The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1914-11-13

On he-third Of this month the electro-
rate gave the democratic parry q fatal
wound. No devot~e for vendetta ever
gloried more in sweet vengeance consul
mated than did tho~e who welded the
republican "stilletto." There are those
who bemoan the fact that the wound
given the Woodrow Wilson party can
not prove fatal until 1916. Such. how
ever, is the wrong view 70 take OF the
situation. What greater morsel OF Joy
could he vouchsafed M than 10 know
that our hated enemy will hneer in ex-
cruciating pain for two yesrs? For tis .
fact undisputsd, that the democrats have
already begun TO vail at the sure pros
pect Of losing their dear. blessed and
sweet Offices two years hence. In the
years now far of, but which are coming
swiftly toward us, the student OF the his
tory OF our country will class the admin
istrations OF Grover Cleveland and
Woodrow Wilson with such other calarn-
tiles a. the Johnstown flood and the San
Francisco earthquake.
The result OF tie election spells among
other things. the end OF the political ca
reer OF Theodore Roosevelt a. tie great
est single political power in the United
states. OF course, q certain amount OF
prestige and influence will still remain 70
Roosevelt ~ an ex-president and . man
Of learning, bat that influences will not
he great enough 10 bring defeat 70 the
republican party or victory 70 the demo-
cratic party. We say nothing OF the
progressive party because il has no fnture.
IL has finished its course and is now
holding sweet communion with other
dead parties on the other shore. We
think that the progressive party served .
useful purpose and we do not mean 20
speak Of il in . vein Of ridicule. The
progressive party wzs born for the year,
1912, and would have died q natural
death after the election in that year had
not the great but misguided Roosevelt
kept IL alive by force Of his -cintilsting
personality. Most Of the progres-ive- Of
1912 (your humble servant. among the
re-t) had no heart or taste for fondIing q
corpse in 1914 and went back 70 the re-
publican party. IL n worthy Of consider
alton, however. that very lew, II any, Of
tho~e who followed Roosevelt in 1912
have any words of censgre for Roosevelt
or feelings II regret for the course that
they pursued. The parting of the wsys
came rather in sorrow than anger. Ia
was too much for Roosevelt, Wilson or
any one el-e h AK the betrayed people
Of this country TO give a vote Of spprovs
either directly by voting the democratic
ticket, or indirectly by voting the prog
re<sive ticket % the democratic party
No loyalty could stand such . strain a.
that.
In 1916 the republican party will come
again into - ovn-the complete control
Of the government Of our country and IL
will he q republican party that shall have
rid it-elf Of the evils that csused the
grrat disaster 81 Chicago in 1912. The
halo of glory that attached it-elf n the
party of Lincoln will appear again in the
sky when the republican party shsiI a.
-~nble in nstionsl convention in 1915.
The r~publ'esn party vii again be great
in the nstion and beloved Of the people.
L is hardly Necessary 10 ssy anything
n the future of the democratic party.
Who can - throneh . miIl~toneP No
doubt the democratic party vii continue
b exist e. . chsssenins rod for tie re-
publican party when IL vsnders from
the cour-e ordained for u from itz birth.
We cannot hope that the world will ever
t~come - good that the force- of evil
sypiaed by the Democratic party shaIl
not BE- able nov and se.in ~ prevail
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