Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Reynolds '17, top sergeant; E. C. Wilkins '16, corporal; D. Duncan '17, corporal (on furlough); R. T. Whistler '16, corporal; F. Parkman '19, corporal; R. Batchelder '18; R. S. Codman '18; C. J. Coulter '19; G. A. Cook '16; J. Preston '19; G. Townsend '17; W. B. Wilson...
Like many another voter of progressive leanings, I have, until recently, been much perplexed. On the other hand, there were plenty of reasons why I should vote for Wilson; on the other hand, there seemed to be no reason whatever why I should vote for Hughes. Only recently have I come to a clear conviction as to where I stand, and I should like to take this opportunity to state briefly my position...
...this new, throbbing world, something of the debt we owe mankind for our prosperity. Has Hughes been such a leader? On the contrary, he has shown himself to be only the old-time conventional campaigner, bent on "making out a case" against the administration. In his attacks on Wilson he has not once broken the monotony of his dignified invective by a single courteous acknowledgment of the difficulties of the President's position, or of the partial success of his labors. Not once has he risen to the level of thought or action which Mr. Wilson has maintained throughout...
...complains bitterly of the sordidness of Wilson's diplomacy; never has a campaign been waged on a more frankly sordid basis than Hughes own! There has been only one real aim: 100 per cent. American rights, 100 per cent, business profits! There has been only one constructive suggestion: 100 per cent. Republican protective tariff, a measure avowedly intended to keep up high prices and restrict the one thing which would do everybody the most good, foreign trade. Read the recent full page advertisements in the New York papers and see what th real issue is that the men behind Hughes...
...Wilson makes mistakes, but he has a vision of humanity. Hughes is honest, but he has no imagination beyond the immediate present. Wilson may be a little ahead of his time; Hughes certainly belongs to the past. EDWARD V. HUNTINGTON...