The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-29


 changes of policy which may alter the whole aspect of the Nations life"
 President Wilson wrote this yester- day to Miss Leona l.. Larrabee, Presi- dent of the Womens Asemocratic Club of Portland, Ore. It was his opening message in campaign of let ter writing in which he will answer the charges of his Republican critics.
 'I cannot help feeling," the letter continued, after thanking Miss Larra- bee for her work done on his behalf by her organization, that the intelli- gent women of Oregon need no sug gestiOn or intimation from me as To what are the real issues of the pres ent campaign or the real concern that women have with those issues.
 "As a very sincere advocate of the extension of suffrage to women, it seems to me very great disservice to the cause that partisan use should be made of it, particularly at a time soc ritical as this"
 Scores of telegrams poured in to the White House summer offices to- day, cOngratulating the President on his determination to answer the Re- publicans and to deliver broadside against Candidate Hughes and other Republicans/in his speech before the Young Mems League of Democratic Clubs at Shadow Lawn on Saturday. Although vigorous political pro- nouncement from MT. Wilson is pre- dicted, the real onslaught will be de- livered at Omaha next Thursday when the President will speak to a larger audience than has yet Heard him talk on the issues of the campaign. People Want to Hear Him Presidential Secretary Tumulty merely smiled today when he was asked if Mr. Wilson's visits to Omaha, Indianapolis and other Middle West ern points was designed to speed up" the campaign. MT. Humility said; "It is only natural that the pfople of the country should be anxious to hear their President discuss political topics. MT. Wilson has not been the kind. of a. President who has been rushing aro1nd the country preach flying about the virtues and accom- plisAments of the administration. But, judged by the invitations being re- ceived daily at the summer executive office, people in every state of the Union are anxious to hear him dis cuss the political issues of the day. Therefore, so far as it will be possible, the President will answer insistent importunities for speeches here and there throughout the country"
 Little doubt exists that the chief vided into two main themes: That the country has been kept at peace and that business has been prepared fr Inc expected to follow the end of the European war.
 Sees New Business Problems.
 On this latter point the President, in a letter to Howard s. Williams, president of the Jackson, (Miss.), Young Mems Business Club. wrote last night:
 1T am genuinely disappointed that I cannot be present at the second an- nual convention of the Young Mems Business Clubs of America, which is to met in Jackson on Oct. 10 and II, but imperative engagements else where have worked out in a way which renders it clearly impossible.
 '"The future business development of the country rests in an unusual and peculiar degree at present in the hands of the young business men. The problems of the future in the field of business are going to be new prob lems very largely, or else old prob lems in new form. It will need imagination, vigor, vision and enter prise to deal with them as they should be dealt with, and the young men of this generation should be pre- pairing themselves in mind and pur- pose for a new era.
 'It would be a great privilege if I could come to bear such messag ge in person. Since cannot, can only ask you to utter it for me and to as- sure the gentlemen assembled of my profound interest in the part they are to play in the future development of the great nation we love-"
 President Wilson has been extreme. ly averse to surrendering to the de- mands of Democratic politicians through the country who have pleaded with him to deliver in their localities addresses calculated to add tickets. t|
 May Touch on Local Issues. . Democratic National Chairman vance MCCOrm1ck, who left here for New York yesterday after a prolonged session with the President, urged him to include what is called the Presi- dents "quasi-political speech pro- gram" of addresses in states where talks by the Chief Executive would be beneficial to local tickets. Mr. Will son has this suggestion under advise ment, and, in deference to the de- mands of Chairman Mccormick and leaders from doubtful states, may in his tour make speeches helpful to local and state tickets.
 From the start of the campaign President Wilson has insisted that he should not be called upon to make speeches of a purely political char acter. He has maintained that, as President of the United States, he is not a political parsonage and there fore cannot mix in the maelstrom of political discussion.
 AS consequence he has so far per mitted the excoriations of Candidate Hughes to go unanswered, although Saturday, when he makes his first speech before a purely political body, he is expected to dissect some of Mr. Hughes criticisms and answer them in a manner which will be sufficient not only to the Republican Presiden- tia1 candidate, but to other Republican politicians who have devoted their energies to blackening the record of Democratic national achievements.
 "All of President Wilson's friends"
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