The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-06
What the Election Means.


Wilson, whose seal and certificate
We're everywhere relied upon as tho
prime credentials Of Democratic cans
didates, appears again in his actual
position as a minority president, says
the New York Sun. These ineluctable
facts stand out to every eye in the
election returns. What are the
causes Of the state of mind in the
electorate that the vote Of Tuesday
revealsG
From the beginning of the war the
Sun. in common with most Of the rest
of the American press, has refrained
from partisan structures sometimes
too we'll deserved, upon Mr.. Wilson
1t has shared in the feeling of COM
prehensiye and unseldsh patriotism
which united Americans. The reflex
OF the European disaster brought ex-
;igencies and responsibilities and
necessitated expedients OF national
scope. Party fences were broken
down. A common need required a
common effort. The administration
protected by an artificial and temper
AIRY. want pf opposition, seemed
stronger than It was. But If the
people and the press were mostly sill
ent, they had their opinions, expressed
so vigorously on Tuesday. They
have not forgotten that when inter-
national relations were most brittle
and International questions most
momentous, the secretary OF state, In
serted into the cabinet and kept there
solely for. reasons OF political expedi-
ency. was but a chautauquan spouter,
as ill-equipped as a man we'll can be
for the high and subtle duties OF his
post. They have not forgotten that
the secfetarygot the treasury in the
midst Of the gravest disturbances of
the financial and commercial world
was al slouuacious and cocksure
amateur With an explosive tempeta-
iment.
These gentlemen might be for
given; but the tariff, passed like most
of the other important legislation of
the long Congress by the personal
direction and voice; OF the president,
made lean the .pocketbook Of North,
East and West parts of the county
not always within the vision OF the
Democrats at, Washington. Factories
nailed up, workmen without work: a
tariff for a deficit only; on top OF the
business depression ..war'" taxes not
due to- war. the Offspring Of Demo-
cratic extravaganza and tariff bung-
ling.
II is the sage habit of the paladins
Of the only constitutional tariff to
sncer at 1.-THE empty dinner pail" All
the same, 1t makes a full Republican
voting urn at times Y. '3Ri,as'
II the North and the East and the
West are cold to the blessings Of the
new tariff, the whole country, with
the possible exception Of regions OF
the South which seek or receive a
special aid from the government, is
sick OF the long, costly war against
business. The evil practices, once
not SO regarded, that grew liplin great
corporations have been abandoned,
The men Who carry on, as far alb the
federal busybodies will let them, the
industries whose prosperity is vital to
that OF the nation are eager to cons
ply with the laws. Yet the spirit of
persecution still RACES against them.
Business is still to be boosted by
:sending somebody to jail" Remark
able business talent and success are
still crime. Mere malice ordains
proceedings, for old .otfenses or sus-
picion. The energies Of the govern
ntent are still turned to the injury,
and not the benefit, OF business. In
short, the Democratic party has not
got over its Populist infection:
Business demands to be let alone,
to make money lawfully, to 60 III
way on its own initiative and without
the everlasting infection Of federal
interference. Politics has been kick.