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Show THE MEANING OF THE iMAlNE ELECTION. Folks are very much like human beings. Like causes in like conditions produce like results. re-sults. Tho people of Maine are much like people in other sections of the country. The congressional congres-sional olection of last Monday proves the living strength of tho Republican party. It is a suggestive sug-gestive tip to gentlemanly manufacturers of new parties that a going concern is stronger than a prospect. It may bo interpreted as a robuko to alleged politicians who always havo wanted J,o bo captains, but never have had tho ability to persuade the people to give thorn commission. commis-sion. It isn't necessarily a rebuke to President Wilson's administration. That district is Republican. Re-publican. No one was looking to it for an In dorsomont of national Democratic policy. No ono made it "a princo and a judge over us." But it is a confession that tho mid-summer madnoss of tho professional progressives is without foundation or hope. Not a jot of good in government domandod by tho now party but is bred in tho bono and strong in tho blood of tho Republican party. Not a roform domandod by shifty orators of tho now but is ingrained in tho spirit and tho mission of tho old. And before be-fore tho "progressive" manager's excuse that hn "had no money" can be acoopted tho oloc-torato oloc-torato of Maine must bo convicted of willing and waiting corruption. And tUoro should bo no pluming of foathors by stiff-necked gentlemen in the old organiza- ' 'H tion, either. Th Monday clorlum in Maine ""' doesn't by any manner of means declare that fl "No Thoroughfare" signs can bo safely sot lin tho (fl public highways. Thoro has been too much H perverse and gratuitous insistence on the stand- ' fl pat policy; loo much sheer stubbornness; far "fl too much mulish refusal to go forward and 9 for no bettor reason than tho mule's. It isn't in kooping with tho traditions of the party. It isn't in fulfillment of the pledge made by the party's founders, indorsed by tho parly's leaders through more than half a century, and sanctified H and blost by tho parly's triumphs in the progress H of this nation. H Tho successful candidate thoro in Maino is H right. Tho result of tho election moans Ilepubli- H can party progress. That means progress for H the United States of America. Itmcajis ad- H vanoomont for tho world. II means boltormont H for the race, now and through all the future. H Hero in tho early days of tho Twentieelh H Century comes once more perhaps for Ihe last B time on earth tho question: Can a great nation H bo successfully directed by Ihe mass-meoling H plan? Is not representative government a bolter H system for a hundred million people? Demo- H cratic dominance makes the answer doubtful. H Tho result in Maino brings encouraging hopj H that serious purpose and capablo control again H will bo tho order of tho day. H Tho mob shall not rule. Clamor can not H change conditions. God's in His Heaven. All's H well with tho world. H |
