New Britain herald., 1916-05-10
CUMMINGS SPEECH.


 last night, as temporary chairman of S the Democratic state convention as- 8 sembled in New Haven, undertook to # defend the administration of Wood- a the things accomplished under his leadership. That the able lawyer from the Elm City has succeeded in clear ing up many nisunderstandings will be seen ,Elpon 0 reading of this en- frightened address. Departing from the usual methods of men thoroughly wrapped up in politics, MT. Cummings deals W1th' the opponents of his party ' with kindliness and grace, not excori- ating them, not holding them up to ridicule, butk pointing out falactes that 8 are existentimerely because people are S blinded by@ partisanship. In this day Mand generation it behoves a man, no matter to what political organization #he may belong, to study both sides of &each and every question presented. #It isteasy enough to get the idea that &there4is but one way of looking at #thing. It is very difficult to get out of #the rut and view things from all sides. #Yet, in the interest fo the nation, it 8is the duty of each and every man #who casts a, vote to know what is #going on, to follow the questions of the &day, and to do this, not with the guid- &Ehnce of some master politician ?1t in &the cool deliberateness of his own |kstudy.
 # President Wilson has been severely #criticised. Sometimes this criticism
 has been leveled by men who per-
 sonally, deep down in their own #hearts, know that the man in the #White House has accomplished things # #he same circumstances and con- #1itions. Yet, in the interest of politi- %eaI affiliation these critics have ut @ered words, words, meaningless (which reduced to bed rock show no #ogic. And all these utterances have #oeen delivered not in fairness or truth, #b put in diatrtbe and jargon, in bias #hese things are done, but they occur @a1most every time a political orator Makes the stump. If MT. Cummings Maas departed in great measure from M his o1dtime idea, he has shown the Spirit that must permeate all America An the future, the great breath of Fairness and fair play that must #e eome in place of mean, petty politics RAbf a presidential election. The man @n the White House is sure to be M1amed as the candidate of his party, why he should even signify 8ais willingness to go back and be sub Elected to the disloyalty of some of his #people is beyond understanding. Will @on has gone through more than any @other President who ever occupied the Mlot excepted. He has been bonn &barded on all sides by cruel, cunning M Mritics, seeking to further their own #nds at the sacrifice of national
 lonor if needs be. He has been 8 kicked, buffeted, knocked, jeered at. @ @corned, by almost every force in the 2 United States, by people who have
 10 more interest in this nation than #h hey have in China, and yet through it #alI he has never fiinched, has never
 urned coat, has never backed water # The day of reckoning is at hand
 rhere are outsiders in this nation who Svould dictate the way things should run so that other lands may be 8he gathers These people have Aligned themselves against the Prest- Elent of the United States. They have, $ I of them taken offense at the way
 pe has tried to uphold the dignity of
 America. have grown peeved and sore
 P because he did not push the United
 states into second place and let their \ <oartlcular nation have the right of &Way over all things have the power
 o run rough shod over everything in
 he path. And this does not mean
 my certain class of people, but all
 classes who are pro-anything but nro-
 Y merican. It is time then for tho
 Reckoning, for the awakening, for the | roerican people to manifest their in 2 erest in the man who has upheld
 l,eir honor at the cost of everything
 1r1l,, if Woodrow Wilson were not
 yreat and wonderful as history will
 va him fo be. he should be sup