Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1912 — "SPEAK OUT! SPEAK OUT!” [ARTICLE]

"SPEAK OUT! SPEAK OUT!”

Democratic Stomachs Revolt Against Wilson-Marshall Mush. “Speak out! Speak out!” is the al-i most desperate cry of the New York; World, the newspaper chiefly responsible for the nomination of Woodrow Wilson in 1912, as it was for the nomination of Alton B. Parker In 1904. Day after- day, It seems, the World has been waiting with ears to the windward for some point, some virile, vital expression from its latest presidential jack out of the box on questions of the hour, some solid positive utterance by the candidate, which it could grab and lay about with as a campaign shlllelah. It has waited In vain. Rounded periods of ( dreary drivel, pedagogical commonplaces that might'have come out ofi a third reader and which had about as much relation to issues of the campaign as “It Is a sin to steal a pin” has to Metropolitan opera, have been fed to curious crowds and to editors waiting with whetted pens for red hot meteors of inspiration. Disappointment and disgust are not confined to the World office. » "We asked you for bread and you gave us a stone” 'is paraphrased In Democratic sentiment by “We asked you for meat and you gave us mush.” Nauseated with Wilson they turned to Marshall only to find him as aperient of vacuous platitudes as his coadjutor. It’s a hopeless appeal. As well try to seize the elusive tail of a greftsed pig at a county fair as expect to get, anything definite out of Wilson. He was definite enough when he said in his “History of the American People” that “the Chinese are more to be desired as workmen, If not as citizens,” than “the coarse crew crowding in at eastern ports”—that Is, Immigrants from Europe. He was definite enough in saying in the same book that congress had “dealt very harshly” in passing the law excluding Chinese from the United States. He was definite enough in denouncing immigrants from Poland, Hungary and Italy. Evidently Wilson can speak out If he wants to, and the Inference is that he Is afraid to. On the Issue of a navy powerful enough to defend the Interests and uphold the honor of the United States he is silent for fear of offending the Democratic''majority In congress opposed to strengthening the navy. On the tariff he is, to quote an old comparison, “neither a man, nor a mouse, nor a long tailed rat,”' but more like one of those ancient Egyptian monstrosities carved on the mummy cases, with heads looking contrariwise. On one point he Is definite —he wants to be president, and he doesn’t care much how he gets there. He Is willing to slosh through a sea of bosh to the White House, and now that he has the nomination he counts upon the world and the rest of the whangdoodles to follow, whether they like his style or not. Perhaps they will, notwithstanding grimaces of disgust and protesting cries to speak out. But the people—they want a man for president