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Show A SUMMARY OF THE NEW NATIONAL f POLITICAL CONDITIONS. In what Stimson of New York says was a "ground-swell," aD5 which national congressional committee chain- n, W. B. McKinley, declares was "tariff dissatisfaction and low vote," and which Champ Clark says was "Cannonism tariff hostility," the Republican party went down to ignominious ig-nominious defeat Tuesday at the hands of the Democrats and, in two isolated cases, the Socialists. So-cialists. A long and bitter campaign has resulted in a new line-up politically for the House of Representatives Represen-tatives of the national congress, also in the legislatures legis-latures of the majority of those states which Tuesday held elections, and in the governorships of several of the eastern and middle western states. Incidentally Theodore Roosevelt and his new-born Nationalism have received notice that, whatever may be the temper of voters, in 1912 where he and his are concerned, at present there is countrywide distrust of the man, his promises, temper, ambitions and his candidates. And fervently let it be hoped that thus endeth for a time at least, the elephant shooter's quest for publicity, trouble and a third term presidential presiden-tial nomination. In national legislative representation, Connecticut, Connec-ticut, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Il-linois, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia, Oklahoma, New York and Pennsylvania have kicked Republican traces and swung Into the Democratic column, with Maine added, whose election in September apparently released the brakes and put a fire under the long-eared beast between the shafts. A thorough canvass of the situation at this writing gives the Democrats forty-two members of the next United States Senate Sen-ate and the Republicans fifty. At present the Senate is comprised of fifty-nine Republicans and thirty-two Democrats. In the House of Representatives Represen-tatives the havoc Is complete to the tune of approximately ap-proximately two hundred and twenty-four Democrats Demo-crats and one hundred sixty-six Republicans and the probability of Champ Clark for speaker. Cannon Can-non is re-elected and goes back to a desk on the floor of the sixty-second congress. In governorships, New York boosts Dix to the pedestal, over Sagamore Hill's choice of Stimson. The governor-elect is the first of his political faith to top the Empire state's official list in sixteen six-teen years and his plurality is estimated at over fifty-five thousand. In Ohio, Judson Harmon takes Taft's own state from Hardin by a Democratic Demo-cratic plurality of about ninety-eight thousand. Foss of Massachusetts has changed Governor Draper's plurality of eight thousand In 1908 to a Democratic plurality of thirty thousand, and he steps into the gubernatorial toga. New Jersey put Fort, Republican, into the governor's chair . two years ago with eight thousand votes to spare. Tuesday Woodrow Wilson reversed this to a matter mat-ter of twenty-five thousand plurality for himself and goes in over Vivian M. Lewis, Republican. Connecticut followed the little corporation state on its south and put Baldwin, Democrat, into the governor's office over Goodwin, Republican, with about four thousand votes to spare. The G. O. P. plurality in 1908 was sixteen thousand. Oregon appears to have decided upon Oswald West, Democrat, Dem-ocrat, for governor, though electing a Republican legiblature. Cruce will give Oklahoma a Democratic Demo-cratic stewardship as chief executive. These are among the most important of the former Republican Repub-lican strongholds and the victory of the Democrats Demo-crats has come suddenly and fiercely. Taft faces a senate with a working Republican majority and a House of Representatives with more than an effective Demc atic majority; the interference and bungling of .toosevelt, if not his open hostility; the apparently forced retention of Ballinger in his cabinet, and finally, the surging unrest of a people. Against it the Taft smile In will have to smile a long, long 'smile, and If In If a little while 1 "There's miles and miles of smiles" IB they may perchance mean that the rotund form 111 of the big president is to grace once more in 1912 Mm the White House halls. And then again a large, 1 large smile could tell the tale in 1912 of country-IB country-IB wide resentment of broken promises, a tariff re-IB re-IB vised upward and a too high cost of living an l ominous smile that, for party leaders and for the Ijr much traveled gentleman of ample girth whose I' political blunders have torn his party fore and I. ! aft, until, rent with the heat within and assaults IH without, it has crumbled before the distrust of IL voters. lij Washington, Utah, Indiana, New Hampshire, l California, Tennessee, Minnesota, Kansas, Colo- m rado, Michigan, South Dakota, Nebraska, Virginia, i Nevada and Vermont have all held their Repub- II1 II $r vHPBBr t)a6fflp BW lyBlSaBBBBBBBBBM BV KSKmBfBBBBBBBBBBh HI HnBBBBBBBBBM BBi ' shBHBhBBhBBhI I'' flBlB&iiniimHHHHr BB BwbBbIbBbB 21BBBBBft H IBbbIBhhhKHMBhhhh H t9kBBBhhHJB1BhH Hi HbBbi M Bj Ltfjrlght Undtrwtod if Underwtod, N. Y. M JOHN A. DIX Democratic Go ernor-elect of New York State, who BB won despite Roosevelt's violent oppo- Bj sitlon to his candidacy. m llcan pluralities of two years ago and these states M return to the state legislatures and to Congress H progressive Republicans. With the Rage of Sag- V amore Hill quieted, temporarily, at least, and the H national congress about to convene for a ninety- B day session, wherein both, houses retain their Re- H publican majorities, there opens the way to a H progressive Republican success that in 1912 can- H not be misunderstood and will not be unappre- H ciated. And that ultimately two years hence the H Republican party, unshackled from machine boss- H ism, shall revoke the Democratic license of Tues- H day and on the solid base of progressiveness, m swing back to the control of the two brandies H of Congress, assume once more the leadership of BBJ those state legislative assemblies whose gavels HB must erstwhile kow tow to Democratic elbow fl grease, is never for a moment to be doubted. B A queer plaint In all the hub-bub of Demo cratic success and Republican upheaval results from polling 40,000 votes in California by the Socialists and of the outcropping of unusual voting activities by members of that party in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and ono or two other states. In Pennsylvania the Socialists elected their first member to the state legislature. The liquor interests throughout the country suffered but little, taking the situation at a glance. Washington went dry in over one-half the counties of the state and particularly In some of the larger cities where the anti-saloon light was bitterest. Saloons were voted out in Everett and Bellingham, both of more than 20,000 people, and in several other important municipalities. In Oklahoma local option was defeated, leaving the state under state-wide prohibition, and in Texas the election of Colquitt, Democratic, for governor, and a Democratic legislature carries with It a pledge that the legislature will decide as to whether or not a state-wide prohibition amendment amend-ment shall be submitted to the voters of that state. In Indiana, Missouri, South Dakota and Oregon, Ore-gon, bitter fights were waged against the liquor interests, with the latter victorious to a sane and conservative degree in each state. In Missouri, a state with probably more breweries and greater liquor interests than any other in the Union, the anti-prohibition victory is greater than two years ago, and the majority against the proposed statewide state-wide prohibition amendment to the state constitution constitu-tion is in excess of 175,000 votes. In Indiana the Democrats who have gone into office this week are pledged to repeal the county option law and substitute a law providing for city, ward, and rural ru-ral township option units. In Oregon the prohibition prohibi-tion movement has been decisively defeated, and in South Dakota the county option and woman suffrage planks went down to defeat. Proposed woman suffrage amendments to the constitutions of Oklahoma, Ohio and South Dakota Da-kota were defeated. To the various gentlemen throughout the country, coun-try, who are still wondering what struck them, the remark of Senator Cummings of Iowa on Thursday that "I have not been quite able to discern dis-cern the hand of Providence in the election as yet" will undoubtedly have a plaintively soothing sooth-ing note as its cadence reverberates. |
