Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-10
Interest Felt Abroad in the
American Elections.
ENGLAND CLOSE OBSERVER
Roosevelts Participation Especial
Subject Of Comment.
WRITERS MUCH AT VARIANCE
Berlin Tageblatt Thinks Change in
Economic Policies of United
States Is Foreshadowed.

LONDON. November 1O.-England has
been an interested observer of the Amer
lean elections. particularly Mr.. Roose'
velt's part in them. The papers for weeks
have carried long dispatches of the prog
ress of the contest, as well as forecasts
SO the result has been no surprise.
The London morning newspapers prin;
long editorials on the subject. The Stand
ard thinks it an exaggeration TO describe
the federal elections crushing blow
to Roosevelt or an overwhelming disaster
to the republican party. Roosevelt, says
the paper. may pop UP again, while the
party. under President Taft might pull
itself together for a great effort in the
presidential election. Mr. Roosevelt's
fault. adds the Standard lay in the belief
that the party organism must instantly
be remodeled, and that he was the only
person to carry out the task. In a due
between a man and a machine 1t is not
generally the man who survives.
The Standard concludes: IF Mr.. Roose-
velt's achievements make no great show
ing he has done something to expose the
evildoerS at home and make the American
government honored among nations"
Country Gripped by Insurgency.
The Daily Graphic says: insurgency
clearly has gripped the country. The old
party system is perilously near the melt
ing pot, if it is not actually in it,"
The Chronicle sees in the result revolt
against protection.
The Morning Post says: 1T cannot be
said that the democrats owe the victory
to any positive merits of their own. Their
success must be attributed to the I'M
wi ~ rn1 hxr h. it,
and still more to divisions which weak
ened the once powerful party"
Roosevelt's Assumption Resented.
The Daily News says: MIR Roosevelt
took upon himself to reform American
politics without reference to any other
person or Influenza kind of assump-
ton from which the American form of
democracy fights shy
The Express says: Roosevelt encom-
passed his own failure. Intoxicated by
the passion of his own convictions and
overrating the influence of his personal
authority. he wrecked his party by the
indtscr1minate violence of his campaign.
The disaster was magnified by the follies
of the Payne tariff, for which President
Taft was largely 10 blame
Berlin Discusses Effect on Roosevelt.
BERLIN. November 1o-Newspapers
devoted much space TO the American
elections. which are deemed very i'm
portant.
Nearly all discuss the probable effect
upon Mr.. Roosevelt's future political in
fluence. Some think the new national
ISM Will not figure i'm party platforms
for the present. Others regard Mr.
Roosevelt's chances of securing the re-
publican presidential nomination in 1912
as slender. -. =
/! The Tageblatt's financial writer thinks
the democratic victories foreshadow q
change I'm the economic policies of the
United States.
Cost of Living, Say French Writers.
PARIS, November 1O.-The French
newspapers deem the American election
results of historic Importance. but con-
fess inability to draw conclusions regard
ing the political future. The writer's gen.
orally agree that the high cost of living
was the fundamental cause of the re-
publican losses.
The Temps thinks that the outcome was
due partly to split in the republican
party. for which Mr.. Roosevelt was
largely responsible. and in a measure to
the vengeance Of the pol teal bosses and
trusts upon Mr.. Roosevelt, though the
destruction of party lines was SO general
and the alliance of money interests and
the democrats so disconcerting that II Is
difficult to foresee the future. particularly
whether Mr.. Roosevelt's chances for the
presidency have been blighted.