Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-11
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER II, 'O8.
THE GENERAL RESULTS OF
THE ELECTION.

The people have spoken. and they
have chosen standpattism rather
than progressive men and measures. )
That is the sum and substance of !,
the result. For altho Taft was sup
posed to be the representative of
Roosevclt's policies, the nomination
of Sherman. the denomination Of
Cannon, Payne, Dalzell and all the
other standpatters, the on-commit-
tai tariff plank, the rejection of
the demands of organized labor,
and the fierce attack on Bryan's
progressive platform; showed plain
ly that the Roosevelt policies were
practically discarded and used only
to bring in the doubtful voters. It
was not that the people were salts
fed with present conditions, but
that they did not have the courage
Of facing the disturbances in the
financial world that would neces-
sarily follow any sincere effort to
re-adjust the conditions so as to
give the producing classes a fairer
share Of the products of their la
bors. 1t was another case Of for
getting the toothache when nearing
the dentists door.
At thai, it was a very close
shave, in spite Of the large ma
jority Taft got in the electoral COL
lege. A few hundred or a few
thousand votes changed in several
states would have changed those
states to the Bryan column. Only
in New York was the vote over
whelmingly against Bryan, and that
was caused by local conditions.
The fierce attack of the Hearst pa
pers had a great effect in that way.
Tammany failed to deliver it's vote
as it always does when the candi-
date does not measure down to its
low level. Pat McCarren threw the
vote Of the brooklyn machine
against Bryan to revenge himself
on the state leaders for kicking
him out of the state convention last
summer. For these reasons Great
er New York went against Bryan,
altho it is normally democratic by
an overwhelming majority. This,
with the normal republican ma.
jority up state gave Taft an over.
whelming majority in the state.
Bryan's greatest strength, out
side Of the solid south, lay in the
middle west, and there the big ma.
jorities given Roosevelt four years
ago were materially reduced.
The republican papers are already
claiming the result as a victory for
Cannon, and advocating his re-elec.
tion as speaker, a result that is
sure to follow. How much the
people can expect from a congress
dominated by Cannon and Sherman
IS easily foretold. Standpattism is
in tie saddle, and the people have
no right to kick, for they placed il
there. They have said that they
want only farce in the line of ia.
riff revision, and they are entitled
to nothing better.
| The democrats were more for.
tunate in the election of governors
carrying Minnesota, North Dakota
Indiana and Ohio. In the two first
mentioned states, however, it can
not in any sense be classified a!
democratic victories. johnson anc
Burke were reelected on the
strength Of the records they have
made. At least half their vote:
came from republicans. Indian:
was very close en- president, ant
the democratic candidate for cover
nor got enough of the old goldbut
democratic vote, which on the pres
idency went to Taft, to squeeze
thru. In Ohio the brewing inter
ests voted against the republican
candidate for governor Oh accoun
of his stand on the question Of sa
loon regulation, and this helpe'
? turn the scale.
In Missouri the republicans wer
running candidate for governo
of the Folk pattern. and ever.
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