The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-10
BULL MOOSE HAVE LOST THEIR FIGHT,
 SAYS SEC. BRYAN
MUST NOW ACCEPT FROM STAND PAT LEADERS THE POLICIES THEY FOUGHT.

Washington. Nov. 10.-Secretary Bryan, back at the State Department yesterday after his campaign trip West, issued a. formal statement sum narizing the results of the elections and asserting they could not be con sidered otherwise than as an indorse- ment of President Wilson and his policies.
 Pointing to the slump of the Pro- gressive vote as the outstanding fea- ture of the returns. Bryan said this had resulted in no change in the lead ership of the regular Republican ranks; that Senator Primrose and former Speaker Cannon would rep resent their party in Congress, and the Progressives returning to that party would have to accept all they had protested against and more.
 ''The Democratic party deserves the support Of ali real Progressfves and in the next two years it will draw to itself those Progressfves who under stand the radical nature of the Issue which separates the Democrat from the arfstocrat and the p1utocrat, says Bryan.
 The statement in part follows: :
 .sThe election of 1914 cannot be considered otherwise than as an i'm dorsement of the President and his policies. T. am so convinced of the merits of the remedial measures. en- acted under the Presidents leadership and of the righteousness of his foreign policy that [ expected the voters to support the candidates who repre- scented his views.
 There were a. number of causes which operated against our party namely, the efforts of the benef1ciarfes of protection, who out of resentment sought to make the tariff law obnox- ious; the disturbed condition caused 11xy a that the excellent laws passed by l Congress had not had time to prove their worth.
 .sThen, too, more Progressives re- ] turned to the Republican party than we expected-this alone accounted for most of the Republican gains in. the House of Representatives The vic 1 tory, however, was sufficiently conn 1 pIete to show that the people are i with the President. and he is now l able to continue the splendid pro- l gramme upon which he has entered The gains in the Senate are espe- l ciaIly gratifying-not a single Dem ocrat defeated for reelection and three senatorships taken from Repub- I 1icans
 ssThere is every reason to believe l that the Administration will grow in 1 popularity as the laws go into effect and as Democratic policies bear fruit | ming to operate; before the next cleo I ton it will have vindicated it's claim l to public confidence.
 The new Tariff law cannot be re- l pealed until after the people have had a chance to try it out, and now thai l the election is over the protected man l ufacturers are already resuming work I Some of them suspended operations ol l cut down their forces before the cleo I tion. and they did it under conditions which left little doubt that they hoped to arouse opposition to the new Tarff law.
 Seeing that the law is here to stay they will now proceed to demonstrate
 the faIlacy of the arguments whicE they used in opposing reduction.
 5sThe Presidents foreign policies ar'
 indorsed and his hands strengthened
 s9The outstanding fact in the lat.
 election returns is the slump in thu
 Progressive vote. A large percent
 age of the Progressive Repu b1ican
 have returned to the Republican part.
 and that, too, without any sl1rrende'
 on the part of the stand d-patters alls
 the reaeti onarfes. The leadership O
 the regular Republican party has un
 dergone no change.
 ssSenator Penrose and ex-Speake
 Cannon will represent that party il
 the Senate and House, and the return
 ing Progressives must be prepared |
 accept all that they protested against
 and rnore. for the stand-patters, af sl ter having overcome the detection, ar even further from reforms than the, .I were two years.''