The log cabin Democrat., 1912-07-08
DEMOCRATS HAVE
OEHORNED MOOSE
NO NEED OF THIRD PARTY
is SEEN BY PROGRESSIVES.
SINCE WILSON IS NOM
MATED.
BY CLIO HARPER.

Little Rock, July 8.-There ap-
pears to be as little enthusiasm for
the Roosevelt third party in Arkan-
sas as there was over the nomination
of President Taft in Chicago. Some
how, it lacks impetus. This may read
| lily be ascribed to the great Demo
cratic victory in Baltimore, where
progressiveism was strongly empha-
sized within the ranks of the Demo
cratic party.
But j. A. Conner, head of the
Roosevelt movement in the state. saws
there is plenty of enthusiasm back of
it-that this is only the premonitory
calm that presages a great storm of
protest against corrupt Republican
machinery A statement will be is
sued this week, as soon as a copy of
the third party platform is received,
and he predicts that this will start
the ball rolling.
"The Roosevelt supporters are
practically unit" said Mr.. Conner,
land we expect to get recruits from
the Republicans that have h:terto
been stand-patters, as well as from
the Democrats"
Democrats, however, as we'll as
some of the Roosevelt men, do not see
it in the same Light. They see in the
nomination of Woodrow Wilson the
greatest strategic move that could
have been made to dethrone Roose-
veltism and Taftism. The schism in
the Republican party can have but
one result in Arkansas-a widening
of the breach that has been growing
in the party lines since the old days
of insurgency, and the polling of a
larger majority for the Democratic
ticket than has ever been known.
The Democrats are united. AL
though standing by Champ Clark to
the last, they have followed the lead
ership of their choice and declared
their unfaltering fealty to the dis
tinguished Princetonian statesman.
AS the sting of disappointment is
dulled, they realize that the conven-
ton pursued the wisest course, and
that with such leader as Woodrow
Wilson, party success is certain in
November. There has been from the
first large and loyal element of Ar
) kansas Democracy favorable to Will
son, and to these must now be added
, all those who favored Clark and I'm
derwood and Harmon. Wilson's sue
cess has also strengthened the love
/ that Bryan's friends have always felt
, for the great Nebraskan, the man
, who single-handed controlled the con-
vention, although there are many
representative Democrats, like Sena-
; tor Clarke, who condemn Bryan as
roundly as did Stanchfield of New
York. This does not, however, render
less indisputable that Bryan remains
the popular idol, and that Woodrow
, Wilson promises to become close
second.
The election of Wilson, which Ar
kansas Democrats do not doubt, will
mean a great deal for the state. His
manager, W. F. McCombs, formerly
Of Hamburg, Ark, cousin of George
B. Pugh of Little Rock, feels very
grateful to the coterie of earnest
Wilson men. That the Arkansas del
egation feels most kindly toward him
is shown by the fact that their IS
votes were first cast for him for the
vice-presidential nomination.
Democratic victory in November,
which seems inevitable on the pro-
gressive wave, with Roosevelt and
Taft dividing the electoral vote in the
Republican states, will mean a thor
ough cleansing of the federal service
in the state. Again will be heard that
old-time slogan of the first Cleveland
administration, "Turn the rascals
out also that other accepted polit-
ical dogma that "To the victors be-
long the spoils" Imaginative persons
may already, in fact, be parceling out
the postoflices and district attorney
ships and other positions which have
been yielding the Republicans a mil
lion dollars year. But, first elect
Wilson and then talk about the divis-
ion of the spoils, is the prevailing
sentiment.