Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-02-14

Will Fight
FOR VICTORY
Have Started Getting Ready
for the Next National
Campaign
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-Coniident
tina the ticket which the American peo~
pie have given to the democratic party
is good for one term only, the republican
leaders arc already planning the next
campaign: The first battle will be tho
congressional elections two years hence.
Then will follow the presidential CONTEST
in which, Notwithstanding the outcome
last November, the republican party will
occupy a most advantageous position.
From a republican point of view threr
facts are apparent.
First. That the financial and econom.
ic policies Of the democratic party will
again prove injurious to the business In.
tercsts of the country.
Second, That the American people, who
have thrice defeated Bryan, win not elect
u radical to be president.
Third. That while the republicans
were divided upon national issues, the
election of republican governors and leg
islatures in states that gave their cleo.
toral votes to Wilson demonstrates that
kJC lOCdl IlldCllliICIS VI IhC pdItS q AiO
yeeM seriously disturbed.
What Is Likely to Happen
In these propositions the republican
leaders at the national capital find much
ground for encouragement. They know
that the democratic party. which has de-
clared that protection is unconstitutional.
hts turned Il deaf ear during the tariff
hearings to the appeals of American
manufacturers. The importers are to-
have their innings now They have
promised to reduce the cost of living by
flooding this country with cheap foreign
made articles and the democratic ma.
iOrity in congress is determined to try
the cxpcr .mcnt. The result will be eth
CT greatly reduced wages for American
wurkinsmcn Or absolute idlcness. When
this happens the democratic party will
be thrown out of power. It has ne in;
herent popular strength to ave it from
defeat. The vote which Wilson received
was 1900, 900 less thar the combined vote
for TAFT and Roosevelt. Outside Of the
solid South, not including Maryland and
Missouri, Wilson hat. a majority in only
two states, Arizona and Oklahoma. He
was not the choice of a majority of the
people. AS a matter Of fact, the demo-
Gratis are in a minority in the United
States today. When their tariff policy
proves failure in 1918 as it did in 1898
they ann hope to carry the next pres.
idcntial election.
NJ Protection and Safe Government
This being the case, the republican
party will come into its own again as
the exponent of protection and a safe
government under the constitution.
Roosevelt will undoubtedly persist in his
candidacy, for II ambition is without
limit, but lie cannot be elected. There
are enough voters against a third term
president to form a substantial obstacle
In Ills path. beside which his radical and
unsafe theories and practices excite the
largest degree of d%istrust. Thousands
of republicans voted for Wilson last No
vember in order to make Roosevelt's de-
feat all the more certain. With the
failure Of the democrats to continue bus
mess prosperity and with the conserva-
tive clemeEt of the country-an element
which has hitherto been victorious when
it has been called upon to save the ma
t~ton-unitei against Roosevelt, the re-.
publican leaders see an opportunity which