Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-11-15
THESE MAY BE RO0SEVELYS
VIEWS, By PROXY.

News from Oyster Bay is all to TIE
effect that "I' is keeping himself rig
sdsy mserAAea trem the ao@assAe ~orai,
that the servants meet all Corners with
a strict injunction to depart and spare
not time in the going. The master of
the establishment is reported as spend
ing his entire time in the library, when
not asleep. Whether he is Analysing
the election returns does not appear.
ut may be that he finds solace from re-
cent political disappointments in lit
erary pursuits, that, unable to kill
Democracy, he is Strengthening "a few
more lions in a revised special chap
ter on how he and Hermit ,annjliliatea
the animal Kingdom in Africa.
But while nothing comes from TIE
Colonel personally there are views ex-
pressed from the Office where he
ranks as associate editor of The Out
look" that imply that he is speaking
by proxy. DIR. Abbott gives vent at
length to his views of the election, and
in a matter of such grave Importance
1t Is hardly possible that the senior
editor would publish views at variance
with those OF the junior, but more
prominent, editor. Then, too, while it
to eliminate himself from the list Of
causes Of the slaughter of Republican
hopes, 1t would be perfectly pardon
able for the senior editor. fhy and with
his consent, to so eliminate him. And
that is what good, old DR. Abbot does
in the current issue OF the periodical.
He says, Tn part:
Popular dissatisfaction with present
conditions especially wit1 the high
prices; indignation at the tariff re-
vision and still more at tire defences
and ealogies of the tariff bill, wrath at
the corruption and the hypocritical
pretences disclosed in certain infiuen-
tial 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 it 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 too
personal campaigning rendered to in
crease; a general inclination in Amer
lea to make change in political con-
troll from time to time, an inc .ination
which the political conditions that pre-
vail in solid States does much to JUS
tify; some fears in certain quarters,
not less politically effective because
wholly nndefined, less the spectre of
radicalism should work havoc to bus
mess interests; the facts that the Re-
pub lean party was divided between
the insurgents and the regulars, while
the Democratic party, freed from the
traditions of Cleveland and the per-
sonahity of Bryan, was for the first
time In years united-all these causes
combined to bring about a political
revolution.
But do not believe t1e election iu-
dioates a reaction and revolution The
facts that in every State except Indi-
ana, where there was a definite pop
ular insurgent movement within the
party which succeeded,
that party succeeded in the election;
that in every State except Pennsyl-
gania, where there was no such move
ment witdn the party or where it
Safled, the Republican party failed in
he election; that with the single ex-
,eption of the Senator from Indiana
no Senator who was retired by failure
o secure either a denomination or a
reelection represents the progressive
element in the party; that the Cover
1ors elected a decided majority repre-
;ents the progressive rather than the
element in their respective
parties, including such representatives.
4 progressive Thought as Woodrow
Wilson on the Atlantic coast and Hir-
I'm johnson on the Pacific; that the
insurgents are insurgents no longer.
put are recognized as leaders in the
party-all indicate that the
siection which Is signal triumph Of
he Democratic party is not defeat of
progressive principles land does not in
licate a deeadenee Of the progressive
lpirit.
Nor do l think that the jack o. Ian Z