Show END OP OF ana POLICIES to ali the e popular J judgment mr wilsons Wil sona administration tion has been a failure and the popular judgment is generally final fina al in such matters saya says the new york tribune it is easy to see wherein the president failed his ills radical mistake from the political point of view was in not realizing that he was the choice of a at minority of the nation he went into office only because the elements which had long constituted the majority split on a ques tion of party administration he lie had a fortuitous majority ity in congress and proceeded to make use of it as if he had obtained a i t i eal grant of power from the people he lie kept congress in lit session r for olgh eighteen teen months without a break and imposed on the country a vast mass of leg legislation for which it felt he had never rever received a proper popular mandate i mr wilsons Wil sona attitude of absolute sufficiency self grated r en ni the people he ile may have been justified in treating his fon followers in con congress gres with patronizing indifference but his air of academic detachment and professorial benevolence irritated the majority elements which had let him slip into office on sufferance instead of holding them apart as a good politician would have done he drove them more and more together by his excessive and destructive legislative activities to him must be awarded the chief ILI credit for fusing together again the republican and pro progressive gressie parties the leaders of these parties did not welcome fusion and did little to bring it about many of them actu illy fought against it IL but mr wilsons attempts to dislocate the machinery of bust busi iless upsetting credit harr assing trade and production and promoting unemployment forced the opposition elements to recombine in order to teach him hint a lesson he ile was not a victim of circumstances beyond his control but the more or less conscious architect of hia his own misfortunes the country rebelled at sit that peculiar aloofness in mr wilsons character which nude him willing to experiment with the tile whole structure of life regardless of the lo 10 r ss rs s and suffering which might come to hundreds of thousands of individuals those disarrangements gave him little personal concern he dhove credit into its hiding places crippled industry and trade and threw men out of wor work k with no mote more feeling han than he would have shown in working out a problem in algebra he ile allowed congress congre s to elaborate plans for recasting methods of business even after the depression caused by tariff legislation had become acute he ile permitted the railroads to be starved although a confessing conf casing that if they were ere not prosper prosperous juA few other industries dus tries could be expected 0 to prosper last summer he began to rellice the danged of nf his course but it was too late the int inter e r state commerce commission handed down its farcical rate decision on august let on the same day the european war broke out the president could not undo the harm that had been done or save safe the country from the effects of the darkening period of hard times which his policies had broughal on to cause hard times or to aggravate them after the y arrive is R capital offence in american politics mr wilson should have profited from mr Cle elands experiences in tho the 1 tatters presidential term he chose to ignore them and is now beginning to pay the tile penalty for a too blind confidence in himself the country countr v having repudiated him his own party is likely to weary of him as it did of mr Cle Clevela velara pJ after 1894 the latter did not become a candidate for in 1890 maybe speaker champ dark clark was right when hf intimated at a dinner in baltimore last whynter that it was in the tha stars that he would be the next democratic candidate for president r buy uy a bale of cotton or a bale of utah made goods either Is available which do you prefer thousand acres of the cho choicest agri TT TI are still remain several blural land in the state adjacent to price it is cheap now each day brings the news that the battle in europe progresses without cessation which causes an exchange to remark that iney they seem to be out of cessation in europe at this time the democrat still retain a small plurality in the lo 10 lower branch of congress but it is so insignificant that the house will cease to be the pliant instrument for rubber stamp legislation prepared at the white house when the official vote was announced last tuesday which elec ted tom kelter to office commissioner sharp said what tha is the matter with that a adding machine it gasn wasn t the machine commissioner it was the voice of the carben people theres little change along the front mV this headline doth appear and we might add this li cadline stunt theres little change chan right here the german ambassador feels the united states should not object in case germany decides to invade canada in that case we trust the kaiser will not mistake butth for belgium and march through this state on his way to the dominion herald republic can in spite of the terrific progressive landslide in carbon county sheriff thomas F kelter reiter according to the official canvass has been reelected re elected by a majority of two votes mr kelter is one of the most efficient officers in the west and the shows that progressives as well as republicans and democrats cesire him retained in office it ia Is a high compliment to him we recall in an interview about nine months ago speaker champ dark clark said that if the wilson administration was as a success no other candidate candida tp for the nomination of president on the democratic ticket would stand the ghost of a show and that if it was not a success there would be no use for anyone else to accept it As the months roll along everyone believes the honorable speaker was correct Is there a democratic party in the state of utah again is there a progressive party in the state the state fusion of the democrats and progressives is bringing up complications that make inake these questions of solution there is a supreme court decision the advocate is informed that holds that where one party fuses with another that party loses its identity one question that cornea comes up at this time is which party fused with which party and does one party loae its identity or do both parties cense from the very nature of the pre convention proceedings brad reeta journal of november ath notes that financial affairs are in much better shape there is it states continued im pro provement ia in sentiment additional ease in money market matters and anere 11 interest in stocks and bonds at hi higher gher prices heavy grain exports sustained demand for war materials at remunerative prices price s high prices for cereals and live stock somewhat better excellent winter wheat conditions and undeniable betterment te berment in the southern cotton situation due to a rise in exports furnish a budget of favorable nev nea s this w cek eek on the other hand there is considerable IA idleness ll eness which reduces the purchasing power in many sections and warm we weather ather adversely affects retail trade while like likewise ise I 1 restricting lestric estrict ting ing reorders in the movies the famous novelist irving cobb tells a story to the mutual Alu girl it is about a bad man in the south who orders an expensive meal at a restaurant operated by a colored man and then informs the proprietor that he got a similar one the day before at a rival eating house that they charged him a quarter for it but instead of killing the proprietor outright he simply cut his hig ears of off f NN ith his bowie bowle knife and now he said how much do I 1 owe oe you for this meal I 1 the proprietor replied about a dime will do I 1 re reckon C kon the situation is similar to the mexican em broglio after the new president was appointed the other day villa had him promptly imprisoned and no now hp he will either capture carranza or make him abjure the realm when villi vilh asks the next time chos going to be president of this republic there will be few to have the hardihood to ask for the job the advocate understands that ex mayor W F olson is out with g ith a petition which asks the department that he e be appointed postmaster at price As far as anyone anone including H C smith the present postmaster knows there is no vacancy a cancy in the position were there a vacancy mr olson as well as any other citizen aou would I 1 d have the inalienable right to attempt to secure the place if mr olson I 1 h getting signatures under the representation that mr smith has been reli relieved eed of his position and then intends to go after mr smiths job under the plea that the people desire a change then his action is reprehensible if as many contend the ex mayor really has a mania for some official pos position I 1 t I 1 0 it the advocate will give the information free of chat chaise e that th the po t mastera hip at colton ha gone a beggio beg gih lit 0 and that the department is very ery desirous of etting somebody anybody to fill that office statistics submit submitted ted at the state wool growers association convention this we week e k sho show w that in this state there are only about one third the number of sheep that grazed in utah five years ago the mem members berr of the association believe that good organization will put utah back in its forn former ter place as a sheep and wool producing territory government graying regulations and depredations by predatory animals especially the coyotes are mostly le for the neilson nellson also attacked the appointment by the government of out Isei lain aisi alsi attacked the appointment by the goNeril government ment of outside men who knew nothing of local condit condition ioni and apparently cared less he lie urged that the organization should attempt to se be ure the of inspectors who in were ere familiar with acted condit editions ons wen who had grown in the up sheep industry and ind were ere intimate with the conditions that face the gro growers Aers several utah speakers s peake rs advanced the idea that it had become a matter of either effectively organizing or quitting the business th convention was a very enthusiastic one and ita effects will probably be far reaching in getting shee omen Dinen to perfect their organization in dif ferent parts of the tile state |