The sun., 1916-08-29
Contrast In Generosity.

~ NOUuu0Sv uU NsVu1VuOSss
An interesting despatch from the
Washington correspondent Of THE
SuN yesterday set forth the remark
able extent tn which the Wilson .Ad.
m%inistrution Is now using Mr.. BRYAN
us the scnIegoat for its blunders. Its
failures and its sins Of omission nnd
commission. "Ah. that was BRYAN's
fault. :" Is the campaign answer to
many of the otherwise unnnswernble
charges brought by Mr.. HrGHEs and
his supporters. This process Of shift
ing responsibility Is not calculated to
I'll with admiration the souls of anna
tours of manliness In politics.
The other side of the picture Is
presented by Mr.. BRyAN's widely cir
culated Democratic newspaper the
COmmOncr In It's August number. II
Is II fact worth noting that the most
enthusiastic and effective journalistic
support that Candidate WILSON Is
getting for reelection tour neighbor
the World Is perhaps tn1 much of an
organ To h. rrckoned IN the COMPARE
sOn) comes from the sanctum of the
eXilci and ,lespisrd BRYAN. Let us
see What he Is doing for the rival
politician whom he left With II "t;OD
bless You. Mr.. President" fourteen
months ago.
In the many editorial articles.
signed and unsigned. In the COM
mOnCr for this month Mr.. BRYAN
urges the readers of the paper Of
which he Is Editor and Proprietor
10 vote for Mr.. WILSON'S reelection.
In many editorial and >~emi-editorial
articles. both signed and unsigned, he
comes to the support of President
WILSON and defends the candidates
record against the spirited attacks
of Mr.. HrGIIEs and other assailnnts.
In Mr.. BIyAN's efforts in Mr.. WILL
SONS political interests there is not
Il suspicion of i~nsincerity. If luke
warmness. of jealousy. of lack Of good
faith or of intent Ia knife. or of any
motive loss respectable than entire
personal loyalty To the cause and its
representative:
Candidate HrGHEs is swinging
around the c!rcle'-once thought "A vsry
u%ndignifhed thing for a Presidential cam
didate TO do. President WiisoS Is a:
Washington, cooperating with Congress
in completing the splendid legislat!! s
record Of this Administration"
Or again:
"President WILSON made "A special trip
from Washington to Princeton to regis
&c and another trip to vote for Votes
for Women.
The records OF the Board of Elections
OF New York county fail to disclose that
Mr.. HrGHE either registered or voted
on this OCCASION
Or again. with regard to the Demo.
cratic claim Ia glory for the enact.
ment of the income tax:
"President WILSON. then Governor OF
New Jersey. was one Of the State Execu-
lives who officially urged the ratification
OF the income tax amendment"
And again:
Considerable emphasis is being laid
upon the alleged fact that Mr.. WI.soN
has a single track mind. At that i,
will have to be admitted that he has
been Transporting a great lot of new
ideas over it without any wreck of con-
sequential proportions
These are but examples. Every
where In I'll" CommOncr Mr.. BRYAN's
brain and len are busy formulating
arguments in favor of Mr.. WILSON
and against Mr.. ~IiUGHEs. If it was
his own campaign he could not he
more active, more l~rsevering. more
devoted.
More than this. Mr.. Wilson's
former Secretary of State Is bu4ily
engaged In soliciting and securing,
through the COmmOnrr, subscriptions
or democrats All ONer the Union to
pay Mr.. WILSON'S campaign expenses.
This work Is done with great deli
cacy and with strict regard to Mr..
WILSON'S expressed desire that cor
WrntlOns shall not he invited To con
tribute. Mr.. BRYAN Is calling for
small sums only, and he is getting
them from NIL quarters. together with
such inspiritlng expressions of scnti.
ment from individual voters ns these
among many others:
with the same leaders, WILSON and
BRYAN. az in 1912 we cannot fail to win
In l9lS.'
TT every Democratic voter will con-
tribute ~ MIR, WILSON'S committee will
Dn nlentv af mnnay and sh~ po,,,,