The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-11-01
CAMP PA|CN CLOSE
OF GREAT IMPORT
MORE THAN A CONTEST BE-
TWEEN DEMOCRATS AND RE
PUELlCANS OVER HOUSE.
NEW POLITICAL ALIGNMENT
Despite Party Designations and RP-
pearances on the Surface, Many
Vital Matters Are lnvolved-Condi-
tions Indicate Democratic Landslide.

tions Indicate Democratic LANDSLIDE
WASHINGTON. oct. 31.-The cam
paign, OF which this is the closing
week, Is more than contest between
democrats and republicans FOR control
of the next house. IT is a national
movement for a political realignment,
with the issue not always clean cut,
but complicated in some quarters by
a popular upheaval against the failure
TO revise the tariff downward, and In
other sections gummcd by local Is
sues, sometimes prohibition ana some
times state economies. All observers
agree that conditions indicate dem
ocratic landslide, with an apparent
certainty that the democrats VIII con-
troll the house and somewhat increase
their numbers In the senate. The
more cheerful of this party even hope
to see democratic control of the SEN
ate as a result OF the voting on Tues
day week.
Nobody really contends that the
prospective landslide means that such
"A multitude of voters have been CON
verted to cardinal democratic doc
trines. The most frank explanation
is that the probable political reversal
will be due to the great ethical up
heayal within the republican party IT.
. self. The wonderful fight for higher
&. political morality, and against corrupt
commercial political alliances, as con-
Quoted by the seven republican pro
gressNes in the senate and those In
the house, has touched the republican
conscience: created dissension within
/ the party" is the way the reaction
aries put il, while the democratic par
j ty generally has not yet been put to
the same test
While on the surface the campaign
IS being conducted in the name of the
old party, it is in fact and in heart
a struggle on the one hand for the
advancement and on the other for the
suppression of the progressive move
ment in politics, in which democrats
and republicans both are participating
sometimes openly and sometimes in
secret Thus In the states where the
republican progressiyes have triumph
ed the reactionaries are either sulldng
or will vote for democrats. In Iowa,
Ohio, Wisconsin and other republican
states the lineup of reactionaries with
/ the democrats to defeat the progress
siycs IS more or less under cover,
while in New York, where the issue is
/ perhaps most clearly cut, this ALI
ance is aggresslyely open.
What the result would be If the dem
ocratic party had fought out the same
issue everywhere with progressive
democrats as widely triumphant as
have been the republican progressives
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What for instance the result would be
in Georgia on Nov. $, II that state
were less overwhelmingly democratir,
Is likewise interesting to figure upon
The conservative and ultra conser'
yative republicans are not the only
ones whose hopes and succor is go
/ ing out to the democrats In states
where the reactionaries are in con-
| troll and are opposed by more progress
sive democrats, the republican pro
gessives are Just as effectively aiding
| the democrats rs are the reaction
airy republicans in other states, and,
| So really, the whole campaign is pitch
ed upon a new political alignment,
despite the party designations under
which It is being conducted.
Aside from this, the democrats
have a valuable aid in the bitter re
sentiment in some sections against the
Payne-Aldrich tariff, but democratic
congressman who have been on the
stump admit freely that the democrat
ic national campaign committee is con-
ducting a Eingerless campaign. 1t Is
doubtful whether such campaign
would enable the party 10 reap the
full benefit OF this resentment against
the tariff If It were not that the great
cr underlying struggle Of the cam
paisn Is preventing the republican par
" from making its accustomed unan,-
nous fight for victory at the polls
\ The latest news from Wyoming
showing that Senator Clark, chairman
Of the important state judiciary com