The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-25

ana nlS personal pledges to stop panic which never had existed save in his own timorous heart.
 Both MT. Taft and MT. Roosevelt remedied an artificial or imaginary disaster by inf1icting a real one.
 Both tenderly lifted a burden from the frail shoulders of the financial world and promptly placed it upon the calloused and accustomed shoul- ders of the plain people
 Where is Mir Taft's easy-going good nature now?
 Where are his timidity, his inexper- fence, his inef1ciency?
 Tn the service of the trusts he is swift and sure, courageous to the point of recklessness, and experience ed as a trust lawyer may well be; and even efficient in ponderous way, like a draft horse\ that strains under the lash and pulls his full part in the trust team.
 No, MT. Taft is only easy-going and timid, inexperienced and inefficient when called upon to carry out his pledges to the people, and serve the citizens who trusted him and elected him.
 MT. Taft by his veto has undoubted- ly secured for himself renomina tion by the Republican party-or rather. by the plundering interests which con- trol conventions. Whether Or not he
 
 upon how far the citizenship of the country can itself be controlled Cor, at least, confused) by those plunder- ing powers.
 It is useless to deny that powerful interests have had a determining in- fuence upon local and national cleo tions in America for many years.
 It is because of this significant fact that the politicians have come to colI- sider the support of these privileged interests of more importance than the approval of the citizens themselves.
 It is because of those deplorable conditions that politicians have come to acknowledge feudal fealty to the trusts and to disregard their Demo- cratic duty to the citizens.
 Those citizens who have intelligent and patriotic concern for the future of the nation must make concerted effort to end the corrupt, selfish, au- tocratic and oppressive rule of high handed finance in American politics.
 The time to end it is now.
 The Republican party has formed the Republican Progressive League in the earnest effort to conduct con- ventions under the control of the peo- pie and nominate candidates who will represent the people.
 In all probability this effort will fail
 The privileged interests which have  the past will doubtless control them in the future, and will nominate can didates of their own selection for their own service.
 Tn this situation there is a glorious opportunity for the Democratic party to become the progressive, popular party of the nation, and to render a patriotic service by rescuing the Gov ernment of the nation from the despot- ic domination of the trusts.
 Let a Progressive Democratic League be formed, and let that league devote itself to securing the nomination for President of an honest, sincere, loyal and dependable progressive Democrat, ly guaranteed by an uninterrupted record of genuine performance
 If the trusts through corruption and coercion, shall control the Demo- cratic convention as they will the Re- publican convention; if they shall nom- mate a trust-controlled Democrat, as they will nominate trust-controlled Republican, then let the Democratic Progressive League unite with the Re- publican Progressive League and place a genuine progressive of whatever party in the field, fearlessly to make the fight for the citizens and to Op- pose the bipartisan representatives Of the trusts.
 MT. Taft has fired the first gun or the campaign of 1912 from the camp of intrenched privilege.
 Let the heavy artillery of the people thunder a defiaHt answer; one swallow does not make a Summer. and one de- serter does not make a disaster, even though he be the President of the United States