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ters during the last campaign. that In
every doubtful State and district in
the country. that the Taft Repuhli-
cans should vote for Wilson.
Roo~eyeit's Remarkable Vote.
In view OF these facts. the vote re-
eeIyed b. Colonel Roosevelt in the
last election. - compared TO the vote
received by Wilson and Taft. Is truly
remarkable. If Governor Wilson had
received the normal Democratic vote
and had received none OF the Taft
Republican votes. he would. OF course.
received . greater vote than that
cast for Bryan. In any one of his
three campaign as a Democratic nom
inee for President. The fact, how
ever. il that Wilson, though elected
President on account Of the Republi-
can split, yet received a smaller vote
than Bryan received in any one OF his
three campaigns, and indeed a small
er vote than any candidate for Pres
ident has received In the last twenty
years, and this Is true in spite OF the
fact that he got. as President Taft
says, over a million Taft Republican
votes
Wilson's Change of Front
Governor Wilson has no doubt pom
dered seriously over these significant
facts. At any rate. Governor Will
sons radical change of position since
the election has necessarily attracted
the attention OF every thinking man
and woman in the country. Every
speech and utterance from the Cover
nor during the last two months and
more, has grown more and more pro-
gressiye, not TO say radical. He is
now declaring that every trust and
monopoly in the country should be
robbed of its power and put under
the control of the Government, and
that the individual and independent
enterprises should not be left to the
mercy of competition with these all
powerful combinations These after
SASNNAeh 0CSloi dLiODo oH tic pdI Vi
Governor Wilson have frightened the
heads of the great trusts, including
the money trust and has caused
decentralization of prices on the Wall
Street Exchange.
Wilson's Play to the Galleries.
There is a growing feeling in Wall
Street, that Governor Wilson, after
studying the election returns, has de-
cfded to change front and play to the
Galler1es. 1t is not uncommon to
hear the expression from those who
have been concerned and exercised at
his latest expression, saying that he
is trying to out Roosevelt and be-
come the real Progressive leader of
the country.
Of course, the assertion is fire.
quently made in this connection. that
he intends to repudiate the plank put
in the Baltimore platform by Mr..
Bryan in favor of a one-term Presi-
dent, and that he intends to be
candidate for a second term.
Democratic Leaders Puzzled and
Worried.
All of this has, of course, kept the
Democratic political leaders here puz-
zled and worried, and indeed some of
them have been thrown into a state of
political panic. The Democratic Con-
gresham who are here as special rep
resentatives of the special interests
are of course excited, for fear that
President Wilson will become a real
Progressive. Also those who want to
go in his Cabinet or those who have
been grooming certain friends to go
into his Cabinet, are also excited.
Their nightmare is, that the last mo-
ment he may announce a Cabinet of
sincere and intelligent Progressives
from top to bottom. OF course, they
take some comfort from the fact that
after his nomination at Baltimore he
was induced not to make any fight
against the monopoly bosses of the
Democratic party If any State except
his own State of New Jerey. In that
State he had been forced to fight the
State boss-ex-Senator Jim Smith
and his machine-in order to become
Governor. During the campaign,
however, he agreed to recognize, or
at least not disturb, the plans of
similar bosses Gncluding the Suther-
land machine in Illinois, and the Sim
mons machine in North Carolina) in
any State. The result of this agree
ment is that Governor Wilson, even If
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