The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-12-12
ARE.
TROUBLED BY
PROSPECTS
Their Outlook For Next Year
Dlscouraging
DEMOCRATS ARE HOPEFUL
Wilson is Leading Candidate But May
Not Be Able to Get Required
TWO Thirds
DEMOCRATS ARE HOPEFUL

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ted States when a hitherto success
full political party was so gloomy ana
felt so certain of defeat in presiden-
tial election as the republican party,
as assembled in Washington, feels to-
day, more or less important bit OF
unremembered history can be brought
TO the front for comparison and deduc
ton. The state of mind of the repub-
licans here Is one of the more inter
esting phenomena one encounters and
it is a matter for discussion on the
eve of the meeting of the republican
national committee 10 select the
place of meeting and the date of the
national convention which will enun-
ciate a platform and nominate candi-
dates on which the party will appeal
to the people-with the foreordained
feeling that the people will not res
pond in sufficient volume TO prevent
the democratic ticket from being cas-
lily the winner on election day in No
vember next
The entire nation has, in effect, Just
assembled in Washington and reports
of the political conditions in the sew
eral sections have been exchanged
and canvassed, and as the republic
ans have listened and compared
notes they have come TO the over
whelming conviction that there is no
help for them but to submit to the
loss of the presidency and congress
as well, both OF the House and the
Senate, each to save what can be
saved. each looking out for himself
Indeed in private as well as almost
in public the assumption is being &C
cepted, and the preparations are be
| ing adjusted to the belief that the
next president will be a democrat
Hence, the choice to be made at the
democratic convention seems Of
more interest and concern than who
will be the nominee of the republican
convention.
The republicans do not take any
comfort in admitting this, but they
say what is the use OF whistling be
fore a rainbow ever receding. Lei
the inevitable be accepted even be
fore 1t arrives. The exchange o.
views and news incident on the gath
ering of the statesmen has only con
firmed what had been feared. Eact
republican has learned that the con
fused political conditions obtaining
in his own state are also true in prac
EfssI=sss.--ss.-. -.f--.ss--1.-.I-lz
Rhode Island alone excepted. The
party organizations have gone t
| pieces, the china being seemingly to-
| broken for repair, the situation res
| embling the one-hOrse shay-in com
plete collapse, after having run wei
| for so long. Bad conditions in tn,
| party that had individually seemed
sporadic are now found national
reaching from coast to coast and tn
more you get into the interior tn
worse they become A prominent re
publican asked about the republican
situation in Indiana for instance
UGH" he replied. Don't mention
them TO me They could not b
worse and absolutely more hopeless
Put Indiana In the democratic co
umn."
To add TO the gloom felt over tn
disorganized state OF the party Their
is a feeling OF lonesOmeness anon
the republicans produced by the know
ledge that business is itself now quit
. distrustful Of the party big bus
ness has heretofore felt that IL ha
no mean refuge in the republica
ark. But President Taft is making
, republican administration mean tha
. IL Is no respecter of persons, not eve
I, OF trusts that have been stamped b
! some people as good. Many feel tina
the party has fallen between tw
I stools that OF the ultra-radicals VIII
! are thought to be numerous and sti
Unsuitable, and the other Of the bus
ness world. astounded to realize thi
the republican party is not respon,
ing to the control It felt that il ha
OF the party, control gained b
many a handsome campaign costribI
ton.
Meantime the democrats tal
seems Wilson: that's ALL" His M
, mination. however, is not absolutel
d assured. Indeed. II is expectatio
; that by the time OF the conyentio
2 the radical program which he embo
g les viii prove too ultra. and with
r twothirds vote required in the co..
I vention TO nominate IL is believe
. that Wilson may not prevail. III
Held as against Wilson will win. Tn
implies deadlock and so the choo
ing OF some one else than New IL
sey's governor Much attention IN /
ing given quietly to Gov. Marshall
the compromise candidate. The /
diana governor has been much helpe
r by the Mcnamara confessions. m
!. arrest OF the dynamiters through n
p fundamentally OF extraditlon pane
y he signed threatened to make his n
d mination impossible as being bitter
disliked by labor people hut the NJ
Namara confessions make his coun
then now seem as actuated by his
resolve and great patriotism and
more radiant hue now oolors h
prospects for obtaining the demoera
{ &c presidential nomination. The woI
IS Watch Marshall" and this IN,
9 lends additional interest to the der
E ocrauc situation on the presidene
. which is very delightful for ali der
ocrats to study since the nomin,
VIII enter the race with az prese,
> prospects OF election not SO clear
apparent In half century.
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