The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-24
HERBERT CR0LY
 SAYS HE WILL <. BEFoR WILSON
Magazine Author and Editor Asserts That Hughes is
 "Pussy-Fo

New York, Oct f4.--Herbert Croiy. !Editor-in-chief Of the New Republic, in signed article in the current-issue of that magazine, announces his in- tention to support woodrow Wilson. X: MT. Croly is the author of 'The Promise of American Life," in which book Colonel Roosevelt found his ex- pression. the new nationalism,' as he frankly and gratefully acknow- lodges. MT. Croly supported Rooser welt enthusiastically in 1912.
 The aEtic1e by MT. Croly headed The Two Parties in 1s1s." follows in part
 'The Republican party now consists of a fortuitous collection of warning ingredients united only by an utter intplerance of President Wilson. The Republican party was destroyed by the schism of 1912. The controversy be- tween the two factions of the party raised an issue concerning the mean ing of Americanism and the function of a genuinely national party, which is fundamental and irreconcilable. The Progressives have capitulated. Since the campaign began not one Republi- can has made a speech which indi-
 
 sive aspiration to unite more popu- lar control of government with a more social policy.
 @All the Republicans have dohe by way of concession is to nominate q candidate who. because he was not Involved in the controversy of 1912, ie peculiarly qualified to ignore it. Such a concession may be sufficient for those Prpgressives who have forgot ten or never meant what they said four years ago, but man who re- members what he then said, as do and still believes 1t, cannot consider the heknebulous reign of reason embed jed in the goodwill of an ex-Justice of the Supreme Court fair compensation for the possible surrender of cherished personal convictions.
 ."The intellectual impoverishnhent of the Hughes campaign is directly trace able to his leadership of party di- vided morally against itself. MT. 4 Hughes is obliged to spussy-foot' about everything except his opposition to Mir. Wilson, because he realizes only too well the penalty of being specific candid and courageous. The definition of concrete nAefhods of promoting ef- nciency, of contributing to the social welfare, of embodyfng the reign o1 reason in industrial controversies, of asserting American rights, would soon bring to the surface the deep differ once of values which underlie the fic- titious harmony of the existing Re- publicanism. It would revive the con troversies of four years ago and force Republicans to decide whether a thoughtless hodge-podge of progress sivism and conservation is any -suffi- cient answer to the terribly real and deeply controversial problems of a modern industrial nation.
 "Mr. Wilson's preference for going slow and playing safe should be cred- fled with one emphatic compensation. It has not exposed the foreign pAlicy of the country to misunderstandfng and repudiation by the less articulate mass of his fellow-countrymen. He has beeH gradually domesticating in the minds of the plain American peo- pie some sense of international re- sponstbi1ity. They Are listening to him and have confidence in his leadership. The Republican insistence on the as- sertion of all American rights and the attacks on Mir. Wilson for making sacrifices in behalf of peace will force a Republican President to be very ag- Igressive in his policy and at the same