Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-05

A review of the election returns from all parts
of the country study of special situations force
but one conclusion and that is that the Democratic
party through its national leaders and representative
men would be acting the part of wisdom by getting
together and formulating plan policy calculated
to restore or infuse harmonf and the public mind
For the lesson contained in Tuesdays election re-
turns is plain, and it is impressive The Republic
cans made gains in States End in sections where,
even in times when the Republicans were in flower
Democrats victories. and of splendid cali
bre and high principle such as Baldwin of Con-
necticut candidate for United States senator,
beaten by persons of lesser note and political ex-
perience.
These things cannot be attributed to the in
Europe, to the Mexican difficulties The results
are due to internal troubles to matters that strike
directly at the home and are close to the peoples
hearts.
Too many men are out of work, and employment
for women is hard to obtain And in the face of the
fact that sources of revenue have been reduced or
cut off entirely, the cost of living has increased
This is the hard cold situation that confronts the
people: little or no work. and this money,
with hungry mouths feed, clothing to buy, rent to
pay and other necessaries to be procured.
And while people praying and waiting for
better times congressman and senators enacting
laws wranging over prospective laws
What the people want is less lawmaking and more
work.
ind little consolation in knowing that the lawmaking
mills are busy while the manufactures and industrial
mills of the country idle
They yearn to see the smoke go up the chimneys
OF hives industry, and nothing for the ora
,orical smoke of statesmen.
High-sounding notes of patriotism and loyalty to
party leaders, and sweet phrases of holding up the
hands of the president and supporting his policies
may all right in their place, but they do not appeal
hungry out of work.
The political party in power in a hard times
period is the party that must stand for the knocks
and iolts and that is of the principal reasons
why candidates running the Democratic ticket re-
ceived the iolts and bumps last Tuesday.
The entire nation is in a state of unrest and has
been so since the men at Washington began
tnkering with old laws and framing new ones.
Manufacturers naturally closed their mills until
tain as to where they were at, Financers became
uneasy declined to invest capital while conditions
were unsettled As result employees were obliged
TO shift for themselves, and they blamed the Demo-
cratic party for their being out of work And they
voted against the Democrats last Tuesday. 1t was
their one way show their disapproval of conditions
Should the Republicans make further advances
and capture congressman and States, as they
gained control of the New Jersey Legislature last
Tuesday and secure complete control it will be
long long day before the Democrats will again be
restored to power.
For these and other reasons Democratic leaders
should get together adopt policy that will start the
mills of the going full blast accelerate bust
ness of every kind and give the capitalists feeling
of security of kind that will encourage them to
employed There no two ways about it, Demo-
Gratis must get together on common basis, or
else in a short time they will lose power and be out of
power for a long time.