Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-11-09
DEMOCRATIC LANDSLIDE
Republicans Lose Control Of
House And Roosevelt Is
FIatIy Repudiated
q. O. p. LOSSES ARE HEAVY
New York, New Jersey. Massachusetts,,
And Ohio All Go SOIidIy DemOcratic

The voters of the country repudia-
ted the Republican party and its
Payne-Aldrich Tariff and high cost
of living at the polls yesterday.
A Democratic landslide swept over
the country, carrying New York,
New Jersey, Massachusetts,. Connec-
ticut, Ohio and probably Indiana in
to the Democratic column. 1t was
more than a Democratic landslide.
1t was a tidal wave, that rolled from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. from the
Lakes to the Gulf, burying under an
avalanche of ballots Roosevelt.
ism," the New Nationalism, the
Taft Administration and the Payne
Adrich Tariff law, for which it was
held responsible.
The voters did not split hairs. The
sought the only way of giving full
expression to their resentment
against the Republican party and
voted the Democratic ticket. 1t was
a rebuke almost unparalleled in the
political history of the country. 1t
means a real revolt among the peo-
pie against Republican policies and
Republican performances.
Not only has the control of the
Republican party in the House of
Repres entatives, which it has held
continuously for eighteen years, been
wrested from it and that body turn
ed over to the Democrats, but in
all of the big, pivotal States of
the Union, where the Republicans
have for years been strongly in
trenched in power they have been
swept by vote so decisive as to
be crushing.
In the State of New York. where
the fight centered around one man
Theodore Roosevelt aud where the
issue was clean-cut as to whether the
people desired Roosevelt to again 90
to the White House or whether they
disapproved of his policies, they have
answered so emphatically in favor of
the latter that their votes not only
elected Dix, the Democratic candi-
date for Governor, by a large plu-
rslity, but apparently give the Demo.
Gratis control of the Legislature,
which means the election of a Demo
cratic Senator to succeed Chauncey
NJ. Depew.
To the President and the Taft ad-
ministration the result is scarcely
less humiliating The wiping out of
the Republican majority in the House
of Representatives is practically a
reputation of his administration and
his record. 1t ties the hands of the
President for the balance Of his
term; it takes from him his last
chance of redeeming the pledges of
his platform and regaining the conf
dence of the people.
Added to this is the reputation of
himself in his home State of Ohio.
Here he was the issue just as much as
was Roosevelt in New York. The
Ohio Republican platform indorsed
the Taft administration and contained
a plan declaring for Mr.. Taft's re-
nomination in 1912. The Republicans
made their fight in that State wholly
upon national issues. The appeal all
over Ohio was "Stand by Taft. "
That defeat for the Republican tick
ct would make it impossible for Taft
to get the usual second term; that it
meant his humiliation and defeat.
This was the plea, and yet Ohio
has reelected its Democratic Cover
nor. To save his own State the
President sent into Ohio three men,
bers of his Cabinet, who plead in
his name for an Endorsement from
his own people. This his own peo-
pie have refused to give Elm and the
significance there, as in New York,
is unescapable.