Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1913-03-13
FORCES GREATER
THAN ANY PARTY.

IAN AMY Panty.
All the circumstances surrounding
the manner in which tho democratic
PARTY has come into power makes the
forces in command greater than any
party, for. as the New York World
says, they have been given authority
for a season in the expectation that
they viii honestly interpret and fear
lessly enforce the popular will.
Failure. to do this caused the down
fall and al but destruction of the
republican party, and now the demo-
Gratis have come into power facing,
as our New York contemporary says,
many important, financial, industrial
and social problems" and there IS
reason to believe that partisan solu-
tions of them, even il possible, would
be followed by evils worse than those
to which We now address ourselves"
The attitude OF President Wilson
and the rest of the leaders in their
preparation for the task set before
them has impressed the public that
the forces now taking charge OF az.
fairs feel and appreciate the respon-
sibilities. and together say, as Presi-
dent Wilson said in his inaugural ad-
dress, that
This is not a DAY Of triumph
it is a day of dedication. Here
muster not the forces OF party,
but the forces OF humanity"
a party that does not honestly in
terpret and fearlessly enforce the pop
ular will is not and cannot be great.
1t cannot long remain in power, espec.
tally since the American people have.
awakened to the necessity OF taking
o4er to themselves more direct con.
troll of public affairs and of compelling
their servants in the government to do
their will.
A party is worse than nothing when
it disregards the viii of the masses
and attempts to establish partisan or
fractional rule for its own profit and
perpetuetion CT power, and President
Wilson's conception of the duty OF 4
party has found generous support ~
the numerous states where corrupt
party ring rule has been repudisted
and overthrown BY those progressive
members Of that party who are trying
to set Up a government OF, by and for
some greedy and corrupt interest.
This confession OF faith on the par:
Of President Wilson is no new thing
with him-it is merely a reinsurance
that he viii be to the people Of the
United States what he has been to
the people Of New Jersey. The forces
Of humanity he led in New Jersey
were greater than any party. The
forces Of humanity, justice and right
in any state. or in the nation, are
greater than any party.
In his solemn pledge 20 the Ameri-
can people President Wilson did not
summon the riagsters and machine
manipulators Of the democratic party
to his side he did not ask partisans
and factionists 70 help him hold the
party together for continued power
and the accumulation Of pelf, but he
rose far above sIch a mean station as
that, ana said
J summon all honest men. all
patriotic. ali forward-Iooking men.
70 ny side. God helping zee. wiz
not fail them Il they wilI but coun-
sci and sustain ne"
There are millions Of people in the
United States. not only in the demo
cratic party. but IL all parties. who
VIII APPLAUD this wholesome sentiment,
for the time has come when narrow
partisan policies must be differentiated
to the vital principles involved in the
important questions now calling for
solution aud settlement.