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Show H THE LESSON OF THE ELECTION. H FOR some weeks there will be explanations of why and wherefore the result in the recent national election, and we will witness the B Democrats minimizing the sting of defeat and the Republicans magni- m fying the fruits of victory. Taken from every angle it will be ad- 1 mitted that the attempt of the Democratic party to bring about K autocratic government in Washington has been smashed to smither- M eens. The app'eal of President Wilson for a congress that would not M ' criticise was a fatal mistake as admitted by the New York World m which has heretofore been an ardent supporter of the President, and H the attempt of President Wilson to force his wishes as to who should Hj be elected in the different states by special appeals for support or M condemnation of candidates of which he did not approve has received B a well merited rebuke. H Again it shows that he people were determined to sweep away ' H the barrage of "High Cost of Living," "No Need of Preparedness," H "He Kept Us Out of War," and that "A Vote For a Republican Would M be Disloyal." Campaign after campaign these slogans have been H placed before the people only to be shown afterwards as camouflage. Hj The truth is that the Democrats with the greatest force of office H holders ever known in the history of the country, unprecedented ef- M forts to secure the vote of Union labor, catering to the Socialist ele- H ment, and fraternizing with the nonpartisan league have been de- H feated and the voters evidently believe that it is time to put a check H on the unbridled extravagance of the administration at Washington H and the party leaders if they will heed the wishes of the people as H expressed at the polls will adopt measures that will lighten the burd- H ens of the unprecedented taxation placed upon the people by the H Democratic party and bring about a cost of living that will afford the H average citizen an opportunity to enjoy some of the extra comforts H of life without feeling that he has to make extraordinary saving in H other directions to do it. H' No one desires to take away from President Wilson the credit H for having done his best to win the war, but the real credit for the H winning of the war belongs to the great American people who arose H in their might and rendered yoemen's service with a loyalty and per- H severance that must ever earn the respect of the whole world. H The Republicans in congress will now have an opportunity to do H great service for the people and can also do much in stopping the H insidious elements of Socialism which has gradually been creeping H into the operations of the administration at Washington, and which if H left unbridled might lead the country into disaster that would destroy H the magnificent era of prosperity that is bound to come after the war. H With a full realization of its responsibility to the whole mass of the H American people the Republican party has an opportunity to do yoe- H men service and to bring about, two years from now, a government H not by representatives from Southern states, but by duly elected H representativs from every section of the country. The people voted H for Republicans to go to congress in spite of the appeal of the Demo- H cratic party to the contrary and by so doing demonstrated their be- H lief that the country would be better off than if governmental affairs H were administered by Democrats unrestrained. H sk k sk |