Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1916 — WAR LORD’S VIEWS. [ARTICLE]

WAR LORD’S VIEWS.

Theodore Roosevelt apd Justice Hughes malignantly criticise President Wilson as ignorant and incompetent. Mr. Hughes’ detraction seems but a copy of that of Roosevelt. However, Mr. Wilson has escaped much of the venom of like assaults made by Roosevelt in his “Life of Governor Morris” on presidents whose memory is revered by all patriotic Americans. In this biography he said of Washington: “As a mere military man, Washington himself cannot rank with the wonderful war-chief who for four years led the army of Northern Virginia.” (Lee.) Jefferson, the immortal author of the Declaration of Independence was disposed of thus: “He” (Governor Morris’ “despised Jefferson as a tricky and incapable theorist, skillful in getting votes, but nothing else.” At Madison, framer of the Federal Constitution and president for eight years, he throws this bouquet: “Excepting Jefferson, we have never produced an executive more helpless than Madison, when it came to grappling with real dangers and difficulties. Like his predecessor” (Jefferson) “he was only fit to be president in a time of profound peace.” Monroe, author of the Monroe Doctrine, is thus stigmatized: “Monroe was an honorable man with a very un-original mind, and, he simply reflected the wild, foolish views held by all his fellows of the Jeffersonian democratic-republican school concerning France.” Wilson is indeed fortunate when compared with the Fathers of the Republic! Of course he has not gone to war and that makes him unpopular with the Colonel and C. Hughes.