 Akanga ari mutsigiri akasimba wokupinda kweUnited States muHondo Yenyika I uye akataura achitsigira kugadzirira kwemauto kwakawedzerwa kuburikidza nebasa remauto rose semutungamiri weNational Security League muna 1916. Akatsoropodza Purezidhendi Woodrow Wilson nokuda kwokusaita chiito pakurwiswa kweBelgiumuye akatsvaka kugadzwa kweRepublican nokuda kweSeneti yeU.S. kurwisana naWilliam M. Calder. Bacon akaramba achimanikidza kuti pave nokudzivirirwa kwenyika kwakasimba uyewo kuti pave nomutero unodzivirira waigona kushandiswa kuunganidza maindasitiri kana kwaitika hondo. Kunyange zvazvo akanga atsigirwa naimbova purezidhendi Theodore Roosevelt naElihu Root, Bacon akarasikirwa nomusarudzo nemavhoti anenge 9 000 uye akapikira kutsigira Calder. Akadomwa somumiriri weAmerican Party asi akabva pamusana pekuzvipira kwake kuna Calder. 