The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-01
WILSON LIKENED TO
A WEATHERVANE
Everett Colby Says Presidents
Intellectual Instability
Will Cause His Defeat.
SEES T. r. AS NOMINEE

PROVIDENCE. n. T.. Feb. 2s.--The great
est fault Of President Wilson. and n
which will cause his failure to be re-
elected. is hfs intellectual instability, "a
deep rootei fault nat accounts for most
Of the shortcomings with which he Is
charged" according to Everett Colby.
the Progressive leader of New Jersey.
MIR. Colby gave "A lecture here this eve
ming at Brown University and his topic
was the political issues of the coming
campaign.
Mr. Colby assumed in his talk that MIR.
Wilson will be the Democratic and
Theodore Roosevelt will be the Republi-
can nominee. He declared that the next
fov months will be spent by Americans
IN searching their souls ~ never before
to learn whether or not We are a sordid.
material. craven, spiritless and selfish
people. or whether We are u nation
formed IN A perfect union 10 establish
Justice and provide for a common de-
fence. Because these questions must he
settled both parties will put forward AS
their standard bearer the man who, the
members believe. most perfectly en-
bodies the spirit Of America in this
srcat crisis. and this means. he said,
President Wilson on one side and Col.
Roosevelt on the other.
Mr.. Colby remarked hat Wilson ad-
here's to two Numerically opposed sys-
tens of philosophy at the same time
the ideal and the practical. an anomaly
which leads him one day to run with
the hares the spirit and the next TO
hunt with The hound OF the flesh. He
added
IL believe that 1t is no exaggeration TO
cay that never in the history OF the
country have We had a man in public life
49,. t... AAas, ~, ~ ~ ~ q diHnTnnt aides
Of so many different questions for so
nany different reasons in so short a
time"
Mr.. Colby gave these citations as
proof Of this. when president Of Prince
ton Mr.. Wilson did not believe the In
~itiative and referendum would work.
" men he was campaigning for Governor
OF Kew jersey he said that while he
could prove they would not work he
knew they did work.
lie was opposed TO the appointment o'
an expert trade commission: later he
changed his mind n advocated the
establishment OF such "A commission. In
1915 he opposed a tarif commission in
1915 he changed his mind about II.
On one occasion he told a delegation
o. suffra gists that he was unwilling IL
express his opinion N woman suffrage
BECAUSE his party had not spoken on
that issue but he insisted upon the re-
peal OF the nan Canal tolls exemp-
lion law, to the retention OF which his
party was pledged. urged Federal owner
ship OF a mercantile marine. upon which
his party platform was silent. and finally
announced mis- candidacy for reelection
when his party specifically pledged him
70 a single term. On December s. 1914
ne said there was no need TO discuss pre-
~,aredness. Mr.. Colby added:
suddenly. without warning. n Just
a, a time when the patience Of the coun
~ had become exhausted. the President
draws a sword carrying the light OF
ieaven upon It's blade and travels
through the land like a meteor In the
night. telling people that the world IL
eiamA that burning embers are hyine
overhead, that ne knows not what the
.,y viii bring a.. ~ and tSat We need
tic biggest navy in the world"