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Show H A Democratic Landslide H Tho election is now a matter of history. While tho result ig not at all pleasing to n large H portion of tho pcoplo, it was to bo oxpocted. , MJjWJJPJk principles in a ,-lj. JipWlIonto way, ItTS C!caruT:itwnwnot-vur HHBWT personality of Wilson nor tho dosiro of tho people HMHH to olect a Democratic prcsidont and congress that "--"jr" gavo to tho Democrats such an overwhelming I voto. Bocmiso of tho disruption in tho Republi- I can party, thousands of tho stnnd-pattors elomoni I resolved to voto for Wilson in order to givo Rooso- I volt and his followers a crushing dofeat. This fact is demonstrated in tho case of California, I which tho Progcssivcs wero confident of carrying I by a big plurality, but owing to tho disfranchisc- ment of Taft Republicans duo to tho ontranco of Roosovolt into tho raco, tho entiro Taft voto was m givon to Wilosn, dofeating tho colonol by 5,000 B votes. Prom information nt hand, no president since Washington has rccojved tho voto of as may states as did Wilson. Tho defeat of tho Ropubli-H Ropubli-H cans can bo attributed to no other causo than their H own shortsightedness in permitting a split in tho H party. It sorvos to demonstrate again tho old I adago that "a house divided against itself can H not stand." H Perhaps tho most striking feature of tho H result is tho stinging and humiliating defeat of H Roosovolt, the man who onco stood highor in the estimation of tho pcoplo of this country and of H othor naions of tho world than any. other man H ovor did. To sco nearly all tho states of LthO great H country of which ho was onco' tho idol, turn from him,' is a spectacle almost pitiful. It means tho H swooping away of a groator part of tho prostigq, H ho formerly enjoyed and will doubtless crush his H feelings, and throughout tho remaining years H of his lifo bo a galling spot on his memory. H Such is tho result of grasping, greedy ambi- H tion; not only in the caso of a man sooking the H prosidoncv of tho Unied States, but in tho ovory- H day walks of life. Roosovolt sought to tonr dowu H thu man with whom ho had been pleasantly assoc- H iatod for many long yours, a man of uuimpoach- Hj nbla honor and intogrity for what? to satisfy H his own ends. H Thoro arc those all about us, oven in our H town, who may woll loam a lesson from this H incident; "loud noise and defamation of others H may doafon him who shouts, but the listonor, H standing still, hears, and understands." |