The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1912-01-04
THE BIC PoLITIcAL PoT.


brought about, who or what part,
is to be the u to bring It abou
there seems to be various opinions
The reasons given for the neces
sity of the reforms asked for ar
many, some of them good and som'
of them fancied or imaginary. Wher
any town or county has been ex
tremely prosperous for a number Of
years and the improvements ther
{, -sao9 there is of necessity a more
or less stagnation of business of all
kinds. The people when prosperous
cultivate more extravagant habits
and instead of saving what they
make spend more of it than there is
any real necessity for and later when
business grows dull, their income is
cut down and it is harder to culti-
vate a saving habit than it was to
cultivate an exiravagant one. Dur
ing the past ten years more i'm
p~rovements have b en- made than
in any other period of the same
length of time. More railroads
have been built, more improvements
Of all kinds in both the cities and
country. The past year many Of
thsSe improvements have been CON-
pletedand many have stopped on so
large a scale and this through ne
cessity threw many men out of en-
ployment and many Of these men
had saved nothing and we're not fitted
to 60 into some other line Of BUSH
ness and the results are that they
are out Of employment with no
nancy.
When conditions reach this stage
they at once begin to seek some re-
and search for the cause, and,
P<IAy through habit and partly be-
cause il is right. they blame the
President, political conditions and
politics for it.
These are the conditions that are
prevailing at the present time and
even the most ardent "standpatters"
admit that a great political change !
now taking place but they will not :
nture an opinion as to the prob
lHe outcome other than to state l
hat they cannot see any good re- Z
in sight from any Of the pro-
,osed changes, but, on the contrary,e
,oint to the unsettled business con- >
at the present time which
hey attribute to the agitation that J
5 going on against the corporate in >
the trusts and the tariff
This being a presidential year Z
the situation an extremely in g
sresting E
Nationally, the democrats have a b
of candidates for the nomi- 81
for the presidency; Governor
harmon, Governor Wilson, Ex-Gov- j.
NOR Folk, Speaker Clark and
umber Of other possibilities, each
{ whom have a number Of ardent X
Ipporters. In their support of 81
ieir respective candidates, many of
ie people allow their beliefs to be- =.
'me so strong that it is in reality 81
prejudice against the other candi-
ates mor than it is a desire on J
Ieir part to have their " choice mo
This prejudice is be-
ming 50 strong that many demo- ] ]
ats viii not support any candidate mo
the democratic ticket for president
less it is the n for whom they JaI
boosting. Bri
The condition with the republican,
.rty is still worse than it is with W
e democrats. President Taft now Bri
Ems certain Of a denomination and
E insurgent republicans are organ E
and campaigning now very ado
against him. This does-s
( mean a number of voters only,
I many of the strongest and lead to
3 + lublicans in the nation. The SIC
'ufgents claim that President Taft
the candidate of the interests and .
It they will not support him. SEN "a.
" LaFollette, the acknowledged a.,
der of the insurgents, is an
,wed candidate for the presidency Una
and is now making a cam S
mn for 4ha ucrafnoffon IL h~.I-a