Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1912 — REPUBLICAN HOPE RESTS IN WILSON. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN HOPE RESTS IN WILSON.

Gov. Gurko Declares For Democrat and Gives His Reasons.

By JOHN BURKE,

Governor of North Dakota. The election of Governor Wilson is the only thing that can save the Republican party. Four years of President Taft has split it in two We have no reason to believe that he will be any different or that his second administration. if he is re-elected, will be any more satisfactory to the people than his first. His re-election will mean the division of the Republican party into many warring factions, which can only result iu final dissolution of all. * The end will come quicker and just as certain if Roosevelt is elected, for he is no longer a Republican, but is the leader of a new party, at war with the Republican party, as it is with the Democratic party. On the other baud. If Wilson is elected the Roosevelt party will perish; the Republicans will reorganize their party, purge it of the baneful influence of corporate power and greed and make it again the grand old party it was in the days of Lincoln.