The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-10-13

ident ever had a harder one. After
the European war broke out he found
our people divided to a great extent
in their sympathies for one or the
other side of the belligerents. He
found some of those belligerents
through their agents were seeking to
stir up strife and disloyalty in this
country. And in many instances, men
and newspapers, who pretended to be
Americans, but who in reality were
disloyal to country and were seek
ing to serve some foreign country,
have heaped upon him their limitless
abuse.
But throughout it all he has kept a
clear head and has preserved the alb
solute neutrality of this government.
He has stood for the principles of in
ternatiOnal law and justice, and has
done everything possible to compel
the observance of those principles by
the belligerent nations. The war is
not yet over and no man can tell
when it will be. Even when that
time comes, other great problems for
this country to meet will arise. There
will be a readjustment of interna-
tional relations. There may be
program for the leading nations to
adopt, for the purpose of reducing
the causes and probabilities of wars
in the future, and of insuring the
peace of the world. This country
cannot escape its part and RESPONSE
bility in such important matters. 1t
will need then, as it needs now, its
safest and wisest leader.
10,
any other administration since the
Republican party was born, has been
| peoples administration. Its splen-
did service has been for the universal
good of all. 1t has stormed and de-
molished many of the citadels where
special privileges were entrenched
1t has waged no foolish warfare upon
legitimate business or industry, but
| it has at all times stood for the rights
of the people, and it has, with extra
ordinary skill and success, won in
Vulnerable battles for them. Its re-
cord for constructive and beneficial
measures of far-reaching effects is
remarkable and admirable.
Not since 1896 has the Money
Trust and the Big Interests been so
active and violent in a Presidential
campaign as they are in this, and
their hostility to the President should
insure for him the ardent support of
all liberty-loving and loyal Ameri-
cans. Those interests are fighting him
because they have not been able to
control him. They are angered be-
cause they have found him to be a
stalwart, courageous and sagacious
oh nf tho nnnnln a hos do
prived them of much of their power
to plumber. They have, in some way,
resuscitated the old reactionary
leaders of the Republican party, plac-
ed them again in absolute control of
that party, and are endeavoring to
win back those Republicans who wan
dered into the Progressive party four
years ago.
They have succ eeded in coaxing
Col. Roosevelt back to his first and
real love, and at the recent banquet
of the Union League Club of New
| York their influence was sufficient
to even make him and his enemy, ex-
President Taft shake hands, and
pretend to be friends in the holy cru
SADIE, engineered and financed in
Wall street, to defeat the reelection
of Woodrow Wilson.
The cause of the Democratic party
in this campaign should appeal not
only to Democrats, but to all good
citizens in our land. The great mass
of the people, who take no active
! part in politics, are not interested In
the mere victory of one party over
another, but they should be deeply
interested in the proper administra-
ton of their public affairs and in the
cause of good government. They
should reward that party, or those
men, who have we'll and faithfully
served them They should look upon
such matters not as partisans, but as
patriots. If this Democratic admins
tration has made the excellent record
which many believe it has, then it is
entitled to the overwhelming indorse-
ment of the American people. 1t
! should be continued in power, not so
much as an Endorsement of what 1T
| has done, but because what it has
done has shown it to be superior to
its rival in capacity and purpose for
further good service to the people.
1t is not so much question as to
whether or not we should again hon.
or Woodrow Wilson for what he has
done by re-electing him to the high
position he now holds; but it is
question for US to decide in this cam
paign as to whether or not it is best
for the country to continue as its
chief executive for the next four
years the man who has proven him
self eminently we'll qualified to meet
and to decide the great problems af-
fecting the welfare and future of
this republic, that now and will for
years to come, in rapid succession,
present themselves for solution. 1t
should be understood that President
Wilson is not alone on trial in this
contest The American people are al
so on trial. This is one of the cases
where their capacity for self-govern-
ment, their proper comprehension of
their relations to the government
under which they live, and their real
ization of their obligations and duties
to the government, are to be fully
tried and tested.
| Dr. O>Ll-