The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-11-05
THE ELECTION

Tuesdays election resulted in a
severe setback for the democratic
party. The republicans gained at
least fifty seats In Congress and won
back several states that went demo-
cratic or progressive two years ago.
The progressive party came very
near getting lost in the shuttle Most
of the progressives seem to have
gone back into the republican fold,
or abstained from voting.
The result shows the republican
to he the same old standpat, reac-
tionary party of high tariff and spe-
cial privilege it has been for the last
thirty years. The oId-timers and
spoilsmen like Unc'e Joe Cannon and
Boies Penrose came to the trout
again
The Star is neither surprised nor
discouraged by the result 1t is, in
fact, gratified to see that the party
has done so we'll
Congressional elections two years
after a presidential election general
ly go against the party in power.
And the democrats have had special
reason to lose in this. election. To
begin with, in presidential election,
there is always a large vote of the
discontented against the party in
power. Such people vote not in the
spirit of commonsense or patriotism
but in the expectation of some ben
eft to themselves. IF they are dis
appointed, and they almost always
are, they vote the other way two
years later.
pledges, and the attempt to make
them good was bound to cause dis
turbance and business depression.
The country was sick for needed leg
islation. The democrats gave dras-
tic medicine instead of soothing
syrup, and like all other patients
the country is ungrateful. 1T will
feel better next year, but it is off its
feed now.
The war has contributed some
what to republican gains. Not a few
people have blamed the administers
ton for the consequent depression,
which they are not sufficiently well
| informed to understand would have
been much worse but for the states
manship of the president and other
democratic leaders The absolutely
! necessary war tax has contributed to
democratic appropriately. Also, the
Star has no doubt that the unseen
" clamor of some southern senators
and congressman for special legisia'
ton for cotton growers has cost the
party some votes. The northern
people have not yet recovered IRON
the idea that special legislation Ii
i permissible only for themselves.
i LAS for the result in New York, l
j is not a defeat for the administra
, tion, but to Tammany, whose per
nicious influence always becomes to-
/ rank for the state to stand as sool
as it has been in power year o
two. The republican candidate
Whitman, is a man of exceptions
ability and character, and Glyun,
i nonenity himself, a beneficiary Q
e the un4American tactics employee
: against Sulzer, was regarded a
s merely Murphy's tool lit was dnev1
5, table that the decent people of tn
r state should vote just as they did.
d lit is worthy of special note ths
e Tennessee has gone back into th
5. fold, Rye the democratic candida
1t defeating Hooper, who has been go
r ernor for four years. Hooper b.
:, made an excellent governor, and h
k. defeat is more for party than pc
t. sonal reasons.
ey From the latest returns, it seen
to that the democrats have retained
st good working majority in The Hou
st of Representatives, and the st
It thinks that when all things are co
of sidered that the party should be e
AL couraged rather than discouraged
& the election. We may be sure til
lie those who voted the democratic tic
in ct this year have followed Woodr,
Wilson from principle, and not 1
the loaves and fishes.