Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-11
Popular Dissatisfaction With
Present Conditions and Indig-
nation at Tariff Revision.
THE REPUBLICAN, OLIGARcHY
Bnsaboo of Mr.. iooscvelt's Imagined
AIonarchical Ambitious Cut
Little Figure.

New York, Nov 11.--Dr Lyman Alb
bot, editor of The Outlook, of which
Theodore Roosevelt is n contributing
editor. today gave out his tDr. Alb
botts) Interpretation OF the recent cleo
ton embodied In an editorial to appear
5in5the next issue OF that publications: s
Popular dissatisfaction with present
conditions. especially with the high
prices Indignation at the manifest con-
troll by the special interests OF the tariff
revision and still more at the dcfenscs
and eulogies OF the tariff bill; wrath ut
the corruption and the hypocritical pre-
lenses disclosed in certain influential
Republican circles. coupled with the
iforsetfulness of the fact that the ex-
posture and the prosecution were fur
nished By Republicans; Il growing con-
viction that there was an alliance be-
tween the special interests and the Re-,
publican oligarchy. with the belief that
the easiest way to hit at 1t was by vot-
Ing with the opposition; Indifference in
an election which. to many voters. ap-
peared to be- n contest between per-
sons rather than between principles
an impression which too personal
campaign tended to increase: a general
inclination In America to make. II
change in political control from time
to time, an inclination which the poliu-
cal conditions that prevailed In old
states does much to justify; some fears
/ In certain quarters. not less politically
effective because wholly underlined, lest
the specter& Of radicalisIn should work
havoc to business interests; the fact
that the Republican party was divided
between the insurgents and the regu-
lars while the Democratic party, freed
from the traditions of, Cleveland and
first time In years united--all the
causes combined, helped to bring about
q political revolution, ss Is
WHAT NOT INDICATED.
But l do not think the election in
dlcates q reaction and a. revolution.
The fact that In every state except In
diana, where there was definite
popular insurgent movement within
the Republican party, that party Won
In the election; that In every state cX-
ccpt Pennsylvania, where there was
no such movement within the party or
where 1t failed, the Republican party
failed In the election: that with tho
single exception OF the senator from
Indiana, no senator who WAS retired by
failure to secure ,either,a denomination
or reelection represents the progress
sive element In the party: that of tho
governors elected a decided majority
represent the progressive rather than
the reactionary element in their respec-
tive parties, including such repre-
sent:Ltives Of progressive thought as
Woodrow Wilson on the Atlantic coast
and Hiram johnson on the Pacific;
that the insurgents are insurgents no
longer but are recognized as leaders
In the Republican party-nll indicate
that the election. which Is a signal tri-
umph of the Democratic party. is not n
defeat of progressive principles and
does not indicate n decadencc of the
progressive spirit.
Nor do think the Jack O'LanterI1
bugaboo of Mr.. Roosevclt's Imagined
monarchial ambitions cut any consider
able figure II the election, Tho fact
that the greatest falling off in the Re.
publican vote was in the state OF Penn
sylvania. where his voice was not once
heard In the campaign Is significant
If not conclusive on that point.
"The simple fact is that Democratic
triumph was publicly predicted by both
Democrats and Republicans eight
months ago. and was foreshadow by
the enforced retirement OF Messrs. AID
rich and Hale from the senate and by
the Maine election in September.
"Mr. Roosevelt was called in to
save the situation: he responded to the
call but could not turn the tide. He
did something more important, he
hcartened the progrcssiyes 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 tho; spirit of gen
uine and national Democratic progress
the party of his political opponents"