The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-09-06
is PoPULlSM TRIUMPHANT?

contained an article fayorlng Mr..
Woodrow Wilson for president. from
which we make the following extract:
who is better qualified than Wood
row Wilson TO appeal to the intelli-
gence and common sense Of the Amer
lean people against the most cunning
and adroit dems gogue that modern
civilization has produced since Eapo-
leon III?
Who would stand a better chance
of election in this great national cri-
sis?
Let US look at the facts:
1T will require 266 electoral votes
to elect a president The so-called
southern states, including Maryland
and Missouri, have 175 votes. Assum-
ing that Arizona will go democratic
too, practically any democratic can
didate for president can count on lis
electoral votes. But S. more are ne
cessary 10 victory. Where can these
IS be found?
1t is folly to look for them west Of
the Mississippi river. The west is in
the midst of another revival OF popu
lism. In Theodore Roosevelt it has
found a new substitute for its Cos
pei of free silver. He is the political
reincarnation of James B. Weaver,
Mary E. Lease. Jerry Simpson and
PETER. He is the heayen-born ratio
Of IS to l in still more fascinating
form. 1t is idle TO think that any
democrat could appeal to the west
against Roosevelt. 1t is idle 10 think
that anybody who is not a far more
masterful and dangerous demagogue
than Roosevelt could command the
support of the populists who now call
themselves republican progressives. "
This editorial is now being sent out
in full from democratic headquarters
along with Governor Wilson's address
at the annual banquet of the Econom-
ic Club of New York at the Hotel AS
Tor, May %, 1912
In the World OF August q, 1912, Isl
quoted approvingly the following ar
ticle from the September Atlantic:
"Of the new political ideas which
pass current in our time, more by far
have been shaped by Mr. Bryan, or at
least passed on by him from his pOpu-
list Inheritance, than have come into
being from any other single source.
For as everybody knows, Mr.. Roose-
velts familiar image and superscrip-
ton have been stamped on coin an
nually borrowed from his rivals mint
The publicity of campaign expendi-
lures, the election of senators by the
people, the system Of direct nomina
lions, initiative, referendum and all
the paraphernalia OF direct govern
ment based upon complete confidence
in the people-all these eclectic is
sues, from whatever source derived,
were articles of Mr.. Bryan's faith
when Mr. Rooseyelt's creed knew
them not.
1t is a safe assertion that in the
making of the American nation to-
day out of the materials of twenty
years ago Mr. Bryan has been the
largest personal factor. And if this
be true, then indeed he is successful
man"
In it's editorial of May 80. 1912, the
World claimed that Governor Wilson
was the antipodes of Mr.. Roosevelt
in everything upon the face OF the
earth that bore the lion hunters SUI
prescription all OF which it claims in
turn were surreptitiously stolen from
Mr. Bryans 16 to l silver mint.
Advocating the principles and poll
cies which he inherited from the pop
ulists. of which Tom Watson was the
acknowledged apostle, we are told by
the World that Mr.. Bryan was the
dominating figure at Baltimore, (and
as we were there we know it to be
true), and that it was through his
political power that Governor Wilson
received the nomination.
What we intended was meekly to
ask if it be true that populism is trl-
umphant in Mr. Roosevelt, does the
World infer that it is likewise trium-
phant in Governor Wilson by virtue
of his nomination having been brought
about by Mr.. Bryan?
Is it not fact that the World is
getting all mixed up in its politics?
Just a little while ago it wanted our
democratic nominee to put his foot
down on the tariff plank of the Balti-
more platform. and declare that the
policy of protection prolific
breeder of trusts-was the sine qua
non of our institutions, and the heart
and core of genuine democracy.
1t would be we'll for the World TO
study it's democracy-at least that
part of it referring to the tariff-at
the feet of the Gamaliel of the Louis
Vile Courier Journal
We adjure the World to stop print
ing all this stuff about Bryan and
the triumph of populism until after
the election 1t may hurt Mr.. Will
sons candidacy in the east, where i
says those IS electoral votes are 70
come from.