Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-11
LYMAN ABBOTT
ACQUITs 7. R. OF
c. Q. P TROUNC|NG
Doesn't Think Strenuous Ones
{ Alleged Monarchical Aspira-
lions Were influential.
BI MES DISSATISFACTION
u II PRESENT CONDITIONS
Outlook Contains Long Edi-
torial, Not Written by Its
Contributing Editor.

NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-Dr. Lyman
Abbott, editor of the Outlook. of which
Mr. Roosevelt is a contributing editor,
today gave out his CDr Abbotts) IN
depreciation of the recent election en-
bodied in an editorial to appear in the
next issue of that publication:
Popular dissatisfaction with present
conditions, especially with the hlgh
prices, indignation at the manifest con-
troll OF the special interests of the
tariff revision and still more at the
d~efenses and eulogies of the tariff Dill;
wrath at the corruption and the hypo-
critical p%retenses disclosed in certain
influential republican circles, coupled
with the forgetfulness of the fact that
the exposure and the 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 1t was
by voting with the opposition; indif-
ference in an election which to many
voters appeared to be a contest rather
between persons than between prin-
ciples-an impression which a TOPPER
sonal campaigning tended to increase;
a general inclination in America to
make a change in political control from
time to time, an inclination which the
political conditions that prevailed in
solid States does much to justify; some
fears in certain quarters, not less po-
litically effective because wholly unde-
fined, lest the spectre of radicalism
should work havoc in business inter-
ests; 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 personality of Bryan,
was for the first time in years united
all these causes combined to bring
about a political revolution.
But l do not believe the election in
dicates a reaction and revolution. The
facts that in every State, except Indi-
ana, where there was a definite popular
insurgent movement within the Repub-
lican party which succeeded, that party
succeeded in the election; that in every
State, except Pennsylvania, where there
nc such movement within the party
OF where it failed, the Republican party
failed in the election; that with the
single exception of the senator from In
diana, no senator retired by failure
to secure either a denomination or a
reelection, represented the progressive
element in tn party; that of the govern
ors elected a decided majority repre-
sent the progressive, rather than the
re%actionary element in their respective
parties, including such representatives
of progressive thought as Woodrow
Wilson on the Atlantic coast and Hiram
johnson on the Pacific; that the insur-
gents are insurgents no longer, but are
recognized as leaders in the Republican
party-all indicate that the election
is a signal triumph of the Demo-
cratic party is not a defeat of progress
sive principles and Ices not indicate a
.decadence of the progressive spirit.
Nor do / think that the jack-o'-lan-
tern bugaboo of Mr.. Roosevelt's imag-
m~onarchical ambitions cut any con-
siderable 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
heard in the campaign, is sig
nifcant, if not conclusive. upon the
point. The simple fact is that a Dem
ccratic triumph was publicly predicted
by both Democrats and Republicans
eight months ago, and was fore
Swallowed by the enforced retirement of
Messrs. Aldrich and Hale from the SEN
ate and by the Maine election in Sep
tember. Mr.. Roosevelt was called in
TO a W the situation; he responded to
the call, but could not turn the tide.
He did something more Important;
hearted the Progressives in his own
party, carried forward in his own State
the work of party publication so we'll
begun by Mr.. Hughes and did some
thing to inspire with the spirit of gen.
uine and national democratic progress
the party of his political opponents"