Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-16
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! tenants will do in the way OF meet
ing the impending crisis. Not a mar
| of them thinks Of denying that II eveT
| the republican party required an &C
, tive, aggressive and ,virile demonstra'
ton Of it's erstwhile vim, f~orcefulness
and %stategical wisdom now Is the
time for its appearance. It's publicity
promoters may be brainy men; II So
it Is high time for them to show IT,
They did not do SO during the mite
convention campaign, If we are 10
Judge by tangible results. They were
beaten out of their boots by the pen
cil.pushers, who battled for the vul
nerable Roosevelt, and they are even
yet apparently blind to the fact tna'
progressivism and not democracy Is
what the republican party has to fear
and to fight against and that the Roos'
eveltian doctrines of thinly yelled so
| cialism and disruption which find too
many credulous sy~mpathizers among
| the unthinking masses are move 10 be
dreaded and exposed than are the
Wilsonian theories Of horizontally-re'
duced tariffs, etc.
The campaign will assuredly be u
nique in other regards as well, for the
| colored vote is split up as it has new
! err been in the history of the nation
Today, we find influential colored
men in the Sunny South, who were
during all their lives staunch repub'
leans, coming out in the open and de-
claring that they intend not only to
vote for Woodrow Wilson but also to
contribute literally to his growing
campaign fund. It's something new
to find southern darkies, ofice-hold-
ers and others, aligning themselves
in such a wholesale manner in the
ranks of the democracy. True, In
some of the southern states very
many of the colored folks have shown
their friendship for democratic lead
ers like Senator Tilman, whom they
loved and admired for their sterling
qualities of mind and heart; but, at
not time mas there been such an ap-
~parently widespread turnover from
the republican fold, accompanied by
such declarations of financial support.
The Brownville incident is being re-
vived to the prejudice OF Theodore
Roosevelt among the colored element
al over the land, and negro preachers
can be depended on % make the most
of his recent assault on their race.
They will get potential help from the
administration which has agreed to
allow Lewis, lne colored assistant at
torney general of the United States,
to take the stump in the New Eng
land states, where he is held in high
estimation and in the southern states,
especially in Georgia and South Caro-
lima.
Just as the men differ, so do the
women who take an active interest
in politics.; but, this year, the latter
are coming to the front in exceeding
ly large numbers in favor of Woodrow
Wilson and are forming win with
Wilson" clubs in every state and ter
ritory in the Union. And it is not a
bit strange to find women who here
tofore were redhot republicans just
as ardent R~ooseveltians. For instance,
Mrs. Isabella Blaney who was a uele-
gate from California to the republican
national convention at Chicago, with
drew from that body and was one of
the first to join the Bull Moose party,
and was also n of the noteworthy
figures at the Roosevelt convention
in the Windy City; and Mrs. William
Grant Brown, for years a stalwart
1nnmhnr Ut tho uynclf nvJ N0~p,h1i1op
clug of New York City, has, too, be-
come a recruit of the Bull Moose.
Jane Adams of Hull House, Chicago,
is also a Rooseveltian adherent; and
she is a power in Illinois, for she is
APT called "the first citizen of H.
linois' by every mar and woman in
Chicago. She does not enter the
ranks of the progressive party solely
because of its recognition of woman
~suffrae, but largely because of her
love for and abiding interest in the
social reforms so .avishly promulgat-
ed as progressive doctrines. In the
case OF the women, the Taft advisers
to be utterly at sea. In their
flounderings they may strike some
driftWood that will 4.elp them to a
realization the new condition, viz;
that tue women may, after all, turn
the scale of victory towards Wilson,
or Roosevelt, or-Taft.
1T Will be pleasant news to the boys
and girls in all farming sections OF
the country that not a few of the big
crowds of boys and girls visiting
Washington are members of girls
canning clubs" and of "uoys corn
clubs" who have made the money to
pay the expenses of enjoyable trips
from their respective homes to- the
National Capital by raising cucumbers
and canning tomatoes and farming
an acre of corn" What those lads and
.asses have done in that direction can
also be accomplished by any other
boy or girl on any farm. Boys Corn
Clubs in the south now number over
$4,000 members, and the girls are do.
ing equally we'll. For instance, one
little girl gardener in South Carolina
cleared over $40 on her tenth of an
acre OF tomatoes; a 14.year old Vir-
g1nla lass, who herself found a ready
market for her fresh and canned
vegetables, bought her winter clothes
and school books and laid away $25 in
a savings bank.
Other boys and girls in the North,
ern,. New England and Northwestern
states who are anxious to get on the
band wagon will have every oppor.
tunity of doing so, as soon as they