Evening journal., 1918-11-07
SAY WILSON APPEAL
CAUSED Cop. GAINS
Many Democrats Agree
With Republicans That
President Blundered
VOTERS OF WEST
ARE MILITANT NOW

quence Of the Republican victory in the
Congressional elections. through which
the G. o. p, was returned to power in
both the Senate and the House. there
was a food Of explanation turned loose
yesterday at the Capitol by the few leg
islators who remained in Washington.
In all the comment for both repetition
and private consumption the impelling
factor in the transmutation OF public
sentiment throughout the country was
declared TO be the Presidents appeal to
his fellow countrymen sent out just
twelve days ago. But It was not wholly
TO this that the Republican triumph |
was ascribed. The central West is where |
the great Republican gains were shown. i
1t is in that area where the war spirit !
awakened slowly, but once awakened I
II went 10 limits to which the cOnserva- /
tive East is unaccust0Med, in the Opin- /
Ion OF Senators and Representatives.
There was a reaction in the whole /
middle West from the spirit which had /
pervaded those areas in 1916. The same
voters who turned delighted ears to the
plea He kept us out OF war" once
they found America committed TO a
military policy wanted one which car
ried through the nationa. army and
navy to complete victory as the sur
ance OF lasting peace. The unconditional
surrender spirit Of the middle West
was, II anything, more profound than
that which developed in the East.
There was revolt in the corn and
wheat belts against the fixing. OF wheat
prices and the consequent enforced sta
bilization Of all grain prices, while King
Cotton was allowed to range at his ownl
sweet will and pay strident tunes up
and down the scale Of prices.
Throughout the country Republican
leaders scent in the returns Of yester
days election a belief on the part OF the
voters that with the end Of the war
practically in sight, and come what Z
may, a definite triumph for the Allied &
arms within a few months, the sooner .
the control OF reconstruction legislation L
is taken from the hands Of the Kitchins, I
Dents, Clarks and Webbs OF the cotton Y
belt and Missouri the better it will be a
for the whole country. S
An element which Is asserted by poll
ticians to have played a great part in {
the complete Transformation Of the sit S
uatiOn in Kansas. Nebraska and Colo n
RADIO is the backfre Of anti-Administra- u
tion feeling engendered through the Il
treatment OF Major General Leonard
Wood. General Wood, commanding at c
Camp Funston, has impressed the Ma "
tiOnal Army men under his command. q
That impression, favorable to the last
degree. was transmitted back home and o.
the resentment was reflected In the vOt- p
in. In
Revenge against the Democratic Con- ir
gress by the woman voters in the West n
at large is regarded as another cause
for the shift. In Ohio there was great
at the tardlness Of the War
Department in inducting alien slackers
into the National Army. And so on all
up and down the line explanations were
offered by the Republicans and alibis
and excuses presented by the Demo-
Gratis. r.
Around the Democratic national head -
quarters there was an air Of intense ~
gloom. From time TO time in the course " "
u the day a statement was issued con- ~
aiming insistent prOtestations that the 81
Senate had not been lost. The Demo- ~
rats refused also to cOncede the House u
II Representatives. ir
President Wilson sat with the war IN
mlAu AAIA4 a NU4AANA Civ NAtAA
samuel GOmpers. Secretary Tumulty
ook a long walk in the revivifying In Ell
liam summer sunshine. He tramped co
Jack 10 the White House at o'clock ar
md announced that he had nothing to no
ay concerning the elections. an
Senator SmOOt (Utah), chairman Of fol
he Republican Senatorial committee,
ave as his view OF the situation which be
he complete political turnover will dir
ccOmplish the following formal state We
nent: ter
America and our allies are TO be con- da,
ratulated upon the results OF the cleo for
lon A Republican House and Senate
leans that the war must end in such m,
way as 10 make another impossible; III
hat the world must be made safe for
eace; that Germany must surrender
nconditlonally, and that the terms win
e dictated by France. England Italy
nd America. Y
ut was a notice TO our men in the fbe
anks that we want a good Job Of the I'm
'ar now that we are in it, and that Jot
verything necessary to bring this rel
bout will be furnished without delay, 9th
ar or favors; that extravaganza and ha,
'aste Of the peoples money will ceasg ga,
nd that the ideals for which we en- the
'feu Jne war VIII De realized. cia
Large numbers Of Democrats Joined wh
ie Republicans in declaring that Pres of
lent Wilson's partisan appeal TO the tho
merocan voters had been III advised lice
he campaign. they insisted. until the phC
me the appeal was issued had been fire
lifting listlessly along to what prob VIII
Dly would have eventuated in an in che
inclusive sort Of election with the T
lances Of Democratic success reason new
lie. Thousands Of Republicans would rect
I've let the Democrats run the cleo oflll
lns to suit themselves had 10 not been call
r the Presidents intrusion Of the par was
san issue.
1t was Republican anger and resent
ent even more than the suspicion that A
e Republicans were alleged to have by
Id that the Democrats did not want has
hurt Germany too much that led TO hav
e landslide, is the theory. nor,
kile
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