The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-26
A Safe pr,ediction.

n oWSSpn6 fNICIOTys lOE7 Iu6 hepuO-
licans in 1916 is the prediction Of
Charles D. Hillcs, chairman OF the
Republican National Committee. This
prediction has sound basis, says the
baltimore American and agreed to by
the Cumberland News. IT is but the
registering Of the peoples will as Ii
may be read in advance by any cold
critic Of the times and appraiser OF
political values, from the recent cleo
lions. The Democrats have heard the
sentence of destiny to set their house
in order because they shall die and
not live. They, therefore, are bent
upon getting as much out of their
brief tenure of rule as they may
But they cannot rSght the miserable
mistakes that they make in their
tariff legislation. This has caused
the party to go limping on its hip.
It has accounted for the failures and
fascos Of the administration In sew
eral directions. Something more than
fiascos and failures; for their INDUS
trial effect has been tragical.
The Republican party is bound, as
Mr.. Hilles says, to gain both Houses
and the president in the elections OF
1915, unless there comes some tre-
Hmendous reyulsion of feeling that,
under the conditions OF the worlds
present state, might occur. It is only
necessary to point toS the fact that
the issue Of this year was the tariff
and that, every state where the I'm
derwood tariff had been felt went Re-
publican. Even in the great agricul-
tural states the effects were unmis-
taxable. Labor has been given an
unpleasant object lesson of its de-
pendence for Its welfare upon the
tariff. This has resulted in the
movement Of labor toward the Repub-
ilican party with an impetus that can
not be. retarded.
The old dictum Of James G. Blaine
that the tariff is largely question
of wages. holds good. The American
people are accustomed to good living.
They have the right to live we'll. They
refuse to accommodate themselves to
other conditions at the behest OF tariff
doctrinaries. II all the theoretical
economists in the land were to de-
clare for such tariff as that now in
effect, the people would still violent
ly rise against it. They see, they
know beyond peradventure that q
protective tariff is the only American
tariff. They refuse to- be placed in
competition with the underpaid labor
of Europe. In addition to this re-
sentiment they now see the country
saddled with hundred million dollar
deficit tax on account of the kind Of
tariff law enacted by the Democrats
So that from the highest business cir
Gle to the lowliest Of war circles
community Of interest is swinging
the country irresistibly to the Re
publican party.
Mr.. Hilles isjconfident in his be-
lief that both business and labor will
unite in 1916 to place the Republi.
can party in power for another and
a long lease of high prosperity fol
all. The Wilson administration says
Mr.. Hilles, has been an anti-busi-
ness administration modified only In
its attitude toward interests in the
South.
This outlook for Republican sue
cess can be fortified by an analysis
Ol luc plS6Sut GUApphtllOu OIL Tue
Senate. This would show the Re.
publicans as foreordained to the con
troll of the upper House as they will
largely control the lower House. A
gain of nine seats in the Senate and
the vice president will in 1915 give
the Republicans control or the Upper
House The Democrats have shown
themselves pedantlc and didactic.
They have endeavored to rcvolu.
tionize the government by theil
measures and policies. The country
cannot be wrenched out of its &C.
customed grooves. The Republican
party stands first Of all for the In.
herent methods OF the republic and
after these are cared for, It is dis
posed to make experimentation with
caution The Democrats have sci
aside guiding experience and sough,
for strange devices.
Kansas, in 1918, mined 7,2o2. POI tons
of coal valued at SisA36 2g2