38 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
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FAVORS MR. HUGHES 
Cirrorp PincHot, PRoGRESSIVE, DE- 
cLarEs Hucurs Is His CHoIcr 
For PRESIDENT. 
Gifford Pinchot, former chief of 
Forest Service, U. S. Dept. of Agri- 
culture, in a personal letter to the 
editor of the BREEz®, tells why he will 
support Mr. Hughes for president. He 
declares that he as a Progressive be- 
lieves in Nationalism, as does Hughes, 
and feels that under Hughes the pro- 
gressive policies would fare better 
than they have under Wilson. He 
says: 
“Fditor North Shore Breese: | 
“It is the duty of every American 
citizen to make and support openly 
his choice among the candidates for 
the Presidency. That duty 1s espe- 
cially solemn this year because great 
events and great decisions are certain 
to confront us during the next Ad- 
ministration. I an writing to give you 
my reasons for my own choice. If 
you care to lay them before your 
readers, please do so. 
“T am neither a Democrat nor a 
Republican, but a Progressive. Yet, 
there being no Progressive nominee, 
unless I choose to support a candidate 
who can not be elected, I must vote 
for either Wilson or Hughes. 
“For many months after his inaug- 
uration, I thought well of President 
Wilson. In many respects I liked 
what he said about what he was go- 
ing to do. He talked well and made 
a good impression. It was only when 
I began to check up what he said by 
what he did that I was forced to 
change my view. In the end I came 
to see that President Wilson has a 
greater power than any other man in 
public life to say one thing, but do 
another, and get away with it. 
“The fact which justify this state- 
ment are common knowledge: 
“We have all heard him tell Ger- 
many publicly that she would be held 
to strict accountability; and have 
learned afterward that he had actually 
let her know secretly at the time, by 
the mouth of his Secretary of State, 
through the Austrian Ambasador, that 
what he said he did not mean. We 
have all seen him prove that he did 
not mean it by his total failure to ex- 
act reparation, apology, or even dis- 
avowal for the murder of Americans 
on the Lusitania. 
“T do not say that Wilson should 
have thrust us into war. There was 
no need of war. But there was need 
of courage to give us peace with self- 
respect. If Wilson had shown cour- 
age this country would not have skid- 
ded from one crisis to the next, again 
and again narrowly escaping disaster, 
“We have all heard him declare 
against intervention in Mexico, while 
actually intervening to dictate who 
should and who should not hold office 
there; and denounce war against 
Mexico while actually engaged in war. 
“With war on every side of us, we 
all heard him. in his second annual 
message, solemnly assure the country 
that we had not been negligent of Na- 
tional defense. It was not true; and 
later on he himself proved that it was 
not true by proclaiming aloud the 
need for what he had solemnly as- 
sured us we already had. 
“For more than a year after the 
world-war began, Wilson did not 
raise a finger to put us in a condition 
of defence. Only the proverbial good 
luck of America has kept us from 
paying the bitterest price for this un- 
forgiveable neglect. 
“We have all heard him ridicule the 
idea of a greater navy, then declare 
for incomparably the greatest navy in 
the world, and then go back on that. 
“We have all heard him declare for 
exempting our coast-wise trade from 
tolls in the Panama Canal; and have 
seen him show our own people and 
the English that he did not mean it. 
“We have seen him elected on a 
platform which pledged him to a 
single term as President, and then be- 
come a candidate for another term. 
“We have all heard him declare for 
the conversation of our natural re- 
sources; and have seen him neglect 
that policy, and refuse his help to de- 
feat the Shields waterpower bill, the 
most dangerous attack on Conserva- 
tion since Ballinger’s effort to turn 
Alaska over to the Guggenheims. 
“We have all heard him declare for 
efficiency in government, and have 
seen him set the pork-barrel first and 
throw efficiency away. I have known 
official Washington from the inside 
for six Administrations. In that time 
the government business has never 
so badly done and so extravagantly 
as it is now done under Wilson. 
“We have all heard him declare for 
pitiless publicity; and have seen him 
conduct the most secret administration 
of our time. We have all heard him 
announce himself as President of all 
the people, and have seen him, as the 
most partisan President of his gener- 
ation, flout and oppose the Progres- 
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sives, whom now, because he needs 
them, he seeks to conciliate and enlist. 
“Having led us wrong on the 
ground that we must be neutral in the 
face of the deliberate breaking of the 
world’s peace, he has just reversed 
himself again, and in his speech at 
Shadow Lawn now assures us that 
‘No nation can any longer remain 
neutral as against any wilful disturb- 
ance of the peace of the world.’ 
“It is bad enough that Wilson’s 
foreign policy has left us, as the War 
draws toward its end, without a 
friend among the great nations of the 
world, and without the respect of any 
of them. What is worse is that he- 
has kept us from standing up for 
what we know to be right. The igno- 
ble standard of profit over principle 
which Mr. Wilson foreed upon the 
country in our foreign relations, he — 
has applied to himself as President. — 
In what he said, done, and left un- 
done, the record shows him steadily 
dominated by political expediency. 
“Hughes, on the other hand, is a 
man of his word. His record as 
Governor of New York proves that. 
It shows him to be honest, fearless, 
and free from the domination of 
special interests and corrupt politi- 
cians. So far as the Conservation 
policies are concerned, both what he 
said and what he did could hardly 
have been better. I am confident that 
under him these policies will be safe. 
He is a strong man who will dodge 
no moral issues, and he will give us 
an honest and an efficient administra- 
tion. 
“As a Progressive I believe in Na- 
tionalism. So does Hughes. I am 
certain that under Hughes the pro- 
gressive policies will fare better than 
under Wilson, and that the safety, 
honor, and welfare of the country 
will be in immeasurably surer hands. 
I can not vote for Wilson because I 
can not trust him. He does not do 
what he says. Hughes does. There- 
fore my choice is Hughes, and I 
shall work and vote for him. 
“Very truly yours, 
“GrFFoRD PINCHOT.” 
“T call the little girl I’m sweet on 
my Dotty Dimple.” 
“Well, if she’s sweet on you, she’s 
the dotty part, all right.”’—Exchange, 
