Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-04-14
With THE EDITORS


ABSt KID KEPt BIltAN CLAIMS
The Republican newspapers generally
are swearing that the defeat Of the Dem
%ocraiic candidate for Congress in the
seventh New Jersey district constitutes
ia TREMENDOUS slap al the Wilson admins
~traiion. And all because the Republican
elected succeeds a very popular Democrat
who died recently. These papers do not
say thai the Democratic member who died
lacked loo of reccivi NJ a. MANY votes
rs his Republican and progressive oppon-
cnts. They do not tell YOU that Passaic
county. ia which the city of Paterson il
situated. gave in the aggregate for Mr..
Taft and Mr.. Roosevelt 5000 votcs more
than il gave Mr.. Wilson.
PaSsaic county forms the Seventh Dis
trict Of NGw Jersey.
Looked NJ in that light. ID il not sur
prising that a candidate receiving the
united Republican vote III PaSsaic county
should receive more votes than the Dem
~ocratic candidate.
Passaic county has always been d re-
publican county. and where the Republic
can party j. united il may be- depended
upon to give a Republican candidate for
Congress a majority.
Ii rcpudiatcd Mr. Wilson's %administra
ton. his free tolls policy. did il.
Who were the people who did il:
The census reports will tell YOU that
nearly 90 per cent Of the population Of
PasSaic county are foreigners from the
Latin region of Europe. They will tell
YOU hat "A very large percentage of this
foreign born population Of pasSaic county
- illiteratc. and that il does not know
anything about the tolls question or any
other policy Of the Wilson administration
Further investigation will disclose the
information that the majority Of the vot-
crs of the PasSaic district work in the
mills. that political boSsism j. rampant
and that the bosses control the electorate
Ia ~ large an extent there as they have
cvercontrolled il elsewhere in the country.
That the result in the Passaic district
was due To any intelligent approval ri
the Wilson policies is prepoStcrous. The
Democratic candidate received practical
In aS large a vote aS BrcmIlcr received
and about the same percentage of the 10.
tai vote that Mr.. Wilson received in 1872.
If there j. any Significance i'm the re-
suit III all. ID il the reminder ID gives that
the Passaic district and the State Of New
Jersey are normally Republican when the
Republican party IL united. n il was in
The recent election. Mr.. Wilson received
but il.2.2 per cent Of the total vote in
1917. AMI would have lost the State bv
nearly 60.EW plurality if the Republi-
cans had been united on either Taft or
Roosevelt.
The people who voted for Mr. Wilson
in 1912 approve his administration poll
cics in the main. Not only that. there are
reasons Ia believe that hi> administration
has greatly strengthened the party.
Ii j. the custom of political srntincls
on the watchtowcrs 10 affect that they
see Indications Of great drifts Of scnti
mcnt when these scattered elections are
held. hut AZ a matter of fact they see no
thing. and what they shout - Justify II
hut little more than b%unconie. Whenev-
or il becomes necessary for us Ia 60 To a
single district in order To gauge Amcri
can sentiment. il j. not probable that any
intelligent person would pick out the Pas
saic district. where a majority Of the vot
ers can not even speak the English Ian
guagc.-Houston Post.