South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-11-06

Revolt against hard times is the
republican explanation Of the election
returns. The man out OF job OF ON
half time voted against the admins
tration." say the wise ones.
This is the only thing they ca. To
have Kim know how to do-yote
vote To- return To 'things-as-tney-
were-whon- he had-a-job.
That is the answer in Sew York.
Pennsylvania ohio. New Jersey, New
England. and the great industrial cen
ters OF the country i'm the east and
middle western states generally
The election returns can be eX-
planned i'm the light Of misguided con
ceptions Of menstrual conditions al
most entirely. 1t is not necessary 10
90 into any refinements as TO local is
sues. Just examine the particular part
of the country and see whether the
people have thought good OF bad
times and the vote viii show, IL for
good times. an endorsement of things
as they are. or at least not a vote of
return to- reaction while If for bad
times. protest AGAINST things as they
are and "a vote OF repgdiation
The further west one goes the less
the reaction against the Wilson adj
mnistration
This is due Go the fact that travel
ing west one gets away from factory
conditions and feels more the prosper
ity of big crops and high prices
This will explain the election of
Whitman and Wadsworth and the vic
tory of many republican congressman
i'm New York Penrose and Brumbaugh
an Pennsylvania, Willis and Harding ia
Ohio. Sherman in Illinois. and SO ON.
II also helps to explain the general
republican gains i'm all the New Eng
land states and i'm New Jersey and
herever else there are manufactur-
ing industries.
In these communities the admins
tration has been held responsible for
hard times" and the voter kept So
saturated with fear that ne never
stopped 10 think whether foreign war.
readjustment of business conditions,
the new banking laws. tariff, world
panic, or anything else had played its
part. All he knew was that it costs
To live, that his job was being theat-
ened and that ne wanted to be kept at
work. and SO ne voted TO go back to
time which ne remembers when re-
publicans were in power and his en-
pIoyer was not whining and threaten
ing to close shop until after a republic
can victory.
The reputation of the administra-
ton does not apparently extend to
purely agricultural sections where
prosperity has prevailed. If it had.
Curtis for example, would have been
overwhelmingly elected in Kansas,
Cummins. a tariff reformer. would
have been overthrown i'm Iowa: the
republicans would have rolled up big
votes in Minnesota, the Da%otas. and
| the northwest generally, as they did
i'm Pennsylvania and New York. This
evidently has not been the case. The
. heavy ant-administration vote falls
! off in the more prosperous agricui-
I teraI west. where Industrial privilege
never was entrenched. and there was
less excuse for the campaign lie
OF course the southern states can
) be neglected i'm this review. since they
had practically only one party-the
democratic-and the elections were
decided az the primaries rather than
on election day Louisiana, however
was an exception Here the tariff in
terfered with the sugar industry. and
"a progressive party man was elected
as protest against the partys nom
sectional tariff record
There are two ways in which the
protest against industrial conditions
operates. The ordinary way is ex-
treme reaction as in this case 10 the
old liners. Penrose Cannon, W. B..
Mckinley. Longworth, ct al; the 9TH
er is mbore extreme radicalism, OF
which the increase in the socialist
party vote is an Indication. Accord
ing 10 the returns AT hand there are
TO be two socialists i'm the next con
gress. one from Wisconsin and one
from New York
Some voters have thought 10 i'm
prove Industrial conditions by revert
ing TO the days of the Hanna-AcKin-
lev full dinner-pail" method of gov
eminent: the socialist yo.ef proposes
TO change the rules OF the business
game: i'm other words. 90 have a com
plete industrial overturniug
Democrats from the white house
down. have merely been caught in an
Industrial log-jam. a big revival Of
business during the coming two years.
when things have readjusted them
selves 60 the foreien war conditions.
tariff currency and antiJr IeeiSla-
ton. viii force upon the democratic
party credit for prosperity. and in two
years from now bring "a vote of en-
sorsement and confide"ee instead of
repudiation. even i'm industrial states
THAT FRIEDMAN CURE.
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