The Prescott daily news., 1916-05-01

| lem that has so long vexed American government, by which comprehensive legislative programs can be enacted into law without the presidents CO., ercing Congress or bribing it with patronage.
 They would point to his prepared ness measures as full atonement for past derelictions on the part of the Republican party, and as an example of leadership that knows how, in times of national peril, to bring ire conciliable political elements into har- mony for the public welfare.
 They would point to the administra- tion of Wilson as second only to the administration of Washington and Lincoln in the record of mighty achievement in behalf of the Ameri- can people.
 All this and more would Republi- cans say of Woodrow Wilson if he were Republican president. Why should the fact that he is a Demo- cratic president preclude their saying it?
 They have no presidential candi- date of their own who measures up to the situation, and they do not know where to find one. They have no issue. Why not nominate Woodrow Wilson, as the Democrats are going to do, and give the world the most impressive demonstration of Ameri- can unity in great crisis that it has ever known?
 We do not mean that the Republi- can party should shut up shop or make itself an annex to the Demo- cratic party, That would be a calam- ity, for a party of opposition is essen- tial to republican institutions. The Republican party could nominate it's own candidate for vice president. It could name its own candidates for senators and representatives in Con- gress, it's own candidates for gover- nors in the various states and for all local offices. Only the presidency would be excluded for the time being from the arena of partisan strife. No other nation with a leader like Woodrow Wilson would be crazy enough in the midst of a world crisis to change or to tolerate any attempt to bring about change. We know of no reason why the American peo- pie should be less sane than other people, or why they should permit their vital interests to be bedeviled for the edifcaton of ambitious pro- fessional politicians.
 It will always remain to the dis credit of the Democratic party that iii the strain and stress of the Civil war it nominated a candidate for president against Abraham Lincoln and sought for partisan advantage to discredit the Lincoln administration. Surely the Republican party at time like this cannot desire to emulate that miserable example of Copperhead Bourbonism. It cannot desire to weaken the influence of the United States government abroad by a par tisan campaign against the president at home.
 Republican politicians talk much about patriotism, American prestige and the national honor Do they be- lieve wha they say? If so, they ought to welcome the chance to nomi- nate President Wilson. That would be a supreme manifestation of pat riotism. It would strengthen Ameri- can prestige in every capital of the world as nothing else could do. It would put the national honor beyond the possibility of stain. It would re veal to civilization a united republic, eager for peace, unafraid of war and determined to maintain the glorious traditions of service to mankind which 1t inherited from the fathers.
 What say you, gentlemen of the Republican convention? Is the party whose proud boast that it saved the Union great enough and patriotic enough to help give American demo- cracy a new Union in this day when civilization itself is hanging crucified on cross of European imperialism? FOR HOME
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