The Nome daily nugget., 1915-08-03

under the Republican regime. they had seen the country degenerate from a state of prosperity, apparently in duced by the complete change of poll cies coincident with the change of parties, to a condition of the most la
 mentable industrial depression for na reason that could be consistently eX plained by even the staunchest ad- herents of that party. Coupled with the industrial and financial depression which threatened to deprive them of the very means of existence was a most
 alarming advance in the price of. the
 vital commodities Which, also could |
 not be logically explained as other |
 than a natural effect of the very con |
 ditions which had induced the earlier lstate or condition of prosperity To the average American this was an
 anomaly that could not be understood save in the sense that it indicated isomething radically wrong with those ipolicies and the very fact that the lguiding spirits of the party were lparently unable to control the condi ltions bred Of their policies and the } country must thereby be allowed to| drift, slowly but steadily, into the in ! ! idustrial and financial doldrums was
 1.-the strongest argument that a charge
 of some nature was essential. And it
 Twas unuuestionably due to this view that the newly born Progressive party received vote of such proportions. y Every condition seemed to indicate the necessity for a departure from the re-
 gular order of things and the ovoi-
 whelming defeat of the Republicans
 seems in every way a logical result of
 that view
 While the return of the Democrats to power seems negation of the view
 that the people of the land were de-
 handing change from the policies 2 (which had been found lacking in the Is matter of securing stable econor ic
 the pre- election promises of the Dem- = locrats indicated that such chang"
 was contemplated and would. if tEe
 plans as outlined by the party leaders = stitute radical departure from all
 lprevious policies of government advo-
 cated by that party. In fact if the
 policies laid down in the Baltimore | yvsa @e
 they would, while conforming to the
 spirit of the old Democracy. have been in effect an almost complete departure
 from the policies which had brought the party under the ban of public dis approval during the preceding periods of their administration. This was ap- parently all the public desired-a change, or what seemed a definite pro- mise of change. With the Democrats ' and Progressives both promising what appeared to be relief from the evils II resulting from the Republican methods of government, the older party would . naturally receive the preponderence of Il public favor. for it is In the very nature u of mankind to cling to that which is - known; and this reluctence to depart t from the known and to embark upon y uncharted courses probably contribut- u ed more than any other factor to the : defeat of the Progressives Had the = Progressives been alone in offering T something new to the voters of the II nation, it is not doubted that Roose- Il welt would now be directing the pol- j. cies of the government along the lines e laid down in the Progressive conven- = tion. With the results of three years of application of the revamped Dem = ocratic policies before Us, it is not to T be doubted that the Progressives will become a factor to be not lightly reckoned with in the coming campaign. R. R. EMPLOYEES RECEIVE