Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-12-01
REPUBLICAN TRIUMPH
ONLY SHORT LIVED
"MARSE HENRY" SAYS HUGHES
WOULD HAVE BROKEN
DOWN AS PRESIDENT.

! (Henry WatterSon in the Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Now that all is over-even the
shouting-of Quadrennial convul-
sion showing curiously the eccentric
tiles OF our party politics and the i'm
perfection of our electoral machin-
cry. let us for a moment survey the
field we have just traversed.
In the late campaign there was but
one paramount issue: the overthrow
Of the existing government Of the
country in the face of a world crisis;
the substitution of pilot having the
vessel we'll in hand for a pilot un-
tried, IL not unskilled; In short, the
swapping of horses in the middle of
stream. Though this had brought
a flash of JOY to the Republicans,
along with the official spoil, person
ally interesting only to few. the JOY
would have been titful and illusory.
Bitter disappointment would have
quickly ensued.
N Hughes Failure Inevitable.
The conglomerate elements behind
Mr.. Hughes could never have mixed
and mingled in the work of forming
la successful administration. Mr..
Hughes has shown himself in many
ways disqualified for successful party
leadership. A man of high integrity
and fixed beliefs-an old-time New
England Federalist. crossed on a
modern Pennsylvania Republican
conscientious, unyielding and tactless
he would inevitably have broken
down as President of the United
States even as he broke down as gov
ernor of the state of New York.
The triumph of the Republicans
could only have been short lived
They must soon have gone to pieces
But so would the business of the
country; it's half adjustment to the
new and strange conditions; the in
gertrude of legislative policies COM
mitted to a divided congress; actual
chaos in our foreign service and
therefore peril to our international
relations.
The reelection of Mr.. Wilson may
bring in dangers of another sort, not
yet visible to the naked eye, but it
averts many dangers which are both
real and visible. We owe our escape,
not to the boosted wisdom and Gull
ture of the East, but to the robust
common sense of the West and South.
That means must. 1t means that
Wall street-and by Wall street we
mean the aggregate wealth of organ
ICED capital-does not govern the
country and that popular party may
elect President without the vote Of
New York. We are thus emancipat-
ed from the money madness which
possesses the trade centers. For a
time, at least, the money devil has
been made to go way back and sit
down.
Vast responsibilities.
| On the other hand vast responsible
tiles for good or evil are piled upon
the Democratic party, and these, of
course, will be largely, maybe alto
gether, determined by the man to
whom credit for the achievement
must be wholly ascribed.
Mr.. Wilson, another Carnot. was
the organizer of victory. He drew
the plan of every battle. He was his
own strategist, his own tactician, his
own architect, his own campaign man.
ager, the best, and easily the best,
of the campaign orators. To him
with the rewards will come the ac-
countabilities, and, although as a
scholar and man of letters he may
think he fully understands himself
and comprehends the situation, the
muse of history may nevertheless
whisper in his ear loud enough to be
heard above the din of the cheering:
Have a care, Woodrow, oh, my son,
have a care!"