The Washington herald., 1914-04-10
PRESS ON ELECTION RESULTS.

| New York Tribune: Much was heard
| during the campaign of the Panama
| Canal tolls issue But il is inConccivablC
| that 1t had much influence with tho
| voters. Paterson and Passaic, the chief
! Icenters OF population in the Congress dis
trict, are manufacturing towns. What dc
mill workers care whether American
coastwise shipping goes through the Pan
anna Canal free or not? Would the issue
Of remitting tolls make Socialists? Yet
| the growth of the Socialist vote is as
striking a phase of the election as the
decline OF the Democratic vote.
New York World: While the Demo-
cratic majority stood firm in support OF
the President it was invincible. The
minute that a faction of the party under
the leadership of Champ Clark and Sena-
tor O'Gorman decided that the profits of
subsidy-seeking ship monopoly were
more important than the principles of the
Democratic party or the triumph of a
Democratic administration, trouble be-
gan.
No sooner was the issue Joined in the
Seventh New Jersey district than the Pro-
gressfves threw over their own candidate
and marched back to the Republican
yanks. This is what will happen in
scores of Congressional districts next fall.
and a divided Democracy cannot success
fully resist a reunited Republican party.
New York Evening Posts Yester-
days special Congressional election in
the Seventh district of New Jersey is
fairly interpreted as a check to Presi-
dent Wilson. The thing is not very
serious and the result is easily to be
explained. To start with, the district
is normally Republican, and Bremner
won il for the Democrats in 1872 only be-
cause of the Progressive split. In that
year the Progressives polled AIS votes,
Yesterday they cast but 6l9. Moreover. a
strong Socialist candidate figured in the
voting yesterday, receiving over 1000
votes With most of the Progressives
obviously going back to the Republican
party, and with many votes taken from
the Democrats by the Socialists. the Re-
publican victory was foregone. This was
the more to be expected since an uncom-
monty full vote was polled. 2l,65 yester-
day as against q, 402 in 1912 The truly
significant thing was the nearly complete
disappearance of the Progressive vote.
This, too. was the marked feature of the
special Congressional election in Boston,
yesterday. where the Democrat won. Two
years ago the popular Progressive candi-
date got 5000 votes, Yesterday the same
man received but 3,592. 1t is only fair
to note that the total vote was but a
little more than half tina polled in 1912.
But the Progressive shrinkage remains
ominous.
New York Herald: Highly significant
in this district, as in all other elections
since 19l2-is the slump of the Progress
i've vote. Mr.. Roosevelt carried Passaic
County over Mr., Wilson, polling IL, ,70l
votes. The Progressive nominee in yes
terday's election proved an altogether
negligible quantity. his vote being hardly
worth the coming.
New York Times; In some quarters
the gratuitously foolish comment is
that il is in particular a rebuke to
President Wilson for seeking to secure
repeal OF the canal tolls exemption.
The election Of a Republican candidate
in this district is in no sense a personal
''rebuke'' to President Wilson It II