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Show EDITORIAL: The Elephant Walked Like the Carthagenian army of Hannibal which crossed the Alps on elephants to move a-gainst a-gainst the forces of Rome, the Republicans unleashed their symbolic pachyderm early Tuesday Tues-day morning to route Democrats from the national legislative halls. The victory was so complete com-plete that it surpassed even the most optomistic pre-election longings of G O P leaders, and it was so decisive that its effects ef-fects will soon be reflected in the national economy and international in-ternational policy. New faces and new minds, new principals and new purposes pur-poses will appear in he 80th Congress when it convenes in January. Gone will be the familiar figures of men who for fourteen years walked under the standard of that intangible something vaguely referred to today as the New Deal. That President Truman is in for a bad time during the remaining re-maining years of his term is a certainty. Faced with a Republican Rep-ublican Senate and House, those policies which he sponsors and unashamedly admits were matured ma-tured by his predecessor, the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, will be ground to bits and thrown into the rubbish by a party that has waited a decade and a half to regain control of the nation's legislative branch. The President must necessarily bow to compromie in the days to come, but he will be bowing before the will of a people who had suddenly become aware of the dangerous reefs along the course Mr. Truman's party had chosen to follow. It was not the party of Thomas Jefferson that went down to defeat on Tuesday. The principals of Jeffersonian Democracy were lacking, and had been lacking for a long time from the party which "lost its shirt" at the polls last Tuesday. Historians probably will never record a date when the Democratic party as an A-1 merican political unit dropped the sound principals upon which 1 it was founded and picked up the torch of Socialism. But that it did is evidenced by the near chaos, dissatisfaction and J fear that was created when the Democratic party forgot its earlier good works and turned to a type of government entirely foreign to that which was upheld by Jefferson, Cleveland Cleve-land and Wilson. The party had transgressed so far from the ideals and strength that was the Democratic Demo-cratic party that it had even begun to welcome the scum of Communism to its ranks. Forgetting For-getting that it proudly bore the label of -the "party of the people," and was sworn to uphold up-hold everything for which A-merica A-merica stands, brought defeat to the Democrats, and at the hands of people from under whom had been pulled the solid props of Jeffersonian Democracy. De-mocracy. Mediocre statesmen will soon leave the Senate and the House, men who were elected to office of-fice not because of their abilities, abili-ties, but because of the popularity pop-ularity of one man. Now that man is one and they can neither slide past the glaring light of public opinion nor tie the policies which he advocated advo-cated to the American way of life. New men will take over. They have pledged themselves to reestablish sound principals in government, and with liberal lib-eral actions based on conservative conser-vative thinking there exists no reason why they should not succeed. |