The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-11-06
SIGNIFICANT ELECTION RESULTS.


Tho elections OF Tuesday show an unmistakable drif'
from democracy oxampned by the Wilson admins
rHton This IL the most outstanding feature wherever
voters called TO exercise their franchise privi
leges. whether in municipal state elections The
republican party OF course was the beneficiary All
this anticipated. however by the student OF public
affairs.
But In two statcs. Massachusetts and Rontucky. un-
Significance attaches to the election returns In
the first named state Governor Coolidge. republican.
who was standing for reelection. had Just
through very trying situation, He had ehslishged
the forces Of organized labor In the Boston pocemans
strike. and without mncing words had exerted the
fuIi authority OF tho state to suppress reign OF radl
cAiism Hk opponent tho democratic ticket seized
tho incident and made It Issue In the campaign
by championng ns far as ho dared the cause OF or
gAnized labor. Coolidge did not bulge one jot or
little. but took for his slogan law aud order at
cost"
on this issue the campaign fought The labor
unions made great boasts Of what they going to
DO 10 Coolidge. and the whole nation was anxious
spectator OF this first cih In tho political arena
between An individual who dared to challenge or
ganixed labor and tho political leaders OF that
isAtion. The result was y ver,tabe landslide for
Coolidge Paced closely by his opponent In boston
the great city OF the state when he entered tho ooun
try distrcts those of great Industrial populations
Coolidge fairly from the candidate who even
casually recognized ciass In American affairs That
Coolidge a republican was mere accident, Had
tho issues been reversed have pot the slightest doubt
that the democrat would have won against the
manifest prejudice against higs democratic, or to put
Il n bit more accurately. WilsonoSpue.
The point which party lnes can be broken In a
general rejoicing is that tho radical law-defyng ole
ment In the great industrial state OF Maasachu
has been proven be comparatively insignif
nj mi As usual he noise w out of all
portion to strength And that the radicals In the
unions themselves In hopeless minority is evil
denced by the vote In The greatest Industrial ceners
OF the state 100 per unfoniEed according to the
labor leaders whore Coolidge swept things almost
clean.
In Kentucky. the second named state, the issue
clearly drawn on national BLACK, the demo
orat enunoiatcd a platform very much the same as
that announced by Scott Ferris who u.s. sconesng the
sanatc seat with senator Gorv-unuursioning adhesion
TO everything suggested nv Woodrow Wilson and the
league as stands. kentucky, with very few eS
ceptons. has always gone democrttc II has been In
a general way lined uP with hc sol.d~South. Hut not
wtthstaudinE the fact that 3he national admins,ra-
tion and the democratic national committee rendered
all possible assistance 'h, campaign tust closed, the
democrat wns defeated %, approximately 2a.ooo the
largest majority Registered lg1u, the party In
the history of the commonwealth
In New Jersey the democratic candidate whn
pledged himself iu go m f,r the law would permit
In making New Jersey We, the Atlantic ocean
hy greatly reduced plurality New Jersey fogk
don't take kindly tho prohbton law. In Maryland.
the democratic candidate appears to have what
,hc press associations d,carr we're lo.r issues 10y a
very narrow margin In New Nor, Illinois ohio aud
other states where palirujar eruys wcr, involved
touching national affairs the vote iu each showed
a drlf, away from wisconsin. Hut It lis kcntutky and
Massachusetts tina, rendered decisions that VII v,s,