New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-11-22
OVERCOME

BY the election of a Republican
Senate and House the Republican
party has scored the greatest victory
in its history. because it was achieved
despite almost every obstacle which
the mind can conceive. In the
course of eighteen months of war
the Democratic party, devotins
more energy to politics than to the
war itself, had built Up a political
machine the like Of which has never
been known, and which hat party
believed, as did Kaiser Wilhelm his
armies, to be invincible.
1t seemed as if every avenue to
free. unbiased expression bad been
closed to the American voters. The
public press ms manhandIed. War
boards, commissions, bureaus Of
every description, State and Ma
tional, had been created and loaded
with political favor,t.es, who, paid
from the proceeds of war taxation
and Liberty Bonds, let no oppor-
tunity slip by to strengthen the posi-
ton of the Wilson party. or the
<8 explosives inspectors, one for each
State, 100 per cent were of the DEM
ocratic faith, Ill knew nothing of
explosives, but much of ward poll
tics. Travelling political propagan-
dists, paid from public funds hurried
and scurried over the country keep
ing track Of the political situation.
Women, under the guise of welfare
workers, were employed to boost the
party ticket. The Committee on
Public Information, spending money
at the rate of 81, O00, 900 annually was
enrolled in the cause. Postmaster
General Burleson conscripted his
army of postmasters for the DEM
ocratic drive, and he had at his
command a mailing list which he
boosted to be the most complete
ever compiled. The Bureau Of In
ternal Revenue, with its horde of
employees was pressed into service.
The Fuel Administrator suddenly
raised the wages to the miners and
issued a statement of assurance to
the as to the winter pros
pect. The Attorney General drew
the teeth from the a~irplane report,
and the Hog Island report was
pocketed.
The Democratic Publicity Commit
tee sought to exploit the foreign
elements by telling what the Dem
ocrats had done for their native
lands with money taken from the
pockets of all the people. The four
peace principles of Mr.. Wilson
were played up, although the day
after election we learned that eight
of them had been set aside by the .
"for future discussion" With
the cables in the hands of the Gov
eminent every possible interpreted
of alleged remarks of European
leaders was INDUCED in to favor the
Administration. And, finally. having
raised a flag of truce in May, by
his declaration that politics was ad-
Mr.. Wilson fired from under
the flag October 25th by his fatuous
appeal to the country to support
him, and his structures against the
who had so Loyalty sup
the country.
There was much misrepresenta-
that was in~excusable IL
he Democratic campaign, but the
Republican party l. not one TO stnop
o reprisals. The President viii find
10 lack of support from the Renub-
lean Congress wherever ard when
.ver that support is for the pest in
erests of the country, but the party
'uts the good Of the country before
he ambition of the man. The r.
campaign cry of "uncondi-
surrender" for Germany still
lolds good. An accounting for war
expenditures will be demanded, and
o that the people are entitled. !
americans may look forward to sane .
evenue legislation. unbiased by con- I
Of section or class. The /.
rogram of reconstruction will be eff {
handled, and all parties will {
e invited to confer on questions APP 7
ertaining thereto. But there will
OF be that legislative su~bservience T
. the executive which has charac- =,
.rized Congress since 1913, for :
ongress is coming into it's own as I
coordinate branch Of our Govern !,
lent equal in dignity to either Of !,
he others. We will not witness the :
to put the President in
10 hole" which the Democratic :,
ongress made in ls1l-l2, but on the !,
-oad issue of presidential service =
nd presidential mastery, the Re- q
Congress will remain stead =