Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1910 — THE ELECTIONS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE ELECTIONS.

The great victory for honest and economic government achieved by the democrats in Tuesday’s elections was tihe severest rebuke to republican extravagance, fraud and pretense ever experienced by the latter party;” The people refused to be led to the slaughter again and its “bogy man” cry of “remember 1893” could no longer scare them into supporting the party that had so grossly betrayed them into tihe hands of the special interests. The victory is nation-wide, and the democratic party, the .party of the .people, which has so often been “killed and buried” by the enemy, is stronger today than at any time within our memory. It has refused to be killed off and, while its ranks have been deserted by many of those who seek .to prey upon the people—those who are all the time seeking for special favors—others in greater numbers have been turning to it as the only relief from conditions that had become too burdensome to bear. - And the party is indeed fortunate in the choice of the men now at the head of the democrats of the nation. It had put its best men forward and they have won a support that was thought impossible by their opponents. With Thomas R. Marshall in Indiana. Judson Harmon in Ohio, Woodrow Wilson in New Jersey, Eugene X. Foss in Massachusetts. Judge Simeon E. Baldwin hi Connecticut and John A. Dix in Xew York, the democrats have leaders in whom the people have the fullest confidence and who will lead the party on to more victories in the future. Either Marshall. Harmon or Wilson will very likely head the ticket in the campaign two years hence—probably Hannon—and the prospect for success in the next presidential campaign was never any brighter. T-he party of the people is again coming into its own.