Arizona republican., 1918-12-13

in the pursuit of his politics during one of the most complicated and difficult periods in the history of civilization What is the response? Instead of grant ing the mandate matter of course the intelligent independent voters of the United States sharply deny appeal. In the present congress the demo- crats large mapority in the senate and safe but small in the house. In the next congress the republicans will have majority of two in the senate and majority of about AS in the house. And it will be a party majority. It will constitute an inexorable opposition to the plans and policies of the administration
 That this growing opposition to the president IS not partisan but popular Golfers ayers:
 There had existed in the democratic party from the moment the president took his seat feeling of hostility toward him but it was held check by his seeming hold upon the affections of the people After his election in 1912, republican papers ved with one another offering him genuine support Many of them criticised, but rot in carping spirit, the ad- ministratons shly- -shally policy with respect to Mexico and a little later, it's temporizng with Ger many but all rallied to its support when went to war. And since the they have found fault only with retention of incompetens in places of power
 The storm broke when the president made his appeal to voters the democrats have since felt at liberty to speak freely and bitterly. When former Governor Folk of Missouri returned to Washington after his the senatorship he said for pub Iication, Wilson beat me democratic newspaper of New York declared that Governor elect Smith had trumphed spite of heavy load of Wilson he had to carry.
 Golfers continues;
 What is more, the feeling of hostility to the ad minstration, which manifested at the polls in November, has grown in intensity. The newspapers, last ungagged and unfettered, are speaking their minds We seldom a paper of any conseGuence that does sharp criticism of the president and his advisers and this statement applies to dem- ocratic well republican organs. The people one meets, of all political affiliations of voice in condemnng such acts the appeal to voters, the of he Europe company of George Creel and the seizure of the cables at a time when the freest communication is a public necessity If it is ever possible judge political probabilities from the expressed opinion of many men, election held today would give the republicans such majority in both houses of congress as they have not had for many years.
 What has brought about this amazing revusion of feeling? No better summing up of the causes could be made than the article written by the Wash ington correspondent of the New York Evening Post This writer has been in the presidents counsel has pleaded for him in and out, and has been generally accepted the spokesman of the admins traton The validity of his criticism is enhanced by the fact that he is of the fondest worshppers of the president, and has often written about him with intolerabe fulsomeness. His reasons for the dim inished popularity of MT. Wilson and the enfeebled condition Of his party have been well expressed in the following paragraphs:
 Mir. Wilson, in his absorption in international questions, has got himself of touch with the spirit of America" domestic questions The sort of democracy which the president preached for is longer beheld in the auto cratic and bureaucratic character of the advisers who influence his actions. in the high wall he has built around himself
 He has made a mistake in deciding to take along with him to Europe MT. George Greet. who has lost the confidence of the American press, and thereby of the people"
 The taking over control of the Atlantic cables by Postmaster General Bureson at the time of the announcement of the transfer of Cretrs activities to Europe is denounced by the presidents most loyal friends colossal blunder
 The cabinet is superannuated and in a rut and Mir. McAdoo should not have been permitted quit his offices until after Mir. Wilson's
 The president has been shutting his doors to qualified advisers and depending too much on his judgment and the counsels of a small body of "provincially minded advisers
 He hasn't consulted republicans well as democrats foreign affairs.
 He is attempting to manage the government "in personal and private which does not square with his professions of democracy"
 He has failed to take the people in his fidence with regard to what he to do the peace conference with his arrangements for the transaction of executive business during his absence from the country
 The article to which Golfers refers, by Mir. David Lawrence, has lately been made republican campaign document In conclusion says Golfers:
 It would impossible to write a more severe criticism the statesnanship O the man tc whom all the civilized world looked for leadership a few weeks It is equally indictment the sagacity and good faith of the presidents advisers With the exception of Mir Tumulty, he seems have no one in his confidence who will give him advice that is at once intelligent and candid. His Burlesons. Creels and kitchns have put the democratic party on the rocks It will be saved, not by them, but by men who know and respect it's honorable traditions and the useful part it has played in the upbuildng of the nation
 It is the record of Golfers that in his first cam paign and since the election of MT. Wilson it has at all times been fair him has tried to be help full record which gives peculiar force to it's present findings against him.