Sees A Popular Awakening.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 8, 1912:
"Anglo-American" Writes in London Paper of the Roosevelt Party.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Thursday, Aug. 8.—  "An Anglo-American," whose recent article In The Daily Mail on "Graft and Crime in New York" aroused controversy on both sides of the Atlantic, contributes an article to to-day's Daily Mall on Col. Roosevelt's new party. Among other things, he says:
    "In theory, the American system is a government of the people by the people, for the people. In practice it is a government of the people, by the bosses for the trusts, and Americans are at last beginning to realize that while all the outward forms of democracy are carefully preserved, the popular will is continually frustrated by the politicians, misrepresented in the Legislatures, set at naught by the courts, and trampled on by the forces of privilege.
    "I know, indeed, of no country where politics so nearly answer to Labouchere's description of them, 'a game between two sets of sharpers at the expense of the muddle-headed public,' or where the alliance between wirepullers and industrial and financial magnates rules and pillages with so much impunity, or where an entrenched and organized minority can so easily manipulate the course of affairs, or where the traditional parties have so completely lost touch with the facts of modern economic life and serve no more useful purpose than that of a screen for gangs of plutocratic spoilers."