The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-24
WISCONSIN MAY BE WON.


campaign, the Democratic party should
keep a watchful eye upon the state of
Wisconsin,. 1t is one of the most
promising fields for party effort in the
| United States. The ordinary politi-
| clan would smile incredulously if it
| were suggested to him that Wiscon-
sin should properly belong in the list
| of doubtful states. The man who has
| followed. closely the political history
of the past ten years knows that this
| is no eXaggeration of the fact.
Wisconsin was carried by President
Cleveland in 1892 by an enormous ma
jority. 1t is a state in which the sober,
Industrious and thoughtful element Of
foreign birth is very heavy. These
people are conservative, but their SYM
pathies are entirely with the policies
advocated by the Democratic party ten
years ago. They are believers in per-
| sonal liberty, and resent the interfer-
ence of the state with the Individual
| They are solidly in favor of tariff re-
form; and this sentiment, which grew
strong enough after the passage of
the Mckinley bill in 1890 to transfer
the state to the Democratic column, is
more powerful than ever under the
more exasperating conditions existing
today. Given a leader and a policy
that they can support, the people of
Wisconsin are as ready to stand for
Democracy now as they ever were.
On the other hand, there is the op-
portunity of a Republican party dis
united and impaired as it is not in any
other state of the Union. The fac
tional fight within that party has been
carried to the point where either would
| rather see Democracy triumphant than
that the other should win. When~the
friends of La Toilette and Of Spooner
chance to meet on the most ordinary
occasion it needs platoon of police
| " hSCp IIGdt5 l1O1u IuSillIS dt OdCu
others throats. The governor is
radical of the radicals, and has made
''rule or ruin his policy. He neglects
no opportunity to abuse Or humiliate
any man standing with the opposing
party. His enemies have been goaded
| into equal intolerance, and are not
| particular about the rules of the game
| if they can find an opening through
| which to injure the governor POLITICAL
| ly. There is not, the slightest doubt
that this feud will be fought out at
the. polls at the next election, since it
has already gone far enough to commit
a great many Republicans to the posi-
tive announcement that if their faction
does not prevail in Republican coun-
ellis they will vote the Democratic
ticket -
The average Republican majority in
Wisconsin of late years has not been
so great that it can afford to suffer
| SuCn ue1eClIoH. LIE pOllcy represent
| ed by the Republican party in the ma
| ton today is as sdistasteful to the
farmers and merchants of Wisconsin,
| to everybody except the trust man
| ayers and protected interests-as it is
| to those of Minnesota. The time is
ripe for revolt, and that movement
ought to carry and will carry Wiscon-
sin into the Democratic column if the
leaders of the party are wise in their
councils and plain-spoken and sincere
with the people. 1t is by just such
an appeal to the plain, honest, common
people of the country everywhere that
victory is to be won. Perhaps nowhere
| else in the Union is there a more in
| struct1ve situation, more inviting
possibility or position so educative
to the thoughtful Democrat, anxious
for the future success of his party. as
| that which lies open to the eye of the
political student in the Badger state.
| Gen. Woods luck is following him.
| Just about the time they get can all
|