The Prescott daily news., 1913-01-23
WILSON WILL WANT TO STRIKE SOME BIG BLOWS WHEN HE
 IS IN WHITE HOUSE.
so BELIEVE PARTY LEADERS
New Attorney General Will Do Much for Democracy If He Succeeds in Putting Sherman Law VioIators In Jail.
By GEORGE CLINTON.


 their return from pilgrimages to Trenton. and also because of the tone of the speeches of the president elect, that Mir Wilson when he gets into office wants to strike some blows. The idea of the Democrats Is that MT. Wilson will be as strenuous in his in sistence on proper legislation as he sees 1t as was Theodore Roosevelt, and that in fighting temperament the two men are not so far apart as seems to be the general belief.
 In his speech in Staunton MT. Will son said that he had his war paint on" It is not necessary, perhaps. to put on the trappings of war in order to attack the tariff schedules, but there are other matters which will come before congress which will so divide the sentiment of the members of the Democratic party, especially in the senate, that Mir Wilson will need all the weapons which his high office will give him to enable him to overcome The opposition, unless of course, in advance there Is a general ioi ihS ubN II Ol HIS III tUc BTtSeuCe of the presidents determination to carry on the war.
 Will Try to Put Some in Jail
 All through the last national cam paign, and the state campaigns into which national matters frequently en- tered, the complaint of the Demo cratic speakers was that no trust mag mates who had worked evil to the people and had produced conditions which bulwarked their wrong doing had been sent to prison. They talked about fines easily paid by the corpora tion heads and about dissolution which did nothing but increase the value of the stock of the concerns in volved Put some of these fellows to jail was the demand of the Demo cratic speakers. and soon the at 1 tempt will be made to put somebody in jail"
 It is not yet known who is to be MT. Wilson's attorney general. but whoever he is to be he will find work ahead. Upon the next attorney gen erai will depend largely the future of the Democratic party. If he shall sue ceed In sending to Leavenworth or to Atlanta, or to some other federal prison some of the men who have violated the federal laws and have gained millions thereby, the Demo crats say he will do more perhaps to bring the people to mind that the Democracy is the right party in the right place than any other cabinet officer can do, no matter how energet- ically he performs the duties of his office.
 The incoming attorney general will find pending several trust prosecu, tions of major nature. Naturally 1t Is to be supposed that he will take them up and push them under the | laws as they exist. The United States : Steel Corporation case hardly can be completed before Mir. Wilson takes of | nee, Then there are the International Harvester company's suit and the New Haven railroad case. It can be 1 taken for granted that other trust ! prosecution cases will be before the 1 public eye not long after Mr Wilson's ] attorney general takes office No one | pretends to believe that all of the combinations of big business which are open to attack on legal grounds have been attacked
 State Rights Once More.
 It is possible that Mir. Wilson will hold his attoroney general in check | in the matter of new suits until it is definitely decided just how congress ! IS to approach the trust question ] through the avenues of legislation. i The Democratic party is confronted with the state rights bogey in this matter as 1t is in pretty nearly every other matter except the tariff. Fed eral incorporation or federal license 1 of the big companies is not looked 1 upon kindly by the Democrats. who talk about the governments paternal. 1 ism. The fact that such incorporation or license would affect only compa. nles engaged In interstate commerce ! does not seem to weaken the opposi [ luton. although the state lights Dem ocrats seem occasionally to be put to 1t to find basis for their state line" objections.
 lt seems probable that the new administration will take up the trust prosecutions where the outgoing ad. ministration leaves them and will push them hard. paying special atten. tlon however, to the criminal prose cutions. On this subject Demo. cratic senator said today: What we need Is few convictions for criminal liability, and it looks to me as if we are In A fair way tn uat thox..