Show o WILSON OR The question now agitating the minds of the political observer is whether it shall be Wilson or for the Democratic nomination for President next The North American Review says that in fifteen months hence the two leading candidates for president will be placed in One will be labeled the other But the time has passed when a live issue can be raised between mere The sharp line of demarcation once drawn between the two great organizations has worn away in the roaring loom of The reality will find one regarded by the people as a conservative and the other as a liberal or as we may with the of President but one question in practical politics will confront the Democratic That will relate to the tendency of the great body of Is it towards liberalism or If the then clearly the if will name a man generally recognized as more progressive than if the they will designate one re as less The relative personal merits of proposed candidates will be weighed naturally and but the final determination or should reached through a balancing of their respective All will resolve to the making of the most effective the one way or the with the Republican It cannot be a difficult Taft occupies middle He is a standpatter in so far as he pronounces the present tariff law the best ever and he is an insurgent in his advocacy of that trifling sop to the whale called Although sincerely in favor of improving the he is by no means a zealous His bent is mildly and slowly progressive and yet sufficiently advanced to be regarded as liberal in con- with an old-time The Democratic when the time comes to make a will be at the parting of the Which road shall it The old familiar path through the traveled in 1904 and leading presumably to stability and non-interference with things or the new highroad to Shall it wear the garment of the old Democracy or do the fresh mantle of the Shall it face cautiously even perhaps a trifle or shall it raise its eyes fearlessly to the beacon light high up on the mountain The question will be- one of judgment no less than of right and all shades of opinion the reactionary views of Wall street to the aries of will merit But a careful diagnosis of the present temper of the people clearly indicates if an election were to be held a Democratic candidate regarded by the people as less progressive than President Taft would be and that a candidate generally recognized as being more more more if you than President would almost as surely 1 n |