The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-08-18
Broadcasting a Stencil

The Daily News has never believed
thor Mooorow Wilson was a perfect
Being, and has never hesltateq TO Say
ca 1t tne time OF his dismissal OF
Robert Lansing, for instance, we con-
sidered his conuuct as outrageous, anu
so described it, nor have we seen any
reason Tor altering that OPINION SINCE
But with all his FAULTS, his many Sc
rious faults, he is great STATESMAN
who served mis- country faithfully, sac
rifcing to it his health and almost MS
life. -
oven sitter he is down and out, broken,
rrinnled for life-a disabled veteran
of the world war, if ever there was
one-is the most da6nnable thing that
has blackened American public lie
since the assassination Of Abraham
Lincoln.
Nor do there seem to be any lengths
TO which the Wilson haters will not go
to vent their spleen. They nave
searched the world over seeking for
fifth which they hoped would suck II
hurled at Wilson, No region has been
etoo remote fOs be penetrated by the
vrltures of the Hearst system, for
example, in their search for carNEa.
No distance has been too great TO M
traversed by spies of the senate 'oM-
garchy for evidence against wilson
No living man has been too inAgnln-s
cant or too disreputable to be quoted
if he spoke aaginst the former Pfes-
ident.
But not until this year have they
gone to their greatest extreme. rms
L after Wilson has been out OF OF
flee for months, when no possible
ho
Their vilification of the unfortunate
man. his ghoulish enemies leave the
haunts of living men, and raid the
cemetery, to drag out putrld corpse
to testify against him. William r.
McCombs, once chairman of the DEM
ocratic national executive committee,
has been dead for some time; but be-
furE=4 -aiad he Wrote-a book. 1t bears
The illuminating title, Howl Mod
Woodrow Wilson President; and that
book is now being Broadcast over the
country. ..1 --
It is exactly what the title would
;ndicate-the maunderings of man
::ck in body and sick in mind. Nc
Combs, as his end approached, obvi-
ouslv fell a victim to megalomania
Of the most exaggerated type. He
E,ecame CONVINCED that he, and he
lone: had, controlled the desfinies of
the United States during the years
from 1910 to~4913; that it was his
eat that killed and made alive in the
POLITICAL world. It. is a well-knoWn
type of mental disease that convinces
the victim that he possesses many of
the attributes that belong to God AL
mighty alone; and McCQmbs seems
to have been SO afflicted. Thence it
was only step to the conviction that
Re had been dreadfully abused by his
creatures, and so he visited his wrath
upon them. e.se..
In common decericy this thing
- have been buried like poor Nc
Combs dead body; but the Unsuitable
'7atred of Woodrow Wilson's enemies
would not permit it. The fact that
= will utterly annihilate what reputa-
ton may have been left to McCombs
1atters not at all to them. They I'M
hesitatingly jeopardized the peace of
the world in order to strike at VIII
n. Why should they regard Nc
Combs?
1t is a stain on the good name of
I've United States that an influential
element Of it's citizenry should be
swayed by passion so hideous; but,
"fter all, when you get 100000, 900
people together in one country you are
bound to have a considerable number
Of monsters among them. And when
they become active, all that is left to
gentlemen is to hold their noses and
prepare to gag.-Greensboro News.