Middletown transcript., 1916-11-18
m1DDIrrOwE, DEL, nov. IS 'is
AN ELECTION REVIEW

! gressive rebuke to the KeacVlonarleS
whose Bourbon policies for the second
time in a presidential contest have
brought overwhelming defeat upon the
Republican party. Some Republicans
may not wish to see it SO, but the cold
facts force one to this conclusion since
reactionary Republicanisn was in this
election everywhere defeated the whole
Union over.
Senators Lippitt. of Rhode Island,
Sutherland Of Utah, Clark of Wyoming,
and Dupont, of Delaware. all members
of the Reactionary "Old Guard" were
all defeated, while Gallinger another
Standpatttter, was Ftsaely slapped when
his own Republican stronghold, New
Hampshire, went Democratic
But this is not all; these four reac-
tionary Senators had been preceded by
their fellows, Hale,"O Maine, Root OF
New York, Murray Crane, Of Massa-
chusetts, Perkins, of California, and
Burrows, of Michigan, while the most
Progressive state in the Union, Cali
fornia, after going over 5000 for Wilson,
sent its Progressive governor, Hiram
johnson, to the U. S. Senate by the
huge majority of 200, 900 votes
All over the West Progressive gov
ernors, Senators and Representatives
were chosen by big majorities in states
that gave their electoral votes for Viii
son and Marshall. The one great fact
everywhere standing out, prominently
in the East, overwhelming in the West,
is this uncompromising PrOgressivism,
a wide and deep political conviction
which will in the future absolutely dom
mate the Republican party unless the
Reactionaries insist upon one more and
fatal repetition of the folly of 1912.
On the other hand, it. is absurd to
pretend that the late election, which by
slim and even yet doubted margin has
reelected Mr.. Wilson, is in any sense
whatever an endorsement of the foolish
and unpatriotie policies of himself and
his party. Had it not been for the tenn
porary prosperity caused by European
war orders, this whole land would have
been on November 9TH last in such a
state of economic distress that Mr..
Wilson's defeat would have been both
easy and certain.
The Underwood tariff for revenue
only''-whieh is practically free trade :
went into effect in October, 1913. In
the ten months of it's operation up tC
August 1st, 1914, when that war broke
out, business stagnation and disaster
were widespread; armies of idle mer
thronged the great cities; mills anC
workshops were closing down on every
hand, and soup houses opening up in the
big eities-we had them right here il
Delaware, in Wilmington-and in short
the country had every Indication of tn,
coming of a sickening dose of Demo
cratic hard times Had the presidentia
election been held on November 7th
1914, Mr.. Wilson would have carries
little else than the "sOlid South" En-
dorsemeat of Mr.. Wilson, nonsense p!
But again, save in the states wher
Progressive rebukes of Republican Re
dictionaries resulted in the election of I
few Democratic Senators, as when Lip
pitt of Rhode Island. Dupont of Della
ware, and Representative Miller of Dels
ware, were showed under, not singl
member have the Democrats gained j
either branch in Congress, but to tn
contrary they have lost control of tn
House thru the defeat of some tw
dozen Representatives, besides havln
their majority reduced in the Senate
and that, too in States seemingly "er
dorsing'' Mr.. Wilson. %
Can any one, Republican or Democrat
doubt this? If so read a few itemize
proofs. In Kansas, Capper, the Reput
lican candidate for Governor, carrie
all but oneof its 1OS counties by 100
600 votes, while Wilson won by 80, OO(
North Dakota went for Wilson bu
elected all three of its Republican Rer
resentatives, and gave 5000 majOrit
to Republican U. S. Senator.
Washington gave Wilson $1,000 ms
iority. but elected Republican Senate
by $4,000. California's rousing zoo, 90
election to the Senate of their Pfogres
sive governor johnson, has alread
been noted
Minnesota, barely carried by Hughes
elected Progressive governor and,
Progressive u. S. Senator, byVthree t
one, and even Massachusetts gave il
Republican governor twice as great
plurality as it did Hughes. In shor'
probably million voters last Tuesda
favored Republican and Progressiv
candidates for every Office but thatNO
nFesident a,,a v;casnrasident In othe