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Just AS Well Be Plain.

II is an open secret that the corporate
interests, those which are organized an(
conducted in open violation OF law, con
solidated their forces to bring about The
defeat of Governor Woodrow Wilson:
candidates in New Jersey 1t was 6
campaign organized for no other pur.
pose than to discredit Mr.. Wilson and
break down his Presidential boom. II
is also known, if not notorious fact,
that these great corporations are lined
up on the side of candidates in both
parties favorable to their interests. In
the South these corporations are actively
engaged in doing everything they can to
secure delegations for Judson Harmon
in the Democratic convention. They
are fighting Governor Wilson because he
fought illegal combinations in his own
State. They are fighting Governor Will
son because they believed him to be
honest and sincere in his opposition to
these combinations. They are fighting
him because he is a man OF honor and
integrity They are lined up for Jud-
son Harmon because they feel safe in
the position that he will yield to them
in their illegal operations
This is one Of the conditions Of ma
tional politics. The two leading polit-
ical parties in the United States have
for nearly twenty years enuncated in
their platforms and public declarations
the strongest opposition of illegal COM
binations, more commonly known as
trusts. The candidates for President in
both political parties have conducted
campaigns, in which the trust issue
overshadowed everything else. The
Republican party has controlled and
the trusts have grown with the friendly
offices Of this party and its Presidents
from thousands 10 billions and from
indulgence to autocratic power A party
Of pretenders, it has preached to the
people from the housetops against the
danger and the menace OF these power
full influences against the liberty and
the sovereignty of the people and the
States, and, like the coward and the
hypocrite, accepted the trust of office
and then Conspired to foster and pro-
tect these combinations.
Pray tell us who is the demagogueY
Probably the greatest pretender of all,
the swashbuckling Roosevelt, denounced
the corporations with flare of trumpets
and sound of drum, and then assumed
dictatorship by suspending all law
while he caused the consolidation of the
most powerful of all the trusts, the steel
trust. This was in pretense of arrest
ing a panic. In other words, the prin-
ciples and institutions, the entire ma
chinery Of republican government, must
be sacrificed upon the hypothesis that
they are not OF sufficient importance to
stand in the way Of temporary bust
ness decline,
Now comes Governor Wilson, a man
OF vigor, power, brain, neither vision
airy nor vagarist, but statesman hon
est and true, taking up the interests Of
the people in the fight against illegal
corporate power, and sweeping his own
State in the first battle only to be routed
by well organized attack in the Noyem-
Der election, an effort in which thou
sands OF dollars were used in corrupt
ing voters in order to discredit and de-
stroy Governor Wilson as Presidential
possibility. If the people need proofs
81 Governor Wilson's honesty and sin
certify they have it in this fight as has
been demonstrated by no other Presl-
lent or candidate for President. They
nave the proof in action, not simply in
words. Governor Wilson's candidates
n the late November election were de-
Ieated by the trusts alone, and that is
he evidence Of his motives.
The people are getting tired of prom
ses never fulfilled. and that is the rea-