Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1916 — Is Mr. Wilson “Rattled?” [ARTICLE]

Is Mr. Wilson “Rattled?”

Indianapolis Star. Careful reading of Mr. Wilson’s re"cefft political'utterances~TEad§“t6 thd' painful impression that the distinguished gentleman has lost his poise, his mental equilibrium, his celebrated calmness and self-control, his aplomb; in short, his temper. In other words, Mr. Wilson appears to be extremely. angry; so “mad,” in fact, that he allows himself to talk very foolishly. A hint of this was shown 4n his snappish remark to the president of the American Truth Society, Mr. Jeremiah O’Leary, that he didn’t want O’Leary’s vote or the of his society. A clear betrayal of the state of his temper is his speech to the young democrats *at Shadow Lawn on Saturday. He was evidently “rattled” thoroughly when he made that speech. It was not a typical Wilson speech; it was an echo, really a feeble echo, of

Bryan. He raised the old "Wall Street” cry that used to be Bryan’s long suit and it only needed a touch of “16 to 1” to take the public back twenty years. He didn’t say what Wall Street wanted to do to him; he simply pointed to it as a bugaboo. Doesn’t he know that the public long since refused to be seared by this particular cryof- “ wolf’’and.thatiLsiuiply laughs. And he shouts, not only that he kept us out of war, but that the republicans are determined to take us right into war. He is simply terrified by this prospect. Really, his state of mind is distressing. His party managers have been especially anxious for him to make a campaign tour. After reading this speech republicans will second the motion. Nothing would suit them better.

The strenuous effort of the democratic textbook: to defend President Wilson’s Mexican course carries with it abundant evidence of democratic conviction that the Wilson "Mexican policy—or lack of policy—constitutes the greatest their candidate. Every ingenuity of fact and fancy is employed in an effort to relieve the sinister aspect of Mr. Wilson’s championship of Mexican rights as opposed to those of Americans.