The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-11-23
The Battle Just Begun.

The Democrat, by alliance or CON
I yiction, who drifts away into WIG
axn,tation over the victory yesterday
Mad best come down to earth and
face the facts. 49,.
woodrow Wilson has polled barely
more actual individual votes tnah
william Jennings Bryan at his pest
has polled.
He won his tremendous electoral
college majority, because pluralltles
carry the electoral college votes ID
each state.
He is a minority president.
Not only that, but pluralities every.
where save in a few scattered states
are responsible not only for the cleo
toral college result, but for the ma
FORTY inccongress and for the STATE
victories
BY grace OF our constitution, q
minority party controls the whole led
eral government.
Thus these facts must be faced by
the Democratic party:
First: CA majority Of the people @
the United States believe in the prln
ciple of protection. That principle
was concurred In both by Pro
gresslyes and Republicans. But the
Progressives dissented from the prae
tice whereby the standDatters had
used the principle Of protection, not
to maintain the difference IN the
cost of living and production, but as
d cloak for crooked favors to specla
interests.
Second A majority Of the people
believe i, those broad principles O
strong federal government, liberia
internal improvements, bold foreign
policy and sustained expansion, which
have differentiated the Republican,
Of days. gone by from the de-centFal
lied and restricted policies OF thu
Democrats.
These broad principles are common
between the Progressives and Repub
licans, and these carried majorit,
of the popular yote-the dissent be
tween the Republicans and the Pro
gressives being on the part of the
Progressiyes from the application Q
the principles made by the control
ling element of the old Republican
organization.
On the ether hand there were il
common view between the Progress
sives and the Democrats great end:
which won tremendous popular ap
proyal--ends in view on which The
two parties agreed, although they
differed as to the ways and means o.
arriving at them.
First, elimination of big business
in governmental affairs and destrtle
ton Of corrupt corporate influence II
states and nation. The Progressives
believe that strong federal program
of supervision can best attain These
ends; the Democrats that state laws
plus vigorous enforcement Of al
amended Sherman act, will best at
tain it.
Second, the propaganda Of "socia
Justice" and the lettering Of Twins
and working conditions Throughout
tine land. The Progressives @agail
holding for the strong federal pro
gram--the Democrats for the state
laws and only a moral activity b.
the federal government.
Thus the fight of the Democrat.
has Just begun.
BY the dissension among opponents
as to minor points, and differences a.
to methods and purpose and ways
and means among the majority, the
Democrats, as a minority party, have
been intrusted with the government
the Republican party has been de
stroyed, and the ProgressiVes have
been established as the party in op
position.
The fight Of the Democrats is nov
to justify the results of yesterday.
They won through the differences
Of their opponents.
They must justify success through
heir own efforts Baton Rouge New
Nov. 6.