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REPUBLICANS ELATED
BY ELECTION RETURNS
'.ttitude of Governor Coolidge Toward
Striking Police In Contrast
With Wilson.
Special Correspondence
Washington, Nov. 12.—As the result
of the four gubernational elections heicl
in Massachusetts, Kentucky, Maryland
and New Jersey the Republicans of
the House and Senate are viewing with
equanimity but not overconfidence the
campaign of 1920.
By an increase of his majority from
17,000 to 124,000 Governor Calvin
Coolidge was reelected in Massachu
setts. This was a direct slap at Presi
dent Wilson in more ways than one.
He had taken an opposite stand from
that of Governor Coolidge. The
Washington police has sought to be
come affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor. Commissioner
Brownlow had threatened to dismiss
them. The President, then on his tour
of the west, wired Brownlow that he
should desist until after the meeting
of the Industrial Conference. The
conference came and blew up. In the
meantime Coolidge fired all the strik
ing policemen. The people backed
him up. Then the President wired
Coolidge that the upholding of law and
order has no partisanship. This
couiage of the governor of Massachu
setts was the chief issue of the cam
paign, and the Republican party won
by the largest majority in its history.
Another element in the election,
though a minor one, was the attitude
of Senator Lodge on the league of
nations, and he, too, was sustained.
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In Kentucky there was a great over
turn. Ed Morrow, the Republica can
didate for governor, was swept in by
30.000 majority. He had declared that
the league as drawn up at Versailles
did not suit him without reservations.
Black, his Democratic opponent, con
fessed to having swallowed the docu
ment entire. The result was never in
doubt, and it means that Kentucky
will be in the Republican column next
year.
In New Jersey the result was due
somewhat to the shifting of President
Wilson on the liquor question.
Edwards, the Democratic candidate for
governor, had during the campaign an
nounced that if elected he would make
the state as “wet” as the Atlantic;
that he would do all in his power to
nullify the national prohibition act.
He did not merely announce this from
the stump; he said it over his own
signature in a formal declaration. In
the midst of the campaign the Presi
dent vetoed the war prohibition section
of the enforcement bill. Congress
promptly upheld the law and passed
it over his veto. The damage was
done, however, as many of the voters
of New Jersey were led to believe that
it would be possible by the combined
efforts of the Democratic Governor
and the Democratic President to
nullify the new law. They did not
know the promise was entirely for
election purposes and as fruitless as
“he kept us out of war.” Hence the
Republican majority, built upon na
tional issues, was wiped out and a
14.000 Democratic majority put in its
place. Because this was due to a local
and specious issue, the Republicans
here attach no importance to it in
relation to next year.
Maryland went Democratic by a few
hundred on issues which were not
national. So close a result and so
great a reduction from recent Demo
cratic maporities give the Republican
leaders the practical certainty of car
rying the state in the national electioon
of next year.
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Incidentally, Murphy’s Tammany
judges were overthrown in New York,
solely by the assistance of the Re
publican party. Major LaGuardia, the
Republican member of the House who
volunteered in the war and became
an aviator on the Austrian front, was
chosen president of the Board of Al
dermen. In New York and othe,
states the Republicans gained in the
state legislatures.
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Portland Oregonian: President Wil
son assumed a heavy responsibility in
his veto of the prohibition act. Clearly
he undertook to restore in the ‘wet’
states a short ‘wet’ period before con
stitutional prohibition could jiecome
effective. The reopening of the
saloffns, once wisely and effectively
closed, means an orgy of drunkenness,
dissipation, waste, idleness and crime
in metropolitan centers and a de
moralizing and wretched experience
wherever the saloon is tolerated. The
President sought to render a service
to the makers and owners of stores of
liquor. But in doing it he served the
country illy.
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San Francisco Chronicle: Shantung
will be returned to China, says Am
bassador Shedehara, but it is signifi
cant that he refused to say when. The
German concession was for ninety
nine years. As the Japanese are
standing on the contention that what
they took over was German and not
win1 ..i i
Chinese property, it m y not be un
reasonable to assume rnt they will
stand for the full term hat. Germany
exorted from China.
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Washington Post: Is the United
States navy to be main lined or is it
to be allowed to disintegrate? This
question would have been absurb a
year ago when the navy was adding
fresh laurels to a glorious record, but
it is pertinent now when gallant
officers are resigning and the brand
new ships are unable to keep the sea.
Fifty officers, all graduates of the
Naval Academy, have just resigned.
About one thousand officers would
like to resign. The enlisted men are
almost all invariably quitting the navy
as their terms of enlistment expire.
While the navy’s personnel is thus dis
integrating the ships are necessarily
becoming ineffeetive. The back chan
nel at the Philadelphia navy, yard is a
forest of masts of vessels laid up be
cause there are no crews. The bat
tleships Virginia and New Jersey, now
at Boston, are supposed to be attached
to the Pacific fleet, but how can they
go to the Pacific when they have only
200 men each when there should be
2,000 men? In the meantime other
governments are increasing their
naval strength and improving their
naval efficiency. Great Britian does
not permit her navy to lag for lack
of men. Japan is going ahead rapidly
in naval power and efficiency. The
vacillation of the present Secretary of
the Navy is a notorious factor in our
naval degeneration. He began by
demanding from Congress a grotes
quely excessive construction plan and
then, without rhyme or reason, repu
diated those plans and refused to
favor even moderate and necessary
increases. Prom the date of the sign
ing of the armistice he has interfered
with and nullified the efforts of the
General Board and the flag officers,
all of them intent on keeping the navy
up to a proper standard.
New York Tribune: It is now a
habit to eulogize independence and
nonpartisanship. To belong to a party
is held to be akin to a vice. But
seldom is there a continuing institu
tion or practice not based qn some
thing strong and sound. American
citizens have affiliated themselves with
one or the other of the two leading
political organizations. For this
reasons must exist. In other countries
a party represents merely a set of
echoes of some group of men. Here
it is able to give orders to a President,
a member of Congress, to a remote
sheriff to cooperate in a common end.
It thus gathers to itself loyalty. It
gives opportunity for public opinion to
form and crystalize, provides machin
ery by whch the government officer
becomes a representative instead of
an agent with plenary power to do as
seems good to him. It thus tends to
draw democracy out of the mists and
make it real and actual.
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St. Louis Globe Democrat: The
President has leaned very far toward
organized labor. He has, we think,
encouraged an attitude in some
branches of organized labor that is
detrimental to its own interests and
dangerous to the public welfare. But
that very fact should impress the
miners with the seriousness of a
situation that would compel him to an
action so contrary to his expressed
desires.
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Why Friday’s audience at the K: C. Hall was jj
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the Sokoloff Trio were inside the jj
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physical presences
At first reading, the story of the New Edison’s performance given
Friday, September 26th, at the K. C. Hall seems fraught with mystery.
But the explanation is simple enough.
First, get a picture of what happened. Mrs. Shank sang Beautiful
Ohio. She stopped after the first few lines, but the voice flowed on with
out a break. No one even noticed she had stopped—until some eyes,
keener than the rest, saw her lips were still. It was only then that realiza
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Edison.*
To every ear, the two voices, living and RE-CREATED, had been
without a shade of difference. When The Sokoloff Trio made similar
tests with their instrumental selections, the same result was obained. |§
That was what so mystified the audience. They had exipected the RE
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vanced for their comprehension that this instrument should be all that
Mrs. Shank and The Sokoloff Trio are, excepting their physical presence.
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