The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-11-09
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

The presidential election this year may be regarded as a curiosity. It is so extremely close that as this is written, it is impossible to say who will win. It would be hard to ima- zine anything more desirable from the point of view of the both parties in that it keeps all concerned enthu- siastic, one way or another, and gives a wholly fictitious idea con- corning it all.
 The President is theoretically sup posed to execute the laws. The great fight made for the office is po- sitive evidence that the White House is sought for other reasons.
 Congress is supposed to legislate, and those interests which are likely to be affected by legislation almost invariably are supposed to center their egorts and their energies upon the election of it's members in their favors.
 Consequently it is not untimely to and more important functions to perform than being that of the exc cutive of the legislative or other branch of government
 In point of. fact the Presiden. of the United States has been vested with so serious powers that his office is much more important than that of official chief executive. With the increasing international importance of American trade and the important relation thereto of national policies and their effect upon the commerce. al and financial interests, it is true that the President of the Ji'te.l States in his ability to adopt 6 DO Hey of state favoring one nation, in terest or another, also has bee nc vested with an ever increasing irn. portance in the matters of govern ment
 It is not too much to say that within the hands of Wilson, through his Secretary of State, has been the power to maintain peace or war dur ing his entire term of office. It is not too much to declare that sucf a power is one that would have : tremendous effect upon the great in dustrial, financial or commercial in terests.
 Another thing is this The chief est and most important and far reaching power which President holds is his power to veto. Tha, gives him a degree of control over legislation that to that extent makes his office the mosct important fea- ture of the government functions and to this extent also he shares the judicial and legislative functions. With politics gradually and quite na- turally becoming more and more closely connected with the social and Industrial conditions which prevail, the power to veto such laws is one ethat is of inestimable value in the hands of one So euphemistically cal led friendly to the interests. and is of tremendous danger to those in terests when in the hands of one who is not so amendable to industri- al or financial control
 sk te. hoc "a determined effort to secure man Cor the White House who would make his interests and recognize his Interests as identical with those of the great financial. commercial or industrial powers.
 Possibly such one was reached in the person of Taft, and in Taft's Foreign Policy and in Taft's veto po- Hey as with all other men who have held possession of the office of pre- ssident, we will find the key. to ahe manner in which his ideas favored or disfavored the powers which were economically supreme.
 It is easy therefore to under. stand the reason whys there is such very desperate effort to secure a man who can be implicitly intrusted with the office of President by the interests. And itSis also therefore very easy to understand why 1t is the machine politicians, the dele- gates not of the people but of the