Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-11-06
EXPECTED AND UNEXPECTED.

AIOT only has the expected happen
ed. but some elements Of the UNI
expected have also shown up
Wilson is elected with a big bunch OF
votes to spare. This was the expected,
even TO the bunch Of votes to spare
for practically from the commence
ment, from the birth Of the Progressive
party the defeat of Taft was certain,
and that Roosevelt could not win'
equally certain. "A house divided
against itself cannot stand,' says the
proverb, and the statement Is true OF
parties as we'll as houses.
The dispatches last night stated
Roosevelt had phoned his friends at
the Union club, ~ have annihilated the
Republican party" His taste in max
ing the statement may well be depre-
Gated, but while his statement Is some
what bombastic and exaggerated for
the G. o. P. Is far from being ami
hllated, he certainly hit It in the solar
plexus and gave 1t a couple of black
eyes, but It will recover, and is far
from being down and out.
Wilson is elected, and If Roosevelt,
as he claims, annihilated the Republic
can party, he at least, like Samson
when he pulled down the pillars Of the
temple, was buried in the ruins, and 1t
is not probable he can ever recover
fully from the effects thereof.
That he should boast Of destroying
the party that gave him the greatest
honor possible for a human being to
receive-the presidency Of this great
republic Of nearly a hundred million
peoples lacking in tact, gratitude
and good sense, for while II is in a
measure true, It was unnecessary for
him to remind the Republicans Of 1t,
for they will not forget It.
The unexpected that has happened
is the election of Democratic legisla-
lures in enough states that the COM
plexion Of the next U. S. senate will be
changed, and the Democratic party
will be in control of It. This is in a
large measure due to Mr.. Roosevelt
and the breach in the Republican par
ty caused by him.
The indications are that the next
lower house of congress will also be
Democratic and thus the whole gov
ornamental machinery will be in the
hands of the Democratic party, This
is an unusual condition of recent
years, and one that Is perhaps not en-
titrely pleasing to the politicians, fol
IL brings them, or at least the Demo
cratic portion of them, out into thu
open and leaves them nothing to hid
behind.
In a sense this Is a good thing TO
the common citizen. With n branc'
of congress in control Of the party op
posing the president, his hands ar
pretty well tied. If 1t is something h
wants to do, he Is prevented, and If
is something he does not want to dc
but that the people desire, the blam
is laid on the opposition. The senat
would not let him, or the house re
fused to stand in, is his Excuse an
that Of the other politicians. This
an excuse that has been Of inestimabl
benefit to the party in power but wit
ell three branches Of the law-makin
branch Of the government, the Dem'
ciats are for sure up against 1t. The
must make good, and for this reasoI
IL no other, they probably will, Tart
and all other party questions can,
the political results are as forecaste
be settled on a Democratic basis, an
tle country VIII SNpVVl Illo' III VNh'
words, It is up to the Democrats
"shoot or give up the gun" That the
action in reducing the tatriff will
along conservative lines is a certaint
but that there will be a revision Of
and that downward is as certain
anything human can be. The Dem
Gratis have apparently made a cle'
sweep, but they are not yet throul
sweeping,