Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-10-20
Wilson Gives Stand On War.

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went before him with bands playing and
flags flying. The President declared that
while America is for peace, America is
always ready to fight for things that are
American"
In his speech he said, in part:
81 need not tell you that am glad to see
you, but let me say that am especially
glad to see you because there are some
things which perhaps Pennsylvanians are
more qualified to tell about than any other
people in the United States. They are bet
ter qualified to testify as to the subtle and
intricate means by which the purposes Of
the people are some times defeated by
their government because know how true
1t is that the people of Pennsylvania have
again and again attempted to demonstrate
to the rest of the Union that they believed
that we had come into new age, that they
believed that this new age required new ele-
ments of policy. that they desired men to
lead them who would lead them to the light
and not again drag them into the subterra-
mean passages of private influence. And,
therefore. think it will be easier to expound
this campaign to Pennsylvanians than to
anybody else. There are great many
things that you will understand without
my putting them into words.
And the same thing is happening in
New Jersey. Six years ago had the dis
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eminent of New Jersey to the people of
New Jersey in its true cOlors as it lived.
| only wish had time to exhibit it now
that 1t has resurrected itself.
81 was privileged to lead the people of
New Jersey in the direction in which they
had long wanted to 90 and in which
these gentlemen had long pretended they
were willing to lead them. but in a
direction in which they had never been
permitted to advance an inch. Doesn't
that sound to you like familiar story?
"And exactly the same thing that is
happening in Pennsylvania, the same thing
that they are attempting in New Jersey,
is being attempted in the nation at large
| wonder if they suppose that anybody is
deceivedH You know that the elements
that are now behind the candidates of the
opposition party are exceedingly varied.
but they are easy of analysis. The most in
teresting element is that which is most vocal.
The representatives Of that element are con-
fidently telling us, though none of them is
candidate for Office. what the party will
do il ii is given the power to do anything
But those who are nominated for Office are
carefully avoiding saying whether they
will do what the vocal element promises.
In other words, they are putting up as
their spokesman of policy those whom they
do not even pretend to trust with power.
Therefore. those of US who are indicted
into the secrets of the craft know that the
talk is in vain. and that the real cOunsels
of the party are in that other element
which is in absolute control of the organi-
cation Of the party in Congress and out of
it. and whose control has never for mo-
ment been disturbed. never been shaken.
and the contest at Chicago this year were
for the control Of the machinery Of the
party. don't mean on the part of the
Tank and file of the Progressives. for my
fellOw-citizens. no more earnest and sim
cere body of men were ever assembled than
assembled in those two Progressive con-
ventiOns at Chicago. And no sincere and
earnest men were ever more pitfuly de-
ceived and betrayed.
For, after all. it turned out that the
object was not to lead the nation. but to
control the Republican party. and any sort
Of abject surrender was offered by those
who spoke. though they spoke without au-
thority for them. il they might be admit
ted to control that machinery. And now.
after the smoke has cleared away, after
the atmosphere has yielded to the infu-
ences OF time. we see standing out before
US that familiar old guard that has never
for a moment been disturbed in its posses
sion Of power or turned aside in its exer-
else Of the control which it has used And
what want to call your attention to is
that this is not merely II Presidential cam
pagE. There is something quite as i'm
portant as the choice Of chief magistrate.
want you to remember that the real
sources of action and the real machinery
of obstruction are in Congress. not In the
Presidency.
NhnN Ind
have been accomplished in the last three
and half years IL there had not been
determined and willing majority in the
Congress | have not led these gentle
men; have gone forward with them. |
call your attention to the fact that there |
is nowhere recorded single Wilson policy |
Everything that have asked that Con- |
gress to do was written in the pledges of |
the party itself And the only power | |
have exercised is the power Of co-opera-
ton. the power that all men exercise when.
insisting upon the obvious duties OF great
hour. men take heart to do a great thing.
ut is very interesting circumstance.
my fellow citizens, that the House OF Rep |
resentatives is less docie than the Senate |
of the United States. In the House of
Representatives ii has again and again |
happened that the Republican majority |
has broken away from the control Of its
leaders and voted. sometimes by major
ity Of its members. sometimes almost
unanimously for the measures which have
distinguished the action Of the present
Democratic Congress. They came from the
people They knew when these things
were suggested in Congress that they would
be held nexcusable IL they did not sustain
them.
only upon one conspicuous occasion did
the contrary happen, when the Republican
machine was able to compel a majority OF