The Detroit times., 1916-09-05
Woodrow Wilson'S Faith
In Democracy and In the
People Makes Him Great

Notified, officially, of his denomination
by his party in st. Louis, President VIII
son took occasion. in his speech of accept
ence, to review the accomplishments Of
his administration.
There was plenty of material on hand.
There was so much, in fact, that in the
work of preparing it. the president forgot
to thank the Republican party for its
help in number of instances through
the votes of its representatives in con-
gress.
President Wilson is partisan and is
candidate for reelection.
These two facts are easily observable
in reading of his speech of acceptance,
but they are completely forgotten as one
contemplates the political risk Wilson
took in undertaking a lot of this legis
lation.
His address stamps the president, both
rs partisan and candidate for reelection.
Is q man unafraid and as man big
enough to defy even his own prty to adj
vance any cause he believes to be right.
The outstanding feature of what the
Wilson administration accomplished is
the faith of the president which is evil
denced throughout the entire program.
First. it proves his faith in Democratic
principles.
Second, it proves his faith in the
people.
In his speech Of acceptance President
Wilson held so far aloof from any of the
well-known tricks of the candidate. cal
culated to stir the passions of the cleo
torate. that we have to believe 1t was
studied carefully and great pains taken
to keep it free from anything of the sort.
All OF that kind of stuff is being left
10 the other side, and the other side is
making absolutely no progress with it.
n. The temper of the people of the United
States is all against it.
And the man to whom they gave their
highest office is responsible for that very
temper.
No president in the history of the coun
try ever stood any closer to its people
than Woodrow Wilson does.
No president was more sensitive to the
pulse beats Of the people and the senti-
ment of the country than Woodrow Will
son has been.
And right there, in two paragraphs
YOU have the reasons why he was able
to accomplish so much for the people and
the country.
And in those two paragraphs you have
the reasons why the people, under his
leadership. have been willing to discard a
false patriotism and tempering of their
passions until they cry only for peace.
At no time and by nobody have the
doctrines of the Democracy been more
clearly or more intelligently set forth
than by Woodrow Wilson in again con-
senting TO become the party's leader.
AT no time and by nobody has the
country been talked to more as father
10 n son. than il has been in this instance
by Wilson. His words in the speech are
easily turned into words of wise counsel
and advice.
That advice TO us all is that we are
being unnecessarily alarmed by those
smarting standpatters who still adhere to
their theory that the country is going
10 the dogs without robbing tariff rates
\ FOR the protection Of industries that have
never outgrown their infancy, if the
claims made for them some three or four
decades ago were just claims.
The speech was one full Of optimism
lor anybody who is willing to look at
~ future with broad and undimmed