Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-05-24
ALL FOR WILSON.

which meets here today. has little
actually before 1t aside from the Sc
lection OF delegates 70 the st. Louis
convention and the endorsement OF n
national committeeman.
The delegates viii be favorable to
the denomination of woodrow Will
son for president. No other name
will come before the national con-
vention, and mono should. II ever
any man has made good In the White
House. II Is the present chief cxecu-
tive. In the face OF almost insuper-
able difficulties, he has made q rec.
ord that never has been excelled. We
fail to recall that II ever has been
equalled in the ability shown in deal
ing with foreign and domestic ques-
tons. Beyond doubt there have been
mistakes, but the mistakelcHs man has
not yet made his appearance on this
troublesome globe OF ours,
II the president had done nothing
more than secure the passage OF the
banking and currency bill, II would
have far exceeded the record of any
single administration except that OF
Abraham Lincoln. But almost as i'm
portant as the banking law was the
federal trade commission act. effec-
lively ending misunderstanding be-
tween the government and ''hig bus
mess" The policy toward the pub
lie lands has undergone n complete
and most agreeable change. and no
homesteader or desert land entryman
has any cause for complaint. He liz
fully protected I'm all OF his legal
rights and that is all he can ask.
Instead of an army OF not moro
than 100000. we are TO have regular
force of not less than 100000, and a
national guard of A4S,000. This Is
not all that the nation should have
had but II was all that could be So
cured from the unwsdom of con-
gress.
AS rapidly as It can be built. the
ltN ~ w NAVE iA7 FAA'iHtil NthftNNi
though only five capital ships are 10
be added to the fleet from this year
appropriations. II is the quality OF
the five splendid battle cruisers, cost
ing s20,000,0O0 and having speed
capacity OF thirty-five knots an hour,
that makes up the strength 80 dispro-
portionate to the number OF new
ships The naval bill Is not all that
It should be- Provision should have
been mado for ut least four dread
naughts and hundred submarines,
But the president IA TO be congrati-
lated on his ability TO get the five inn
perstively needed battle cruisers and
twenty first-cass submarines Con-
sldering the ineffciency OF congress
TO get 80 much was Il remarkable
achievement.
But best Of all the president has
kept US out Of war and has fulls
maintained the honor OF the nation
and has forced recognition Of a policy
by Germany and Austria that insures
protection for tine lives Of Americans
on tho high seas To accomplish 80
much, the president has had to main
tain the firmest of attitudes in the
face of the limoges who wanted war,
regardless of the necessity. ana Of
tho pacifists who wanted peace "a,
any price. Between these two ca
iremcs. Woodrow Wilson is ploug.
INK clean. straight furrow to the
end.
At no time has the president mad,
rash, lily considered or unlustif0.
Die demand upon any belligerent and
al no time has he reccdcd one iota
from any demand presented Whcr
1t looked Ike war within twenty -foul
hours, he has not flinched from the
consequences, fully recognizing that
bad MS war is there are things fai
worse.
Tho people OF the United States
recognize the splendid. sane. safe ad'
ihinistration that Woodrow Wilson
las given aud Is giving them. They
trust him. His party has no thought
OF any other candidate lie win be
named for tho presidency and every
condition is favorable TO his re-
election