Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-17
FORECASTS OF
u FALL ELECTIONS
Political Issues and Prospects in
the Nation as Viewed From Many
Different Angles.

DIueEGuL AHSleS.
Taking the country as whole. what
are the chances of the Progressives In
the senatorial contests this fall7 In q
of the 80 States holding elections, they
have, according to the latest tahulation,
candidates, while seven of the remaining
II are Southern States in which not even
the Republicans have thought 1t worth
! while to name men. The outlook cannot
| be called bright In any quarter. Although
| the PENNSYLVANIA Progressives are main
/ tanning that a vote for Palmer is a vote
! for Penrose, and those of Illinois that
| vote for Sherman is a vote for Sullivan,
| the Independents in these States will be
well advised to vote for the old party
! opponents of the two bosses They in
| evitably have the best chance of winning,
! In California, Francis j. Heney has a
strong following, hut he can scarcely do
more than so split the old Republican
vote as to elect the Democratic nominee,
| ex-Mayor Phelan, of San Francisco. In
a dozen other States, as Colorado, Iowa,
Indiana and Connecticut, the Progressive
candidacy Is looked upon merely as
strengthening Democratic hopes of sue
| cess, or as absolutely guaranteeing It. In
Utah, the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS fusion
candidate. J. II. Moyle, is a Democrat
of the fact that in so many States they
have been able to bring their party into
the field but 1t is altogether improbable
that the present party alisnment-52
Democrats to +3 Republicans-will be al
tered by the choice of Progressive Sena-
tors.-New York Evening Post.
II Roger Sullivan succeeds in being
elected United States Senator from I'LL
nois, II will be a success achieved in the
face of a redoubtable rebellion in his own
party and against the better Judgment of
a great majority of progressive Demo-
Gratis the country over. Seldom has a
regular party candidate faced so strong
a hostile demonstration among his own
partisans Plain Dealer.
The argument has been advanced that
the hest interests of the country demand
the reelection of a Congress in political
sympathy with President Wilson more
than II demands the election of Con-
gress avowedly hostile to the public Off
cial. To this the Hartford Courant takes
exception. 1t says: Instead of being
sound and disinterested public advice to
say that the next Congress should be sat
isfactory to President Wilson without re-
gard to whether II is good for the coun-
try or not, is nothing more than a per-
sonel plea. It does not rise even TO the
dignity Of a straightforward partisan
plea"
There need be no doubt about what has
happened TO Mr.. Bryan's one-term plank
in the Democratic platform. It is deader
than a doornail, and the Woodrow Wilson
candidacy for 1915 is responsible for It's
untimely ending.-New York Evening
Mail.
"By comparison Mr. Cleveland looks
like a befogged and hopeless amateur" |
The Washington Star tosses this remark I
off airily, as a sort NJ incident to a dis |
cussion OF Mr.. Wilson's command OF the |
political situation, and as II II were a
matter so universally conceded as not 10 |
be worth celebrating.
The honorable aspiration TO be chosen /
Governor Of Massachusetts lies between |
two men. and no more II lies between |
David I. Walsh who holds that office |
now and who is named again by the |
Democratic party, and Samuel W. Nc |
Call. the Republican nominee . . =. The |
only man whose candidacy seriously af- |
fsots the two who alone really contest for |
the leadership is Mr.. Walker. The cure !
of this evil rests with the Republican Yo-
tors OF Massachusetts, and With those /
progressives who cannot stomach this /
dog-in-the-manger busine eBs.-Lowell |
(hass) Courier-Cftizsn.
Precisely AT a time when the peopl. and .
opposition parties ara quite non-partlssn 4
on account Of the war President Wilson /
and his associates are more partisan and /
more regular" than at any other time /
since the Democrats assumed office. In .
every State. not excepting New York and
Illinois, President Wilson is either openly
or tacitly supporting the Democratic can
didatss for State office-as well as ma
tionsHirrespective Of their race. color or
previous condition OF servttude-St Paul
Pioneer Press.