Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-05

A LII sorts Of explanations will be made Of
4 1.-the elections on Tuesday. The streets in
front Of the bulletin boards here were filled
with men and women, a dense mass inter-
ested In the results and apparently without
emotion, judging from the general silence
that prevailed. When he started out as
President Mr.. Wilson let it be known that he
did not care a fig about the public sentiment
OF Washington, did not want to hear what
Washington thought but would like the
newspapers to bring into Washington the
sentiment Of the rest of the country and re-
lay II here for the information of the gen
| eral public. 1t was claimed by a prominent
man who has lived here many years that
there never was a greater mistake, as WASH
ington is the clearing house of the true sem
tlment of the country. There is doubtless
good deal In that view.
! TXTHEN the returns were coming in elec-
w tion night the enormous crowd In front
of the Star bulletin board cheered but once,
and that was when this statement was
thrown on the screen: "The indications are
that Republican has been elected to Con-
gress from the Presidents own district" and
that little demonstration was interpreted by
many as expressive of the sentiment of the
people of the District toward the President.
Many of the leading citizens" do not under
stand the attitude OF the President who is
supposed to be committed to the principle of
local self-government toward the Districts
why the people living here should not be con-
suited in some degree at least as to the con-
duct of public affairs in which they are inn
medately interested; why men should be set
over them in their government without their
consent why, in word, the District should
be made the dumping ground of political
Ha Ao1 Atr-I,
places in their respective States. The people
of the District, however, respect the Presi-
dent very highly for his great ability his un-
doubted courage, his wonderful self-control
but they cannot understand why he should
not respect them to the extent of giving them
some say-so in the management of their own
affairs, which are not negligible seeing that
Washington is city of over $4,000 in
habitants.
THIS, however, is mere interpoation--the
i general topic is the elections last Tues
day. ]. A. Emery, general counsel of the
American Manufacturers Association, has
been resting from his work with Mulhall and
the lobby last winter by making a tour to
the Pacific slope, and he was an interested
looker-on at the bulletins Tuesday night and
explained the outcome by saying: "The un-
employed are voting. They are the people
VINO are recording the verdict. There are
tens Of thousands without work, and they
charge their msfortunes and the business
depression throughout the country to the
party in power"
OTHER men of Mr.. Emerys way Of think
" ing naturally take the same view and fail
to accept the opinion that the conditions in
the United States have been affected chiefly
by the war in Europe. They say that un-
questionably the war has had an influence
upon the course of business and industry,
but Insist that the country was on the tobog-
gan before the war began. There may be
some question to the extent of the dam
age done to our Industries and commercial
activities by the disturbances in the Old
World, but there can be little difference of
opinion as to their effect on our political
affairs. Only last week one of the most
ardent supporters of the President who came
over here from New York expressed the
opinion that the European war had, in fact,
saved the Democratic party from overwhelm-