Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-11-13
THE CAMPAIGN OF 1912.

me NAmFAIoN VI i9I&"
There are no more Democrats In
the United States in 1917 than there
were in 1908, the year An which, on
the popular vote for president, the
Republicans carried the country by a
plurality of l.269,ooo. Nobody can
point to a single act OF IN Democratic
party in the past two years which
would entitle it to any less Of the
popular hostility than it commanded
at that time, says the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat. 1t has no nat iOnal leaders
who command the respect OF lntelll-
gent, conservative men 1t has no
constructive policy viii CHI is supported
with any approach to nanimlty IN
any locality. On the tariff Senator
.Aldrich often had more Democrats on
mis- side than did Senator Culberson,
the Democratic titulal- leader. IN
the house and senate Democrats in
the special session Of 1909 ostentati-
ously tore up the tariff declaration
which was made by their party in
1908. Mr.. Bryan publicly rebuked
large element of the Democrats in
the house and senate for heir treason
to their platform Of the preceding
year. So far as the De mOcra,s are or
ganiZed at all they are an organized
negation. In a speech at the Union
League banquet in Philadelphia a year
and half ago Mr. Taf1 said that a
strong patriotic opposit ion is neces
sary TO make the Replbl lean party. il
it is to control the gov er-rnen'. useful
10 the people, and defeat at times.
would not hurt the Eepu blicans." The
defeat is here but the opposition par
" is neither strong nor patriotic. For
MALI a century the Dem ocrallc party
has been an obstruction 10 the wheels
of progress. 1t will continue this role
ference. that in this time it will be
in a position to make its obstructive
ness little more rf feetivc than it
usually has been in the past four or
five decades
But the question mas he asked.
Does NOT the defeat Of me Republic
ans for the house Of rcSrntatives
in 1910 pretend defeat for the presi-
dency as vel! "a for tllr house and
fhe senate in 1922" Sot necessarily.
The Democrats carried The house in
1856 half way in Cleveland's first
term Yet tn" Republicans won the
presidency and the house in 1888, and
rttained control of he senate. In
1874. in the middle of Grants second
term. the Democrats SWEPT the coun-
try for congress. but the Republicans
elected Hayes in 1876. In ISIS the
Democrats carried the mouse as we'll
as the senate, but the Republicans
elected Garfield in 1850. and regained
control of congress- Two years after
Pierce. Democrat carried every state
sor president except four. and won all
immense majority in the house Of
representatives, the Republicans
wrested the house from Pierce's par
ty. But this did not bring a Repub-
Hcan victory for president two years
afterward, although many Republic
ans, though it would Buchanan.
democrat, carried the country lut
president in 1856, and he won the
house of representatives by safe
majority. The Republican defeat
merely means that there will be d.
vided power in congress for the
next two years. The Democratic
house will have it's hands tied by the
Republican senate The battle of 1912
is still to be fought, and nobody can
now tell the issues which will be up
then. 1t is altogether probable that
the great bulk of the insurgents will
be back in the ranks of the Repub-
lican party before the next line up OF
the voters of the nation takes place.
The Republican seceders of 1872 had
as leaders far larger personages than
did the boilers of 1914 yet much
more than three-fourths Of them were
back in the Republican camp before
1876 arrived. A few months close as