Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-13
WESTNlNSvICTORY
ITS VOICE DECISIVE IN THE RE-
CENT PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST.
Cave Of Coed Government UncStrav-
s1ant Expenditures, and Laws
That viii benefit All the Peo.
pie Endorsed by Voters.


The West has spoken. That Is the
great fact that stands out IN lh,, cleo
ton returns which tell Of President
Wilson's victory In the closest and
most exciting race ever known In
, American history. There are other
facts TO be sure. and important ones.
Who ever dreamed that a president
could be elected without the votes OF
, New York. New Jersey. Connecticut,
Indiana or Illinois? Who ever ex-
pected to see Minnesota and Cali
fornia the pivotal states Of the Union9
Yet that is the miracle before our
eyes. Unw0rrled by the frantic -howls
Of tariff grafters. undismayed by the
organized drive which In the last days
Of the campaign swept the East Off its
feet, the Western voter sized DIP the
issues and the men, and delivered his
verdict II is a verdict which pos
terity will approve, and for which the
whole country will thank him when II
has had time to recover from the
carefully manufactured scare that all
but frightened Hughes into the White
House.
Kansas. adamantine in its opposition
TO Democracy for the last half cen
fury, went to Wilson. SO did Ne
braska. SO did Idaho. Montana and
Washington. You can travel in
straight line from Turkey Point. Fl0ri-
da, TO Port Townsend. Washington. on
Democratic soil all the way. Thanks
TO the decision of California, to whom
may the fates be kind, you can travel
due west from the Mississippi river to
the Golden Gate In the same fashion.
and the only break in the complete
Democracy of the Pacific coast is fur
nshed by Oregon.
Domestic matters of great moment
have been settled by this election. The
great program Of progressive legisln-
ton has been saved. The "whOle list
of Democratic achievements" will not
be wiped off the slate" The federal
reserve act, the rural credits act, the
child labor law, the workmen's COM
pensatiOn law-these and many other
great forward steps will not be re-
traced. But perhaps more impor.cct
than anything else is the tariff.
1t is noticeable that in all their adj
vertising, the Republicans said nothing
about a tariff commission. Their howl
was for protection" without lnvesti-
cation and without limit. The tariff
grafters furnished goOdly share Of
the Republican campaign fund and
they meant TO get the worth of their
money.
They will not get IT. The tariff COM
mission, soon to be appointed by Pres
Ident Wilson, will take the question
out of politics. That commission will
go over the tariff, schedule by sched-
ule. and as fast as II makes a report
on any group of duties. congress
should act on that report. 1t is the
only way to take the graft out of the
tariT without upsetting business and
giving unlimited opportunities for evil
work.
Four years more of peace, II peace
can be maintained with honor: four
years more Of progressive, forward |
looking legislation; and an end to hy- /
phenism and tariff graft. and the West,
not the East, in the saddle. Surely.
there have been few elections which |
settled so many things and settled |
hem so well.