The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1916. AMERICA’S NEW PRESIDENT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 87, 9 November 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1916. AMERICA’S NEW PRESIDENT.

In August of this year when the United States Presidency campaign was at its height, one loading American writer said that Judge Hughes was a candidate for the presidency not only because he was nominated by the republican convention but because he believed Dr. Woodrow Wilson should be turned out of office and a new policy of Americanism and of nationalism adopted by the country. Mr Wilson was, the same writer said, a candidate for re-election not only because the democratic party re-nominated him but because he believed the count r v needed him to guide it during the next four years. Hughes stood for a policy which is definite and fixed in his own mind. Wilson stood for a policy which is equally definite and fixed in his mind, but exceedingly puzzling to those who do not fathom his mind. Proceeding on these hues we are told that “Hughes is the type of a man who believes that a pre.-i----dent should create and formulate policies and then convince the people they' should be carried out. He believes in; finding out what the people need and convincing them they need it. la this particular ho is greatly similar to Roosevelt. Wilson, on the other j hand, is a typical Jeffersonian demo- 1 crat, who believes in having the peo- 1 pie express their will on all matters. He then adopts some policy which no' thinks meets with their expression and tries to convince them that it does. Wilson’s whole course in the White House has been guided by his effort to discover what the people

want. He lias not hesitated to veer around in liis course at any time, if Ho believed the people wanted him to veer, and his hope of success in the campaign this year was founded on his belief that he has met the people’s wishes at every turn in the game.” Yesterday we were able to publish a message from New York alleging as a fact that Judge Hughes had proved the. popular choice, and we do not think that there will be much regret at Mr . Wilson’s downfall if it should come about. The fact that Mr Roosevelt fully endorsed Mr Hughes’ candidature (and that endorsement meant, it is believed, anything from two to four million votes) is, at least some warranty that Mr Hughes may favour a loss fickle and weak-kneed foreign policy than lias characterised the Government under Mr Woodrow Wilson. However, judging by the latest cable messages to hand this afternoon, Mr Wilson has high hopes of winning a second term by the vote of a single Electoral College. Some wonderful stories reach us at times from

America, but surely for America to

have announced the election of the wrong man as President of , the United States, is an effort that caps all previous Yankee performances in the story line.