The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-11-04

ercise power over us at Washing
ton. No established policy of the
Republican party can be used for
such ends. 1.-The black magic of
campaign funds" cannot work these
miracles,
The Government at Washington
has not in, half a generation been
conducted from the point of view
or by the counsel of the nation as
whole, but by the advice and with
the consent of those who have ex-
torted special favors from it, a
very small number of persons with
their own objects constantly in view,
it may be unconscious Of their
selfishness, certainly unconscious
of the interests of the vast ma
jorities whom they ignored in their
scheme of prosperity.
The great task that waits to be
done can be done only by free
government with its eye upon the
whole people, and such govern
ment we have not had since the
Dingley and AIdrich tariffs began
TO be built up favor by favor and
trusts began to multiply under the
very prohibitions of the law. The
Republican party is irretrievably
committed and bound to go in the
very opposite direction from that
in which release and freedom lie.
1t has become a party of special
points of view.
The country has already perceiv-
ed this. Everywhere there has been
steadily gathering revolt by the
voters. Twenty-six of the As
State governments are now under
Democratic executives. In it's leg
islatures of the 4S States the Demo-
Gratis cutnumber the Republicans
by majority of 200. Severty-three
of the 120 chief cities of the coun-
try have Democratic Mayors. There
are now 227 Democrats in the Ma
.ional House of Representative AMI
only 161 Republicans. The tide
gathers in greater and greater vol
ume. Only the Presidency and the
Senate lift their heads little above
it, those citadels of power which the
Constitution makes it hardest for
the peoples majorities to capture
and occupy. Until these are taken
the great task will halt and wait,
the great task of putting the Gov
eminent at the service of the peo-
pie
Shall we not move forward to
the final conquest? An organized,
united and enthusiastic force stands
ready, the only united and militant
force to which the people can turn
with any prospect that they will be
served, promptly, effectively and
upon a clear principle of action
the great Democratic party, now
at last solid and of clear purpose.
To it all who are full OF hope and
of the vigor that makes tomiofrows
are flocking-the young men of
the nation, the noble and devoted
women who wish to see better days
for their children and for all who
are oppressed, the men who never
grow old, but always press forward
to enterprises of the new age, all
who desire free opportunity and
love the public course that is just
and righteous and quick with the
hopes of mankind.
A great people is turning its
face to the light, not desiring a
revolution, but loving the right and
determined to set it up, wisely, tenn
perately, honorably, with prudence
and patient debate, not in irrita-
ton or in haste, but like men, not
like children. 1t is a great day and
a propitious one. The responsible
lily is our and we shall assume it
knowing what it means.
The decision of the 9Th of No
vember will usher in, If We be
true, a new day of confidence, free
dom and prosperity. 1t will be. no
niggardly triumph of a party or
fraction, but the triumph of peo-
pie. The Democratic party will be,
not the selfish victor, but the trust
ed instrument, and the years that
follow will test every principle of
the great republic. God grant we
shall be worthy to prevail.
Woodrow Wilson.