The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-11-18
COMMENTS ON THE ELECTION
OF NOVEMBER 8.

home, President Taft has gone to inveSti
gate the lesser landslide of the Panama
Canal.
In an interview Chauncey NJ. Depew
also expresses satisfaction over the result
of the election which causes him to soon
lay off his Senatorial toga. But the
friends as well as opponents of the New
York Senator know well that he is an in
veterate Jester.
Senator Culberson, of Texas, attributes
the overthrow of the Republican party at
the late election to high cost of Federal
government, high tariff, high prices of
necessaries Of living, and the high links of
Roosevelt The Roosevelt egotIsm, boss
ism, Imperialism and dogmatsm made
the people Of the whole country tired.
The Inquirer, looking about for mathe-
NAUTICAL comfort in the result of the voting
on November Sth, says: Pennsylvania
presents one of the few bright spots"
But the figures show that in Pennsylvania
the Grand Old Party is in minority of
over So, 600 votes. 1t only escaped mag
nihcent defeat through the laundering of
its opponents.
In a savage editorial commenting on
political conditions in Pennsylvania, as
evidenced in the result of the election of
November Sth. the Press candidy adj
mits that Republican success this year
has been attained through fraud. Even
plurality control. the Press declares,
has only been attained through 'ntiml-
dating voters, by debauching them and
by skillfuly using weak points in the cleo.
ton laws to control the ignorant, the
weak and sem-criminal. These are
hard words from the leading Republican
organ of the State.
In California, Wisconsin and New York
the Socialist vote this year was more than
twice as large as in 1908. In sixteen
States the Socialists polled 1876, 200 votes,
compared with 5I,257 two years ago-an
increase of 90 per cent. A Socialist was
elected to Congress in the Milwaukee dis
trict, and another was elected to the Penn
sylvania Assembly in Reading. The pro-
gress of Socialism in this country remains
insignificant, however When the Ameri-
can people find that the party in power
does not fairly or honestly represent their
interests they usually turn to the other of
the two great national parties; they do
not embrace "isms" to any great extent.
The Socialist vote in New York was less
than per cent. of the total; in the whole
country it amounts to not more than 3
per cent.
The average citizen became tired of the
biIlion-dollar Congress; tired of trust-in-
spired tariff laws which bore fruit in in
creasing living expenses; tired of such
patriots in office as Ballnger, Cannon al d
men of their ilk. And the protest was re-
corded in one of the most significant and
farreaching political upheavals ever re-
corded.-CharloHe (W C.) MeS0S
While the Republican majority in the
Senate may be trusted to balk any legis-
lation designed to inaugurate free trade,
there will be another general election in
two years. and back of the Democratic
propaganda there always will stand the
possibility OF a change in the Senate in
1912. Capital is VIGOROUSLY conservative
A word, a myth, shadow upon the hori-
zon is enough to drive money into that
tiding which spells stagnation on the
martS of trade Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
Then there is chance that the Demo
Gratis in Congress may do some Of the
things the Republicans should have done,
and that there may be Senators enough,
men who see the handwriting on the wall
or who are Americans before they are
partisans, to stand by what may be done
in the lower house and do their duty to
the people regardless of party organza-
ton. Such things have been done before.
-lMlWankee Meas.
Theodore Roosevelt was on his return
from Africa the most universally popular
and respected man in his country. He
has thrown his place away; BY his con-
tlnued TRADES against his opponents, by
his bullying and abusive conduct toward
men of honor, of education, of culture, of
attainment and accomplishment. he has
produced a revulsion. Instead of the
plumed knight of the peoples interest.
the warrior Of civic righteousness, national
inspiration to better things in politics, the
public has been made to look upon a
brawler on the hastings, political prize
fighter. He has left behind him a trail of
indignant protests and scores Of men who
are nursing the wanton wounds they say
he has unfairly inflicted on them. His
chickens have come home to roost-Ar-
kansas Gazette.
The potent cause Of the reverse may be
said at once to have been that of dlssatis-
faction with the last tariff Undoubtedly
considerable has been overdrawn as to
this, but there is measure OF truth that
has convinced many voters a corrective
dose was needed to insure more attention.
The people, though, want no Democratic
tariff, and they will see to It the Demo-
cratic party does not get the chance
through complete Congressional and Ex-
ecutive control. Other causes there were
that induced the change, among them
that of the House rules. and probably not
one cause alone would have brought
about the landslide. WIS.
Journal
President Taft is swallowed up in the
condemnation. He will not lead his party
again at the polls. If through the die
tates of folly he does it will be to iuevi-
table defeat. For when the crisis had
narrowed SO that redemption or BETRAYAL
lay i'll his hands he did not rise equal to
the occasion! His veto of the tariff law
that violated the promise of his party and
his lnsistence upon genuine revision would
have held his party intact. AT least it
would have saved him from being engulf-
ed in the disaster. He flinched from the
test-shuffied and compromised There
fore, the extent to which he shares in the
reputation Of the party is measured by
the depth of the national conviction that
it is at his door that ultimate RESPONSE
bility lies. There is an element of pathos
in the early rejection of a man in many
respects so likable. so worthy Of admira-
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