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Show H !'? " DEFEAT OF RADICALISM -OTfflf.- . ,tj,c two outstanding features In tho recent na- .V-"" "V is .- , . , BB &&. tlonal and slate elections were the overwhelming d& BB " i?-"" fcal ot 'abor roulcal,sm tini political radicalism. B I ' ' Thl American Fedortlon of Labor, through H ' ';& President Oompcrs, had carried on a better fight B 'k"3. against any candldato who had ever opposed radical BB I "'' lnbor demands and who opposed tho Plumb plan for B ' i socialization and labor control of tho American rall- B ' road system. B ( November 2nd was a bad day for Samuel Oompcrs BB . . and tho American Federation dictators as results B I proved that more than 90 par cent of organized labor B ' lefuscd to bo delivered to Mr. Gompcrs party or to BJ be told how to vote. Not a slnnglo actlvo champion Bl of the Esch-Cummlns railroad bill was defeated, nl- B though organized labor had been Instructed to vote B ' . against every advocato o( tho measure. Supporters B of the measure and men who fought labor radicalism B wero re-elected by overwhelming majorities In great B t labor state. fl Tho vote on this Issue alono Is clear proof that B J tho people of the United States says no to labor rad- BB icallsm and wish to give tho new railroad law a trial, BJ having faith that In the end it will bo pieferablo to BB turning our vast transportation properties over to B political control. B ' Coupled with this defeat of labor radicalism, BB western states turned down by overwhelming majori- B '! . ties the socialistic nonpaitlsan league, slnvlo tax B -. nicasiires, laws to establish artificial interest rates, B " and vat lous laws upsetting long established property BB. liglits between man and wife, and numerous expert- BB mental, socialistic and theoretical schemes, all' tend- Bfl j Ing to lnjuio liiihiutry and community development. BB i Tho entlro lemilt ot tho election waM n rearbnblo lllus- ggs H (ration ot the logical working of a bound public H consclou.snesH tluil was able, wliru tho test camo to H I pick tlio wheat fiom tho chuff. B m m ta B. t!M)i:HSTAM)l.(i ItKATS l;i:.(iUi: BB Tlio oveiwhelmlng defeat of the nonpartisan B league hi various western states was a couipleto sur- H prise to tho Icubiio leaders as well as to the cotiscr- H vatlvo eleinentH. H ",'' In Colorado, Montana, Idaho and Washington, H ' ;" where tho Ieaguo had tlu strongest following, It was B' ' completely routed. In North Dakota, tho only state B '; under nonpartisan league domination, Its hold was BL, hioken and tho state has been saved from political B control ly intimldtion and class dictation. B The defeat ot tlio ieaguo Is duo to the underlying BB ; common nen.se of the average citizen. Ho may ho ' diDHatlsfled witli conditions but lien It comes to BBI 1 ovei turning our fonn of governmeiit In favor of n program of state socialism such as the nonpartisan H , , league advocates, he will think twlco beoro ho casts Hf'r his H The vote gainst the league was brouglit about ft liy n growing uuderstandliig on the part of the aver- K . ago citizen that Inauguration of tho lenguo piogram f" would eventuallj end pilvato properly rights and in- H- dividual Initiative In the country. mh n m r B.t Republican want ads bring restilts. |