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Show DECLARES II IS CERT! IF HUGHES WINS President Delivers Speech at Shadow Lawn and Gives Praise to Democratic Demo-cratic Party. REPUBLICANS ARE ROUNDLY SCORED Executive Asserts Democracy Democ-racy Has Witnessed Death of Two Parties and Will See Demise of Third. LONG BRANCH, N. J., Sept. 30. In a vigorous denunciation of the Republican Re-publican party President Wilson today told a delegation of young Democrats from New York that "the certain prospect" pros-pect" of Republican success in November Novem-ber is that ' 1 we shall be drawn in one form or another into the embroilments of European war," and that "the fore of the United States will be used to produce in Mexico the kind of law and order .which some investors in Mexico consider most to their advantage." The president made his first out and out political speech of the campaign from the porch of Shadow Lawn. Urged on by the enthusiastic cheers and waving banners of several thousand young men, he assailed the Republican party and laid down the . issues on which he believes the campaigns should U L. Foreigners Waiting. Still discussing the foreign affairs of the country, President "Wilson stated that on account of the political uses made of foreign relations (iit is going to be practically impossible for the" present administration to handle any critical matter concerning our foreign relations, because all foreign statesmen are waiting to see which way the election elec-tion goes, and in the meantime they know that settlements would be inclusive." inclu-sive." Most of the president's address was devoted to criticisms of the Republican party and to outlining his own plans. A bid was made by the president for the votes of Progressives. He praised j the Progressive party as having "the real red blood of human sympathy in its veins," and declared the Democratic party had done the things the Progressives Progres-sives wanted done. Hyphenate Issue. Briefly the president referred to the hyphenate issue. He said: "Back of that party (the Republican) Republic-an) are those who want to inject into our politics the politics of Europe." Outlining the programme of the Democratic party, Mr. Wilson said it has begun the process of "liberalization" "liberaliza-tion" for the business of this country, and "it intends to strengthen that system sys-tem at every point, extend it at every tension. ' ' He referred briefly to the federal re-srve re-srve act, the tariff commission act, the trade commission act, and other laws passed by the Democrats, charging that "until the present administration Wall street controlled the actions of the treasury of the United States. ' ' Address in Full. President Wilson's address to the Young Men's Democratic clubs at Shadow Lawn today was as follows; T am very much oblised to you for plvtng me an opportunity to say some very plain things about the present campaign and about the future policy of this country, because young men are very much more Interested in the future than t hey are in the present. : While some of us who are older look hack upon lone experience and are 1 able to take certain measurements, which may not have occurred to you, nevertheless, your feeling is that the world lies In front of you and not behind you. You want to know what " sort of ".world it is going to be and what sort of guidance you are going to have in that world and what sort of co-operation among you will be effective ef-fective for the service of the world into which the years ahead of you will bring you. I do not know where, from Re- nilhlli'STI nllflrtPPR Vnu hat- nrif -in,. suggestions as to what is going to happen in the years to come. This is a most singular campaign. I will not say an unprecedented campalgr because be-cause T happened to remember" that other parties have tried to get into power by say in t; nothing whatever; and I also remember with Interest that they never succeeded, because the people of the United Urates are an inquisitive people, and if you ask them to intrust yon with the great power of their government, they really real-ly want to know what you are going to do with that government if they intrust you with it. They mav not insist upon your telling them "what .vou would have done in circumstances now past and gone, but they will in-sNt in-sNt upon yoi;r telling tl.em what vou intend to Co in the future. Kor a little while. I myself expe-t- (Continued on Page Eighteen.) DECLARES WAR IS CERTAIN IF HUGHES WINS President Delivers Speech at Shadow Lawn and Gives Praise to Democratic Demo-cratic Party. (Continued from Pago One.) d that this campaign would lie an hilerostlnfc, intellectual contest ; that on both sides men would draw uijuii some of the essential questions of politics In order to determine the predominance pre-dominance of partlea, but I am sorry to say I have found nothing to interest inter-est me. and T am a little bit ashamed of myself that I should have expected it, for I should have known better. There Is a fact running through all our political history of which i ought to have reminded myself the Democratic Demo-cratic Party, my fellow citizens, is the only party whose life has persisted a.nd whose, vigor has continued throughout all the history of this nation, na-tion, and that has not happened by accident. It has happened because it in the only party, 1 venture to say, all of whose life has been governed or at any rate Inspired by a definite principle an absolute belief In the control of the people, their right to control, their capacity to control their own affairs and shape them in the common Interest. Many Errors Admitted. The Democratic party has committal commit-tal many errors, the Democratic party lias made some fatal mistakes of action, but tiie reason it has lived, tho reason It is the only party that has apparent immortality in our politics, pol-itics, is, tltaL it la the only party thaL has consistently based its beliefs upon t he things and convictions that under! un-der! nil American history the belief be-lief in the government of the people by themselves and their own representatives. repre-sentatives. It has witnessed the life and dentil of two great parlies, and, unless I am very much mistaken, it will witness the early disappearance of another. II witnessed the life and disappearance disappear-ance of the Federalist party. It witnessed wit-nessed the life, the increase, the demoralization, de-moralization, the decline and the disappearance dis-appearance of the Whig party. And then there appeared upon the scene, the Republican party, first of all organised for a great and difficult purpose, to prevent t he spread of the I institution of slavery into the free portions of the United States. That object they greatly accomplished. And then there seemed to descend upon them the spirit of the Federalist Federal-ist and the Whig parties, and ever since then the increasing- demoralization demoraliza-tion of that parly has been evident. Theory of Hamilton. The spirit of these parties was one of the limited control of the affairs of the nation by those who had the biggest big-gest material stake In the prosperity of the country. Some of them professed pro-fessed this very openly and some of them practiced it without professing it. The theory of Alexander Hamilton, Hamil-ton, who founded the Federalist party, was that the best kind of government gov-ernment is government bv guardians and trustees, and that onlv those who represented the great material enterprises enter-prises of the country are capable of acting as trustees and guardians. So that throughout the period when the Federalist party was in control the whole idea was that a small group of carefully planning men should govern opinion and control administrative action ac-tion in the United States. The Whig party, when it arose, had a somewhat more liberal conception but before it had lasted verv long it acted upon exactly the same principlethat princi-plethat the great body of the people are not capable of doing their own thinking and that a small group of persons must be allowed to do their thinking for them, and the Republican party has Inherited that idea; not the idea of government bv the people but of government for the people and control of the people by those who govern It. Why Parties Perished. It was a foregone conclusion that parties that held such principles could not live in America. The onlv reason t iey existed for a short time was that they did rally to their support some of the fine, planning, enterprising minds of the country, and that so long as those men had the conscience of pubhc service, great things were conceived con-ceived and great things were done-hut done-hut jusi so soon as thev put in possession pos-session of the government men who were attorneys of special interests the decadence of the party Inevitably ensued. "Hie Republican party, as now constituted con-stituted and led. believes in government govern-ment by the attorneys of special Infests. In-fests. They are perfectly, willing that the attorneys of the people should appear before them and plead for the rights of the, people, but thev are not willing that the counsels ' HrVri1, d,etfrmJn -'tton shall be participated par-ticipated in by the attorneys of the people. One of the things that thev are most constantly talking about is the protective tariff, and there waa a time when a very wide taking of counsel ; entered into the formation of our tariffs, but not toward the end. Then a small group of selected counsellors always determined what the items of the tariff should be. The only persons per-sons heard were the attorneys for the special interests and the attorneys of the people could batter at the doors as they pleased and never get a hearing. hear-ing. 1 The end of such a party was foredoomed, fore-doomed, and now the party that believes be-lieves in the people and tries to do -1 hi tigs for the people has been In power four years. And what has happened? It Has redeemed some of the promises falsely made by the attorneys at-torneys of special interests and it has done something more Interesting than that. You remember that four years Rgo there was a great body of spirited spir-ited Republicans who said: "This tiling is becoming a fraud and a shame. We have been taking tare of some people, but we have not been taking care of tiie great body of the people. We have not thought about their morals; we have not thought about their health: we have not thought about their rights as human hu-man beings, and we insist that you put the policy of this party in our hands or we will go off and form' a party of our own." Progressive Party Formed. And thereupon the great Progressive Progress-ive party sprung up great not because be-cause it turned out to be more numerous numer-ous than the party from which it had seceded though it did that but because be-cause it had tiie real red blood of human hu-man sympathy in Its veins and was ready tp work for mankind and forget for-get the interests of a narrow party. I want to pay my tribute of respect to the purposes and Intentions of the men who formed that group in our politics. But the Interesting thing is that, inasmuch as they did not get the opportunity, op-portunity, we took advantage of our opportunity to do the things that they wanted to do. And I want you young fellows to understand the reason rea-son for that. There are standpatters in the Democratic party. There are men sitting down hard on the breeching breech-ing strap, There are men who are trying to hold back" and to serve what they believe to be conservative, though it is really reaction. But the interesting thing about the Democratic Demo-cratic party is that those men are in h small minority in its ranks, whereas where-as in the party of the opposition they are in a major It v and are in control. con-trol. Things to Remember. The interesting thing for all politicians poli-ticians to remember is that the progressive pro-gressive voters of this country, all put together, outnumber either parly. I venture to say they outnumber both parties put together. This country is progressive, and if you youngsters are going to be in the running you will throw in your fortunes with tiie party of which the progressives have tho control. I am a progressive; I do not spell It. with a capital "P," but 1 think my pace is just as fast as those who do. It does not interfere with the running, run-ning, and I am very much astonished to see the company that some gentlemen gen-tlemen who spell their name with a capital are keeping. They are engaged en-gaged in the Interesting enterprise of trying to capture a parly which is fortified against them and refusing to enter a party which is already captured cap-tured by those who believe in their principles. Their intellectual processes by which they arrive at their conclusions con-clusions are entirely obs'-urcU, to my Intelligence. Principles Lacking. But you will notice that a party that merely wants control does not have to have any principles. That is tiie reason why surprise that a programme that has not been Announced An-nounced is unreasonable. hook over the ranks of the Republican party. T'id you ever see a more motley company com-pany hi your life? Lid you over see elements so absolutely contradictory of each other as the elements of that j party? If they moved in any direction direc-tion they would have lo move in 1 many directions: and if I am t rying to get in power by the support of people thai do not agree with one another, it is very dangerous for me to prof oss my own opinion. Hack of that party are those who want to inject into our politics the polities of Europe. Some want to inject those policies in order to move in one direction, and others want to Inject them in ordor to move in exactly ex-actly the opposite direction. L'nder these circumstances it is not wise to announce your direction. .Some of them are progressives, or we are, and profess themselves dissatisfied with the present leadership and guidance of i the party, and others are so well satisfied with it that they are afraid t hat the entrance of this new element ; i will disturb some of their favorite. 3 plans, and so. looking at each other j with suspicion, they have only one en- 1 thusiasm. and that is the enthusiasm j to "get In." I see in niv mind's eye this great motley company enthusiastically enthusi-astically united in a grca t drive for poscsbion. One thine has become evident, n"t beaus it whs explicit ly slated, for nothing has been explicitly sta'ed. but because it Is unmistakably explicit in f almost everything that has been said. Am T not right that we must draw tho conclusion that If the RenubM an party is put into power at the next election our fnreicn policy will be radically changed? cannot draw any oilier Infeu-m-e. Ail our present foreign for-eign policy is wron. they say. and if it is wrong tnd they are men nf cop-'-ience. thev must change It. and if ! Ihev are going to change it, in what dne'UK.n are they going to change It'.' There it only one choice a a against pc;i o, and t hat is wa r. Some of tiie sin.r.'oi il-ts uf tiiat pai'tj a ery great body or' tin.- supporters' of that paity oi;i:-pukeiilv rU-'.lari- that they want war, so that the cfrta!Ti project of i i it; sui.-ci.-ss of tiie P.'-pu'-'hci'ii patty is tiiat we shall be drawn Into out; form or another of the embroilments of the Kuro' 'can war and t hat f-outh of us the foi'X- of the rniu-'f Suites will he used to produce in Mexico the kind of law and order which some American Ameri-can investors in Mexico consider most 10 their advantage. 1 do not find that anybody else's counsel is taken in respect of the policy that this country should pursue pur-sue willi regard to Mexico, except those who have hitherto acted as the counselors for the vested interests in .Mexico. The whole country is acquainted ac-quainted with the gentlemen who have been consulted. There is no concealment, even by themselves, whose attorneys they are. They have talked to nie. I know exactly what they want. I have declined to give it to them, and now they are going where they think that they can get it. And there is every indication that their calculation is well founded. Serious Aspect. There is a more serious aspect j even than that. From this time until I the 7th or' November it is going to be practically impossible for tiie present administration to hand ft- any critical matter concerning our foreign relations, rela-tions, because all foreign statesmen are waiting to see which way the election goes, and, in the meantime, they know that settlements will be inconclusive. , The conference which is being held , with regard to Mexican affairs is embarrassed em-barrassed every day bv the apparent evidence which Is being produced that hostility to Mexico is being traded upon by one of tiie great political parties. These gentlemen niav reconcile recon-cile these influences with patriotic purposes, but it is difficult for all of us to do so. And the one thing I want to lay emphasis upon in this connection Is this: That a great, fundamental, firm! choice with regard to our foreign relationships is" to be ' made on tiie 7th of November. Some young men ought to be interested in that, some men who want to see the future cleared of the passion which governs the present ought to be Interested In-terested in that. Singular, Isn't it. that that should have been the onlv thing disclosed by the opposition. But T suspect that they are well enough content with many of the things that have been done In domestic legislation, provided they can get in and control them. Let me illustrate it. Illustrates Point. - Take the federal reserve system, bv which the credits of this country hitherto locked up, the credits of the average man. have been released and i put into action; the great system ! which has made It possible for us to absorb two thousa nd millions worth 1 of American securities hold on the other side of the water, nearly oO per cent of the whole body of the America n securities held abroad ; a thing that would have been Impossible , therwlse. I Of the many things the Republican party promised and never did, was to reform the currency system. They did 1 what they have always done in 'such circumstances. They had a thorough j inquiry and report made, without any ! purpose of following it. i The report was made after long and I expensive inquiry and much interest- lug travel by a commit! ee presided j over by the late Senator Aldrich. and ; that report is a verv valuable document. docu-ment. It is full of a great deal of useful information, along with a great deal of useless Information. And when we came to do this thing that ought to have been done long ago, but which it was impossible for the Re-Publican Re-Publican party to do. we found that we could take the skeleton of what we wanted from the Aldrich report, but that we could not take the heart out of it. We so absolutelv altered . the heart that Senator Aldrich him- 1 self denounced ttie thing that we produced. pro-duced. The hand is the hand of Esau, but the heart is the heart of Jacob, and I that heart is the heart or the Demo- cratic party, the control bv represen- tatives of the people for the tilings j that concern the whole people. i I Hostility of Bankers. ! There was universal hostility among : bankers to the adoption of the present pres-ent system, and all of that opposition i had Its impulse from that central group which knew tiiat they were going go-ing to lose their grip on tiie treasury of the United States. They are perfectly content to take over the federal trade commission, provided they can select the commissioners commis-sioners and suggest whom they shall consult. They are perfectly willing to have a tariff board provided they can determine beforehand what it's conclusions are going to l.e bv determining deter-mining the quality- and antecedents of the men who compose It. For example, If you want certain j things to happen, select the most I eminent, it may be the most honest, i corporation lawyer in the country and : put him on the supreme court. His character is not going to fail you, He may have as good character as any ! man who ever lived, but his training I is going to determine everything that I lie sees. You do not have to do these i things corruptly; you only have to do them astutely. Similarly they would be perfectly willing to control the board which is to govern the rural credit svstem. They would he perfectly content to .appoint the board that Is to control the development or the merchant marine and the regulation of maiine ! charges in the carriage of freight on the high tseas. The only tiling that makes them uneasy is that Democrats ! should be running these things. , Wall Street Control. Until the present administration, Wall street controlled the actions of the treasury of the United States, t do not like those words, "Wall street," because there are some men in Wall street who have visions; there are some men who see tilings large and see them true: there are some men with fine statesmanlike gifts, and I do not like to include them- but the main impulse in Wall street Is not given tn it by them. When I sav "Wall street" I mean some parts of Wall street, and T leave you to select the parts. Wall street, thus selected formerly controlled the treasury of the United Stales, it even had a desk in the treasury department. Many of these gentleman honestly believe that only they understand the Interests of the country, and they wore genuinely uneasy to see the treasury conducted without their consent. con-sent. Again and again I have received intimations from these quarters during dur-ing the last three and a half years that they would very much like to be consulted, and I have invariable- said if these, gentlemen have nnv advice to give I shall be most pleased to receive re-ceive it. All they have to do is to ask to see me and tell me in the franker way. like any other American Ameri-can citizen, what thy think ought to h done. Hut they wanted to he snt I for and they wanted to b reasonably certain before thev (venl that their advice would be taken. Finds It Amusing. it has been interesting and it ha j been very amusing that auv set of 1 men should think thy knew what L'ie intei'-'sls of the country demanded demand-ed and nobody else did. So that since they would not voIunter lo come, we have made shift to conduct the treasure' treas-ure' of the United States without their assistance. And it must surprise them in their private thoughts to have to admit that It has been better con- 1 I duct ed than ever IWnrr- in our pen- eration; more successfully ns a husi-, husi-, n'ss ad'iiinisiraiiori ;tnd iminltch more hrdpful in the genera body of 1 1 e A n icr'cH n people. Sin-i, n ssisi -anco as tiie trea.-ury nf t1P InUM States r:m h g 1 1 : ma t e i v f ) cnil in timrs nf limit' il s'r-s M: , ;iuWiv-i to be ricnhed lo all .-tr-eL i Now it is extended to the cunntrv. I It was no doubt shocking to see tiie money deposited In country banks and I not tn Wall street, but the country banks knew how lo use it and they were much nearer the gretit masses of the people who needed It than were the great depositaries of financial sources in New York City. T would not have you '-onsider mr prejudiced against New York City. Why, gentlemen, gentle-men, the great city of New York is one of the most vital parts of the United States, but the city of New York does not consist of trie pen tinmen tin-men in Wall street. And T would have you understand that I am very much prejudiced against them. No. not prejudiced, hut aware. Lobby Disappears. They used to he able to do a great deal in the way of legislation by iiir-RiiE of a lobby. And the lobbv, thank fiod, has difappeared. I do not. mean t he legitimate lobby, the lobbv that will go to the hearings of coni-mittef-w and argue their case In public pub-lic with the reporters present, but I mean the but ton -holing lobby; j mean the lobby that uses influence and not argument, that, uses inducement and not fact, that understands some special spe-cial In I prists and does not give a count for the general Interest. That j is the lobbyist I mean, and the little i cowards scuttled the minute they were mentioned. I Also the instrumentalities of con- t ml have been destroyed and the oh-ifr-t of the present campaign on one side is tn rehabilitate thorn. You sc who are controlling the present cam-paicii cam-paicii on the Republican ?ide. Two eavs Ht'o the Kepublii'jins fancied i h;i t there v. a reaction a sa inst the Democratic party. becauLe it had been going some. I admit. A nd so in the campaign for the ivtngrpFsional elections two yars nro some of their iiinM distinguished leaders spoke vcry indisi-roeily." They said that wim this country nr-ed'-d was a business administration, ad-ministration, which, from on-3 point nf view, w might have concurred in if they h.-l Tint added to thi definition t '"h t what the country wanted wa to i uni to the good old da vs of M.i rk llaniia. Furt her dcfinil Inn w:is imnsiss-iry. Nil l ''micrhl ful m;Mi In Ibis count rv v. ouH pi up' "se that we shn'dil rot u rn i l' th- inrtiiods of poliikul 'in;rol 1 l-'fuctKed by Senator Hanna. It Lap- peued that at that time a very lovely, trustworthy gentleman was president of the United States. I mean Mr. William Wil-liam McKiniey. ile. had no part discreditable dis-creditable to himself, so far as 1 know. In the political arrangements and the expenditure of unlirnuted money in campaigns for which Senator Manna was rcNponslble, but now yon will notice we have returned to the good old days of Mark lln.nna in the Republican Re-publican party. Some of the very gentlemen who were prominent in that odious regime are. now at the h--a.i of a fairs in the management oi the Republican im-' paign. The lieutenants of Mark Hanna. have returned to authority and the lieutenants of Mark Hanna represent rep-resent the choices, the determinations determina-tions and, so much as we can conjecture, con-jecture, lite policy of the Republican j party. They want to con' roi, possess. Those are the magic words for them. They do not think we have sense enough: thej do not think we ha.ve coherence enough; they do not think a preat hody of free people know how to han together in its own cause ' and that a little hody of men th;U a!- I ways hangs together can in tiie long run manage the people; and it is up to us to show them that that Is Impossible. Im-possible. The people of the United Slates havp frequently been fooled, but they are not often fooled several i times in the same whv, and this barefaced bare-faced attempt to fool them in the same old way Is. in my Judmeiit, one of the most, futile tilings that was ever .it tempted. Will Not Ask Questions. Henceforth understand thai, go far as I am concerned, I will e.cu.-e these gentlemen from answering questions, because I know they cannot anrwej-them; anrwej-them; t ha t if l hey mis wprd t Iiphi they wojld lose half of thir following j on any pn 1 1 i'-ul;t r .Mibjpct, and (he confidence of the people of he ('nited , States allOi;et her. There lore, I, fnr n y part, do not intend to ask then any questions. I Ivive other uses for my mind, because J am omo the game a 1 1 eao y. It is our duly to make evcrybo-Iv we know understand what the Peinocra lie 1 party t.mds for ;n,. wh;il ii iiq,.,tis m dr.. li bris bcTun a gr.-:it P,ntv. nf lii)eraltz:t I ion I'm- l i,r buntiir -us nf i this lou n try, a nd it intends tu strengthen that system at every point, extend it wherever il needs extension, exten-sion, strengthen and fortify it against all attacks, and, once for all, make good the domination of the American people in their own alTahs. On that programme we are challenge! s to all comers. "We have shown our hand. It cannot be doubted. All you have got to do, if you want to know the lines of the future policy of the vrn-ocratic vrn-ocratic party, is to extend tho lines of the past pulley of the Democratic party, and you have an absolute standard. You know which w;iy uq are going". The question i, do you want to head ns off? And it is for the young men of the country in particular par-ticular to .answer. I do not know for my part how the SD'rit of r nation gels into one generation gen-eration after another, but I do know-that know-that the spirit of a nnlion is perhaps more intense in the genera t inns coming com-ing nn. The point of view nf t hp young man is of the horizons. He looks abroad upon a wide world. He looks curiously upon many of the aspects of human affairs, because he hope:- and intends tn play h part of importance in some of them. And so tiie young men have the impulse, (he momentum, the whole vision of the ; people more intensely in t hern than the older men who have urown ;i little ( tired, some of them grown a lit pessimistic, pes-simistic, some of t hem g;-ow n a little d i scour a gcd ; some of them li t e had many hard Knocks and Mii'feid ma ny d isa p point ments. inn. v i to yet , nevertheless, with stubborn .-mirage and steadfast hire pith, a re Hum. selves struggling toward the light. And they are calling to the young men. "Come.' recruit our ranks. Some of us are falling b- ilje wayside. W'q n :-ed your force; We need jour hope. We need -oiir conference. need your capnclty in get tngciher ;uid Maj- together and follow ihe f ilf ' 'oir.e. strengthen the great ;n mv nf men who have their eyes luted tn t bovj horizons where si dues t hp Ih-ht of hope foi men of every nation and of everv geiv-r.-i i Ion. where rest s, l li reasMira nre of i he world 's pence n nd of the v oi Id 's ha ppiness " |