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Show SEC. BRYAN GIVES HIS VIEW Washington, Nov 9. Secretary Bryan, back n i the state department today after his campaign trip west, issued a formal statement summarizing summariz-ing the results of the election and declaring that they could not be con sidered otherwise than an Indorsement Indorse-ment of President Wilson and hi-policies hi-policies Pointing fo the slump of the Progressive vote as the outstanding outstand-ing feature of the election returns. Secretary Bryan said this had resulted result-ed In no change in the leadership of the regular Republican ranks, that Senator Penrose and former Speaker Cannon would represent their party in congress and the Progressives returning re-turning to that party would have i accept all they protested against and more The statement follows: "The election of 1014 cannot be considered con-sidered otherwise than an Indorsement Indorse-ment of the president and his policies poli-cies T am so convinced of the merits mer-its of the remedial measures enacted under the president's leadership and of the righteousness of his foreign policy that T expected the voters to support the candidates who represented represent-ed his views "There were a number of causes which operated against our party namely, the efforts of the beneflciar ies of protection, who. out of resent ment. sought to make the tariff law obnoxious; the disturbed condition caused by the European war, and thp fact that the excellent laws passed by congress had not had time to prove their worth Then, too, more Progressives had returned to the Republican party than we expected I this alone accounted for most of the Republic aif gains in the house of representatives. The victory, how ever, was sufficiently compieie to show that the people are with the president and he is now able to con tinue the splendid program upon which he has entered. "The gains in the senate are espe cially gratifying not n single Democrat Demo-crat defeated for re-election and thr-e penatorshlps taken from the Republi cans. Success Predicted. "There Is every reason to believe IIIMMMIILI I II I MM I that the administration will grow In I popularity as the laws go into effect and as Democratic policies bear fruit The new currency law is just beginning- to operate, before (he next election it will have vindicated its claim to public confidence "The new tariff law cannot be re pealed until niter the people have had a chance to Iry it out and, now that the election Is over, the protected manufacturers are already resuming work Some of them suspended operations op-erations or cut down their force be fore the election, and they did it un der conditions which left little doubt that they hoped to arouse opposition to the new tariff law. Seeing that the law Is here to stay, they will now proceed to demonstrate, the fallacy of the arguments which they used in opposing reduction "The president's foreign policies are indorsed and his hands strengthened. strength-ened. Loss of Progressives "The outstanding fact in the late election returns is the slump In the Porgressive vote A large- percentage of the progressive Republicans have reiurned to the Republican party and hat, too, without any surrender on the- part of the "standpatters" and the reactionaries. The leadership Of the regular Republican party has undergone no change. Senator Penrose Pen-rose and ex-Speaker Cannon will represent rep-resent that party in the senate and house and the returning Progressives must be prepared to accept all that they protested against, and more, for the standpatters, after having overcome the defection, are even further fur-ther from reforms than they were two years ago. 'The Democratic party deserves the support of all real progressives and in the next two years it will draw to itself those progressives who understand the radical nature of the iBsue which separates the Democrat from the aristocrat and the plutocrat" GERMANS MOVE TROOPS FROM WEST TO RU3SIA London, Nov. 9. At last the great ! movement of troops into and out of Belgium may he explained. Per several days ever since the Russian forces began the violent of tensive which has finally forced the Germans In the east to fall back a ro?s the Last Prussian frontier re ports have poured into 1 ondon from Holland and the north of France and Belgium of the transportation of great bodies of iroops from the Flanders positions to the eastward. Simultaneously equally credible re-' re-' ports told of a corresponding influx Of fresh reserves to support the German Ger-man attack against Ypres These i latter troops came from Germany That Germans should be sending hoops into Flanders and removing others In equal numbers puzzled not only the war correspondents scattered about the field of activity of the west hut military experts here as well The explanation Is furnished today in i he apparently reliable statement that the crisis in lOast Prussia so struck the German general staff with ite Importance that it was decided to transport tie first line troops tho flower of the army from the Flanders Flan-ders line, to the eastern frontier. |