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sane conservatives upon whose joint
action the result of the election will
hinge?
The World hitherto has withheld its
active support from all candidates. 1t
advocated an open convention at Bal
timore, and advised it's Democratic
friends to await the action of the Re-
publicans at Chicago. The open con-
vention is assured The measure of
all the candidates has been taken.
The situation is clarified and further
delay is unnecessary.
Like a twentieth-centeury Genghis
Khan, Theodore Roosevelt, with his
horde of prairie Populists and Wall
street Socialists, is sweeping down
upon the Republican National Conven-
ton. Mr.. Taft seems as powerless to
check him as the degenerate Romans
were to check the descent of the
Goths and Vandals. The historic par
ty of Lincoln and Seward and Chase
and Sumner and Conkling and Chand-
Ter and Blaine and Garfield and Harri-
son and Sherman and Mckinley is ap-
parently in the death throes. This is
the twilight Of the gods, and the Dem.
ocratic party must rise not only to
its opportunity but to its responsibility.
How can it do its duty better than
to match sanity against lunacy states
manship against demagogy; the his
torian against the Rough Rider; the
educator of public opinion against he
debaucher of public opinion; the first
term against the third term; the tar
against the stand-patter:
the man who would prosecute trust
magnates against the man who pro-
tects trust magnates; the man with
clean hands against the man who
draws his campaign fund from Wall
street; the supporter of constitutional
against the champion of
government; law against
lawlessness; Americanism against
Mechanism; the Republic against the
Who better presents these issues
than Woodrow Wilson? Who is bet
ter qualified than Woodrow Wilson to
appeal to the intelligence and COM
mon sense of the American people
against the most cunning and adroit
demagogue that modern civilization
has produced since Napoleon ILL.,?
Who would stand a better chance of
election in this great national crisis
Let US look at the facts:
1t will require 266 electoral votes to
elect President. The so-called South
ern states, including Maryland and
Missouri, have ITS votes. Assuming
hat Arizona will go Democratic too,
practically any Democratic candidate
'or President can count on 17S elector-
al votes. But SO more are necessary
% victory. Where can these SO be
'ound?
1t is folly to look for them west of
he Mississippi river. The West is in |
he midst of another revival of Popu. |
ism. In Theodore Roosevelt it has
ound a new substitute for its gospel
If free silver He is the political re-
incarnation Of James B. Weaver, Mary
3. Lease, Jerry Simpson and PETER.
lie is the heaven-born ratio of 16 to
in a still more fascinating form. It
idle to think that any Democrat
ould appeal to the West against
Roosevelt. 1t is idle to think that
nybody who is not a far more mas
erful and dangerous demagogue than
roosevelt could command the support
# the Populists who now call them
elves Republican Progressives.
The Democratic party, if 1t is to win
he election and safeguard American
must unite the East and
he South as Tilden did in 1876. The
andidate must carry New York with
IS As electoral votes. He must carry
Jew Jersey with its Ia electoral votes.
lie must carry Connecticut with Z
lectoral votes. To lose these states
to give Roosevelt walkover To
in these states is to win not only
OF the SS electoral votes that are
eeded, but in all probability it is to
in Ohio with "a votes; it is to win
ldiana with Is votes, which is the
istorical political ally of New York
nd New Jersey; 1t is to give the Dem
cratic party an opportunity of victory
Massachusetts, with its IS votes.
nd to bring Delaware with its votes
ack into the Democratic column. In
her words, it is to elect a Demo
attic President Of the United States.
1t is in the East that Democratic
ctory must be won. 1t is in the
asst that Rooseveltism must be over.