If he be defeated he will owe his defeat to the loss of confidence in his leadership on this great subject.

His opponent has put forth no clear-cut opinion.

He plays a silent game on the German "issue." Yet he will command the support of many patriotic men merely as a lack of confidence in the President.
Nor do I see any end of the results of this fundamental error.

In the economic and political readjustment of the world we shall be "out of the game," in any event--unless we are yet forced into the war by Hughes's election or by the renewal of the indiscriminate use of submarines by the Germans.
There is a great lesson in this lamentable failure of the President really to lead the Nation.

The United States stands for democracy and free opinion as it stands for nothing else and as no other nation stands for it.