Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-17

Few more consistent all year round
.,nnorters of the present admins
tration have appeared than the New
York Evening rost. But sometimes
III. Post disagrces in friendly but
plain words Here is an instance:
TIVE .pREs1nENT'S FRIENDS IN
CONGRESS.
Mos, newspapers have treated up
nantly the action of President " llson
in openly opposing the rt-e.ecton % o.
serstor Nardlman and Senator HARD
y,Ck fokes are made about point =
beng ad ourred FOR the other fellows.
hut being m permanent session IN ll e
white House But the World perceiVeS
ira, is II 10 ,eStlrC matter IL mas 4
serious editorial TO-DAY. discussing the
question how far a President may
lsgltirr 4felv and wisely 60 IN opposlhe
TIC reelection NJ senator's ana Kepre-
eerratives Of his own party who have
artarartzed his Administration. Inc
world admits tho grave dangers OF
N. course pursued nv MIR Wilson. but
cones 70 the rather lame conctusion
that the Presidents IS "a policy IN
which 81 cess Is It's own vlndlcaticn ana
failure It's own condemnation.
In the course ol Its article the w ora
remarks that the Democratic members
~ Congress whom the PRESIDENT cails
upon their constituents to repudiate
-ato been arta.cnistlC to she war pol-
ceF ~ tho Government and have
sought 10 ohstrlct them" But Pres-
dent Wilson himself did not say that.
lie put the tang piamp. The offending
representatives. and Senator's had not
tupported the Administration. Nothing
was said about the war about loyalty
o. diSloyaltv Had the President been
biz - make specifications under those
heads hls position would have been
fg Z IL nj ct 70 Ht
are ready TO 60 so far as to say that il
would have been his official duty pub
LILY TO expose and denounce members
OF Congress guilty OF disloyalty For
ouch men. " there are any, there ough,
20 he neither reelection nor forgive
resr There need he no confusion about
this II any man can he shown DELHI
eratelv to have obstructed the nations
war-eforts. let the lash he laid upor
his back. let HIM be expelled from pub,
lie lte lot HIM he summed by decen
citizens But President Wilson did no.
wake any such charge against Senator.
Nardaman and Hardwlck. 1t is no
even fairly 70 be inferred from what hs
! say. The round assertion was made
that they had not supported the Admin
istra'lou and therefore ought 70 be de
prired Of their seats III the Senate
ln assuming this attitude. IT is evi
CENT that the President is thinkIn:
rarely OF party discipline. He is tn,
leader Of the Democrats 1t is for then
20 ~ loyal To HIM. He apparently ha,
no thought Of raising the slightest per
sonsl objection to any Republican,
TheN ~ course. did not support his Ad
rinlsraton, hrt he n,ver expected
them to
In closing its lengthy editorial com
ment. the Post says:
We think he is making ;
great mistake. whether he wins 0,
loses on the immediate issue raised
For he seems to be ruling out toIeranct
Ior men who differ. and hanishing ths
Tree use OF reason and argument in hi,
party in Congress. Mind we do no
suggest that A single disloyal man n;
spared. II the President had said q,
teen ahle to prove. that the activitie,
or Nardaman and Hardwick and m,
others sprang from traitorous motives
we should only have called out 10 hin
70 lay on harder with his whip of SINAI
cords. But as il is he puts himself II
the unfortunate position OF not be,n,
soie 10 bear opposition with patienc,
ara magnanimity, and of seeming tod
SIRE 10 establish narrow party "
Fanny
Is II not a question for grave con
s!deration of the American people
this matter Of granting every whin
81 ary group that would assume al
T.. sight
Is IL not our reason for sending GU
sens 20 Europe to die. that we hop
= NV 70 The victims Of aaiaas.A'