Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1919-03-27
THE FIRST
TEST VOTE
(Reprinted from the Baltimore

anywhere in the world on tn
league of nations" Attorne,
H. Wilson, Democratic Con
gressman-elect from the Twen
ty-second Pennsylvania, or But
ler-W estmoreland Congress
sional district, tonight at hi
home in Butler, Pa, where HI
is borough solicitor, interrupt
ed the flow of congratulation.
pouring in upon him Ions
enough to issue the following
statement:
There isn't a doubt in the
world that the voters of Butler
and estmoreland counties
showed their sentiment on the
league of nations when they
elected me Congressman. My
views on the question were
known; my literature ex.
planned that l was heartily in
favor of the proposition and
behind the President. There
fore, I think, it s. shows the real
sentiment in my district on
this great forward movement.
"The campaign was based
on the fact that l intended to
support the President and his
plan for the league of nations.
l advertised this fact broadly,
especially in Westmoreland
county, where the voters are
largely from industrial lines.
In Butler county it was a we'll
known fact that l was behind
the President and his objects,
so if the people had not been
in the same mood | think Mr..
Jamison would have been elect
ed.
"In working out our great
international obligations and
performing our moral duties to
the nations of the world and
guaranteeing the peace of the
world, l am heartily in favor
of any plan of a league of ma
tions which will do this thing
without surrendering any es-
sential rights of our own ma
ton, and | believe that the
plan of the league of nations
now in process of construction
under the leadership of Presi-
dent Wilson and former Presi-
dent Taft is a great plan and
moves in the direction of guar
anteeing to the people of the
world the abolition of war and
broader fraternal feeling"
Mr.. Wilson, the first Demo-
crat Butler county has sent to
Congress since the Republican
party was born fifty years ago,
is also the first Democrat, ex-
cepting in 1912, the year of
t h e Republican Progressive
split, the Butler-W estmoreland
district has elected to Congress
since the district was created in
the reapportionment after the
1900 census.
He was chosen in special
election held Tuesday to select
a successor to the late Repre-
sentative E. E. Robbins, Repub-
lican. Mr.. Robbins, first elect
ed in 1916, received then 49,
978 votes to 16,165 for his
Democratic opponent, Silas A.
Kane, and was reelected last
November by a vote of II, ,127,
against 1896 for his Demo-
cratic opponent, George H.
McWherter.
Tuesday, with 60 per cent of
the vote cast, the result was
Wilson, Democrat, 1920; JAM
ison, Republican, 9,477, or a
lead for Wilson of 437 votes
A campaign less than three
weeks long, in which nc
speechmaking was done by
either candidate, gave Wilson
opportunity to present the two
things he tried to focus the at
tention of the district upon
the fact that he was for 6
league of nations and solidly
behind President Wilson. Thi'
he did through placards, ad
vertising and statements in thu
newspapers of the district.
Jamison did not declare fol
or against a league of nations
but announced he would b,
governed by the course follow
ed in Congress by the Republi
can party, which the voters in
terpreted to mean he stoot
where Republican Senators il
Congress stood in their speech
es. Nothing like the campaign
has ever been witnessed in tn
tortuous course of Pennsyl
vania politics.
Of special significance, il