Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-12-05
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PRESIDENT WILSON IS
STRONG With PEOPLE

n SpeclAl correspondent Oh tue
Boston advertiser tRep.) shows the
immense popularity Of President
Wilson the country over:
What the Republicans have
known and what the Progressives
have known, but what the Demo
Gratis have not known. and not eve
suspected or seen, is the wonderful
popularity in the land Of President
Wilson, the Democratic occupant
of the White House, the party's
titulsr leader. dejure and indeed
de facto. Ask a shrewd Republican
who has been out among the people
ascertaining their thought and
predictions and he will tell you
it is all for Wilson.
Many members of congress, es-
peeiallv Republicans have gone
home and returned; and they are
telling what they have found to be
the sentiment of the people. The
nenes of the people for the presi-
dent is what struck them most.
The Republicans, and some of
them r senators, say they could
make no Roadway against it for
the people would not listen, SO
great is their confidence in the
president. So inviolate was the
sentiment, they gave it up. Nor
was it of any S attacking the adj
ministration through the tariff or
the currency bill. The people
would not listen to any tariff talk;
they would run away from it. Their
ears were closed.
Nor would they listen to cur
rency talk except such as was in
favor of the administrations bill.
AS has been indicated before, the
people we're satisfied with the bill
as long as it was Wilson'S. What
the bankers wanted they did not
want at all.
In a large number of instances
the local banks are the wovles of
the locality. The sentiment re.
Rarding their wishes can thus be
understood. Nobody gains a bit in
popularity by attacking the adj
ministration on its banking and
currency bill. Fool-hardy say Re,
publicans r the Republicans who
try to make political capital on that
score.
A distinguished western senator
was asked recently by the Repub'
lican congressional campaign com
mittee to go out on the stump ir
she east. 81 would like to go but
give me an issue that is rot an,
cient history to talk upon" he re
piled. you cannot berate Wilson
for the people will laugh at you
You are talking absolutely against
the wind. They are a~bsolutel,
deaf to the tariff and they will rur
away IL you will talk currency"
His argument was unanswerabl,
and he refused to 20 on the stump
The sentiment found has aston
ished the Republican, as well as tn,
progressive members Of congress
It vas found adamant in the great
central west and very solid in tn,
farther west. The east has showr
its marked pro-Wilson favor. Al
things are going Republicans al
well as Progressives in private ar,
saying that nothing now can pre-,
vent the re-nop alton Of Wilson
for president aud his reelection.
The Republicans are saying it Il
not hard to account for the presi.
dents popularity. The country likes
the way in which he COMFORTS him.
self as president. There is q real
but disinterested boss at the White
House. He is felt 10 be boss for
the people. He knows his mind.
His policies, he says are not writ
ten in chalk but indelible ink. And
they are not written in O hurry.
He is however, as they say, ION
the job. all the time" Lack Of
travel hes helped the president
wonderfully. Familiarity breeds
contempt. The country has liked