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I iWKPPy - -rm-rf. - i DECEMBER 6, 1912 rency reform, a budget system of setting forth expenditures and revenues of the government and several equally desirable reforms. All the democrats say, will be ignored. ' Following the election of Mr. McKinley in 1896 President Cleveland refrained from mak ing any appointments to the federal service, leaving these to the incoming president. Presi dent Taft being unwilling to do as much it will be incumbent as a duty upon the democrats in the senate to refuse to ratify all appointments and thus prevent them. There is something more than the doctrine of the spoils for the victors in this view of tho matter. Suppose that the senate should ratify the nomination of a republican for district at torney for the northern district of Iowa and he should take office for a period of four years. Is it to be assumed that he would seek to make such a record in his office a3 to reflect credit upon, the democratic administration and the democratic party? The contrary is to bo supposed. We-can. not imagine- him investigat ing trust operations: with a. view to prosecuting . illegal trusts so. that the democratic party- might be able- two. yearsr hence and four years- hence to point to a record of- achievement and to proof of faith kept. The country has- voted to give the democrats a. trial a fair and full trial. It has turned over to them. the .machinery, of the federal gov ernment. It is for them, charged with full re sponsibility, to have full power. Let them then, take every place of power and authority. Dubuque (la.) Telegraph-Herald. THE NEW DECLARATION The Commoner seconds the following timely motion made by the New York World: Now that Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan has very generously presented to the Congressional library a rare volume containing autographs of all the signers of the Declaration of Independence, we sug gest, with all due humility, that he follow up this splendid gift by presenting a companion volume containing autographs of all the dis tinguished signers of the Declaration of Depen dence, the list of signatures, of course, to be headed 'by1 his own. This inspiring gift would, we imagine, run somewhat as follows: DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE "When, in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for certain great financiers to dissolve the political bonds which have con nected them with their fellow-citizens, and to assume among the powers of tho earth, tho separate and unequal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinion of gentlemankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created unequal, that they are en dowed by their Creator with certain alienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to obscure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their unjust powers from the consent of tho Governors. And for the sup port of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, We mu tually pledge to each other our Lives, our For tunes and our sacred Honor. "J. PIERPONT MORGAN, "JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, "ANDREW CARNEGIE, "HENRY C FRICK, "E. H. GARY, " "GEORGE W. PERKINS, "ETC., ETC., ETC." HARD TO PLEASE The New York Times is hard to please. Its Washington correspondent wound up a long and mournful account of Mr. Bryan's recent visit to the national capital with the following note of despair: "But why is it that Mr. Bryan will not go home and stay there?" Another paper announced that Mr. Bryan had gone to Florida to spend the winter and added that it waa construed by some of tho leading democrats at Washington as a declaration of .war against congress. The unfriendly papers are prepared to catch Mr. Bryan "a comin' and a goin'." Is there any law, statutory or moral, that gives to friends of the plunderbund the exclu sive privilege of being represented at Washing- The Commoner. 3 Popular Vote for President Shown By States of Union nrpBMnCnMdl.TtCf l?.th0 CI"cinnati Enquirer: New York, Novombor 26. Tho popular voto for nfl?vMe?ccl,on,?f,1ftD12 8h0WB Wilson Pd throughout tho country a total of ' m,'758 votes Roosevelt 3,928,140 and Taft 3,370,422. seven statesall8t VOt DJbB amouuted to G73'783 ' tho socialist count still unfurnished in fniwii!!?ryianV,opular vot. was 6-393.182 and that of Taft 7,037,676. Tho figures in tho loiiowing tablo by states are divided between onicial and unolllcial returns, as indicated. No count is at present available whero tho spaces are left blank. STATE. xAlabama xArizona xxArkansas xxCalifornia xxColorado xxConnecticut . . , xDelaware xxaFlorida xGeorgia , xldaho xxlllinois xTndiana xxblowa xKansa3 xKentucky xcLouisiana .... xxMaine xMaryland xxMassachusetts xxdMichigan xxeMinnesota . . . xMississippi .... xMissouri xMontana xNebraska "..... xNevada xNew Hampshire xNew Jersey xxNew Mexico . . xxNew York xxNorth Carolina xxNorth Dakota . xxOhio xxfOklahoma . . . xxaOregon xxPennsylvania . xxRhode Island . xSouth Carolina xgSouth Dakota . xxTennesseo xxhTexas xxUtah xVermont xxVirginia xxWashington . . . xxWest Virginia . xxaWIsconsin xxWyoming w O P W o o w - 81G22 10244 75100 283404 112354 73730 22198 35864 03171 33983 407470 281890 172231 143G70 219584 59241 50987 11 2074 170995 G355G 10G42G 57227 330947 28023 109109 798G 34 724 17S289 17982 G50721 134 GG3 2889G 405120 119057 423G3 395G19 30299 48355 48977 132096 221435 355GG 15354 90338 87G74 112564 1G4409 18G00 p Totals 1G156778 22520 6468 22000 283532 G9737 33439 8061 4207 22010 25511 391 3 G5 1G2007 150777 120123 1027GG 9202 48459 57789 140152 85513 12585G 3045 123 111 22448 72777 5055 17794 145410 7988 3824G3 G5874 245G8 20P793 331 69 444426 16488 1293 57630 5'4260 26740 23035 22073 21737 111797 76608 58661 7536 9671 2989 24900 2240 G0007 67949 16222 4212 5151 32873 256625 151267 113902 74 844 115512 3774 26538 54 596 152255 62294 04 334 1595 207409 18404 54348 3190 32927 88835 15512 450466 29017 22892 273287 90784 31842 273305 27755 536 "C0266 28668 40694 23334 23277 71252 56282 130878 17412 d o c w 3019 2964 10200 73000 15942 9878 350 4826 1014 O XT P S3 85000 30931 253 1010 19500 4775 2010 434 1825 147 30000 192ia 26807 11147 i:fcj 207 3996 12G50 27505 20G1 28148 10828 1021-9 4500 1980 15901 2024 3233 2244 2760 7886 3100 6740 41G74 80915 1950 164 4192 3397 25742 t 928 787 39555 20000 34120 1400 5222 3419 "535 2878 300 1090 2850 19533 595 3928422 3376422 673783 160644 2788 775 1738 1155 699 7467 4500 8410 500 xOfllcial. xxUnofllcial. aOno county missing. bFour counties missing. cTwo parishes missing. dFifty-six out of 83 counties. eTwenty-six counties still incomplete. Roosevelt electors not on ballot. gTaft electors not on ballot. hThreo counties missing. ton. Is a great Journal like The Commoner to be denied the privilege of getting its news from tho national's political center? Mr. Bryan, while at Washington, carefully avoided the one subject that is uppermost In the mind of the newspaper men, namely, tho personnel of the next cabinet. As Mr. Hearst, the New York Sun and other papers of that class presumably because of their malicious and conscienceless attacks on Mr. Wilson before his nomination, are now busily engaged In the con genial task of selecting Mr. Wilson advisors for him, Mr. Bryan thought it wise not to enter Into speculation on the subject. He still has opinions, however, on public nuestlons and still feels an interest in the public welfare but the fact that he has consistently token the people's side without asking the aid or consent of Wall street bars him, in the opinion of the predatory press, from active participation In DoliUcs. But as tho predatory press has al wavs been against him he has not lost anything J-3n fact, its criticism is an asset. IIARRIMAN MERGER ILLEGAL The United States suprome court has "decided that tho think known as the Harrlman merger, being the purchase of the Union Pacific of forty six per cent of tho stock of tho Southern Pacific Railway system, was illegal under the Sherman anti-trust law.' Justlco Day delivered LJii opinion, which was unanimous. An Associated Press dispatch says: "Instead of following tho reasoning of Justice Van De vanter and Judges Sanborn and Adams tho court, in substance approved the minority hold ing of Judge Hook that the roado were com petitors and that it was Just as much a viola tion of the law for one road to buy the controll ing stock of a competitor as It was for a holding company, as in tho Northern Securities case, to buy the controlling stock of two competing com panies. As the Northern Securities company plan failed nearly ten years ago, so the Harrl man plan failed.. The circuit court was directed to supervise the separation of the two roads." t I m Pil Ik! 01 ! I '4 v 1 1 If 1 II I If jW-lAjrf viWw-.-f&fc tei. . fe fttalttrfrf