New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-20
Wilson Recreant in 20 Ways,
Princeton Professor Charges
n Matber Who Voted for President in H. Bitterly
Regrets It-Attacks Mexican and European Policies
He Followed Hard Words with Soft Deeds

| tary Garrison, and by his acquieseence
in the absurd makeshift of the Hay
| law. The slow. costly and ineffective
concentration of the National Guard
on the border has already demonstrat-
ed the folly of the legislation which
the President approved. He was APP
parently concerned with purely po-
litical use of the preparedness move
ment. or was grossly ill-informed.
Either view shows him recreant to the
most important of trusts.
"12. In all our European dealings
| he has failed TO express the moral I'M
| pulses of the nation. On the contrary,
he has given TO the indifference OF
considerable portion Of our citizens: the
| fair name of neutrality. He has virtu-
ally conselled US to be selfish and cal.
| lous, and has done so in the name OF
morality. Thus he has exalted the os-
| trich policy of pretending that we have
10 interest in or right to judge great
situation which deeply concerns us.
Lusitania Murders Recalled
"18. He has forgotten, and hidden US
forget, our murdered dead of the Lusi-
tania.
IA. While he has exercised the
lawyerlike activity in defence OF our
rights. he has throughout INDUCED the
utter folly of following hard words
with soft deeds or sheer surrender
Thus, without indicating or securing
our rights, he has given offence to
nearly all the European powers. He
has utterly failed to give any support
moral or practical, to neutral powers.
From the violation Of Belgium on he
has shut his eyes TO the shatterlng OF
the painfully built fabric OF pubic
right. .r.d
"15. Under the lash or the railroad
unions, and looking toward his own re-
election. he forced upon Congress the
infamous Adamson law and made our
national legislature share in the shame
of his own surrender.
"18. In all his actions he has shown
small inclination TO consult persons
Of weight and knowledge, preferring
the advice of his interiors and fiatter-
ers.
AT. After accepting a pledge not to
seek second nomination, he Is frivol-
ously playing politics both with our
domestic and foreign interests.
Business Policy Attacked
"1s. He has generally shown a mar
row-minded hostility to great business,
but has made exceptions, as IN the new
tariff, when the great business was
Southern and Democratic. His foolish
championship Of the unavoidable bill
which puts the government into the
shipping business shows the amateur
ishness of the man in all business mat
tiers.
"l9. He has made no endeavor to re-
strain extravagant public expenditure.
400 He has verbalized our states
manship, covering alike his slackness
and timidity as a leader, and his guile
az a politician, under the bewildering
ooze Of incessant rhetoric. By thus in
terposing mere phrases between US and
the realities of policy and action, he
has Inundated the nation in its own
ewes and before the world, as q people
represented by a spokesman whose
word is not current coin, but glitter
ing counterfeit.
~ shall vote for Hughes for the
single reason that his whole career
shows him TO be the possessor OF those
qualities Of intellectual integrity and
moral resolution which President Will
son so evidently lacks"