Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-08
THE RESULT,


Governor Wilson wins the Presidency
through the division of his natural oppo-
nents. He did not inspire enthusiasm or
show himself a stronger candidate than
Mr.. Bryan He owes his victory not to
superior public confidence in himself or
the Democracy, but to Mr.. Roosevelt's
desire to wreck the Republican party the
instant he could not rule it, Inspired by
over-weening ambition and personal ami
mostly, Mr.. Roosevelt turned against the
party which had given him the highest
honors and through which he had obtain
ed his marvellous hold on the popular i'm
aSinatien. Its leaders and policies were
the leaders and policies which he had
long commended, and he stood ready to
take a nomination from it If he could
But when 1t declined to depart from it's
historic traditions of loyalty to repre-
sentative government under fixed consti-
tutional guarantees and an Independent
Judiciary and take up radical and revo-
lutionary doctrines which he had opposed
along with it until he saw in them suit
able instrument of personal aggrandize-
ment, he devoted his energies to tearing
down the structure built by Lincoln, Sc
ward, Grant, Garfield and Mckinley which
has ever been the home of liberty and
constructive craftsmanship. He has
brought the party to defeat. Perhaps he
takes pride in his achievement, conscious
that
THE aspiring youth that fired the Ephe-
sian dome
Outlives in fame the pious fool that
raisd it."
lstt i.1 tI.rsn .E
with it's TRAN of abandoned principles is a
melancholy exchange for the universal
admiration for "a man who after exer-
cising the highest power in the republic,
achieving great things and performing
great services, retired to private life
commencing to the people the wisdom of
the tradition which forbade that he
should again be President.
Mr.. Taft in his defeat may Justly feel
satisfaction in having achieved something
greater than reelection. He has stood
faithful to principle. He has held the
Republican party true to its noble ira
ditions. He has prevented the judicial
power of the country from being made
subservient to the changing whims of
temporary majorities. He has preserved
to the powerless the guarantees of per-
sonal liberty against the tyranny of pas
sion. He has moved serene amid mis-
representation and abuse, discharging his
duty as he saw 1t and refusing to do any
thing for spectacular political effect at a
time when demagogy was in demand He
will turn over to his successor the ad-
ministration of a country whose laws
We're never before so well enforced,
whose expenditures have been cut down,
whose governmental methods have been
systematlzed and made unprecedentedly
efficient, whose general prosperity and
happiness are at a high pitch. His trust
is faithfully discharged.
AS for Mr.. Wilson, he has large II in
definite promises to redeem. He Is to
reduce the cost of living without reducing
the stream of individual incomes He Is
radically to cut down the tariff without
injurng business. He is to abolish trusts
and restore general competition. He is
to carry out as a sacred pledge the rad
ical platform which Mr.. Bryan made for
him at Baltimore. Behind him will be a
Congress as undisciplined and hard to
lead in sane paths as that which con-
fronted Mr.. Cleveland. His task is diff
ficult That he may perform IL with
credit to himself and honor to the coun-
try Is our most sincere wsh.-[New York
Tribune.