Semi-weekly herald., 1912-10-14

Through an oversight on the part
of the judges at the fair the premium
for the best pencil drawing was
awarded to the wrong person. The
premium was intended for Calvin
Limprecht, who exhibited very fine
map. The tangle is being straighten-
ed out and Calvin will receive the
honor to which he is entitled.
DEMOCRAT LEADERS ALARMED.
Our Democratic friends who pre-
tended ever since the nomination of
Roosevelt on the Progressive ticket
that they would have walk away in
November are no longer able to con-
ceal their fear. Particularly in Colo
RADIO is this true and generally is it
true over the country. ....
The pretentions made by the leaders
came very near having disastrous
effect on the voters in the Demo-
cratic ranks. Many of them believed
that their leaders really meant what
they said. Others helped to spread
the word that was to be passed around
to the voters until they themselves
became conviced that what they
were telling was the truth.
AS result of this the party work
ers began to rest on their oars. The
leaders themselves were influenced
by this reaction and dropped into
the no campaign. mood. 1t was ar
ranged that Wilson should not go on
the stump, that he should make
speeches to those who would call on
him at his home in New Jersey.
1t was only week OF two ago that
the Democrats awoke to the true sit
uation and another such stirring up
in political affairs was never witness
ed before. They began the organiza
tion of political clubs. They discov-
cred few disguntled Republicans, or
those who agreed to make public that
they had been Republicans, and or
ganized what they named Repub-
lican Wilson club. There would be
about as much consistency in such a
name as there would be in calling the
angel Gabriel his Satanic majesty.
The name is about as significant and
as appropriate as it would be to term
the last Democratic national admin
istration bowling success.
The Democratic excitement extend
ed to Encouragement of the Wilson
program. The leaders conferred and
decided that Wilson must at once take
the field even if he got mixed up with
the terrible Teddy. Wilson obeyed or.
ders and has been ON the stump ever
since making academic speeches. He
is telling the people that the Demo-
cratic party was destined by crea-
tion to become the party that would
dope out the medicine that would heal
all the wounds of the nation. He in
sists that the Republican party is the
incarnation of evil. that it must give
place to the Democratic party that
made such a bowling success in those
days when Coxey's army was organ
ized in Denver for march to Wash
ington where it demanded that the
government make laws in the interest
of the people and not in the interest of
the political bosses and office holders.
He is explaining to the people of the
east how rich the people of Colorado
and other states are becoming at the
expense of the down-trodden EASTERN
er who does not raise sheep, grow
sugar beets and dig out the various
ores from the mountains.
The nonpartisan voters of Colorado
have noticed that Wilson made few
addresses on the east side of the
mountains and then got out of the
state as soon as possible. He never
intended to go west of the mountains.
He does not dare to make speech in
the mining sections, the sheep grow
ing sections or the sugar beet sec
tions.
All this change has been brought
about by the Democrats recently and
at this very moment they are working
as they never worked before to coun-
teract the stagnation caused by their
early pretenses of an easy victory.
In many of the doubtful states
where the Democrats feel that ordi-
narily they are expected to lead,
Roosevelt has made heavy inroads on
their forces and the Clark enthusiasts
are not very proud Of the record made
by the Democrats at Baltimore or the
candidate named at that convention.
Take it all in all the Democrats
find the political situation three weeks
before the national election very un-
satisfactory and are depending en-
tirely for success on the hope that
the Republican party will be about
evenly divided between Taft and Roos-
eyelt.