| Show A SUMMARY OF THE NEW NATION AL POLITICAL conditions in what stimson of new york says was a ground swell and which national congressional committee ebal chairman r W B lIc mckinley Kinley declares was tariff dissatisfaction and low vote and which champ clark says was tariff hostility the republican party went down to ignominious defeat tuesday at the hands of the democrats and in two isolated isolate cases the socialists A long and bitter campaign has resulted in a new liew lineup line up POlitiC politically RIly for the house of representatives of the national congress also in the begir legislatures la of the majority of those states which tuesday held elections and in the governorships governor ships of several of the eastern and middle western states incidentally theodore roosevelt and his newborn new born nationalism have received notice that whatever may he be tile the temper of loters aers tit in 1912 where he and his are concerned at there is country wide wida disty st of the man his promises temper te ambitions and his candidates and fervently let it be hoped that thus bendeth tor for a time at least the elephant shooters quest for publicity trouble and a third term presidential nomination in national legislative representation connecticut kentucky maryland missouri indiana illinois new jersey north carolina ohio west virginia oklahoma new york and I 1 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 ong eared beast between bet Neen the shafts A thorough canvass of the situation at this writing gives the democrats forty two members of the next united states senate and the republicans fai f ty at present the senate is campis ed of fifty nine republicans and thirty Y I 1 j two ONO democrats in the house of re presenta tives the havoc is complete to the tune of approximately two huni hun huu i i dred and twenty four democrats and one hundred sixty six republicans and the probability of champ blaik for speaker cannon is elected reelected re rc and goes back to a desk on the floor of the sixty second congress in go nov boric i or boosts dix to the pedestal over sagamore hills choice of stimson Sti inson the gover nor elect is the first of 0 his political faith to top the empire states official 1 list in sixteen years and his plurality is estimated at over fifty five thousand in ohio judson harmon takes tafts own state from hardin by a democratic plurality of about ninety eight thousand foss of massachusetts has changed governor drapers plurality of S thousand in 1908 1909 to a democratic plurality of thirty thousand and lie he steps into the gubernatorial toga new jersey put fort republican into the governors chair two years ago with eight thousand votes to spare tuesday woodrow wilson reversed this to a matter 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 governors office over goodwin goodin republican with about four thousand votes to spare the G 0 P plurality in 1908 was sixteen thousand oregon appears to have decided upon oswald west democrat for governor though electing a republican legislature cruce will wil give oklahoma a democratic stewardship as thief exec executive tiffie these are among the most important ot of the loriner republican strongholds strong holds and the victory of 0 the democrats has come suddenly and fiercely taft faces a senate with a working republican majority and a house ol of representatives with more than an effective democratic majority the interference ter ference and bungling of roosevelt if not his open hostility the apparently forced retention of dallinger ballinger in his cabinet and finally the surging unrest of a people against it the tatt taft smile will vill have to smile a long long iong smile and it if in a litte while theres miles and miles of smiles they may perchance mean that the rotund form of tile the big president Is to grace once more in 1912 the white house balls and then again a large large smile could tell the tale in 1912 of countrywide country wide resentment of broken promises a tariff revised upward and a too high cost of living an ominous smile that for party leaders and for the much traveled gentleman of ample girth whose political blunders have torn ills his party fore core and aft until rent with the heat within and assaults without it has crumbled before the distrust of voters washington utah indiana new hampshire california tennessee minnesota kansas colorado michl gan south dakota nebraska virginia nevada and vermont have all held their republican pluralities ol of to years ago and these states return to to the state legislatures and to congress progressive republicans with th the c rage of sagamore hill quieted temporarily pora rily at least and the national congress about to convene lor for a nine ty day session wherein bo both tb houses retain their republican majorities there opens the way to a progressive republican success that in 1912 cannot be misunderstood and will not be unappreciated and that ultimately two years hence the republican party unshackled from machine bossism shall revoke the democratic license of tuesday and on the solid base of progressiveness gressi veness swing back to the control of the two branches ol of congress assume once more the leadership of those state legislative assemblies whose gavels garvels must erstwhile row isow tow to democratic elbow gree Is never tor for a moment to be doubted A queer plaint in all the hubbub hub bub hub of democratic success and republican upheaval results from polling votes in california by the socialists socialist a and of the out cropping of unusual voting activities by members of 0 that party in wisconsin pennsylvania and ono one or two other states stales 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 iu in over one halt half the counties of the state and particularly lit in some of the larger cities here tho the anti ant saloon fight was bitterest saloons were voted out in everett and bellingham both ot of more than people and in several other important municipalities in oklahoma local option was defeated leaving the state under tinder statewide state wide prohibition and in texas the election ot of colquitt democratic tor for governor and a demo democratic cra legislature carries with it a pledge that the legislature will decide as to whether or not a statewide state wide prohibition amendment shall be submitted to the voters of that state in indiana missouri south dakota and oregon bitter rights fights were waged against the liquor interests with the latter victorious to a sane and conservative ti degree in each state in missouri misti a state with probably more breweries and greater liquor interests than any other in the union anti pro hibi tion victory is greater than two years ago and the majority a against the proposed statewide state wide prohibition I 1 amendment to the state stale constitution is in excess of 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 lor for city ward and rural toan township ship option units in oregon the prohibition movement has been decisively defeated and in south dakota the county option and woman suf suffrage fage planks went down to defeat L proposed woman suffrage amend amendments to the constitutions of oklahoma ohio and south dakota were defeated to the various gentlemen taruo lit the country who are stil wondering what struck them the remark of senator cummin cummungs s of iowa on thursday that 1 I have not been quite able to discern the hand of providence in the election as yet will undoubtedly have a plaintively soothing note as its cadence reverberates reverberated rever berates goodwins weekly |
