The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-11-06

Debs, the socialist candidate is warn
ing that their propaganda in favor of
fundamental changes in our constitu-
tiOnal representative government has
reached formidable proportions. =
We must face the danger with a clear
knowledge of what it is.
-z-.---- Must Make Good Now. ...---.--,
While the American people have re-
pudiated President Taft's admins stra-
ton and refused Col Roosevelt third
term, thus placing Democracy in an
apparently impregnable position Dem
ocratic national leaders throughout
the country united today in the decla-
ration that the party in power must
fulfill every promise in it's platform to
hold the confidence of the nation
They promised that this should be
done.
president Taft failed to cary Ohio
his own state Ohio went into the
Democratic column as did New York
The empire state elected Representa-
tive Suizer, a Democrat, governor, by
an overwhelming plurality over the
Republican and Progressive candi-
dates.
New York's legislature also is Dem
ocratic in both it's branches.
Gov. Wilson carried New Jersey,
his own state, by a Big vote.
A calm analysis of the vote today
after period of political frenzy,
which marked the revolutionary re-
turns, showed that the American peo-
pie united in the following specific de-
mands:
What People Demand.
A revision of the tariff downward; +;
legislation to reduce the cost of living;
a satisfactory solution of the trust
problem and a progressive national
policy in legislation.
Political students declare that the
Wilson victory has set back the cause
of woman suffrage as this was an is
sue upon which the Democratic party
did not take decided stand. Upon the
other hand the Progressive party car
ried in it's platform an avowed suff-
rage plank
Two Great Factors.
Two of the biggest factors entering
into the election of Gov. Wilson was
! the "solid south" and the silent vote. "
Neither President Taft nor Col Roose-
| welt could break the solid South and
the silent vote" to which frantic ap-
peals were made for months before
the election, voted overwhelmingly for
/ Wilson.
Gov. Wilson's strength in the East
! and in the West and in the Northwest
where Progressive sentiment is very
strong proved a surprise. When re-
turns were compiled showing that the
Democratic ticket had swept Maine
and Massachusetts,, Republicans and
Progressives began to have fears that
all New England would occupy a place
in the Democratic column. Wisconsin,
the home state of Senator La Toilette,
| one Of the founders of the Progressive
movement in the United States, was
counted among the Wilson states.
Slowness of the arrival of returns
from the western part of Pennsylvania
held that state long in doubt Col.
Roosevelt had concentrated his heav.
| lest guns there and it is the home of
two of his ablest lieutenants, William
Finn and Clifford Pinchot.
Socialists Calming.
Socialists showed up strong Ia the
manufacturing districts of Pe-snsyi.
vania, casting a surprising vot4 his
same fact proved the case eli Sere
the national Socialist vote increasing
nearly 100 per cent
Progressive leaders laid definite
claim to Illinois where they hal made