The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-11-05
IT'S ALL OVER.

It's all over, and while we mourn
our loss, we are going to copy Mr.. MI
cawber, and wait for something to
turn up"
1t was a sweeping democratic VIC
tory, and we have no theories on the
subject as to how it happened 1t
might have been one of those regular
"flops" which political history repeats
from time to time, but it is evident
that however it happened, it happened
very largely. We have the satisfaction
of knowing that Shoshone county was
not merely a sideshow to the main at
traction, for the same democratic vic
tories are reported from many other
states and counties.
Public opinion seems to have been
quite general in wanting something
the nature Of which it Is impossible to
guess Political landslides are practic-
ally unknown during periods of pros
perty. and it is perhaps the public
idea to get a return to prosperous
conditions. How they expect to do 1t
under the rule Of the party that has
been the prime factor in causing hard
times Is a knotty problem for the av-
erage citizen to figure out. 1t may be
that they want to give the democrats
full swing to see what they can do,
and If this is the case then all political
history for the next two years can be
prepared in advance, and future re-
publican rule of national affairs safely
predicted for 1916.
The democratic idea In this election
does not seem to have spread greatly
in the eastern states, and from incom-
plete election returns 1t is evident that
the republicans will recover at least
40 seats in the house, but none in the
senate. 1t means, however, that ma
tional affairs will be under democratic
control exclusively for the balance of
Wilson's term, and that he will have
plenty of opportunity to put his "12
foot shelf Of wisdom into practice. If
revision of the tariff downward and
the numerous other reforms fathered
by his party are prosperity makers for
the American people, then we may see
a further continuation of democratic
rule. A continuation of the present
hard times, however will hardly be
conducive to democratic success at the
polls in 1915, and from the history of
the tariff question it is impossible to
have prosperity under present tariff
schedules.
Our county politics locally concern
us, Of course, but without prosperity
in the nation we can not have prosper
ity at home. When the war is over
the chief excuse for hard times will
have passed and the democratic party
will have nothing to lean upon but its
broken tariff schedules, and this poor
prop will not bear the weight.
We predict return of prosperity
under the first republican administra-
tion returned to the White House, and
not before. and If the time is ripe for
this to be accomplished in 1916 we will
at the same time have republican rule |
in the majority Of states in the Union
including Idaho and Shoshone county |
The republican pill may not be all |
sugar, but there is so much less bit
ter stuff in II than in the democratic |
brand that the patient usually prefers |
it. or course. when a man is real sick |
or real well he is willing to try any
thing once This time the patient was
real sick from his last democratic pill,
and he thought another one might not
Kill him II II didn't cure him. 1t |
would be well for him to see the un-
dertaker and arrange with his politi-
cal conscience for the resurrection in
1916