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Show "BIG BUSINESS" SHIFTS. Philadelphia North American Believes "the Interests" Moving to Democratic Dem-ocratic Camp. (Philadelphia North American.) That portion of big business who are corrupt aro Just now busy trying to establish between themselves and the Democratic party that same freo-tnnsonry freo-tnnsonry which has oxisted for tho past sixteen years between them and the standpat element of tho Republican Republic-an party. They aro especially alert In trying to capture tho new Democratic Demo-cratic senatorial seats in New York, New Jersey, "West Virginia and Ohio. They arc trying to provide themselves with a Democratic Aldrich. Collier's Weekly. The speech of Woodrow Wilson at Jersey City Thursday night wns a splendid advocacy of government by tho people versus government by special spe-cial privilege. It was an unanswerable unanswer-able indictment of the bad faith and Insolence of James Smith's candidacy for tho United States senate. But, for the first time since New Jeraev's governor-elect converted us to faith in his progressive patriotism and hia bigness and clear-sighted courage, wo find In his utterance causo for criticism Thoro Is truth in overy sentenco, but not all tho truth. In these passages pas-sages of hla fine, forcible address: 'Do you know what is true of the special interests at this momeut? They have got their baggage packed, and arc ready to strike camp overnight, piovidcd they think It Is profitable to them to come over to the Democratic Demo-cratic party. Thoy are awaiting to como over bag and -baggage and take possession of tho Domocrntlc party. "Will they bo welcomed? Do you want them? "Business Interests are involved In this mntter and not political principles princi-ples These business interests Intend, if thoy can, to own any organization that Is tho governing organization In the affairs of America. "I pray God we may never wake up some fine morning and find thorn in camp on our side. "This system consists in an unholy alliance between business an politics. Politics under this system Is considered consid-ered tho means of securing and pro- mpting certain financial and business Interests. Wherever tho greatest power Is brought to bear, tho greatest great-est nower of money, tho greatest power pow-er o"C individual Influence, there poll-tics poll-tics is made to yield, "You might possibly Induce James Smith J-r. to retire, but if Smith did retire, somebody else would tako his place The Interests aro not of a retiring re-tiring nature. They have a great 'manv presentable persons whom thoy could put forward, and if you look ,them over hastily you would not recognize rec-ognize them. For uiy part, T would rather have somebody that I know is their representative thnii somebody " - '-v'g7trj'M""T-:'' '"- that 1 did not know and who has not1 disclosed himself." Big business ready lo strike enrnp" i Big buelnesB. with baggage packed I waiting to come oer and take possession posses-sion nf the Democratic party" In the name of all the -gods of all oculists and opticians, why this errancv or slon of one of the most enlightened of Americans that makos him fall to be that the move alread lias been made and tho capture well-nigh com ploted? Big business has been bipartisan from its beginning, shifting only to concentrated support of whatever rar-ty rar-ty mattered not only when the onpos-ing onpos-ing party became committed to popular popu-lar welfaro. Ilavomoyer. who teatlflfil I hat ho split tho cnmpalgn contributions of th sugar trust between Domocrntlc and Republican committees, simply was the spokesmun of big business as Jnv Gould was when ho shielded his Erie Iniquities just punishment of being "a Republican In Republican counties and a Democrat In Democratic counties" Quay was as good a Democrat as Jim Smith of New Jorsoy was a Re-publican Re-publican when thov won the stigma of "porfidv and dishonor" by trust serving. serv-ing. And so todav a party label is t farco when applied to agents of privilege privi-lege of tho Democratic breod of Bailey and his nominal Republican brothor, Gallingcr. Republicanism perverted Into Hau-nahlsm, Hau-nahlsm, Aldrlchisni. Cannonism and Ballincorlsm suited big business admirably ad-mirably for fifteen years. But Insurgency, Insur-gency, tho offspring of Roosovcltism made the ever-watchful masters of privilego make the change of camps many months ago, which Mr Wilson sees only In tho light of a future peril Big business feels certain that 1912 will take care of Itself with auch "safe and sano" men as Harmon, first choice, nnd Taft, socond choice, the probablo presidential candidates. But the Immediate business of big business is to clinch its long-held control of tho United States senate by tho election of the "right" sort of Democrats Thore was much repetition long before be-fore November of the ancient campaign cam-paign phrase, "As Maine goes, so goes tho Union." And the way Maine has gone, with Democrats In control for tho first time in half a century, is to replace Eugene Hale with Halo's Democratic selection, a good lawyer as Bailey, of Texas, is with a record rec-ord Indicating that he would be as useful a Ropubllco Democrat corporation corpora-tion senator as Hale and Bailey combined. com-bined. New York, in any case, would have served the country 'by retiring tho railroad hand Depcw after being blosscd by tho doath of ExpresB Agent Piatt But triumphant Democracy Democ-racy at Albany Is hesitating between the arrant, reactionary corporation attorney, at-torney, Shopard, and tho Tammany-Tom Tammany-Tom Ryan machinist, Blue-Eyed Billy Sheehan, Ohio has disappointed big business somewhat by choosing mediocrity In preference to Iniquity. But that Is the one spot so far where victorious Democrats have rejected the senatorial senato-rial candidacy of the representative of special privilege and its sorvant, machine politics. And the most striking commentary upon the present political conditions Is that the finest public service yet done by Democrats anj'where in this country has been In "states such as Wisconsin and Waehlngton, where they deliberately consented to the temporary obliteration of their party organization In order to prevent the purchases of tho defeat of such senators sena-tors as Ln Follette and Poindexter by corrupt, bipartisan and big business. As corollary to such patriotism wo see every honorable, progrcsshe Republican Re-publican newspaper and individual wishing Godspeed and more power to Woodrow Wilson In his fight. And every spokesman of Wall street and everv frank Journalistic representative of rotten politics and every hypocritical hypocriti-cal newspaper drab openly censuring or assailing with cowardly slurs the fighter for the people's rights, whose solitary error Is Imagining that the worst of all public enemies has not nlready moved its war chest and Its vholo armament Into his party's camp. |