Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-08-23
WILSON WEIGHED,
IS FOUND WANTING
How Hughes Interpolates Him
Through His Record.
VERDICT OF PEOPLE CERTAIN
Country Demands an Era of Effects
After Four Years of Hating and
FutiIity Under the Demo-
cratic Regime.

With the inscription of meme meme,
tekel upharsin written across the
record of Woodrow Wilson by the
Republican candidate for the presi-
dency, the clear hand of destiny is
disclosed behind the inscription. What
Mr.. Hughes has to say of Mr.. Will
son counts for relatively little. What
Mr.. Wilson has to record of himself
counts for much. So the Republican
candidate, instead of INDUCING in q
long dissertation upon the failures
and follies of the Wilson administra-
ton, simply placed the president in
the witness box. Then with the adroit
skill OF cross-examiner, whose pow
er Of placing the searching question
Is Incompatible, the former Supreme
court justice interpolated Mr.. Wilson
through his record. Remorselessly and
with consummate skill he piled the
facts and revealed the president as he
is from his official acts and utterances.
The jury of American citizenship can
see clearly the judgment they will be
compelled to render. While they are
In consultation throughout the cam
Daign there is no doubt as to the de-
cision to which they will arrive.
Weighed In the balance and found
wanting, II will be.
There could be no more condemning
verdict than this. The verdict of tenn
porization, of indecision, of lack of the
faculty for adequateness, the fault of
indecision-these are the things in
volved in the verdi4 that will be rem
dered by the voters. following out the
Instructions Of the late Judge and now
candidate Of the Republican party.
Seldom has a party entered upon a
campaign with so much material to
draw from in the record of the party
It seeks to displace. Seldom has
party entered into campaign with
candidate so capably fitted for keen
analyses that reduce to their real char
scter the acts of the one attacked. The
Republicans of the nation have been
thrilled by the spectacle which Mr..
Hughes presents as a man peculiarly
gifted to bring to bear wide judicial
acumen and to tear away the frills of
yerbiage from the deeds unheroic of
the man in the White House and TO
reveal him as shorn of the entire armor
Of political righteousness. The way
of hating and of futility has been fol-
lowed until there Is need for recrudes-
cence of American power The way of
indecision has been followed until the
country demands an era of effects. The
way of Quibbling has been followed
until the people demand that the coun-
try shah return to the broad highway
of American resolution and American
firmness.
In the case of Mexico, as Mr..
Hughes says, a short period of firm,
decided and frank action would undo
the results of many months of the kind
of vacillatlon TO which Mexico has
been treated by Mr.. Wilson.
Preparedness, prerogatiye and peace
are the keywords of the Republican
declaration of principles, as set forth
by the man most capable of making
them actual facts in the experience of
the nation. The old landmarks beckon
the Republican party, and the prin-
ciples of the fathers invite it. The Re-
publicans will respond, and aided, the
nation will witness the supplanting of
the man of whom 1t has been said in
effect by Mr.. Hughes: UNSTABLE as
water thou shalt not excel" by the one
who will prove to be a tower of
strength. Mr.. Hughes has the ability
both to arrive at and TO make decisions.
He will never make decisions before
he arrives at the facts only TO reverse
them after he has arrived at the facts.
he will never stall the nation in the
path of its progress. He will never
stop the action of the country in order
that he may consume time In altering
his own attitude. He will not declare
for policy Of openness and straight
way pursue a policy OF personal and
covert diplomacy. He will never con-
found military with diplomatic action,
but will stand severely by the latter
when needed and will hold to the for
mer when 1t is found serviceabIe.
Hence, the Republican party today
is to be congratulated upon it's stand
and his stand. He has
turned the searchlight upon the rec
ord OF the one who has been weighed
and found wanting. The sure course
Of the campaign will do the rest.-Bal-
timore American.