The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-22
ANALYZES
THE RECENT ELECTION

The Pathfinder, a Washington pub
LEGATION of the highest class, and an
Independent periodic, shows up the
dishonest methods by which the lead
ers of the Democratic party under
took to fool the people. The Path
finder does not spare even President
Wilson in its treatment of illegitima-
cy of election means employed. 1t
says:
The results of the historic election
of Nov. are now pretty generally
known.
The returns indicate that the Re-
publicans will control the lower house
of congress absolutely; the chances
now favor their controlling the sem
ate, though it may take the official
counts in Michigan, New Mexico and
Idaho to determine this. The Demo-
Gratis are nourishing the forlorn hope
that they may be able to tie the sem
ate; in that case Vice-President Mar
shall would cast the deciding vote
and they could retain their DONNA
ton by a slender majority.
1t can not be made too plain that
the Democratic administration was
repudiated by the people. The Demo-
cratic leaders are holding long. secret
confabs at Washington and they are
as panic-stricken as the German lead
ers today; both see themselves and
their cherished doctrines defeated;
both must swallow some very bitter
pills.
The administration, from President
Wilson down, employed every posi-
BILE agency, legitimate and illegiti-
mate, to force the election of Demo-
cratic congress; they risked all on
the cast of the die and they lost. All
their plans for the future are smash
ed. the same as the German war;
lords plans. Southern control of
congress and the nation is gone, or
will be when the new congress takes
charge March 4th next.
The President can postpone the
evil day till December, 1919, by re-
fusing to call the new congress into
extra session, but it would be politi-
cal suicide for him to do that, in the
face of all the reconstruction legis-
lation that will be pressing for action.
The Democratic Hindenburg line is
broken through and though portions
of it still remain, it has ceased to
dominate the political front.
The G. o p. has driven a wedge in
to the Democratic formation so wide
and deep that it can not be overcome.
The Democrats have had their day
and they will have to make the best
of the cold facts; perhaps they can
sympathize with the Germans, who
are in the same sorry situation.
President Wilson of course will re-
main for two years more and even
II the Republicans should gain both
House and Senate they would not be
able to force through any very revolu-
tionary measures. The situation is
similar to that when President Cleve-
land was confronted in the middle OF
a term by Republican congress.
President Taft also suffered SINH
larly from hostile congress, and he
has expressed the hope that in the
present case the Republicans will not
abuse their power and that there may
be wise amity and cooperation" be-
tween the capitol and the White
House, instead of distrust and con-
tention. If both sides rise to the
situation and put the country's well
fare ahead of partisan politics we
shall have "a bipartisan control of
government which will have the sane
tion of solid public opinion" he says.
The Republican control of Congress
will give the check on the executive
branch of the government which the
constitution contemplates but which
the Democrats rejected.
If they had been able to see things
in a more statesmanlike way, as
Judge Taft does for instance, they
might have won a vote of confidence
from the country and thus gained
honor and authority, but they chose
to play the game in an unfair way,
with stacked cards, and still they
lost. That's all there is to it.