Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-11
Shall The STUART? DR.. ABBOTT'S VIEWS
Board Of Education Confront Editor OF the Outlook Explains
ed nv Vexinu Problem. Democratic Landslide.
HEAD OF DISTRICT SYSTEM NOT REACTION, HE SAYS
Present suprnnden May Triumph of Insurgents
Given Another Term Beverdge Excepted.
OTHER CANDIDATES IN VIEW ROOSEVELT NOT TO BLAME
Posh1i President acquitted
+ Rut ousiders Are Under Responsibility
ConHde His Party
Editor of the Outlook Explains
Democratic Landslide.
NOT A REACTION, HE SAYS
Points to Triumph of Insurgents,
Beveridge Excepted.
ROOSEVELT NOT TO BLAME
Former President Is Acquitted OF
Responsibility for Disaster to
His Party.

NEW YORK. November 11.-Dr. Ly-
man Abbott. editor of the Outlook, of
which Mr.. Roosevelt is a contributing
editor. today gave out his CDR. Abbott 81
Interpretation of the recent election en-
bodied in an editorial to appear in the
next issue Of that publication:
1.-The popular dissatisfaction with pres
ent conditions, especially with the high
prices; Indignation at the manifest con-
troll of 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 hypocritical pre-
lenses disclosed in certain influential re-
publican circles. coupled with the for
getfulness of the fact that the exposure
and the prosecution were furnished by
republicans; growing conviction that
there was an alliance between the Spe-
cial interests and the republican Oil
garchy; with the belief that the easiest
way to hit it was by voting with the op-
position: Indifference in an election
which, to many voters, appeared to be a
contest rather between persons than De-
tween principles-an impression which
too personal campaign tended to
increase a general inclination in America
to make change in political controi
from time to time, an inclination which
the political conditions that prevailed In
solid states does much to justify; some
fears in certain quarters. not less polti-
cally effective because wholly underlined,
lest the specter of radicalism should work
havoc to business interests: the fact that
the republican party was divided between
the insurgents and the regulars, while the
democratic party, freed from the traol-
tions of Cleveland and the personality OK
-, ~ G,.-N IN q
united-an these causes combined to bring
about q political revolution.
Doesn't Indicate Reaction.
But I do not believe the election indi-
Gates a reaction and revolution. The facts
that in every state except Indiana. where
there was a definite popular msurgent
movement within the republican party
which succeeded, that party succeeded In
the election; that in every state except
where there was no such movement with
in the party. or where 1t failed. the re-
publican party failed in the election;
that. with the single exception of the SEN
ator from Indiana, no senator who was
retired by failure to secure either a re-
nomination or a reelection represents
the progressive element in the party;
majority represent the progressive rather
than the reactionary elements in their
respective parties. including such repre-
sentatives 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 of the re-
publican party, all indicate that the cleo
ton, which Is signal triumph Of the
democratic party, is not a defeat Of pro-
gressive principles. and does not indicate
Frees Roosevelt Of Blame.
Nor do think that the jack-o' lantern
bugaboo Of Mr.. Roosevelt's imagined
moparchial ambitions cut any considera-
BILE figure in the election. The fact that
the greatest falling OF in the republican
vote was In the state of Pennsylvania,
where his voice was not once heard in
the campaign. is significant II not con-
elusive upon the point. The simple fact
is that democratic triumph was publicly
predicted by both democrats and republic
ans eight months ago and was foreshad-
owed by the enforced retirement Of Mr..
Aldrich and Mr.. 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
heartened the progressives in his own
party, carried forward in his own state
the work of party publication SO well
begun by Mr.. Hughes, and did something
to inspire with the spirit of genuine and
national democratic progress the party of
his political oponents."