The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14
Two Coming Men.

New York World.
 Ont of the welter of Democratic dis aster rise two commanding figures, each with a message full of instruction and hope.
 Joseph w. Folk has won, next to prasident Roosevelt, the most extraor- 6inary personal triumph of this whole bewilderfng election. Mir. Roosevelt has ridden on the crest of Repupn- can tidal WaVe--a wave ralseu, iL ID true, in great part by his own populari- ty. but still owing much to other m Huences But Mir. Folks victory was nureIv individual He was the only man on his ticket who carried his State. He carried it purely on his own record, not on that of his party or on a general inclination to let well inc bitter enmity of the principal leaders of his own party. He was eIected as a reformer who had actual iv reformed things-a prosecuting at- torney who had sent public rascals to the penitentiary.
 dsmonstration of the value of uncom- promising, aggressive honesty to puhlic man. Folk personifies one of inc overshadowing issues of present and future politics-crnsn corrupuon;
 The triumph of William l.. Douglas in Massachusetts is even more spectac- uIar than that of Folk, although not quite so strictly personal Stemming a Republican landslide in State which even in normal years is a Republican stronghold and which gave Roosevelt Ss. 00O plurality. Mir. Douglas wins the Covernorshtp by a majority that would be a handsome one even Tor a canoioate of the dominant party, and by thls triumph commands national attention. Ha is individually strong with the masses. and he had the acuteness to seize upon an issue that Massachu- setts clearly approves. My electlon, says the Governor-elect 10 The Worio, "vneans the first gun in n battle Tor reciprocity and tariff relief. And that run fired in Massachusetts will be heard round the world.
 MT. Douglas explains:
 T made the fight solely on the propo- sit,on that we should have reciprocity and that all trusts which sell their nroducts abroad cheaper than we can buv them here should not be permitted to enjoy protection, gave them prac- tical examples of the working of the tariff I instanced recent purchase of S55O. 900 of leather which l bought from the trust, on which there was a duty of S55,OO0. I gave concrete illus trations in the wollen, cotton and other trades. .o,,oo, n ,o,,r- lar chord. They said in the national campaign that we had no issue. We had the greatest. the most vital of issues. For some reason IL was sub ordinated in our national campaign. It was the one issue of all others to have pressed. We made our people under stand that the tariff and trust question is inc same-that it is idle to talk of solving the trust question so long as we are sheltering these giant paupers' under our protection system.
 T told our people that Massachusetts nut SC in the protection pool for every dollar 1t took out; that our 65O,O0O homes contributed $65,O00,OQ0 a year to inc trusts; that the Steel Trust alone reaps S8O, 100000 a year out of protec- tion, and pockets it. selling abroad cheaper than we can buy from it. And vet they have the assurance to tell us the trust question has nothing to do with the tariff."
 Two million plurality for Roosevelt will not hide the handwriting on the wall of trust protection revealed by the vote of Massachusetts for reciprocity and tariff relief" In Folk and Doug las the Democrats have two fine ex- amples of the type of leaders to whom the party must turn if it means to form an opposition that will oppose to rally a Democracy that shall be true to the historic principles and traditions of the party.