The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-11-04

four wears ago Daily strongly advised the Democratic party
Woodrow Wilson its candidate for President The agu
perseny advanced his behalf by this are
contributed ncOnsderabe degree to Mr. Wilson
the Baltimore convention In the succeeding cam
paign Daily News heartily supported Mr. Wilson's candidacy
Many his actions President have received its full approval How
characteristics of this remarkable chief executive of the
nation clearly revealed by his official have led
him actions that appear The News to be subvve of popular
foundations of public order and safety
Therefore believes that the interests of the republic require the re
Mr. Wilson from the presidency the end of his present
term of Office
Mr. Wilson is scholarly egoist things by
standards subject notifications other than
those resulting from his confirmed policy of opporunism Do the
thing make virtue of it, might be the accepted motto
this emnenty plausible President Having real advisers and no
Cabinet except namehs made clear by the resignation
Secretary arrison-he felt free follow his ncnaons
times His ncnaons have been right instances and h
has accomplished much that should of lasting value to the
nation Blessed with safe majority each house of Congress
throughout the whole period his administration and having
desirable passion for wise which characterized
another Democratic President Grover Cleveland he has found
of keeping under his hand ready instrument for the enactment
approve and of Staying thai
his liking In short extraordinary degree he has
had his way in legislative affairs.
Material rewards his administration in large because
the which has deluged Europe with blood has duged the
United States with prosperity The Daily News has approved hOs
actions of the Presidents that tended uphold against the ruthless
the rights of neura and other nOncOmbatan though
many voices raised for Mr. Wilson raised long ago
in reks of alarm voices that prophesed red ruin ru
of the Presidents display of rmness In the opinion of The Daily
he did in dealing with the submarine and other questions whereas
considerations of honor and safety might well have caused him dol
than he did Because of unprecedented conditions the fOregn
field accomplished keeping
the nation out of though the fact that
the chief boast of his supporters Yet for than there
has been nobody anywhere who could have been persuaded
with nearly all of the worlds fighting being locked
deadly struggle amid the trenches of Europe The administration
Mexican policy though has given little gorous wars
temnabe muddlemen and serious loss prestige has reflected the
Presidents wise determination not yield inch to the arrogant
demands of the annexaonts 1t has shed the nation u
that resulting from the rejection of the elemental sin of blind
cOvetousness.
dealing the the
road brothhoods that President Wilson clearly his
policy of That perOus policy of following the line of
least resistance shown here in its perfection Here also shown
the destrucvene of the form of craftsmanship which deals with
crisis by pospOnng the day of settlement and the time by
weakening established safeguards augmentng the elements of danger
contained in it. Confronted by leaders rail
employers refused arbra question higher
and had the proered help Federal
tOn and Cancellation President Wilson chose that
ton involved that of the establishment of the egou day
though the eghthour day reality had nothing He
chose to Also without making effort that threat
ened outcome that nationwide strike railroad ranspOra
ton from coast coast would result speedily unless he by
law within few hours sediment the liking of the had
engineered the strike order Instead of saying Th
nation will not be coerced into passing law increasing
without investigation he fastened reward them for first refusing
arbitration and then setting their scany limit
Congress might establish by law their minimum
cent increase VIGOROUSLY manded by the President the
eghthQur law The nation chief executive rejecting all pleas to
the contrary thrust aside the principle of arbitration aside all
questions of right and and yielded baraed hodup
derogaon of justice and orderly government To give
Shadowy he demanded thing while calling
stampeded Congress carried out his orders in jig time.
Here shameless destructive surrender of force
made with deliberate by organized minority On the
part of the President at display of mdy craft
established precedent both dangerous and humag Through
ont the amazing transaction the larger interests the great
ganzed American public counted for nothing The
ignored The President employed easy
projecting present difficulty into the future and of gaining profit
able friendship for himself while sowing crop of dragons
his country whose interests he guard This appalling
display Of unscrupuOusness Eliminates like seahght
aer and the thought of the chief magistrate Of the
The American people should take warning from the painful exposure
In the opinion of The Daily News the safety of the
integrity Of It's institutions wisely President
Wilson for another mEdora in The Chicago Daily News De-
toher rs, 1916.
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