The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-05
G. O.P. WAVE RETURNS
MANY OF OLD GUARD
Numerous Familiar Democratic
Faces VIII BE Missing in
Next Congress.
MOOSE FINISH PREDICTED

WASHINGTON. Nov. i--Whcu &c. -.,..
fourth Congress IL organized in D...a..-.
1915, many familiar faces will be ,t's..tr
in the two houses At the sam, '.,.
some old favorites who were ret|-.4 ID.
private life as n result OF the r.N.....u.
that marked the birth Of the rr.--.....
party will again respond to he .a. .s
duty
What is known as the odd Gul.I.
the Republican organization had I..
shedding in 1910. and many wer.
the political waysde Still others a. 10,
"Old Guard" were beaten in 1912, w.'t t..
result that in this Congress, wh.,u "
come to an end by constitutional .u.
tation on March 4 next, only a haul:I
OF the guardsmen were on the JOB 70
harass the enemy.
The punch and spirit so character site
OF Republican leaders in former days was
gone for the time, but yesterdays ele,.
lions return to tho new Congress men who
believe that the pendulum has swung back
and that in 1916 conditions will be ripe
for the election OF an old fashioned. high
tariff Republican President. They arc
convinced that Tuesdays election fur.
nishes ample proof that the nearly
100000 Republicans who walked out"
with Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 are
ready to call It quits and reaflliats vita
the Grand Old Party
So the old guardsmen. all OF them sworn
enemies OF Theodore Roosevelt are jub.,
liant, first, because they believe tho Pro
gressive party has gone up In smoke and
second, because they accept yesterdays
returns as foreshndowing the election Of q
Republican President two years hence
Notable Victims of Tidal Wave
Among tho conspicuous Republican VIC
Tins OF the Progressive tidal wave OF
1912 were Uncle Joe Cannon and william
b Mckinley OF Illinois Ebenezer @, Hi
Of Connecticut, Nick Longworth OF Ohio
w. a. Cslderhead OF Kansas, Cyrus sullo-
way OF New Hampshire and Dan Lefean
and Ben Focht of Pennsylvania. HILL
Longwor'h and Calderhead were members
OF the Ways and Means Committee which
framed in tho first instance the Republican
tariff law OF 1909.
1t was for their alleged sins IN con
necton with this tariff law that they
were thrown into tho political scrap
heap, although Progressive candid ites hal
something TO do with their retlremen
Candidate Roosevelt made special ef-
fort TO get" Mr. Mckinley in 1912. and
he succeeded. Mckinley had committed
she objectionable offence Of handling tbs
Taft preconvention campaign az tina,
year, and he was accordingly classified b.
Mr.. Roosevelt as an undesirable
Uncle Joe. Mckinley and Nick Long
worth and the other "reactionaries' M ~
toned romped home winners yesterdtt
and consequently old guardsmen m a.'
out OF Congress are elated. They reg-t'd
he return OF these veterans OF RepuN-
llcsn regularity" as svmptomat!c ~
signs Of the times. and royal Wel,o'
awaits their arrival in Washingtou
No less satisfaction is aiken los
regulars from the reelection OF Boz
penrose. Jacob II Galllugsr. W. T. b'
llngham and Frank II B~andeRrr. .'..
tors respectively from PeunsylNarl1. N,"
Hampshire. Vermont and tuuncc''.u'. .
rather significant that the four 1920.
-am'd and most OF The other He,uf
lican regulars who have b. IN rtturo,
made the tariff III" dominant Is-u. .
their C1fnpa ems