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orat, elected over Congressman Chas. H. Burke,
republican.
Republicans elect entire state ticket.
Woman suffrage amendment defeated.
Governor Frank M. Byrne, republican, re
elected over J. W. McCarter, democrat.
TENNESSEE
Governor Thomas C. Rye, democrat, elected
over Governor Bon W. Hooper, republican-fusion-ist.
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TEXAS
Governor James E. Ferguson,' democrat,
elected, with entire state ticket.
All constitutional amendments defeated.
VERMONT
Senator Wm. P. Dillingham, republican, re
elected. Governor Charles W. Gates, republican,
elected.
WASHINGTON
Senator Wesley Jones, republican, re-elected.
State-wide prohibition amendment carried.
WISCONSIN
Governor E. L. Phillip, republican, elected
over John C. Karol, democrat.
United States senator Paul O. Husting, dem
ocrat, elected over Governor Francis E. Mc
Govern, republican.
All proposed constitutional amendments defeated.
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WYOMING
Governor J. B. Kendrick, democrat and pro-
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THE PROGRESSIVE SLUMP
Tho outstanding fact of the election of 1914 is
the slump in the progressive vote. This was
foreshadowed in the returns from tho Maine
election, but, to tho surprise of many, the de
cline is more pronounced in the middle west than
In Maine. In Ohio, for instance, Garfield, a
leading progressive and a man of superior char
acter, polled only 50,000 votes out of a million,
and that, too, with ex-President Roosevelt
stumping tho stato for him. Beveridge experi
enced disappointment in Indiana, and Murdock
In Kansas. What is the explanation? It can
not bo that tho country has tired of progressive
policies, for the voters support President Wilson,
a genuine progressive. The followers of Roose
velt must now decide whether they will return
to tho republican party and put their necks un
der the reactionary yoke, or join the democrats
and make even more sure the certainty that it
will remain a people's party. The door is wide
open.
THE 1014 ELECTIONS
Mr. Bryan gave out the following statement,
November 7, in regard to the election returns:
The election of 1914 can not be considered
otherwise than as an indorsement of the presi
dent and his policies. I am so convinced of the
merits of the remedial measures enacted under
the president's leadership, and of the righteous
ness of his foreign policy that I expected the
voters to support the candidates who represented
his views.
There were a number of causes which oper
ated against our party, namely, the efforts of
the beneficiaries of protection, who, out of re
sentment, sought to make the tariff law obnox
ious; the disturbed condition caused by the
European war, and the fact that the excellent
laws passed by congress had not had time to
provo their worth.
Then, too, more progressives returned to the
republican party than we expected. This alone
accounted for most of the republican gains in
the house of representatives. The victory, how
ever, was sufficiently complete to show that the
people are with the president, and he is now able
to continue tho splendid program upon which
ho has entered.
The gainB in the senate are especially gratify
ing not a single democrat defeated for re-election,
and three senatorships taken from the re
publicans. There is every reason to believe that the ad
ministration will grow in popularity as the laws
go into effect, and as democratic policies bear
fruit. The new currency law ii just beginning
to operate; before the next election it will have
vindicated its claim to public confidence.
The new tariff law can not be repealed until
after the people have had a chance to try it out,
and now that the election is over the protected
manufacturers are already resuming work. Some
of them suspended operations or" cut down their
force before the election, and they did it under
conditions which left little doubt that they hoped
to arouse opposition to the new tariff law. See
ing that the law is here to stay they will now
proceed to demonstrate the fallacy of the argu
ments which they used in opposing reduction.
The president's foreign policies are indorsed
and his hands strengthened.
The falling of in the vote of the pro
gressive party is significant. A large
percentage of the progressive republicans
have returned to the republican party and that
too, without any surrender on the part of the
stand-patters and the reactionaries. The lead
ership of the regular republican 'party has un
dergone no change. Senator Penrose and ex
Speaker Cannon will represent that party in the
senate and house, and the returning progressives
must be prepared to accept all that they pro
tested against, and more, for tho stand-patters,
after having overcome the defection, are even
further from reforms than they were two vears
ago. jo
The democratic party deserves the support of
all real progressives, and in the next two vears
it will draw itself to those progressives who un
derstand the radical nature of the issue which
separates the democrat from the aristocrat and
tho plutocrat. u
The inventive genius of the American fiction
writer is but a pale and feeble flame when com
pared with the ingenuity of some of the alibia
framed by the candidates who were sure tho v
were going to win, but who didn't. y
PRESS COMMENTS ON THE ELECTION
St. Louin Post-Dispatch: That despite all the
conditions militating against sane, Intelligent
judgment tho Wilson administration retains a
majority in both houses of congress is an extra
ordinary mark of popular confidence. It is
ground for gratification and reassurance. The
president will complete his good work.
St. Louis Times: Yesterday's action indicates
a simple intention of getting out of the clouds
of roseate and unexplored theories and back to
the earth of practical experience and needs.
Certain theories and individuals went to defeat
at the polls, but the national welfare won a vic
tory which points clearly to a return to common
sense in government and to a winning back of
that prosperity which is the nation's right.
St. Louis News-Star . The country is to be
congratulated that the wise, prudent, careful,
peace loving and peace preserving administra
tion of President Wilson is to continue for the
remaining two years and four months of his
term with the solid support of both branches
of congress.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The average man
will look upon it (the election) as a rebuke of
the Underwood tariff. The people prospered un
der the last republican tariff and they have suf
fered under the present democratic tariff, even
as they always have done. The full dinner pail
is still more interesting than fine phrases.
St. Louis Republic: The outstanding fact in
the elections of Tuesday is the democratic con
trol of both houses of congress. The American
people have voted from Bath to Seattle and from
Key West to San Diego. The bull moose herds
have returned to the parental feeding grounds
by the hundreds of thousands. Yet both houses
of congress are democratic by safe majorities.
Waterbury (Conn.) Republican: The experi
ment with democratic rule has done the country
no good, but it has done the republican party
some good. It will be a considerably chastened
and sanctified republican party that goes back
into office in 1916 A new generation
will come to tho front between now and 1916,
and the congress that is chosen then will differ
freatly from that which went in with Taft in
19 08.
Newark Star.: The .principal issue in all the
senatorial and congressional elections was made
by the democrats. It was that of the support of
the president. To what extent the electorate
responded to this appeal is to be read in the elec
tion returns.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Theodore Roosevelt
has been repudiated by his home state of New
York. The republicans at their primaries nom
inated District Attorney Whitman forgovern
or7T g00d man an excellent man. But Roose
velt demanded the defeat of Whitman and went
upon the stump, traveling all over the state and
denouncing the republican candidate with fierce
invective. The result is the election of Whitman
and the utter collapse of the Roosevelt leader
ship. Pittsburg Post: Since the foundation of tho
government, with few exceptions, it has been
the habit of the voters to be against the party
in power. One .bright spot is the
elimination of the turbulent one. Roosevelt's
sun haa set.
ovnnnfl011 f sti Mas,schusetts, almost without
exception, has been in tho habit of honoring a
KV0??01; With,ilt least one re-election if he
has cared to have it. She adhered to that cus
ton because she felt that David I. Walsh had
XwvGr l devotIon with dignity and -with
2SS n 7U?l b6CaUSe She felt that tne attacks'
such as they were, on his administration were
trifling and reached nowhere
hf 1ptnI,S Dispatch: Tb-e elections throughout
SnniXhnyte?er5ay ga7 results somewhat
Sb? to Sf rJS,Mi the ma:Iorlty o cases favor-
th 1, l?n?SiMlcW In eastern 8tates where
the manufacturing interest is strong there was
wa,Tny uenP?blICan aIn' The . of course!
there wl? ? 0lidity But ln the wes
BuSnorr?hn?? c sam turn to republican
York 4mni nWn ln Pennsylvania a New
Eft oS wdSic168
pe?pe?ttn?SJnl0r!T5ere arQ reasons for honest
en! cSSflnffo f thS eSults were not differ
lerved ?hS r WeiG Jfeated who would have
wS tw P. bhC worthily In the positions for
Jeraftlthn6 named No surance is dis
mnnr win tho new republican state govern
SSteainS or nany more freQ from organization
flnanc altS J ? m? eyeful of the people's
of that naSv ?p Interests than was the rule
or mat party in times past; instead, the outlook
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