The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-01-24
THE POLITICAL rAnxIns IN THE
1919 CANfAlaN.
Commercial Tribune.)

~ FORCED Dy conditions 10 De deten-
sive one.
Neither the Repuhisan candidate
for President nor ths Republican party
and all It's other sanliAnAos yin fail
to riddle the record Of the Democratic
federal administration and show to
the voters It's many sins Of omis-
sion and commissiOa.
President wilsoa vim have to meet
a situation totally tinstmilar to that
which confronted the Presidential can
didate in 1912.
He will meet stronger, more pow
erful and better organized Republican
party. a party filled with enthusiasm
and confidence, instead of the torn,
rent, disorganized and hopeless party
which was unable to contend in 1912.
He will have before him vigilant and
active political foes and he will have
back Of him four years of the record Of
administration unsatisfactory to hun
dreds of thousands OF Democrats and
to eight millions of Republican voters.
ED-President Taft is quoted as hav-
ing remarked that he found It very
difficult while in the White House to
learn the truth as to public opinion.
That is one of the drawbacks attached
to holding of public high Office and
every President finds it most difficult
to gauge public opinion correctly as to
himself and his administration.
President Wilson can not be held as
exceptional to this rule and while the
atmosphere of the White House and
the executive departments is redo
lent of praise, fattery and sanguine
expressions as to the outcome of the
next campaign, the decision of the
voters is made at the ballot box in
November, 1915, not at the White
house in either this year or next year.
With possibly two or three meas
ures to the credit of the Democratic
administration during the last three
years the debit columns are lengthy
and the debit entries numerous.
When Democratic orators come to
discuss existing prosperity and claim
its benefits as result of Democratic
administration or Democratic legisla-
ton they will find three-fourths of the
voters of the United State Missourian
as to that, and they will have to be
shown and shown plainly. When they
say Wilson stood for peace, Repub.
licans will say no President before
him ever went to war ON such a flimsy
and trivial a cause as demanding the
firing Of a certain number of guns as
salute to the flag. He was for peace
when American nationals were being
murdered, and he was for war when
Huerta would not fire a salute of the
number of guns he called for at the
precise time he wished them fired.
Our readers may search American
history from the landing Of Columbus
to this hour and they will find no such
paradox as this, and in all literature
nothing approaches it lest it be in
the character of Bob Acres, who, if he
had lived today, would undoubtedly
be found declaring himself as standing
upon the Wilson platform of being too
proud to fight"
TOO proud to fight" should be put
upon the banners of the Democratic
party and their orators should have Il
swung high over the heads as they
tell the people Of the vast prosperity
that war has brought to them under
the Democratic administration.
They will point to the prosperity
brought to this country by the Euro
pean war and claim it as their own,
when they know full we'll that neither
their party nor their Congress nor
their President had the slightest inf
ence in causing the prosperity, and
that much that was done in the execu-
tive and legislative departments
which their party controls, would have
brought distress and ruin to this coun
try but for the extraordinary demands
of Europe by reason of the war.
The Democratic can not get away
with any shams such as their bring
ing prosperity to this country.
The intelligent membership of the
Republican party will quickly expose
these false claims