Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-11-13
Ia RoEE8YY8 ON
WILSON'S ELECTION
wisconsin Senator Says Country Turn
Cd to Wilson in Its Need. Says
Next q. o. p. Convention WIN
10 ProGrousiVo.

Cd to Wilson in Its Need. says
Next q. Q. p. Convention WIN
10 Progressive.
At this writing, with the returns still
incomplete. the election of Woodrow
Wilson Is assured.
Mr.. Wilson Is offere. an opportunity
for high and enduring service. The
country has turned to him in it's need.
Nominated at the Democratic Conven-
ton in baltimore, through the leader
ship Of Colonel Bryan, at the end of
a desperate and protracted fight with
Tammany Hall and the old line bosses,
he carried the country with an unpre-
cedented majority. Oppressed and
heartsick, a nation OF ninety million
people. demanding plain. simple justice,
striving for educational, political and
| industrial democracy, turned to Wood
row Wilson as the only present hope.
AS President of the United States, Mr..
Wilson will have an opportunity that
| comes to an individual but rarely in the
passing of the generations. May he
| meet it with courage, with vision, with
| wisdom.
The meaning of Mr.. Wilson's election
is plain. The people have been mere
pawns in the political game. They had
Roosevelt as President. They had Taft
as President. And during the seven
years administration OF the one and the
four years administration of the other.
they had seen Special Privilege fasten-
ing it's grip upon the country, each year
with firmer hold. They had seen the
trusts grow and multiply, and the gi-
gantic mergers and combinations weld
! ing Business into Plutocracy, under
Roosevelt They had seen the special
interests wax arrogant and the tariff
wall raised by the hands of it's PAM
pered beneficiaries, under Taft. They
demanded a change. And they forged
| their demand into call for Wilson, who
as Governor of New Jersey for two
years, had made progressive record.
What of the next four years? First
of all, there must be legislative achieve
ment of high order, if the will Of the
people as voiced in this election is to
prevail The Democratic party has been
in control of the House of Representa-
tives during the past two sessions. The
Underwood machine, built on secret call
Gus lines, is reactionary. The present
Gus system, must be supplanted if we
are to have real progress. Progress
sives, irrespective of party, will support
and sustain Mr.. Wilson If he aids ag-
excessively in freeing the House major
ity from it's shackles. They must, in
conscience, resent his course, should he
trim or compromise with the undemo-
lcratic Democrats in Congress merely
for party harmony" And with all
matters Of administration and legisla-
ton.
| Meanwhile it is given to the Progress
lsive Republicans everywhere to hold the
high ground Of disinreresled, patriotic
guardianship of the principles which
are in state and nation, gradually re-
Istoring government to the people. Theirs
is an exceptional call to duty. 1t was
the Progressive Republicans in Congress
during the last few formative years who
forced the issues and blazed the trails.
Thanked en- the one side by a reaction
airy Democratic House machine and on
the other by Senate, still in the clutch
es of System Republicanism, they held
/ aloft steadfastly the Banner Of Pro-
gress. During the four years to come
vance progressive principles, to fight
privilege In every form. whether pro-
posed NY special interest Democrats or
special interest Republicans. Co-opera-
) ting with Wilson, when his face is turn
ed forward, breaking with him, should
he turn back, they will keep the faith
They will continue the fight.
> The country is progressive. The rank
, and file of the Republican party are
progressive. Freed from the leader
ship Of both Roosevelt and Taft, under
whose administrations trusts and COM
binatioas have grown to be the great
est danger which ever menaced democ.
racy, progressive leadership in the Re-
publican party will now assert itself
. and the next National Republican Con-
vention will be overwhelmingly pro-
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zine.