Show AMOS PINCHOT OUT OT FOR PRESIDENT WILSON i Progressive and Former Friend of T. T R. R Assails Colonel in Letter NEW YORK Sept 23 Amos Amos Pinchot Pinchot Pinchot Pin- Pin leader and chot who was Pr Progressive close friend of Colonel Roosevelt has declared emphatically for President Wilson ilson and Seabury In a letter to Judge Seabury He says in part I confess that I was not particularly particularly particularly surprised to read Colonel Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's advice to the Progressives to vote against you and for Whitman The fact is is the colonel is merely running running run run- ning true to recent form You stand squarely for the things the Progressive party has stood for forIn forin forin in the past on the whole about as squarely as Whitman stands against them I do not think that anybody would question this not even the colo cob nel nd But for quite a good while it has been fairly clear to most of us that Roosevelt Perkins and the steel trust old guard group around them have not been interested in the things which the Progressive party stood iod for In fact they have effectually thrown all liberalism and democracy overboard overboard overboard over over- board and are now playing pure old I fashioned Republican policies They are therefore not in a a. position to support support support sup sup- port you Left Behind Principles Colonel Roosevelt steered the Progressive Progressive Progressive Pro Pro- ship as long as the sailing was good But It got Into rough water vater he promptly changed back to the he Republican craft And Incidentally incidentally Incident incident- ally he did not take much with him It Is true that the colonel says that he is obliged to desert the camp only on account of the sudden paramount Issue to wit American AmericanIsm Ism sm The Union League club Mr Root Hoot Mr Taft Mr Bacon Dacon Mr Per- Per kins Wall Vall street in general and the steel trust In particular are unanImously unanimously unanimously for Americanism They are absolutely and uncompromisingly in favor of the United St States tes This Is extremely reassuring To my mind there is some Inconsistency inconsIstency inconsistency Incon incon- in waving the American flag flag- with one hand and exploiting the public pub pub- tic lie with the other I would have a great deal more faith our in-our exclusive proprietary pre-election pre brand o ot of Americanism If It had more support outside the ranks of the machine politicians politicians pol pol- and industrial buccaneers Men like yourself and Mr Wilson on the one hand and Hughes Whitman Whitman Whit Whit- man Roosevelt and Perkins on the other embody in their attitude today socI Jy the larger conflict between en democracy and absolutism that is go going going gong go- go ing ng on In this country The Republicans cans as a whole stand for the Idea that the country should be governed by oy a small group of ot efficient powerful powerful powerful power power- ful personages who will tell the peo peo- peo what to think and what to do do an and make them to It Men like President Wilson Vilson and yourself seem to me to stand for the opposite Idea that idea tha democracy after all with Its mistakes mistakes mistakes mis mis- takes and Inefficiency Is the wiser wise plan because It allows people to think thin for themselves and teaches them t to govern themselves by governing them them- selves Wilson and the WarThe WarThe WarThe War The Republicans denounce Mr Wilson Wilson Wil- Wil son for his attitude in regard to Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many and the European war The They say no doubt sincerely that Mr Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- son through his leadership should have molded public opinion Into a amore amore more aggressive attitude Irrespective I of consequences that we have been bee I careless of our honor and many of Ot them go so ISO far as to say that we should actually be In the war This ashamed of my country attitude attitude attitude atti atti- tude is wearing the patience of thoughtful Americans In the first place it is utterly astonishing that with the whole world Involved in a adeath adeath adeath death struggle the United States trying to steer an impartial impartial course couise which is naturally objectionable to every belligerent should not have been far more seriously affronted by the war maddened nations than she he actually actually actually actu actu- ally has been Nothing but a very skillful and patriotic handling of ot the situation by Mr Wilson could have kept us out of most serious As a matter of fact the United States except in the eyes of a few rather aggressive Americans and a good many foreigners who have been blinded by the fear and suffering of the war is looked upon throughout the world as having played a very sane and honorable part The Rich a War Party The war party in the United States is also essentially a moneyed or leisure class party Instinctively the privileged privileged class edges a country toward war for proverbially war makes good places to root for truffles As far asI asI as asI I have seen rich people are practically alone in wanting the United States togo togo to togo go around with a chip on its shoulder If It Mr Roosevelt and his thought of the average American at all they would see that he is a poor man They would know that heIs heis he heIs Is too busy supporting his wife and children on a very small Income to realize that it is his moral 1 i. i e. e e. e Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican duty to leave his farm or his workshop put on a uniform and take part in a row that is going on OO miles or so away |