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iV,'' y yiPf I'j'liTng'C' iVIURDOCK'S PAPER ADVISES PROGRESSIVES AND INDEPENDENTS TO VOTE IFOR WILSON Wichita, Kan., Oct 28. The Wich ita Eagle, of which Victor Murdock, Progressive' national chairman, now in China, is editor, editorially advis es men and women of progressive tendencies to vote for Woodrow Wil son for president. In its editorial the Eagle says: "The logic of events, the issues as they are now joined, the facts as they exist, lead to the selection of Wood' row Wilson as the presidential choice by those citizens who would more certainly further the progressive principles so vital to the republic and to civilization itself. "The question is simply as to which candidate, stands out as best fitted to bring nearer 'a realization those practical measures of Christian brotherhood among the men and women of this nation and between this nation and the nations of the earth." After pointing to what it considers the shortcomings of the Wilson ad ministration, and still more of the Democratic party, the Eagle scores Hughes for his failure to adopt a vig orous progressive policy. It admits that on woman suffrage and in declaring for the budget sys tem Hughes has taken the right stand, but concludes: "But these items to Mr. Hughes' credit are outweighed in the progres sive Bcales by Mr. Wilson's record. If the president has not insisted as strongly as he should have done on the maintenance of American rights, he has upheld certain rights upon the sea that a majority of Republicans in the house voted to surrender. "If he has not yet intervened in Mexico, as we believe he inevitably will have to intervene, in behalf of the Mexican people, he has at least spared us the national humiliation of an intervention solely on behalf of American capital. "And the president has seoured the passage of a large body of progres sive legislation. To his urging we owe the federal reserve banks, rural credit banks, abolition of child labor, 8-hour day for railway trainmen. In come tax, inheritance tax, govern ment shipping commission, seamen's protection, trade commission, tariff commission, anti-injunction. "Some of this legislation is faulty; much of it is timidly conceived; all of it, however, is headed in the right direction. In the past two years es pecially Mr. Wilson Beems to have es caped the shackles of his Jefferson ian traditions, and to be moving def initely and decidedly in the right di rection pointed by the Progressive platform of 1912. "And if he is going in the right di rection and going farther and faster, than his opponent, that is the logical reason for his support by the inde pendent voter." o o THE MORAL FORCE OF GREAT CONVICTIONS By President Wilson '"' I would not feel any exhilaration in belonging to America if I did not feel that she was something more than a rich and powerful nation. I should notfeel proud to be in some respects and for a little while her spokesman if I did not believe there Wasomething else than physical forcenbehind her. I believe that the glory of America is that she is a great spiritual conception and that in the spirit of her institutions dwells not only her distinction, but her power, and that the only thing that the world cannot permanently resist 1b the moral force of great and trium phant convictions. To D. A. R., Washington, Oct 11, 1915. o o London.- Dr. Von Doerber, former Austrian prime minister, appointed premier to succeed slain Count Karl Styergth, report I)