Protesting Against British Use of American Flag Identic Note to Great Britain and Germany, Pro- Pointing Out Irregularities in British and French. Blockade of Germany (March 5, 1915) Denouncing British Blockade as Illegal (October First "Lusitania" Note to Germany (May 13, Second and Third "Lusitania" Notes (June 9, Note to Austria, on the "Ancona" Sinking (Decem- Note to Germany, on the "Sussex" Affair (April Special Message to Congress on the "Sussex" Address before League to Enforce Peace, Washing- Address before Press Club, New York (June 30, . PAGE 823 Address before Grain Dealers' Association, Baltimore Fourth Annual Message to Congress (December 5, Note to Belligerents, Suggesting that Peace Terms Address before United States Senate, on Essential 837 Terms of Peace in Europe (January 22, 1917) 348 Immigration Bill Veto: Second (January 29, 1917) 356 Special Message to Congress, Announcing Sever- 368 Special Message to Congress, Requesting Authority to Arm Merchant Ships (February 26, 1917) 363 Second Inaugural Address (March 5, 1917) Proclamation of State of War and of Alien Enemy Message to the National Army (September 3, 1917) 426 Appeal to School Children to Coöperate with Red Cross (September 15, 1917) Appointment of Commission to Adjust Labor Dis- Statement Commending Work of Congress (October 428 429 Messages to Brazil (October-November, 1917) Thanksgiving Proclamation (November 7, 1917) Address before American Federation of Labor, Buf- Address to Congress, Stating War Aims and Peace Terms of United States (January 8, 1918) . . Address to Congress, Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances (February 11, 1918) Notable Phrases of Woodrow Wilson 493 CAREER OF WOODROW WILSON TWENTY-EIGHTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES [Vice-President, two terms, Thomas R. Marshall] The return of the Democratic party to power was made certain by the feeling of the country that the Payne-Aldrich tariff, enacted by the Republicans early in Mr. Taft's term, did not properly meet the pledge that the tariff should be thoroughly revised and substantially reduced by those responsible for the protective policy. In 1910, the Democrats elected a majority of the new Congress. In 1912, they carried the Presidential election as well as the Congressional. For the first time, the plan of popular primaries was used by the parties in the selection of candidates. The Democratic primaries showed Champ Clark (Speaker of the House) to be a plurality favorite, while the Republican primaries showed a clear preference for Theodore Roosevelt. But the effort to secure a second term for Taft gave him control of the Republican convention at Chicago, with the result that the larger half of the Republican party supported Roosevelt on a separate ticket. Woodrow Wilson, Governor of New Jersey, had been a prominent Democratic candidate, and through the influence of Mr. Bryan, Wilson prevailed over Clark in the Democratic convention at Baltimore. Apart from the fact that it was logically a Democratic year, the split in the Republican party made Democratic victory quite inevitable. Woodrow Wilson had not been in active politics, but he had long been a distinguished citizen and an eminent authority in the field of American history, government, and public policy. From his youth he had excelled in oratory, and his life study had been in the fields of jurisprudence |