The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-01
WILSON SOCIALIST,
SAYS ]. W. BAILEY
Ex-senator Says Democrats
Must Repudiate President .
or Embrace Socialism.
FEARS PARTY DISASTER
Says Real Democrats Have
Been Prescribed and Radicals
Given Cabinet Posts.

WASHINGTON, March SIN a letter
TO a friend In New York. made public
here tonight. Joseph w. Bailey, former
warns against the policies OF President
Wilson as follows:
Il am fully persuaded" said the let
ter, that within the next two years the
Democratic party must either repudiate
President Wilson or It muet embrace
practically all of the socialistic doc
titneN He has already led our party
or rather l should say he has
already driven our party-into
reluctant support OF many social
istic measures. and before his term
expires ne will have committed us, un-
less his power in that regard is chal-
lenged, irrevocably to socialism under
the name Of progressive democracy
What then can you or men like you
say to yourselves and to your friends2
VIII you say that you allowed Mr.. Will
son to deceive you? You can hardly
excuse yourselves on that particular
because every Democrat In the United
States with intelligence enough to know
what is a Democrat knows that Mr.. Will
son is a Socialist or AT least he is not
Democrat II Thomas Jefferson and
Andrew Jackson were Democrats.
Socialists support Him.
THE Socialists understand the atti-
tude OF the President II Democrats do
not; and 40 per cent. of the men who
voted for Eugene Debs in 1912 voted for
Mr.. Wilson in 1916. I say this because
the Socialists polled almost a million
votes for Debs IN 1912. while they poled
less than soc, 900 votes for their Presi-
Dental candidate in 1916. Where did
those 100000 Socialist votes go? No
body supposes that they remained at
home nor does anybody suppose any os
them were cast for Judge Hughes they
must therefore been cast for President
Wilson.
"A Socialist preacher and teacher re-
Gently wrote a book entitled Woodrow
Wilson and the Worlds Peace in which
he describes the President as revolution
airy beyond anything his words reveal.
beyond anything his contemporaries have
discerned.' and further declares that as
compared with Woodrow Wilson there
are Socialist Spokesman who are bour-
bon in their understanding and their
sympathy. The man who wrote that de-
scription Of the President has since the
publication OF the book been appointed
by the President to represent the United
states at most important conference.
II may not accomplish much by
public and emphatic protest against the
present trend Of Democratic legislation
and administration, but II is certain I
could accomplish nothing by remaining
silent and when the disaster comes. as
come 1t must IL We persist IN our present
course. shall have the lunspeakable sat
istaction OF knowing <hat have done
what could to avert g."
Senator Bailey's letter was written. he
explained. 10 make clear Just what he
had said In his recent speech in Newark,
y. j.. which was interpreted as mean
ing that he had quit the party.
What l did say" was his expiana-
ton, was that I will never again vote
for the candidate of any party which
constantly reduces our liberties and un-
necessarily increases our taxes But