New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-12-06

in 1916. and they are talking earn
cstly among themselves about what
can be done to make the President
see that he must clean house. that
he must reorganize his entire Cab
met and that he must, indeed, re-
organize the Democratic party in
Congress so that he will have ad-
visers in the Executive branch of
the Government and leaders in the
/ legislative branch who are in SYM
pathy with the true wishes and spirit
Of the American people.
After talking with dozens of these
men, the names of any one of whom,
if published, would carry the convic-
ton that they are seeking only
things which will help and not hurt
thc President, one gets a consensus
of opinion which is unm'stakable.
Here and there are suggestions Of
method which differ, here and there
are different degrees of dissatisfac-
ton, but. put catcgorically, these are
some of the mistakes which the
President himself is declared to have
made or to be making today:
First, the President in his absorb
ton in foreign questions, has got
ten ont of touch with the true spirit
of America on domestic questions.
He has listened to a small group of
advisers who have had his ear to
the exclusion of the greater group
of friends who come from the Mid
die West and West and sections Of
the East where people are finding
It difficult to reconcile the brand
OF democracy which Mr., Wilson
preached at the outset of his Ad-
ministration with the retention of
distinctly autocratic and b~ureaucrat-
ic advisers and with his own Sc
clusiveness.
Second, the friends of the Presi-
dent are unable to understand why
George Creel should be taken to
Europe as the head Of any commit
tee on public information when Mr..
Creel, notwithstanding his fine per-
sOnality and close personal friend
ship for the President and sympathy
with the Wilson ideas, has lost the
confidence of the American press,
and thereby the people.
Third, the friends of Mr.. Wilson
believe a grave mistake was made
in announcing the dispatch of Mr..
Creel to Europe at the same time
that Postmaster-Genera Burleson
was permitted to take over control
of the Atlantic cables. These things
have been denounced as Colossal
blunders," not merely by Republi-
cans, but by Mr.. Wilson's most loyal
friends. who mean nothing personal
by it either.
Fourth, they believe that Mr., Will
sons Cabinet is superannuated, and
in a rut, and that the resignation Of
William Gibbs McAdoo deprives the
Administration OF one of its most eff
%ficient public servants, and that the
President should have never per-
mitted him % resign until after re-
construction was well under way. or
at least Mr.. Wilson had returned
from Europe.
Fifth, they consider that Southern
domination in Congress and else
where will prove fatal to the Demo-
cratic party's chances to regain the
confidence of Western celebrates.
Sixth. they are deeply disap-
pointed that Mr.. Wilson himself
should have kept himself aloof from
men from various States, who have
sought to aid him IN the past, and
that he should have depended so
much on his own judgment or the
advice of a small group Of provin-
cially minded advisers.
Seventh, and most important of all
there is a deep-rooted feeling that
Mr.. Wilson has not taken account
of the resentment Of the American
people for his failure to take into