The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-08
The Political Revolution Comment on Election Result.


 Comment on Election Result. Believes it Will Be "A New Birth of
 Freedom.
 CNew York Worldly
 sut this victory Is no tawdrv parti- ian triumph. It is no vote of conf sence in the Democratic party as a party- It is a mandate from the eeople, and woe be unto the leaders af this Democracy if they falter in bbedience to that mandate.
 The country is seething with politi- sal discontent, in spite of it's unpar- hieled material wealth and prosper Ay- This ddscontent is confined to no particular class or section. Rich and poor alike, children of fortune and ehndren of poverty, have begun to lose Eaith in the efficacy of their govern uert to establish justice and promote he general welfare. They are not nnited as to the remedy; but this they know that their institutions have been seized by privileged interests and turned against them; that subtle, mys- proved time after time that their DOW IT over public affairs was greater than md they demand that theia. govern ment be enancipated from this part nership.
 This is the great work that con- fronts Woodrow Wilson and the Dem Dcratic paruy-to restore popular con- Hdence in the institutions Of the re- public and re-eSta-bltsh a government sf the people by che people and for khe people.
 Asks Wilson to Choke Bryanisn Into
 Eternal Silence
 (New York ssun.)
 The best wish that the Sun can ex- press for the presidential com paratively untried man facing an un- paralleled opportunity, Is that he may BeiEe upon the windpdpe of Bryanism mt the very start. and with all the strength that the sinews of long, lean fingers possess throttle that peTsis- That matter settled, there is noth- Ing but good promise In the over whelming vote of confidence and trust which the American people gave yes- terday to Gov. Wilson. As state af- ter state came up to him last night returns, he must have felt that no president in all the long line ever en- tered offlce under fairer auspices or with larger opportunity
 Good luck to him and entire ade- u18cy as the president of all the peo- pie. with a commission such as that and fair and impartial treatment from everybody. He may be sure Of 1t from the Sun Standing Over che Crave of the Re-
 publican Party.
 (Afunsey's New York Press.) Am impressive body of sovsreAgnties, reTusing to budge when the land slid generally away from Taft to Wilson, rallies around the standard 1heodore Roosevelt has raised over the grave of the Republican party.a The Progressives in the United rank of the second political party to reward them for their sxnf1aEging de- wotton- Into the House of Representa- Eressives to challenge the swollen ma tor1ty of the same Democratic Con- Eress that voted q policy of naval seuttle and plans Q program of in- Between whaH in may threaten the 1 country through executive and legfs- I lat1ye weakness and folly at Washing ton there stands now the Progressive | party. The cause has not trfumphed, | but its banners have been carried far | forward and they are pianted to stay name. but an American governmental | institution that will long endure. The Man and the Party w1n Be on l
 Trial.
 (Jew York Amerfcan.s The party and the president which | nesume the reins of government in | M2rrh must rise or fall by their prac- | tical performance Or their failure to | William Howard Taft four years ago | went Into power on a tidal wave of l ever carried into ofi1ce more uni- | versal confidence and direction. He l had nearly million an6 halt ma 30rttT of popular votes behind him. He 1 had 321 votes in the electoral college | to Rryans 1892 He was pr0y,ped and | sustained by the positive good win of AS yet to-day william IT. Taft, an | honest man and a lover Of his coun- | try. by the simple failure of himself 1 bis party pledges. goes out of office | 6fscredited and condemned with his | nz4io11ty, popular and electoral It is in itself a rebuRe great enough | Co break his heart As for the great Progressive party, | which Theodore Roosevelt has ably led to such astonishing and significant re- suits in yesterdays election, its future will depend as much upon Woodrow4 Wilson upon Theodore Roosevelt If President Wilson proves to be as progressive as majority of his coun- trymen-lf the Democratic party is both courageous, and constructive, not rechlessly radical. neither Bryanized nor foSsi1ized-the party will gain a ptilI greater triumph four years from new progressive party.
 Mir. Roosevelt Held Responsible.
 From the New York Trfbune.)
 Gov. Wilson wins the presidency Through the division of his natural op- ponents. He did not inspire entlau- siasm or show himself stronger can- lidate than MT. Bryan. He owes his Victory not to superior public conf- Eence in himself or the Dem nocracy, but to MT RooseFelt's desire to wreck A1e Republican party the instant he could not rule it. Inspired by over weenfng ambition and personal anil mostly, MT. Roosevelt turned against Lhe party which had given him the
 
 Obtained his marvellous hold on the popular imagination It's leaders and policies were the 1eaders and policies which he had long commended, and he ptood ready to take a nomination from