New Britain herald., 1916-09-20

ly following an individual instead sof a principle why should they go back? If they were merely following the man they had honored with leader ship and who had solemnly promised never to forsake them or their cause. isn't 1t about time they ended their blind devotion and opened their eyes when that same man proves to be betrayer of their cause ard traitor to their party?
 Tn the only speech he has thus far made in the campaign, this same malEs who did not hesitate to call those whe1 did not agree with him or follow htaal% crooks and thieves, in his deWHSik' hats and with horrifying irreverenea dares to compare the president of the United States tc Pontius Plate. Wifas stupendous conceit he is asking deS@ cent men to follow his lead and take
 his advice. What a spectacle in American politics! sman who had been favored with the presidency has so little regard for the most honor able office in the civic world that he compares it's distinguished occupant to him who ordered the crucifxion on | Calvary. Terrifying as is the awfula thought yet the little finger of thats
  the judgment, was worth more than the whole carcass of. the miserabfa
 wretch who betrayed the Master, Every great cause, mo matter how just, now high or how holy has had it's traitors, The progressive party of 1916 had it's Judas Iscariot.
 Aside from sentimental or ethicats reasons progressives should in thiss election be with the democrats The only difference between the progress sive programme of 1912 and the rec-8 ord of the Wilson administration is that the programme is a promise aof9 reform Legislation and the record off the democratic party consists of those same promises crystallized intoE the law of the land. ~
 But leaving aside all that the adt. ministration of President Wilson has. accomplished along the line of legisla- tion that the progressives would have
 enacted and all that was enacted ac-e cording to or without proimse and
 which has been of incaIculable bene- fit to the whole country, there is one remaining, paramount reason for the
 triumphant reelection of the. presi-
 dent. He has kept us out of war att home and abroad. He has kept usa out of war. Do you realize what that
 means? Candidate Hughes and Sen-e r ator Brandegee may sneeringly refer.l
 to that accomplishment, but the American people do not sheer at it. | It was negotiate or intervene in Mexi4 co. It was negotiate or break of diplomatic relations with Germanyg
 AS you well known intervention ands | severing diplomatic relations are the l first steps toward war Would Mfr
 Hughes intervene? He doesn't say sos 1 He dare not If he would not inter4 ! vene he must have done what the ] president has done. IL is the sanaa with the European situation MrE I Hughes dare. not say that he would
 have broken off diplomatic relauons on account of the Lusitania or thn I,submarine policy generally. He would have done as the president has done,
 but he is not fair enough to say so. @ We have been kept outRof war and we are, enjoying peace with honor Eandsas MT Cummings so welFsaif un- x der conditions that emphasize it's 1fpriceless worth. -s<a
 l The loss on one side in this terrib1ee l war across the sea has already-reached nearly 3,0O0,0O0 men, killed or wounds ed. Inree m1IlOn! 5s That is about three times as many men as there are men. women and children. in the State of Connecticut. The policy of the president has kept us from war. As Governor Glynns so
 touchingly expressed it in his great
 speech at the St. Louis convention.
 This, policy may not satisfy those who revel in destruction and find 70 i,o I 4se
 fy the fire eater or the swash- -buckler; but it does satisfy those(who worship at the altar of the God Of Peace. It does satisfy the mothers of the land at whose hearth and f1resde no jingo- istic war has placed an empty chair. ' It does satisfy the daughters of the land from whom brag and buster have sent no beloved brother to tho dissolution of the grave? It does sat- isfy the fathers of this land and the sons of this land, who will fight for our flag and die for our flag wheS< reasorfs primes the rifle, when honor draws the sword and justice breathes it's blessing on the standards they up- hold.
 May that spirit of true Americanism Nzd true patriotism so beautifully eX- spressed always inspire us and guide us in our civic duties.
 God of Nations and God of Justice! Keep we pray Thee our President strong and devoted to the trust Of leadership imposed upon him by your, grace and the will of the people of this great land. May he continue toas guide our beloved country in paths of peace, with honor and of prosperity unexampled. May he be further forti4A i,1H1 ho TO gard not national honor when their own interests are at stake. May he be still further strengthened in his course that for nearly four years hass had an eye single to the good of the nation at large. rather than to fhe