Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-21
H|LLES PREDICTS
BIG REPUBLICAN
VICTORY IN 1916
National Chairman Says Party
viii Elect President, Also
Senate.

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.--"There is no
doubt Of the election of a Republican
President and Republican House in
1915. Nor is there any doubt in my
mind that we shall elect a Republican
Senate"
This declaration was made yester-
day by Charles d. Hilles, chairman
of the Republican National Commit
tee. 1t is based not on sentiment nor
hopes, but is the result OF a careful
study of the situation and with talks
with Republican leaders from all
parts of the country.
This Is what Chairman Hilles said
In his analysis of the situation look
ing forward 10 1919:
Not only VIII a Republican Presi-
dent be elected, but the party will
gain control of both Senate and
House. 1t requires no gift proph-
ecy to assert this; it is a logical de-
duetion from the recent election.
THE issue of 1914 was tho tariff,
and every State where the effect of
the Underwood bill had time to be
felt went Republican. Every great
manufacturing State and every great
labor centre repudiated the Democrat
it's record since it came into full con-
troll of the government. The disas-
trous effect of the new tariff has not
yet been fully felt in the great agri-
cultural States of the West, but even
there the reaction against Democracy
was unmistakable.
1.-THE revolt against Democracy is
not confined to business men. Labor
indicated very clearly in the last cleo
49, 3 he &c
prosperity is inextricably bound up
with the prosperity of business and
that employment and reduced wages
inevitably follow Democratic tariff
tinkering.
Labor and business will unite in
n common cause in 1916, the protection
of their own interests, and will join
hands in returning the Republican
marty to power The Wilson admin
istration has been essentially an anti
business administration, modifying its
policy only where legislation might
include the South in its adverse in
fluence. It's attitude has not been
merely one of distrust of business, but
of active hostility and antagonism.
There is no doubt of the election
of a Republican President and Repub-
iican House in 1915. Nor is there any
doubt in my mind that we shall elect
Republican Senate. Because the
Democrats increased their majority in
the Senate in the last election they
are inclined to believe that they can
save the upper house in 1916 from the
wreck which they foresee. Their be-
lief is founded on hope and not fact.
"Is there any doubt that New York
will send Republican to succeed Mr..
O'Gorman? The result of the last
election shows clearly that a Repub-
lican senator will succeed the present
representative of the Empire State in
the upper house.
MAINE is back in the Republican
column. and Republican senator is
sure to succeed Johnson. johnson
voted for the free trade provisions OF
The Underwood tariff bin, and he Will
be held accountable by his State for
the mischief it has made.
New Jersey returned to the Re-
publican column in emphatic fashion
in November, and no one will serious
ly contend that Mr.. MARITIME will sue
coed himself or be superseded by a
Democrat.
'.The fundamental factors in the
situation make certain Republican
victory. It was only short time be-
fore election that the great rapproche-
ment between President Wilson and
Colonel George Harvey occurred, and
it was heralded broadcast. Colonel
Harvey has been severe In his criti-
cism of the WILSON administration
heretofore, but the happy reunion
might be assumed to have softened
his attitude.
apparently, however, the colonel
is not disposed to dilute facts with
friendship, and in recent issue OF
the North American Review, OF which
he is editor, he assigned the follow
ing causes for the Democratic de-
feat last November:
Hundreds of thousands OF work
men are out of employment and have
been for months; manufacturing is
curtailed by lack of demand for prod
nets: business is worse than dull; real
estate is a drug: enterprise Is
estopped completely by the closing
of the exchanges; reductions in divi-
lends that have not yet been made
are anticipated; incomes are shrink
ing; hateful economies are being en-
forced in shop, store and household;
nobody perceives a prospect of oppor-
tunity to make money; everybody
feels moor, and nearly everybody is
What a picture is here presented
of the results of two years of Demo-
cratic rule