Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-11-21

m stated. democratic estimates place
i as high as 80, Republicans as 10Y
as IL.
According to the New York Her
> aids figures there will be 2z9 Dem
: ocraLs, 1876 Republicans, Progressive
: one Socialist and one Independent
! Senatorial contests in Colorado, Ney
ada, and Wisconsin were III doub
several days after the election. Ii the
Democrats are successful in These
states they will have a Senate major
ity of IL, net gain Of four.
10 Republican papers the Republi
can successes in so many states IA.
Congressional districts mean just one
thing-a EeDuke to the Wilson Admin
istration. This is the Interpretation
OF such dailies aus the New ork Iri-
bune, Boston Transcript, Baltimore
American, Philadelphia Press, Pitts
Durg Gazette Times, st. Louis Globe
Democrat and San Francisco Chron-
lcle. Even the war, say several OF
these editors, did not prevent the VOt-
erS from showing their disapproVal,
though they add that it may have kept
the condemnation from being more
complete. Mr.. Wilson, declares the
New York Tribune, has been judged
in most OF the big Industrial and com
mercial states on his record az a DIS
turber OF business and a banisher OF
prosperity independently OF the eff
fects of the European conflict" More
, over:
1T was he who warred on business
little as we'll as big, long be ore the,
European fighters took it into their
heads to do the same y. His poll
cies created unrest from which the
country has suffered ever since it be-
came known two years ago that the
Democratic party had been restored
to power in all the departments of the
government.
Yesterdays elections were popu
lar verdict against Mr.. Wilson's atti-
Jude and achievements. y
Making practically the same ar
ment, the Boston Transcript observes
that the people have seen through
Democracy's Sham slogans, and re-
alize that prosperity at home has
proved to be purely psychological,
peace in or with Mexico a colossal
fake, and the setting of business free
one of those numerous figures of
speech with which Mr.. Wilson de-
lights to adorn his rhetoric.
Turning from two parties which
claim a victory to one whose candi-
dates ran no better than third, except
In California and in cases where they
fused" and which polled so small
vote in some states as to lose its par
ty rights, there is little explanation of
fered. Taking issue with the many
who see the end of the Progressive
party i'm last weeks election, a New
I DIRK Progressive writes to the Tr-
Oune (Rep.) to say that in New York
the Progressives simply voted for
Whitman to defeat Tammany-"you
viii be surprised at their strength.
One of the few out,and-out Progress
'ive papers which try to explain the
slump by which so many able cand
iates We're humiliatingly defeated is
he Chicago Post. 1t says:
1.-THE plain fact is that under the,
depression of war, the people did not
md would not discriminate between
he Progressive and the Republican
Program. They were against the whole
economic plan. To hit it,
eized the most familiar and the most =
destructive weapon they could find
Such is the opinion OF the Phila-
elphia North American (Prog.),
'hich, though bitterly disappointed
y the ''indelible shame of the re-
lection of Senator Penrose is forced d
0 the conclusion that thousands of =
voted with the old party d
ecause of their conviction that the F..
wilson Administration had undermin-
d the protective policy Revolutions, i
remembers, always have an eco Il
omic basis the human desire for =
read is still more potent than the Z
earning after Righteousness. " The a
lew York Evening Mail, New York's q
lost active Progressive paper, seems
} have followed such arguments to
heir logical conclusion, and to be t,
eady to campaign under the old ban !.
err. For it said, the day after an cleo Il
on so disastrous to Progressive s.
opes: j
The result means that the battle Z