The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-06
The Democratic Victory

Upon the ruins of the Republican party the Democ- has great victory The party that freed the slave became the party that ensaved the people, and it has been destroyed in night
 That president of the United States, with all the chinery of government in his hands, and with half mil lion federal office holders at his back should nomination and into the electoral college with scarcely than miserable of votes almost unbelievable.
 It is lesson the underlying principles of American government. Whom the people will exat they may. Whom the people desire to abase they may abase,
 The Democracy is charged with great privilege and great duty It has been entrusted with the executive, and the legislative branches of the national
 It has power to do those things which has promised to do With Woodrow Wilson the chair and majority of earnest and able Democrats both houses good fruits should come to the country
 The victory flows into the states. Of 29 eighties choosing governors all but carried by Democrats and of the remaining six is carried by the Progressives
 In Connecticut the sweep of cleaning broom has been the movement of the Republican ogarchy toward the dust heap.
 Governor Baldwin's reelection is vndication of honesty of purpose and his effectiveness in the executive
 A Senate that is Democratic and House that is al- most Democratic show the desire of the citizenship to give Governor Baldwin full equipment with which to carry out the Democratic program.
 The result would have been completely accomplished not for the peculiar system of choosing tatves in this state which makes them the choice of the towns and not of the ballot.
 But the tendency of history such history papers make the morning after election, exalt at the expense Of measures.
 It is not difficult to that the American people have determined to add to their representative inst tions the mechanisms pure Democracy
 It will be found upon scrutiny of party platforms, and of party speeches from the lips of party leaders that there has unanaity upon than upon 
 The approaching political equality of women is shown upon the screen of events most wildly Five states voted upon constitutional amendments giving the ballot women, four of the accepted the amend ents raising the number of states in which will soon ballot to ten.
 With equal certainty such measures direct primaries direct nomination of candidates president popular election of United States senators the nta tive referendum recall, judges, stitutg part of the great program which the people, have adopted.
 These received the votes of Democrats Pro Progressives and Socialists. l
 They received the votes of hundreds of thousands of Republicans for the program included the state platforms of the Republican party in many states all though excluded the national Republican plat form
 Woodrow Wilson enters to the headship of al which directly controlled by people than government of the United States before
 Before his term of office is concluded he will serve people who only rulers of their destiny but who will have destroyed the very system by which conventions dispute the doctrine of popular sov ereignty and defy the peoples will
 It is noble victory. It should followed by noble example and magnificent accomplishment.
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