The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-10-07
WHY / AN FOR WILSON AND MAR.
SHALL.

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Edward insleX managing editor Of
the Sacramento Union writes as fol-
lows
More than a year ago September
"a lsiis to be eaact-the Sacramento
Union declared edit0rially that it
would support Woodrow Wilson for
nomination and election to the presl
dency. The UniGn has never been al
Democratic organ, NOT has it ever be-
fore supported a Democrat for the
presidency Yet 1t Is the oldest daily
newspaper On The Pacific coast, the|
oldest west of the Missouri river, ana
older than tie Republican party itself.
we feel that ID this the Union IS typi.
cal Of an element Of former RepubM-
canism that must now be rated as in
dependent ia politics. and which viii
be found this year ranged with prac.
tically the whole Of the La Toilette Re.
publicans and many who opposed La
Follette's radicalism. under the Wilson
banner we preferred Wilson to La
Toilette, we preferred him to Taft, to
Roosevelt to any other Democrat, or
to any other man in public life today.
The pennapa Of political independ.
ence flies at the Unions masthead.
and we are not to be rated AMONG
those who are temporarily out Of sym
pathy with the Grand Old Party
ready 70 return Il given good ex.
cuse. But the process of selection
which brought us to Wilson Is the
plain path Of logic which hundreds
Of thousands Of life long Republicans
are travelling with rs. We declared a
year ago that the Republican party
had broken down. that # had ceased
70 be an instrument Of government
upon which The people might rely;
that the election Of no Republican to-
the presidency be he Taft la Toilette.
Roosevelt or any other, would assure
the performance of platform promises,
whatever they might be; that the
Democratic party alone was in a posi-
ton to make good a program Of legis-
lation.
Turning OF necessity from the wreck
Of tha Republican party. a wreck Far
more complete today than It was
year ago. hope for progressive legis-
lation which the country demanded
was found IN the Democratic party,
provided The Democrats would name
Woodrow Wilson as their leader He,
above an other Democrats. stood be.
fore the country as the embodiment Of
the progressive principles Of the day.
The Democratic party today is the
true progressive party. The nomina-
tion Of any other than a progressive
al The Baltimore convention was an
impossibility. But IN Wilson the party
had the personification Of its progress
siye spirit, which would have been ex-
pressed adequately IN the nomination
81 no other man.
There are gray haired Republicans
in every section Of the land who have
been waiting al their lives FOR the
Republican party to make good it's
promises Of an honest application Of
me protective tariff policy. They have
waited IN vain. Lincoln declared the
danger Of tariff fed trusts. Garfield,
Blaine, Mckinley, ali sounded the note
Of alarm A tariff where none was
needed has never been good Republi-
can doctrine, but it has always been
Republican practice. Then came
Roosevelt who never 50 much as men
sioned tho tariff during his seysn
years incumbenoy except TO give out
a statement from the White House
once that "after comforting with Mes.
ra Cannon and Aldrieh, the president
had decided that there would be no
tariff revision Taft promised
tariff measured by the difference be-
tween the cost Of production at home
and abroad but we did not get It. Taft
and Roosevelt both repeat the same
idle promise thla yeaf, Only a sedu-
lously cultivated fear Of free trade III
the Democrats got into power. has kept
q million or more Of honest tariff Re
pnblicana M line for two generations.
0ut here in California we are not
frce traders. We believe in protection
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