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Show I REPUBLICAN VICTORY. ONCE again the calm after the political storm. While the smoke of battle has not entirely cleared to permit of a clear survey of m -the field, it has lifted sufficiently to disclose in the general aspect a H badly battered Democratic party nationally. Entering the campaign H in complete control of the machinery of government, backed by la- H bor organizations and the press, and reinforced, as well, by the per- H sonal appeal of the President to return a Democratic congress, the H count of ballots at this hour shows a Republican house and in all H probability a Republican majority in the senate, while state after H state swung again into the G. O. P. column by the election of Re- H publican governors, state officers and legislatures. H Here in Utah the voters, after a classified ad,campaign, conducted H in accordance with the rules of the recent Democratic Corrupt Prac- Hj tices Act, harkened to the appeal of the White House, returned Well- H ing and Mays to Congress, and while doing so slipped over three su- H preme court justices (rather at the expense of a favorite Bourbon H ideal of1 nonpartisanship in the judiciary), maintained Democratic H control of the state legislature, as well as county government, and as H good measure adopted a mine taxation amendment that spells finis H to the one industry that has made Utah. H Viewed nationally, however, the pendulum swings and control H of government affairs is now apparently with the Republicans. Run- H ningtru'e to fornt'hbwever, Utah failed to catch step with the balance of the country. Six years ago, along with Vermont, Utah stood prominently if not enviably, at the head of a hopeless minority for Taft. Now, with the South she stands for Democratic control' Doubtless if cotton overalls had gone up to $5.00 a. pair instead of $2.50, while a still lower price had been fixed on metals and wool the voters of Utah would have made it unanimous for Democracy. ' |
