Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-08
ELECTION AFTERMATH


To the Editor of the Telegraph:
We have gone through another gen.
eral election and have lost the presi-
dency and one branch of Congress
at least. Time only will determine
the next House. If Wilson should
convene Congress before the usual
time, If they combine three or four
Prohibition, Progressive and Inde-
pendent members they may possibly
organize. 1t matters very little as
long as we can't enact any construc-
tive laws. Let them assume the re-
sponsibility and after the people
awaken to the situation two years
from now they will have an oppor-
tunity to elect a Republican house and
senate. About 4,0G0 votes in Cali
fornia determined this presidential
election; if Hughes had gotten that
amount he would to-day be elected
President of the United States.
Why Governor Johnson should re-
ceive 100000 more votes than Hughes
is hard to explain. 1t appears to us
in the East that Governor Johnson
wanted Hughes defeated. 1t is very
evident he did not give him the sup
| port he should or the result would
have been different, that is sure.
Mr. Johnson has not increased his
popularity in the East. Whether he
has truly turned back to the Republi-
cans will be determined when he
takes his seat in the new Senate.
What caused the change in the
popular vote? This vote which elect
ed Republican State officials and
Legislators and elected a Democratic
Presidency? The cause has been the
old song prosperity" and HE kept
us out of war" The prosperity was
due to the war.
prices for their products and they
were too thick headed to see it was
not anything which Wilson did. Eng
land, France and Russia were in des-
perate straits and they want to con-
quer Germany who anticipated this
war and made provision for it. Mills
and factories which could be used to
manufacture munitions and things
they needed could get all the orders
they wanted. Suppose the war had
not come. Conditions in this country
would have been different.
AS soon as this war stops, inside OF
three months there will be drop in
everything. The Democratic tariff law
will still be in effect. The country
will then realize that we have Demo-
cratic party in power and don't look
for the Democratic party to change
from free trade to protection.
/ heard a man tell story short
time ago about a conversation he had
with the president of the Baldwin
Locomotive Works of Philadelphia,
who said that almost all of his orders
were due to the war, and If it were
not for these orders he would not
have employment for more than three
thousand men. 7 am in a position to
know that the same conditions pre-
vail in Steelton. After the war it will
be something else.
Everyone at the works will tell you
it is almost all war orders. Mr.. Will
son said he was very much Interested
in labor Just before the election when
he wanted the labor vote and would
have Congress pass class legislation
fixing their hours of labor. This, with
his other class legislation exempting
the labor unions and farmers from
every investigation.
/ am very sorry that a man of in
telligence will stoop to anything so
low. He said he knew it was not the
right thing to do, yet he did 1t. He
seems very anxious to get rid of the
Philippine Islands. 1t has been proven
that they are not capable of self-gov-
ernment, yet in the light of all this
knowledge he would turn them adrift
The next thing is to buy all the rail-
roads and telegraph lines. How they