The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-04
DEMOCRATS SEE
 SOME GAIN IN
 MOOSERS' VOTE

l Neither Secretary Tumu1ty nor Fred B. Lynch of the executive com mittee of the Demiocratic1 National ECommittee, nor Thomas J. Pence, press representative of the Demo cratic committee, each kof whom kept close track ~ef the campaign and had an accurate idea of what was being Edone to defeat Democratic candidates. think there was any slap at President Wilson in the general outcome of the elections.
 Lynch, spoken of as the next chair man of the Democratic National Com Inittee, said:
 sorts of issues were brought to the front-the tariff and religion among them-but we gained Maryland. The majority in ssachusetts, which is normally a Republican state the traiff, was not large. We won in Kentucky, although the liquor ques- ton was at the front.
 woman Suffrage lost by a big vote, but we cannot call it fad after the support it got in New York, Mas sachusetts and Pennsylvania yester- day It1is a real issue"
 Secretary Daniels Cheered.
 Secretary Daniels said:
 Although we lost a governor in Massachusetts. we gain one in Mary
 
 Massachusetts, was over 5000. When you consider that the state usually Is counted as safely Republican in a Presidential year by at least 20, 0,Oe0 majority it would seem that the Dem ocrats did very well yesterday, espec- tally in view of the report that most of the Progressives appear to have voted the Republican ticket. There fore, instead of being putin the Re publican column in Presidentia1 l election the state. may now =properlS be classed as tdoubtfuP and even very doubtful When you consider what a large vote Governor Walsh received, following his second term, in an off year with many local issues involved, no means as bad for the Democrats as it might have been."
 Representative Pou, who came here from North Corolina to confer with the President on the legislative pro- gram, said: '@The defeat of a Demo- cratic congressman is to be regretted at any time. But the issues promi5 nent in the New York campaign were not national but local. The Presi- dent and his policies were not on trial. The President would have been over whe1mingly successful if he had been up for reelection r
 Sees No Republican Glovy
 Senator 5AShruSt, Arizona, Demo- crat-tsThere is nothing in the re- turns that any Republican can get sat isfaction from. The Republicans openly claimed if they could ratify the new constitution in New York it would be great victory. It was re- jected by 300,e0O. They cannot boast in New York. All Democrats who seriously studied the situation ex- pected Massachusetts, to go Repub- 1ican, with that party united behind Mccall. Taken all around, Republi- cans are welcome to any satisfaction they can get out of yesterdays cleo tions.'
 Senator Salisbury, Delaware. Demo crat-f'There is no reason whatever why Democrats should feel discour-
 Senator Gore. Oklahoma, Demo- crat-HThe Democrats are satisfied with the elections of yesterday. With the program of constructive legis1a- ton that has been mapped out and good organization, the Democrats will ride to victory in 1916.'
 Representative Rainey, Illinois, Democrat-''The administration took no part in the campaign in any state The results are not in any sense in dicative of what will occur in 1916, and the prospect for Democratic sue cess in the next national campaign is very bright t''