The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-12
ABBOTT SUMS
 UP ELECTION
Roosevelt's Associate Ex- plains Turn Over in State
 ment Perhaps Inspired
PRAISES THE EX-PRESIDENT
Finds Many Causes for Ac-
 tion of Voters Colonel Did Work of Importance.

statement regarding the election
 the Outlook. and as such the editorial
 associate, appeared in the New York
 Evening Post yesterday, which is re-
 garded as being quite probable the
 opinion of Col. Roosevelt himself on the election. As such 1t is of immense interest. The statement reads:
 Popular dissatisfaction with present
 conditions, especially with the high
 prices; indignation at the manifest
 control of the special interests of the tariff revision, and still more at the
 defences and eulogies of the tariff bill;
 wrath at the corruption and the hypo- critical pretences disclosed in certain influential Republican circles, coupled with the forgetfulness of the fact that the exposure and prosecution were furnished by Republicans; a growing conviction that there was an alliance between the special interests and the Republican oligarchy, with the belief that the easiest way to hit at it was by voting with the opposition; indiffer- erce in an election which to many vot- CTS appeared to be a contest rather between persons than between princi- pleS-an impression which a too per sonal campaigning tended to increase; general inclination in America to make change in political control from time to time; an inclination which the political conditions that prevail in solid States does much to justify; some fears in certain quar- ters, not less politically effective be- cause wholly undefined lest the spec ire of radicaIism should work havoc to business interests; the fact that the Republican party was divided between the insurgents and the regulars, while the Democratic party, freed from the traditions of Cleveland and the per sonality of Bryan. was for the first time in years, united; all these causes combined to bring about a political revolution
 "Rut I do not believe the election i'm dicates a reaction and revolution. The facts that in every State except In- diana, where there was a definite pop ular insurgent movement within the Republican party which succeeded, that party succeeded in the election; i; that in every State except Pennsyl- vania, where there was no such move ment within the party or where it failed, the Republican party failed in the election; that with the single ex- ception of the Senator from Indiana, no Senator, who was retired by fail ure to secure either a renomination or a reelection represents the progress sive element in the party: that of the Governors elected a decided majority represent the progressive rather than the reactionary element in their re- spective parties. including such repre- sentatives of progressive thought as Woodrow Wilson on the Atlantic coast and Bertram Johnson on the Pacific; that the insurgents are insurgents no longer, but are recognized as leaders in the Republican party-all indicate that the election which is a signal tri- umph of the Democratic party is not a defeat of progressive principles and does not indicate a decadence of the spirit.
 ''Nor do I think that the sjack-o'- lantern bugaboo of MT. Roosevelt's imagined monarchical ambitions cut any considerable figure in the election. The fact that the greatest falling off In the Republican vote was in the State of Pennsylvania. where his voice was not once heard in the campaign, is significant if not conclusive upon that point. The simple fact is that a Democratic triumph was publicly pre- dicted by both Democrats and Repub- licans eight months ago. and was fore shadowed by the enforced retirement of Aldrich and Hale from the Senate and by the Maine election in Septem- Der. MT. Roosevelt was called in to save the situation. He responded to the call but could not turn the tide. He did something more important; he heartened the progressives in his own party, carried forward in his own State the work of party purification so we'll begun by MT. Hughes. and did something to inspire with the spirit of genuine and national Democratic progress the party of his political op- ponents."