Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1912 — PRESIDENT-ELECT WILL VISIT BURMUDAS [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENT-ELECT WILL VISIT BURMUDAS

Friend Furnishes Private Yacht For Governor and Wife, Who W'lll Sail Nov. 16th. President-Elejdt and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson will visit the Bermuda Islands, leaving New Jersey on the morning of Nov. 16th in a private yacht furnished by a friend. The trip will be taken for a little rest. Governor Wilson is taking considerable pride in the fact that New Jersey will have a democratic legislature, both branches being democratic,, This will enable him to carry out his program of policies without serious hindrance. It will also mean that New Jersey will send two democratic senators to the U. S. senate. Just what his program for his state legislature will be is not known, but it is quite certain that the corporation laws of the state will be revised.. That Mr. Wilson and. his party will meet up with many difficult questions of national policy soon after his inauguration is certain. Thursday he received a cable from Sergio Osmena, speaker of the Philippine assembly saying that the assembly had adopted a resolution congratulating him upon his election and asking him to redeem the pledge of Philippine independence. A telegram from Porto Rico also urges recognition of that country’s freedom from American control. The new president will be expected to urge the passage of a tariff for revenue only law. Not only is the platform upon which he was elected and his own arguments during the campaign favorable to such a law, but the big end of his party is insistent upon a big tariff reduction. If this can be accomplished without serious interference with prosperity we sincerely hope it will, but we really expect to see the times seriously affected. • The democratic party will inherit the Sherman anti-trust law and along with it severel thousand husky trusts to operate on. For some years they have been telling'us how to bust the trusts and they are pledged to carry out this program. It will require some brave-hearted and dexterous surgeons to amputate the trusts without crippling business. The party will be mighty busy and Professor Governor President Wilson will have a big job on his hands and a number of inexperienced helpers, it is probable that a cabinet position any one he wants, will be offered to William Jennings Bryan. It would be interesting to see him secretary of state, but vastly more so to have him the attorney-general and in charge of the trust prosecutions. The velvet "hunters /Will be hot on the trail of jobs, too, and it wijl be a busy time for him after he is inaugurated. His trip to the Bermudas will give him a little quiet and rest, where he can think a little about the many important duties that will so soon confront him.