Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — BAY STATE ROUSED [ARTICLE]

BAY STATE ROUSED

GOOD REASONS TO EXPECT A WILSON VICTORY THIS YEAR IN MASSACHUSETTS.

REPUBLICANS IN THE DUMPS Their Party Is Split Wide Open By Third Term Movement and Democrats Are Keenly Alive to Their Opportunity to Win.

In his trip through New England Governor Wilson was everywhere received with vast throngs and every evidence of good will. The impression he made justifies the hope that November will show that he has broken the Republican solidity of the northeastern corner of the country. There is, however, more substantial reason than crowds and clamor for expecting the addition of some of the New England states to the Democratic column. Governor Foss of Massachusetts, lias been elected twice in succession and is well enough satisfied with the prospects to make the race a third time. The primaries held in that state showed keen interest among Democrats and discouragement and decline among the Republicans. At the primaries for governor 99,422 Democrats and 97,526 Republicans voted. Here is a state has has beep supposed to be rock-ribbed in its Republicanism where more Democrats than Republicans took part in the primaries. The significance of this fact is greatly increased by comparisons with last spring and last year. The presidential preference vote in April was taken befofe Governor Wilson had been selected, and before the break In the Republican ranks had occurred. It seemed to be hardly worth while for Democrats to take the trouble to express their preference. Only 28,000 did sb, while 171,000 Republicans ex pressed their preferences for the president or Roosevelt. But Wilson’s nomination has aroused the hope of every Democrat in the country, while the third party movement has paralyzed the Republicans. At the state primary the Demochats cast nearly four times as many votes as at the presidential preference primary, and the Republicans cast less than threefifths. r

Not less interesting is the comparison between last week’s state primary and the primary of last year. The total vote this year is about 16,000 greater than the primary vote a year ago. This increase is made up of a Republican loss of 15,017 and a Democratic gain of 31,378. Applying those percentages of gain and loss to the presidential vote of 1908, the Democrats would nearly carry Massachusets over the united Republican party, and the party is split from top to bottom by the third term movement.

Colonel’s Trust Program. Col. Roosevelt denies that his trust program was formulated by men Interested in trusts, but the country has a distinct remembrance of the time when George W. Perkins announced his retirement from the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co, and outlined a plan for the regulation of trusts in all essentials like the Roosevelt plan. It was while the colonel’s administration was framing up the notorious Standard Oil “dissolution.”