The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-25
DEEDS, NOT WORDS, WILSON'S RECORD,
 MCCORMICK HOLDS
DcmOcratics National Chairman
 :, Issues Statement, on Campaign. se

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 (By Vance Ci Mccormick. Chairman Democratic sNational Conmittee.) {, People who, are for Wilson for President, are very certain. Why they are for Wilson. Are the people who are for Hughes very certain why they are for Hughes?
 Wilson lmen point to definite prin- ciples fora which Wilson. stands and has stood. They point to principles first; then they point to series of great deeds. affecting both domestic and international affairs of the high est momentsx in cortformance with and execution of, those principles.
 Eo, behind the word in Wilson's case there's the deed. Behind the promise of future performance there's the guaranteed of past performances
 Behind thef word in Hughes case there are, no deeds. Behind the prom ise there is no guarantee of perfor, nance. Ihdesd such divisions exist within his parity that. in the light of therecord. there is every guarantee of Hughes inability to deliver upon any consequential issue. domestic or in ternational.
 < Hence you, find this amazing fact: upon many. the larger issues. Hughes has not even offered words!
 It may be somet people are against Wilson and know why. It may be eome are opposedito the principles for Which Wilson stands and want the leeds of his administration undone. It hay be that some are opposed to the Enforcement of honest neutrality to- ward all the, European belligerents. hd, therefore, hope to defeat Will
 tn: that otherstfor selfish reasons de-
 re intervention in Mexico and are Eainst Wilson because he is opposed
 the subjugation of a weak people
 4 aastrong and, more numerous peo-I ,,There may be, ,these and other such reasons tin the minds of some men who are. against Wilson, and know why; but 1does such a mode of think ing enable any one to know why with any sfAowyof logic, he is for Hughes?
 Wilsons Campaign Positive.
 The wilsion campaign is positive; the Hughes campaign---and thus far with the bland and verbose acquies- cence of it's leader-is negative.
 Even in this early stage of the cam paign, the case before the people stands so clearly that it seems scarce 1yI necessary to define the principles and to name the deeds that make the Wilson candidacy positive. They are known without the telling.
 The principles are the principles of human rights for which forward-mov-I ing men havei fought for centuries. The deeds are the application of these assertion of the rights of the many algatnst the interests of the few--in the law and the life of America. and the world to-day < The Federal Reserve act is such a deed predicaAed upon just such princi- p1es. So is, the Clayton Antitrust act; 50 is thes Trade Commission act; 90 is the Rural Credits act; so is the Underwood Ear1f act, with its com plement. to be7fhe Tariff Commission act; and SO arefthe1Vhole series of re- medial labor and social justice mea- sures passed byathe Democrats under the inspiration and leadership of Woodrow wilson.
 Can Assert Principles.
 Just such deeds in harmony with just such principles run through the whole course of the Presidents deal- ings with foreign, affairs, both Euro pean and Mexican. The President cannot amend or frewrite the laws of the nations; but! he can assert them in behalf of the maintenance of the , principles underlying them-and this he has done. with splendid effect. v The Wilson man of to-day does not argue; he states. The Hughes man scancely argues; hetberates L great Reptblican newspaper that MT. degree of vagueness" that enables the actively disloyal, the un-American German-AmeHicans. to support him. l Why, his utterances also have just that degree of vagueness that enables un-Americans of the pro- British or | Ally type to support him.
 The active protagonists in this country of the two groups of warning | powers abroad -. those who want America to war upon the Germans | and those who want America to war tpon the Allies-find a candidate in common with MT. Hughes!
 Seeks Aid by siIences.
 His silence senables those who want the reserve bank system overthrown ~&eA~A e NCAAtA oA O1iAhs un Dy w all St.. | substituted, to support him. So. too. of those who want the Trade Com mission put out of business, the new labor laws nullified and the Clayton act shelved.
 The Hughes. utterances and silences are also baited to coniinue hope in and gather support among the Pro- gressives of 1912.
 All things considered, the Hughes candidacy is a hoax. His personal | course. though, is easily understood. He cannot do the one thing or the forward. with forward looking people or backward with D4ckward looking peopie-and carry nls party with him; so he does neither the one thing or the other.
 It is campaign of substance versus ahadow.
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