you feel about the exercise and ex-
tent of such influence in national
politics?
Would you repeal the Federal
Trade Commission Act, the Federal
Reserve System, and the rural
credits and good roads bill? Are
you for or against the tariff COM
mission bill which the United States
Chamber of Commerce. representing
the business men of the nation, has
endorsed? Would you ignore the
findings of this tariff commission
and repeal the act creating it?
Why didn't the republican party
reform the currency and give the
nation sound banking system when
it was in power?
Why didn't the Republican party
establish rural credit system for
the benefit of the farmers?
Has prosperity broken all records,
or hasn't it? Is the foreign trade
greater than ever before, or isn't
it? Will peace munitions for the
reconstruction process in Europe re-
place war munitions, or won't they?
What was the condition of the
army and navy when Roosevelt left
the White House after seven years
of service?
What was the condition of the
army and navy when Taft left the
White House after four years of
service?
How many ships were in the navy
or building at the end of the Roose-
welt administration, and at the end
of the Taft administration?
How many men were in the army?
What kind of a reserve was there?
How many guns and how much
powder were in reserve? How much
industrial preparation was at hand?
Were wages higher or lower then
than now? Was labor as we'll salts
fed?
What do you think of the Naval
Consulting Board and the Industrial
Mobilization Committee under Mr..
Howard Coffin?
What do you think of the manner
in which the administration carried
the country through the financial
crisis that followed the outbreak of
the European war?
The American public is in a more
discriminating frame of mind than
ever before. Its wits are sharper.
Generalties won't be accepted from
the opponents of the administration
against the concrete accomplish
ments of President Wilson and the
democratic party.
A bill of particulars will be de-
There being no real issue between
the candidates, then comes the ques-
tion as to whether, in the stress of
these days that try mems souls. it
will he wise to vote for Justice
Hughes as a compliment to his in.
tellectual power and the negative
issues which his candidacy now en-
bodies. Let those who desire to
pay this compliment, reckon its cost
and results as affecting the standing
and prestige of our own President,
who has borne the heat and burden
of the day in carrying our nation
through the great crisis Of the past
years. The effect of that compli-
ment may be heard around the
world, and especially in those capitals
in Europe where the slogan ANY
thing to beat Wilson" is as popular