Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1912-09-20
The PRESIDENTIAL SITUATION

Election tuesday, Nov. 9th, 1912.
THE PRESIDENTIAL SITUATION.
Tie Presidential ca paign is on
it is true but il has not as yet reach
ed that degree Of activity it will later
assume. The Bull Mooser is below
ing and Wilson, the Democratic
nominee has assumed to begin to
crawl, although it was generally I'M
derstoed soon after be received the
nomination that he would make no
rupabout campaign. The President
with that calm dignity which al
ways characterises his movement sand
with becoming self respect, and that
respect due the high Office he holds,
has declared his position on all she
grszr qnsstions Of public concern at
the present ume and there, thus far,
he has stood still. From this condi-
ton Of affairs the credulous may in
fer, indeed we have heard the re-
mark, that the real fight is between
the blatent Bull Mooser and Mr.,
Wilson. Not so, however, and do
not be deiuded. It cannot be be-
lieved that the majority of the voters
of this country, made great and pros
porous by aud through the principles
Of the Republican party. are SO sim
pie as to, in one fell swoop, down the
party OF benihcent political accom-
plishments to elect a representiye Of
a negative party, nor can't be assum
ed that the people are so insensible
to their own interest as to elect q
man representing himself and his
own selfish ambition the chief Exc
cutiye OF this Nation.
To give the Maryland voters a
clearer insight TO the situation the
Baltimore American, ever alive to
the public wishes has exerted itself
to get at the true state of the ma
tional campaign, and through one OF
its most aslute and best informed ie-
representatives. has this to say on the
situation:
"Thefe must be complete rever-
sal Of political form in Republican
strongholds to enable Col. Roos. :
welt OF Governor Wilson TO win the
presidency. Such reversal must be
along radical lines, and granting that
it takes place on elect on day Colonel
Roosevelt and Governor " ilson
must divide this radical, or, as it is
more generally called, progressive
vote between themselves. The con-
seryative vote, on the other hand, is
growing day by day more solidly for
for the President.
@The question which seriously and
emphatically confronts the American
people in this campaign and which
they are beginning to realize Is:
"ShalI the men who are gifted with
ability to tear down supplant the men
who build. who have made possible
the marvellous development Of indus
trial America duriug the past decade
and who, and who only can carry
forward this development who can
keep the wheels moyingY
@This is a most vital question, one
that ought to appeal with greater
force to the less prosperous, the daily
toilerF, than the thrifty aid to the
wealthy, for it is self evident fact
which, therefore, needs no deinonstra-
ton, that the less prosperous will suf-
fer more than the prosperous when
paiiics closed mills and lack Of en-
ployment lay their heavy hands on
the country.
"Governor Wilson and Theodore
Roosevelt would be impossibilities at
any other stage in American history
than VIE the public mind is aeitat-
ed, when spirit Of unrest is abroad.
These are, or rather have been, the
days, for the pendulum is swic ging
back to safe and sane policies, when
self-appointed crusaders have had the
ear Of the people, when undertaking
has arisen to the dignity of author
ship, when shocking is applauded,
when glory and fortune are won BY
pins dipped in vitriol.p