Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-12
GIVES HIS
IDEA OF UPHEAVAL
Editor of the Magazine on Which
Roosevelt Is Employed Is
sues a Statement
REPUBLICAN ACTIONS BLAMED
Writer Says People Turned to the
Democrats from Abuses
Offered Under G. 0. P.
REPUBLICAN, ACTIONS BLAMED
Associated Pressl

NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-Dr. Lyman
Abbott, editor of the outlook, of which
Theodore Roosevelt is a contributing
editor, gave out today his CDR Abb
bott's) Interpretation of the recent
election, embodied in an editorial to
appear in the next issue of that pub
lication
Popular dissatisfaction with present
conditions, especially with the high
prices: indignation at the manifest
control by the special interests of the
tariff revision and still more at the
defenses and eulogies of the tariff bill;
wrath at the corruption and the hypo-
critical pretenses disclosed in certain
influential 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 indlf-
ference in an election, which to many
voters appeared to be a contest rather
between persons than between prlncl-
ples-an impression which a too per-
sonal campaigning tended to increase;
a general inclination in America to
make a change in political control from
time to time an inclination which the
political conditions that prevailed in
old states does much to justify; some
fears in certain quarters, not less
politically effective because wholly un-
defined, lest the spectre Of radicalism
should work havoc to business inter
ests; the fact that the Republican
party was divided between the insur-
gents and the regulars, While the
Democratic party freed from the tradi-
tions of Cleveland and the personality
of Bryan was for the first time in
years united-all these causes combined
helped to bring about a political reYo-
luton.
HE SEES NO REACTION
But do not believe the election in
dicates a reaction and a revolution.
The fact that in every state except In
diana, where there was a definite popu-
lar insurgent movement within the
Republican party, that party won in
the election; that in every state ex-
cept Pennsylvania, where there was no
such movement within the party or
where it failed, the Republican party
failed in the election; that with the
single exception of the senator from
Indiana, no senator who was retired by
failure to secure a denomination or re-
election represents the progressive ele-
ment in the party; that of the govern
nors elected a decided majority repre-
sent the progressive rather than the
reactiOnary element in their respective
parties, including such representatives
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-all indicate that the
election, which is a signal triumph OF
the namOcratic marty is not a defeat of
progressive principles and does not in
dicate a decadence of the progressive
spirit.
SAYS UPHEAYAL WAS EXPECTED
"Nor do I think the jack-o-lantern
bugaboo of Mr.. ROoseVelt'S imagined
monarchial ambitions cut any consid-
cradle figure in the election. The fact
that the greatest falling off in the Re
publican vote was in the state of
Pennsylvania, where his voice was not
once heard in the campaign, is sig
nificant if not conclusive on that point
1.-THE simple fact is that Demo-
cratic triumph was publicly predicted
by both Democrats and Republicans
eight months, ago and was forshadoWed
by the enforced retirement of Messrs.
Aldrich and Hale from the senate ana
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
heartened the progressiVes in his own
party, carried forward in his own state
the work of party publication so well
begun by Hughes and did something
to inspire with the spirit of genuine
and national democratic progress the
party Of his political opponents