Arizona republican., 1916-10-17
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LONG BRANCH, N J., Oct It, President Wilson today told q delega- ton of independents, comprising the Wilson Volunteers that the democratic party is the only instrumentality now at hand for the enactment of genuine humane, just and progressive legisla- tion." The members of the delegation came here to tell the president they planned to campaign for him from the Battery to Buffalo in New York state because they felt he had given the na- tion "a square deal"
 Led by Amos Pinchot and Rabbi Stephen H. Wise of New York, the del- egation remained with the president longer than an hour. He talked with the delegation in the reception room of his summer residence, Shadow Lawn.
 The president declared the time has come for America to unite her pro- gressive forces" He said the leaders of the opposition want only three things. "the scalp of the present comp troller of the currency" John>Skelton Williams; to get control of the bank ing system of the country, and to put the army and navy of the United States back of their financial enterprises in Mexico and throushout the world "The problem that America has had to face for some time" said the presi- dent. has been to unite and organize her progressive forces. They have been present in the nation for q long time They have beea running like under ! currents. They have been asserting 1 themselves here there and eisew wher re in sometimes unexpected quarters, but not until four years ago did they dis | close their numerical forces"
 Dissecting the presidential vote of ] aaa N. sH.g | president said that of the more l than 10000 votes cast. 0.000. 900 were cast for the progressive candi- | dates and programs of the campaign, | represented by the progressive and i democratic parties. Of the remaining | 5,000,000 votes, only $500, GOO were cast | for the republican candidate, "a most | extraordinary manifestation of the ! people"
 | He said that for a long time the pro- | gressive element had been the dom | mating one in the democratic party | and the election four years ago showed
 the strength of that element in the re-
 publican ranks, as given by the pro- l gressive party vote.
 Now. since then" continued Presi- | dent Wilson, this group in the demo- | cratic party has had an opportunity to | show the country whether it meant l what it said or not, and it has shown | that it did mean what it said, that it
 was a genuine progressive force ready | to do the things that it had promised | to do.
 "The men who oppose us can sum
 their desires in three propositions To put it as they would put it they want
 the scalp of the present comptroller
 of the currency-I can only conjecture, | because for the first time in many years he has obliged the banks to obey
 the banking laws; knowing him to be
 honorable knowing him to be efficient
 l can conjecture no other reason.
 Tn the second place, they desire to get control of the new banking system
 and in the third place they wish tc put the army and navy of the United
 States back of their financial enter
 prises in Mexico and throughout the 1 world. In private this is what they
 avow. IL ought to be avowed in pub | lie and itN summarizes as compactly
 and neatly as can be summarized the
 general purposes of the leaders of the , three and a half million
 T want to say, in passing, in regard
 to this three million and q half of 1nN fellow countrymen, that l do not be- . lieve them to be in the plot 1 believ, 3 them to have been misled by ancien l
 inveterate habits of voting from whicl
 they have been unable to break away = But the purpose of their leaders i 7 patent to everyone who has studied fh, I annals of the recent legislation of thi 2 country. H'fe then we strike tn, essence of the campaign. An lnstru mentality of enlightened legislation 1 genuinely democratic in spirit. is, i
 their suggestions are accepted, to b. | replaced by men who have no publi
 object except the object of spoliatior
 Can anyone wonder that thoughtful
 men in such circumstances are begin
 ming to see that we are facing the mos ! | critical choice, the most critical DO l ltical choice that has been made in ou l generation. because we are now L
 choose, for the time being. at any rate
 the very character and foundation O = | our government. We are to choose it e spirit, it's object. it's motive. and we ar Q to choose between the interest of cer tain privately controlled and secretl n | concerting intereSts''