Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-03-28


every public utility in the state in the
control Of the people.
S. A law compelling all railroad cor
porations to pay their employees twice
monthly.
6. A law requiring all railroad com
panies to man their trains with sui
ficient number of men to protect the
lives Of their passengers and EN-
ployes
7. An election law penalizing the
colonization of voters and providing
for an honest election and an honest
count.
These laws have destroyed machine
and boss rule in New Jersey.
s. comprehensive corrupt practice
act, making 1t a state prison offense
to carry elections by the corrupt use
Of money.
9. A law by which the attorney gen
eral may take charge Of certain Grim
inal prosecutions, under direction Of
the governor of the state
Under this latter law, the corrupt
coarse, mutimllonaire boss of At
lantic City had been revelng in cor
rupt politics, and the local officers
feared to indict and prosecute him,
Governor Wilson ordered the attorney
general to take charge Of the case,
the boss was indicted by an honest
grand jury, the case was prosecuted
by the attorney general, and this null
timillionaire boss convicted and sen
fenced to the penitentiary.
In all the struggles for political re-
forms In any state, no other governor
az the leader Of the people has &C
chieved so much In so short a period
Of time and no other candidate of the
Democratic party can point to such
splendid record and say, by my past
you shall Judge my future"
assert with confidence and after
considerable investigation, that In the
state of Wisconsin and throughout all
others OF the Central West and the
West, the real battlefield of the com
Ing national campaign, Governor VIII
son will receive ten Independent Vttes
to every one which would be received
by any other candidate mentioned.
Not only that, but It Is estimated
that at every presidential election
there are first voters in sufficient num-
bers which, II they all vote for one
OF the two great political parties. their
votes would determine the presiden-
tial election. Any man may ascer-
tain by investigation and inquiry that
Governor Wilson will receive the sup
port OF more than ten times as many
OF these first voters as any other can
didate mentioned for nomination on
our ticket
do not ask any Democratic voter
to take my assertion for these facts.
There is simple way In which each
voter may determine this for himself,
Let him ask his independent neigh
bors the questions;
"In case President Taft Is the nomi-
nee Of the Republicans and Governor
Wilson Is nominated by the Demo.
Gratis, for whom will you vote?"
I'm case President Taft Is nomi-
mated by the Republicans and Gov
ernor Harmon or Speaker Clark by
the Democrats. for whom will you
voteI"
In case Roosevelt Ia nominated by
the Republicans and Wilson Is nomi-
mated by the Democrats. for whom
will you vote!"
I'm case Roosevelt Is nominated by
the Republicans and Harmon or Clark
is nominated by the Democrats. for
whom will you vote?"
BY making such inquiries you will
readily be convinced that OF the in
dependent voters, whose votes we
must have to win. Governor Wilson
would receive ten times rs many as
any other candidate mentioned for the
nomination
This fight In opposition to Governor
Wilson was begun by the money
trust on the next day after he made
the Harrisburg speech attacking Wall
street. 1t was then that the special
interests determined that Governor
Wilson must eliminated from political
life, and from that day TIN this. all
of the devilish ingenuity OF Wall
street and Its qualifications have lied
about him, misrepresentcd him and
made combinations to defeat him. Re
hevlng as they do that no man ought
to be elected to public office In this
country unless he Is willing in ad-
vance to mortgage his office, his con,
science and his soul to the special in
forests, they We're Mortified because
Governor Wilson frankly told the edi-
tor of Harpcrs magazines that he
would prefer their opposition rather
than their support, They assaulted
Governor Wilson because when Henry
Watterson offered him some OF
Thomas Fortune Ryan's money for
campaign purposes he refused to
touch II because It was tainted"
Then they turned to the last despair
ing resort OF the political dcmagogue
and dragged into the campaign nation
ality and religion,
For 16 years assaults Of similar
character have been made on Mr.