The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-12-02
CMail Special to The Advertiser
By Ernest q. Walker.

has stunned Washington. II was not /
unexpected but the force Of the thing 1
was severalfold stronger than antici /
pated Now that it is still several days
after the election, returns are coming |
in of additional Democratic gains. AS
the administration authorities and |
leaders recover, they are simply thank
ing their lucky stars that it was not
even worse
1t affords little Republican conso-
lation that for the next two years
there will be semblance of a majority
of that party in the senate. The land.
slide was so tremendous that it almost
, swept a Democratic majority into pow
err in the upper legislative branch. A
= State legislature was saved here and
there by a slender thread, notwith-
:. standing the fact that great strongholds
toppled. Democratic senators win be
0 elected in New York, New Jersey, West
$ Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and
i, Nebraska--all to succeed Republicans.
j The Republicans won Governor in
Nebraska and WI. have one branch Of
e the State legislature, but not a majority
on Joint ballot. old roclrbbed Repub-
, lican West Virginia elects a Governor
r for four years and so there was no con
n test on that Office this year. But the
Democrats have both branches of the
p State legislature.
S The Connecticut legislature was
saved to the Republicans, as was the
!, Massachusetts legislature. Both will
i have Democratic Governors and in the
a latter State it looks as though Senator
d henry Cabot Lodge, 'the scholar in
it politics, might be succeeded by some
other Republican. The New Jersey
e legislature is Democratic in only one
/ branch, which fact will retard the
1. Democratic program. But these crumbs
r of comfort are comparatively of a very
}. minor nature, when it is remembered
that New York will be Democratic
through and through, including all
State offices and both branches of the
legislature, as will Ohio and Indiana.
n Governor Harmon is reelected in the
President s home State by a plurality
of over 100000, phenomenal and un-
y precedented figure.
g Adjusting Itself.
IN Because of this and much more that
~ might be enumerated Washington is
IN promptly adjusting itself to the new
It, prospects, The veteran politicians are
d. full of "reminiscences about other land
IS, slides back to the days when Andrew
y Jackson came overwhelmingly into the
W Presidency. The administration gets
y crushing defeat, however the situa-
lie tion may be viewed. There is no gain
lg saying the fact that the President, who
ne hurried away the day after election tC
Panama, feels it keenly. He is going
to get that trip to the Isthmus, how
ay ever, and the Republican leaders who
Ii. tried to dissuade him from it, are now
resigned. They see that as matters
. have eventuated, it makes no particular
difference. There may be some advan
tage, on the other hand, in the Presi
dent being out of the country while the
settling down process is getting under
way. And it is not to be overlooked
that ex-President Roosevelt receives 8
terrific rebuke. No one has been able
yet to dig him out of the avalanche
The avenues of access to him at Oyster
Bay, WHICH were easy for newspapel
correspondents all during the campaign
Colonel has nothing to say.
Waited for Taft.
Washington awaits the return of tn
President. 1t transpires that there vii
be little doing till he is again at hi
: desk. Senators and Representative
are not Fastening to town, because the
know that it would be useless. N
: one is making any moves in further
I ance of the legislative program of tn
winter Chairman Tawney, of tn
house appropriations, who was defeate
for denomination, tarried at the capitC
for few hours the other day and the
started away, with a subcommittee o
appropriations, for the isthmian cana
:. They have an important task there i
scrutinizing conditions and making u
the items of appropriations for tn
! canal for the next fiscal year. A sui
committee has been making this joui
ney annually. They take the test
ndony of officials ON the Isthmus, in
stead of attempting to bring the off
cials to Washington, The procedure
the same as in making up all othe
regular appropriations, except that OF
fieials are summoned before the con
mittee in its rooms at the capitol.
The Democrats, naturally, will hay
. triumphal time of it this winter, a
though they will have no more votin
strength in congress for the next tire
months than they had at the last SCI
sion. The citation of victory will posses
them and they will spring to the wor
. of opposition with great yigor Blu
i they are not Fastening at all abou
It coming to Washington. APPARENT
; they, too, want the situation to settl
: little. They do not want to hav
:, to meet just yet great number q
d legislative questions, which are bein
IS discussed ia the papers
a Air Pull of Politics.
h. There will undoubtedly be maxim
8 up for lost time when the party eohori
y gather. Discussions will be fast an
d furious all winter long. The air wi
s. be full of politics. Before eongrei
y. has been long at its deliberations, ii
= new Democrats will be drifting dow
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