The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-08

l states. WhO mas SQOWn L11S1L AS IS q clear-s1ghted, sagacfous. sensible man l inspired by a patriotic devotion to 1 the country.
 I witnessed. his national leader go down l to defeat in his steadfaSt adherence l to those great constitutional pr1n- ciples which are at once the glory have cause for satisfaction in know l ing that the Democrat who is to take his place has put behind him at all | of a centralized government, personal rule and contempt for lawful and con Stitutional methods.
 The People Wanted a Change, But Not Through a Third Party Nor Through a Tl1ird-Term President.
 (F,rom the Boston Post.) 1 The times were 'ripe and rotten ripe'' for change. Drunk with ex- tended authority, the old Republican party had either refused to or could not keep step with the music of pro- gress and reform. It had declined to cut the bond that united 1t in SiameSe twin fashion to the tariff-fattened in- terests. It had Jeered at the hand writing on the wall, denied the will of the people as expressed in the con gressional elections of two years ago and refused to placate insurgency in its own ranks until it was too late. It rode for fall. and the catastrophe was inevitable.
 Truly the people wanted a change. But they wanted 1t not through a third party nor a third-term president but through the Democracy and Wood row Wilson They saw that the party had been purged of error, cured of dis unity and given a candidate who could and did pass through the fierce light that come forth triumphant. They ed to power with safety and profit to the nation. and they returned it. The President-EIe Reminded of His
 Program.
 CIew York Herald.)
 On November f. the day before cleo tion. in outlining the policy of the Democratic party, you said that it would be to
 Go forward without postponement or forms which the whole country waits i. to effect them by the ordinary processes Of legislation, willing to be nation as a whole, the plain people with the rest, regardless of any inter est the little as we'll as the big. 8 carefully considered course of mod crate yet courageous reform
 These words you should keep before you during the next i've months, which will be the period largely devot- ed to the selection of your co1nselors and to the mapping ont Of definite program. You will take over the ad- mduiStraffon of a country actually period of his history. If you leave 1t that way at the end of your admin istration you will be regarded as one Of the greatest presidents that ever lived
 You propose to do great things. Your program actually conternplates the re- making of industrial America But very end will include the maintenance Of the status quo of prosperity
 The Duty of the Denocratic Party.
 eNew York Tfmes)
 The party will devote Itself to the works of progress, but of sane and healthy progress It will not destroy For one thing it will neither wreck danger has been escaped. It will re- wise the tariff, but it will so disprove those amusing Republican predictions thors will smile at the memory of them. Honest business will have all freedom. equal opportunity. every law f aa rsnf sa that ad iahoegt panes wilaGn wl go to jail. We think he means 1t. That is not a program at which the righteous need stand in f sr. MT. Will the best sense Of the word; the Dem O. cratic party in that best sense will be a conseryative party; It would be it is only through a wise conserva- tism that it can retain the confidence of the country. The people have just voted overwhelmingly against radical ism, against agitation. There will now be ruthless fight for control between the warning factions of the RepubIi- can party. It will outlast the next presidential election. The most or dinary foresight of political events brings the Democracy's path Of duty plainly into view Great Wisdom Shown In the NoHmin-
 atfon.
 Roston Herafd-1
 The Democratic party exhibited great wisdom in the selection of Woodrow Wilson as its nominee. In no perfunctory sense may it be said 1 that he is "a gentleman and a schol- | self capable of arousing great entllu- siasm and of attaching to himself | friends and supporters as with bands I of steel He inspires loyalty. He ac-i quits himself credttably. He should 1 prove successful president. That | He has been the leader of a party; he l now becomes tn prsident of the whole | people. Determined to Prevent the Success of |
 Roosevelt.
 (Boston Adwertiser.)
 The expected happened. The Re- publican party had its vote fairly ev- enly divided by the ttProgressive's split | ,n the face of the returns But even that is not exactly a correct interpre- .atfon Of the returns. All over the lnds, in Republican srates, while lvowing perfect confidence in Presf- lent Taft, cast their votes for Gov in order to make sure that