The Bottineau courant., 1904-11-11
:: :: :: NOVEMBER 1
ROOSEVELTISM WINS.

nation is an overwhelming triumph
for President Roosevelt He carries
every northern state, with the addi-
tion of West Virginia from the south.
In most of these his majorities are
phenomenal, equaling or even exceed
ing the tremendous totals piled up by
Mckinley.
The element of surprise in this is the
size of the vote, says the St. Paul
Globe No one we'll informed in poll
tics has expected for some weeks past
that Judge Parker could succeed. He
has not shown the expected strength
as candidate. Campaign officials
felt obliged by the necessity of their
positions to make extravagant claims;
but the election of Roosevelt was so
we'll indicated that nothing but a revo-
luton of which there was no sign in
the sky could prevent it. But not even
the most sanguine republican supposed
that he would carry the close or So
called doubtful states by these enor-
nous figures.
This is to be set down, first of all,
to his great personal popularity. 1t
would be foolish to blink the fact
that the American people as whole
believe in the president. They do not
love his faults; but. with that curious
illogicality which is characteristic
of them, they ascribe these to temper
ment, to bad advisers, to political
necessity, or something else accidental
or temporary. Behind it all they per-
sist in holding that there stands the
man of conviction and of patriotism
To this cuse first Of all must be as
cribed the proportions of the victory
IoS lSlol0u luoSudy.
1t would be equally idle to ignore
the fact that powerful influences
which we believe to be neither the
highest nor holiest in the life of the
day have been, of late, aligned solidly
in favor of the repu blican candidate.
Those business interests which shudder
at any change have been disinclined
to oppose him. The great moneyed
powers have silently swung into line.
What considerations may have swayed
them We shall have four years to find
out. But we need look no further
than the vote in New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut to see that the
trusts and corporations supported
Roosevelt, just as we need look only at
the vote in the west to see that the
masses of the voters were on his side.
The combination is irresistible.
Not to be omitted is the fact that
the year mas been a prosperous one
upon the whole. He was a sagacious
man who said, not long ago, that it
was folly to look for a change in ad-
ministrations with wheat at a dollar
n
who do not look beyond these condi-
tlons in estima ting the needs of the
country; whose votes are determined
by present comfort and the fear that
any change might be for the worse.
The democratic party has no reason
{ to be discouraged or disheartened. AL
ways the evils that affect the state.
unless they be gross and unbearable,
must be left to come to their fruition
before the people can be stirred. We
q believe that the tendencies which rule
4 republicanism, that the influences to
which the party must bow, that the
policies to which it is committed,
A will work out their own ruin. De-
feated but undismayed the democratic
party faces the future, as sure of it's
mission, as confident of it's place in the
republic, as convinced of it's future
triumph as at any time in its history.
Calmly it accepts this great defeat,
facing the future that surely belongs
Ito it when the people shall determine
4 to assume their own once more.
Chairman Hanna can now instruct
the republican Legislators in regard to
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