Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-01-22 | Page 14 | Witness the Democratic Anguish

q Witness the Democratic Anguish rt F THE HE Pr President elects ident statement can mean nothing else but an in intention len len- 1 tion lion to replica replace Republicans with Democrats only when tho the former t I do not deserve consideration because of records for inefficiency If Dr t Wilson filson should d follow that policy to its logical conclusion tho the misery in ini n nI t i Egypt when the angel of the Lord Lorel destroyed the first-born first in in every I I E Egyptian tian homo home wol would d be as the tho joys of oC tho the Christmas season compared t to tho the resultant anguish in tho the Democracy i I Yet the tho President may bo be playing upon words with an attitude i rl like liko that of the cynical politician who said It When a man of my own I I party and amI a 3 member of the opposition apply to mo me for a job I always t appoint the best beat man of course with the tho understanding that the applicant applicant i I 1 cant of iny own party parly is essentially and naturally the best man mau Dr t. t 1 Wilson Vilson may menu mean that ho will cons consider th the claims of all efficient Re Re- Republicans Rel l 1 publicans for continuance in once office but that after this mature consid- consid lI l- l Z I j he will appoint a n. Democrat I 1 Wo Yo confess with the great mass of Americans that we cannot I understand Di Vilson ilson It is perhaps disrespectful to suspect that ho he hoI hoJ J I does not mean wi it he says that ho essays to deceive by statements capable of two constructions yet tho the people will believe ho he intends to I follow the tho policy announced above only after they have seen it in ini i I actual operation 1 J J We Ya are aro able to understand however that thero there is going going- to be bo much l t entertainment for the tIle country after March 4 d. In public lifo lie o only ly a few I years anti and by training and environment anything else than a politician the President-elect President should be as full of surprises as is his h s party of lust I for office once Those who arc not of his political faith and have hn nothing I to lose by whatever patronage principle ho decides to follow folIo should I 1 t prepare themselves to abandon all other forms of amusement in readi- readi l t ness floss for that which ho he is certain to furnish 1