New-York tribune., 1906-11-12
FORAKER ON THE VOTING
WHlT ELECTIONS SHOP.
The People Hare Gone as Far as
Then U'M Go T0zcard Radicalism.
JBy Telegraph ~ The Tribune }

Cincinnati Nov fI-Seuator Foraker IN re-
ply to-day 10 request that he give The Tribune
his views Of the political situation throughout
the country, in the light OF the recent elections.
said:
The results OF the election speak for them
selves. We to have Republican House ot
Representatives. with comfortable majority
as much. in fact. as it is good to have. This win
insure such legislation as the Republican party
may be disposed TO favor and. IN fact. is guar
antee to tho country under which business con-
ditions will continue prosperous.
I'VE not only have Republican House. but
in general way we have Republican victory
all along the line. and vet this general Repub-
ncan success is attended with some weak spots
that amount 70 serious admonition. According
to present reports We have Democratic Gov
ernors for New Hampshire. Rhode Island and
Minnesota. with scant majorities for the Repuo-
lican Governors elected in both Iowa and KAN
sas in each of which states we should have mad
at least 100000 majority. while in New York the
defeat Of Hearst now seems to be due TO his OBJ
jectionable personality and Democratic defec-
tions for according 70 the reports of to-day. the
entire Democratic state ticket, with tne excep-
tion of Mr. Hearst. has been elected
..vybue therefore we have the House of Rep
resentatives we have II in connection with re-
sults in other respects that should advise os
that We have reached the halfway point oe-
tween 1904 and 1905. with only slight margin
of advantage This situation should not dis-
courage Republicans but il will encourage DEM
ocrats They are already claiming that they
have made wonderful gain. and so they have
"a compared with the results OF 1904. and 1t 1,
sasv for them to think that there is a trend of
public sentiment in their favor.
without stopping to locate the blame for II.
the truth is that the Democrats the country over
have more confidence that the radical political
ideas Of Bryan and Hearst are not unreasonable
and indefensible than they have ever before had
since these men came into public life at any
national election
The effect of this is not only to encourages
and solidify the great majority of the Demo
Gratis but also TO attract away from Us good
many Of our followers. Fortunately. we have
time enough before the Presidential election TO
correct all this by pointing out the radical dir-
/ ference between the Republican policies. which
involve nothing more than reasonable regula-
tion and the crazy crusade which embraces gov
( ernu1ent ownership and almost everything else
/ that is bad in character and destructive in pur-
pose
The defeat of Mr. Hearst. being due to his
. personality. would seem to prevent his being
made the Democratic candidate he undOubt-
edly would have been had he been elected But
Mr. Bryan is not much better of than Mr.
Hearst Mr.. Bryan. as an individual, is free
enough from objection, but he represents every
thing that Mr.. Hearst stood for. as shown not
only by his speeches in behalf of his party.
but particularly shown by his active support
I of Mr. Hearst in his recent campaign
s'The people have gone as far IN the direction
of radical populistic propositions as they will go
The next swing Of the pendulum will be back in
the other direction. and by the time 1908 comes
around I do not think there will be much chance
for the election, whatever chance there may be
for the nomination. of any Democrat who enter
tains the views of either Mr.. Hearst or Mr..
. BRYAN"