The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
THE ACC0MPL EASEMENTS OF
 MR. WILSON'S 5 ADMINISTRATION
(By THOMAS NELSON PAGE.)

The fight is on once more betweer
 the Democracy-the Party of the Peo-
 pie, that believes in Government of the
 People, by the People for the People and the Party of Privilege, that be-
 lieves in the Government of the People
 by the Bosses for the benefit mainly
 of the privileged class. The Democ.
 racy is represented by President Will
 son with the rich fruits of his Demo
 cratic administration to speak for his accomplishments. The Party of Privi. lege is represented by an unknowr quantity in MT. Hughes-unknown al least as to the most vital questions oi
 the day, on which he has beer
 strangely silent or sibyline-backed by the bosses of the Republican Par
 ty ranging all the way from cidevan' Progressives to the most stand pat o1 reactionaries, but whose one common interest Is their devotion to the per petuation of privilege. MT. Hughes says that he stands firmly on their
 platform and we know what that platform fs-the destruction of Dem ocracy with it's funequalled accom-
 plishments As they put forth nc promise of anything constructive ex- cept tariff-that mother Of special
 privilege-they rest mainly on their
 hostility to Democracy and its achievements.
 What are the Democratic achieve rpents? More remedial legislation than had been passed before in life time. Internally, the soundest flnan- oio iC1o ocad statute books; the overthrow of the privilege which for so long bound the people in subjection to a class with headquarters in Wall Street, who dominated for selfish interests the leg islation of the country; an income tax law which helps to eQualize the burdens of our expenses; and the re- constitution of a non-partisan Tariff Commission, which will report as to the best way to impose such tariff du- ties as may be deemed necessary. And now added to it's other accomplish .ments is the Rural Credits Act which will do for the farmers what the Banking and Currency Act has done for the cities. \
 Externally, the powerful prosperity of a people and land kept at peace in the midst of a war which has drawn every other great power on earth within its destroying conf1agration.T The emancipation of the people, the peace and prosperity of the country, and the power of the Government greater than ever before, are the fruits of the Democratic Administration.
 The question is: Shall America in this crisis change? Shall we, in the horr of peril when the whole world is swept by the most devastating and overwhelming storm in history, change the pilot whose steady hand has guided us through all the perils that beset us and has kept us at peace and in prosperity, with power and honor. Shall America in this crisis substitute for this safe, tried, pilot, whose guiding ste,r has been only America and Americas vital interests under the aegis of international rights an untried pilot, nominated by the Bosses at the boasted dictation of the "German-American\ Alliance" which in its allegiance put a foreign coun- try before America? To make a charge in the midst of this crisis would be simple madness. What might follow such change none can tell It might be war, it might be only panic. It would certainly be the deliverance of the American people once more to the powers of Wall Street and the subsidized Republican Bosses in league with the German all liance. Whom the Gods wish to de- stroy they first make mad" Will the Fates betray the American people into the hands of those who would shackle them again? Shall the Samson re- joicing in his strength be betrayed into the power of those who fattened' on his labor, and shorn of his strength. blinded by his captors be forced again to grind in the mill and at their beck make diversion for his captors?
 That sober second-thought of the American people," on which MT. Lin coin relied when he said that he did not believe in swapping horses in the middle of the stream, can still be re- lied on, and even if the disloyed, un- American, German hostilesN within our borders, who boast openly that they dictated MT. Hughes nomination to punish Mr. Wilson, unite with the posses or ulSn IdTlll dIlu pTlNlloS0 to beat him, we may feel sure that the true Americans of. German blood will stand with those of other blood to up- hold the defender of America and American rights.
 "We love him for the enemies he has made" was said of another great Democratic President-so of this one; we honor him for the unfaltering courage with which he has stood against~the enemies of America and of the American people.
 Why should they change ?-and change to the Republican Party the party of privilege and the Bosses and to MT. Hughes the candidate of the Bosses? See what MT. Roosevelt late head of the late Progressive Par ty, said of them. They are the same now that they were when he show ed them up for the detestation of the American people. Only MT. Roose-