Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-10-06
Mexican Conflict Another Prospec


Mexican Conflict Another Prospect
President Wilson declared in a speech
at Long Branch, NJ j., on Saturday last,
that the certain prospects Of the success of
the Republican party" at the next cleo
ton is that the United States will enter
the European war and win 60 to war with
Mexico.
The speech was delivered before New
York delegation of young Democrats.
The President said:
II am very much Obliged to you for Civ
ing me an opportunity to say some very
plain things about the present campaign
and about the future policy of this coun-
try, because young men are much more
interested in the future than they are in
the present. While some of us who are
older look back upon long experience and are
able to take certain measurements which
may not have occurred to you. neverthe-
less your feeling is that the world lies in
front of you and not behind you. You
want to know what sort of world it is
going to be and what sort of guidance you
are going to have in that world and what
sort Of cooperation among you will be
effective for the service Of the world into
which the years ahead Of you will bring
you.
Il do not know where, from Republican
quarters, you have got any suggestions as
to what is going TO happen in the years to
come. This is most singular campaign
will not say an Unprecedented campaign,
because happen to remember that other
parties have tried to get into power by
saying nothing whatever; and also re-
member with interest that they never
succeeded, because the people of the United
States are an inquisitive people and If you
ask them to entrust you with the great
power Of their government they really want
to know what you are going to do with
that government if they entrust you with
il. They may not insist upon your telling
them what you would have done in cir
cumstances now past and gone, but they
will insist upon your telling them what
you intend to do in the future.
"For little while myself expected that
this campaign would be an interesting,
intellectual contest; that on both sides
men would draw upon some of the essen
a, Of in In
mine the predominance Of parties, but
am sorry to say have found nothing to
interest me and am little bit ashamed
of myself that should have expected it,
for ! should have known better.
There is a fact running through all our
political history of which ought to have
reminded myself. The Democratic party,
my fellow-citizens. is the only party whose
life has persisted and whose vigor has
continued throughout all the history Of
this nation, and that has not happened by
accident. II has happened because II is
the only party. venture to say all Of
whose life has been governed, or at any
rate inspired by a definite principle-an
absolute belief in the control of the people,
their right to CONTROL their capacity to con-
troll, their own affairs and shape them in
the common interest.
1.-THE Democratic party has committed
many errors, the Democratic party has
made some fatal mistakes of action, but
the reason it has lived, the reason it is
the only party that has apparent immor-
tally in our politics, is that it is the only
party that has consistently based its beliefs
upon the things and the convictions that
underlie all American history belief
in the government of the people by them
selves and their own representatives.
ut has witnessed the life and death of
two great parties, and unless am very
much mistaken il will witness the early
disappearance Of another. II witnessed
the life, decadence and disappearance of
the Federalist party. II witnessed the life,
the increase, the Generalization, the de-
cline and the disappearance of the Whig
party.
"And then there appeared upon the
scene the Republican party. first Of all
organized for a great and definite purpose /;
to prevent the spread Of the institution Of
slavery into the free portions OF the United
States. That object they greatly accom-
plished. And then there seemed to de-
scend upon them the spirit Of the FEEDER
alist and the Whig parties and ever since
then the increasing decentralization OF that
party has been evident.
What was the spirit Of those two par
ties The spirit Of those parties was one
of limited control Of the affairs Of the ma
ton by those who had the biggest material
stake in the prosperity Of the country.
Some of them professed this very openly
and some Of them practiced it without
protesting IL. The theory Of Alexander
Hamilton, who founded the Federalist
party, was that the best kind of govern
ment is government by guardians and
trustees and that only those who repre-
scented the great material enterprises Of
the country are capable Of acting as trus-
tees and guardians. SO that throughout
the period when the Federalist party was
in control the whole idea was that small
group Of carefully planning men should
govern opinion and control administrative
action In the United States.
THE Wing party, when ii arose. had
a somewhat more liberal conception, but
before il had lasted very long 1t acted upon
exactly the same principle-that the great
body Of the people is not capable Of doing
lis own thinking, and that a small group
Of persons must be allowed to dots think
ing for il and the Republican party has
inherited that idea not the idea Of gov
eminent by the people, but government