The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1914-11-12
WILSON ENDORSED
DECLARES BRYAN
REPUBLICAN GAINS DUE TO RETURN
TO RANKS OF eRooaEss,vEs
Dsiisvss Administration VIII Grow In
Popularity ~ Laws Go into Effect

Washington. Nov. l0.-Secretary Bryan
back at the state department yesterday
after his campaign trip west. issued q
formal statement summarizing the re-
suits Of tho elections and declaring that
they could not be considered otherwise
than an Endorsement Of President Wilson
and his policies.
Pointing to the slump of the Progress
sive vote a. the outstanding feature of
the election returns. Mr.. Bryan said this
had resulted In no change in the leader
ship Of the regular Republican ranks.
that Senator Penrose and former Speaker
Cannon would represent their party In
congress and that the Progresslves re-
turning to that party would have to &C.
cept all they had protested against and
more The statement follows:
Expected support
THE election Of 1914 cannot be con-
sidered otherwise than as an Endorsement
Of the president and his policies am
ss convinced Of the merits Of the rem
edial measures enacted under the presi-
dents leadership and Of the rtghteousness
Of his foreign policy that expected the
voters to support the candidates who
represented his Views. There were a
number Of causes which operated against
our party. namely. the efforts of bene-
ficiaries Of protection. who. out of resent
ment. sought 70 make the tariff law OBJ
noxiOus. the disturbed condition caused
by the European war and the fact that
the excellent laws passed by congress
had not had time to prove their worth
Then. too. more Progressives returned TO
the Republican party than we expected.
This alone accounted for most of the Re-
publican gains in the house Of represen-
tattves. The victory. however. was suf-
f'cientiy complete to show that the people
are with the president and he 10 now able
to continue the splendid program upon
which he had entered.
THE gains In the senate arc especially
gratifying. not single Democrat de-
feated for reelection and three senator.
ships taken from the Republican,.
There u every reason to believe that
the administration will grow In popularity
as the laws 90 into effect and g. Dsmo-
cratic laws bear fruit. The new currency
NV u Just beginning 70 operate. Before
! ~ next slsction Il win have vindicated
ID claim to public confidence.
THE new tariff law cannot be repealed
until after the people have had a chance
to try II out. and now that the election
| Is over. the protected manufacturers are
| already resuming work. Some Of them
suspended operations or cut down their
forces before the election and they did II
under conditions which left little doubt
that they had hoped to arouse opposition
to the new tariff law. Seeing that the
n IN ato
| ceed to demonstrate the fallacy of the
arguments which they used in opposing
| reduction.
"The presidents foreign policies are in
dorsed and his hands strengthened.
Rsturn 70 q. o. p.
THE outstanding fact In the late cleo.
ton returns is the slump in the Pro9res.
sive vote. A large percentage Of the
Progressive Republicans have returned to
the Republican party. and that too. with.
out any surrender on the part of the
standpatters" and the reactionaries
The leadership Of the Republican party
has undergone no changes. Senator PEN
rose and ex-Speaker Cannon will repre.
sent that party in the senate and house
and the returning Progressives must be
prepared to accept all that they protested
against and more. for the standpatters.
after having overcome the detection. are
even further from reforms than they
were two years ago.
The Democratic party deserves the
support Of all real Proxressives. and in
the next two years 1t will draw to itself
those Progressives who understand the
radical nature Of the issue which sep
arates the Democrats from the aristocrat
and the DlutOcrat"