Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Early in the evening, with reports from only a few states, Massachusetts, New York and Maine, it was impossible to say who would win. At times Wilson led two of the three states only to fall behind in them all later. As early as this however, the New York and Boston newspapers began to flash their lights showing a victory for the Republican party...
...impressed the other day at the forum debate between the Harvard Democrats and Republicans by the Fact that the second speaker fo the Republican Club brought out in one of his arguments the mistake which the present administration committed upon its accession in not offering any encouragement, not to say protection of co-operation, to the group of American bankers who had just succeeded with no, little difficulty in securing for American an equal share in the loan syndicate of the great powers in China. Ex-president Taft has put it will when he said in the Yale Review...
...outstanding issue of the campaign, the one vital problem which our next President will have to face, seems to me to be the question of the relations between the American people and the people of other lands. The people, I say; not the governments. In this great conflict, it is the people, not the rulers, who occupy the first place in our thoughts, and at the end, the people, even the women (God be praised!), will have to be considered. What ought our position to be? The situation is absolutely new in history. The problems that we shall face...
...remarkable statement by Mr. Hughes to this effect: "My conception of the Presidency differs absolutely from that of Mr. Wilson. I look upon the President as the administrative head of the government. He looks upon the President as primarily the political leader and lawmaker of the nation." And they say Mr. Hughes means what he says...
...Wilson has maintained toward Mexico, Mr. Paine says, "a policy of allowing the Mexicans to rid themselves of a government which, in conjunction with unscrupulous foreign capitalists, has exploited and robbed Mexico." The gentle and humanitarian policy of "allowing" the Mexicans to "rid themselves" of oppression, etc., has seemed rather more like a policy of unwarrantable and secretly conducted interference, to the end of destroying the only hope of stable government that Mexico possessed, of plunging her into the years of anarchy that followed and enraging her against us. "To have intervened would have meant the armed occupation of Mexico...