The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-05-06
81 WILL TELL JUDGE DOUG
LASS FRANKLY AM NOT IN
FAVOR OF NEGRO CITIZEN
SHIP"
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
WHAT HAS BEEN THE CON
TROLLING ISSUE IN THE
LATE ELECTIONS.

The leading Republican papers of the
country are engaged in an organized effort
to make it appear that the late Congress
sional elections in the Fourteenth Con
gressonel District in Massachusetts and
the Thirty-second Congressional District
in New York, in which these two dis
tricts, which were the strongest Repub.
lican districts in their respective States,
elected Democrats TO Congress by over
whelming majorities, TO take the place of
Republicans who had been elected and
died and thus created vacancies. was due
to the unpopularity of the Republican
candidates, and not to any dissatisfaction
of the voters with the policy of present
administration.
The results of the elections in those
districts were phenomenal results, AND so
phenomenal as to make it necessary for
the Republican organs to, or at least, try
to make some reasonable or plausible
explanation to account for the startling
change in the public sentiment of the
voters in those districts. The explanation
sought to be made by this portion of the
press, is that the change in the political
sentiment Of the people was the result
OF the great moral issue involved, espec-
tally in the New York election.
They say that it was because of the
scandel exposed in the legislative nves-
tigaton at Albany, New York. and
the proof of bribery by the members of
the Legislature, has caused the people
to vote against the Republican candi-
date and for the Democratic candidate
whom they elected by very large ma
jority in a district which last fall went
Republican by ten thousand majority.
They say that the Republican candidate
was the Dos of corrupt Republican
machine and the people would not vote
for him. 1t is an ingenious and plaus-
able explanation, but it will not bear
analysis. 1t is true that there has been
public exposure of corruption and
bribery by the Republican machine of
New York. OF course, the exposure has
been revolving TO all decent and honest
people, but is there an intelligent man in
the State of New York who does not
know that for the last twenty years the
Republican politics of New York VS.
absolutely corrupt? They know that
Odell was twice elected Governor Of that
State by the Republicans. They know
that the Republicans elected Thomas C. /
Plat United States Senator from the
great State of New York, and everybody |
knows who and what Platt was. and /
what he stood for
They know that Depew was elected |
Senator also from that State, and they !
know that Depew was mixed up in /
the mud and slime Of the insurance COM
Panles corruption and bribery exposure
some years ago, and yet these RepubH-
cans kept on in the face of all this voting
the Republican ticket therefore it could
not have been this moral issue that alone
caused the great landslide in the Con
gresSonal election.
They all know, too, that Mr. Root was
said to have been guilty Of brbing mem
bers Of the Legislature, and yet they
elected him to the United States Senate.
But even if this moral issue had its nhu-
ence upon the New York election, it
certainly had no influence on the Mass
achusetts election. Now they must find
some explanation for the immense re-
versal Of the vote in that election.
There was not any exposure of cor
ruption in that State to account for it,
and no such issue was raised or discussed
in that election and in that election
Strong Republican district gave heavy
Democratic majority. Now. then, the
explanation sought to be made for the
New York election does not apply at all
to the election in the Massachusetts dis
trict
From this it follows that there must be
some other explanation given to account
for the results Of these elections.
1T is certainly time that there was a
moral issue involved and no greater
moral issue could be involved
That great moral issue was the iniqui
tious Republican tariff. The people have
made up their minds TO repudiate the
tariff robbery that has been plundering
the people ever since the Republicans
have had control Of the government.
The Indiana State Convention, under
the leadership Of Senator Beveridge,
repudiated the tariff bill, and Aldrich and
Hale have both declined to RIM again
for election to the Senate, and while they