Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1912 — Democratic Opportunity Here. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Opportunity Here.

It must be clear to most people that so-called Republican progressives who at the drop of a battered old hat surrendered all their principles and hurrahed for autocracy, as the inhabitants of Rome many centuries ago applauded Julius Caesar, are not of the stuff of which modern reformers are made. They never have controlled their party and they are never likely to do so. By their colossal folly, however, they have taken the most effecthe course to rid the country of a corrupt and oppressive political organization which is the greatest stumbling block in the way of true progress. We trust that Democrats from one end of the country to the other will not fail to note the fact that- the very stars in their courses are fighting for them and that circumstances have designated them unerringly for a great and glorious Work. | The hour for progress has struck and Democracy alone is prepared. If it would be an efficient instrument in’ the enforcement of the people’s will it must profit by the blunders and crimes and Weaknesses of the party that is now about to disintegrate.