Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-11-10
THE SITUATION EXACTLY.

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The Newark Evening News had
two excellent editorials on the cleo
ton last night. One was on the
success of Woodrow Wilson and the
other was on the Democratic land
slide throughout the country. AS to
Wilson's victory it said:
New Jersey has recorded. its poll
teal insurgency. The election of
Woodrow Wilson is nominally a
Democratic victory, but 1t is of larger
significance than mere party success.
1.-THE nsurgency-progressivism-o
New Jersey, long repFessed, burst
out into nominal Democracy, but 1t
Is Democratic only in name. Insur-
gency has been active, in New Jersey
for years. 1t has grown and spread,
starting from the Colby revolt, until
the great majority of the .tndepen-
dent voters favored it In principle.
But the regulars had been able
to suppress it and keep it from gain
ing control by conceding enough to
it to save their own necks. They
were aided by the lack among the
Progressives of some man who was
generally regarded as a sane, con-
structive leader.
GAS a Democrat expressed 1t last
summer: The ~Progressives have
the principles, but not the men, the
regulars the men but no principles
Progressivism languished for its
leader, a man who by his sane, CON
structive ideas could command gen.
eral Confidence man who did not
want to sweep things away, but to
work them out.
The leader was found, and he was
found in the ranks of the Democrats.
| He was tested, proved a real Pro-
gressive, and was made Governor.
Due credit for his election must
be given to the new idea Although
they preferred to work within their
party and could not capture it's or
ganization, the missionary work that
Colby, Sommer, Morgan, Martin,
Whiting and their associates did
made Wilson possible. Six years ago
Wilson on his platform of today
could not have been elected. The
new idea has triumphed because it
prepared the field. Truly the reward
of a sincere reformer is sometimes
peculiar.
Mr.. Wilson owed his nomination
to the Democrats. He owes his cleo
ton to the independents"
On the Republican upheaval
throughout the country, 1t said:
at was a Democratic landslide
and. 1t was bounded only by the
nations confines.
'Fhe American people Is patient
and long suffering. Party ties are
hard to sever and party shibboleths
often operate to defeat needed re
forms. But every few years there IL
a popular uprising in the face o.
which appeals to partizanship arr
without power OF influence.
such an uprising occurred yester
!, day. Signs of the Impending cata
clysm have been seen for months
They first became visible when Presi
dent Taft turned his back upon tn
progressive policies of his predeces
sor and allied himself with til
forces of standpatlsm. When tn
President became the defender O
Ballinger. the apologist for Aldricl
and the ally of Cannon, the dlsrup
ton OF the Republican party began
Following this came the betrays
of the party pledges IN the shape 0
the Payne@AldTich- tariff bill, tn
consistent opposition OF the 'regu
lars In Congress to all progressiy
legislation and the avowed determiu
alton on the part of administrator
, leaders to read the ~ProgressiYes on
of the party Added to all these tn
increased cost of living was charge
} up against the party In power. Tn
lame and impotent report of tn
, Lodge Senate committee on the sub
! iect. which amounted 10 nothin
more than a weak attempt to prov
that the tariff had no eTect In in
creasing the coat of necsssaries Q
life. eiinehed In many minea the b
lief that the Republican party was .