The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1919-11-07
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PRESIDENT WILSON HAPPY
OVER THE ELECTION RESULTS
He congratulated Republican ,an,ii-
date in Massachusetts For His
stand on Law and Order.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE. in The
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BY DAVID LAWRENCE. in Tn
Greensboro News
| everybody is happy over the cleo
liOns in Massachusetts. New Jersey
hentuek aud Maryland. eyerybod
/ including President Wilson. Bun 10
the most part L isn't the usual hap
plnesS over party triumph hecaus
unmistakably the White House wa
more joyful over the victory in Mas
Sachusetts of Governor Coolridge
Republican. than il was over the re
markable conversion of a Repulicar
plurality OF $4,000 in New Jerse,
into Democratic victory of al leas
10000. The President himself sen
message OF congratulation to III,
Republican governor describing hi
reelection as a victory for law anC
order.
Party eNultation gave away entire
~ 10 a sense of abiding satisfaction
that in the one election-Massachu
setts-where law and order was the
biz issue. the forces of stability com.
PEELED an overwhelming victory. The
Democratic organization had not only
scorned the Wilson administration BY
seeking TO align certain hyphenate
voters on the League of Nations
question but Went so far as TO at
tack Governor Coolridge for the
method in which he handled the re-
cent police strike, method tina,
President Wilson had publicly sup
ported in his speech in Billings. Mon
tana. So happy was the White House
over the well deserved rebuke that
had been administered TO the Demo
cratic organization in Massachusetts,
Tor seeking to capture class Votes and
appeal 10 the laboring class in the
law and order controversy that con-
gratulatory words for Governor Cool
ridge Were abundant and ii was sug-
gested that large bodies OF Democra-
Tic voters must have joined the Re-
puhlicans in increasing Mr. Cool
ridges 1918 majority from 1900 to
10000 this year
As for New Jersey. the White
House was plainly satisfied. For
Chairman Hays. OF the Republican
national committee, had addressed a
letter to the Republican State chair.
man saying that national Republican
success could only be made certain
by Republican victory in the States
Let the Republican victory in your
State tNew Jersey be 81 over
wrote Chairman HAYS
with majority SO tremendous that
from New Jersey will 80 voice re
assuring the nation in most emphatic
terms that the Republican party is
unfalteringly into that COM
plete control which the people want
and the Country needs so much
Unques tionably the result in New
Jersey was disappointing 10 the Re
publicans. but they excused il on the
ground that II was wet and dry
night. and that the conspicuous gains
in Kentucky, and Maryland where
normally the Democrats are predomi-
nant were worth thinking about
Certainly the wet and dry issue work
ed different ways in different States.
In New Jersey. where the Domractic
was outspoken on the Wet
side. considerable assistance was de-
rived from the Presidents veto OF the
prohibition enforcement bill, while in
Kentucky. where the Democrats nOm-
mated dry candidate. the Republi
cans swept the State by nearly fifteen
thousand. kilograms received from
quote the Republican man
ayers in Kentucky as saying the
League OF Nations was not an issue
in that State.
VETS ARE JUBlLANT.
The most significant incident was
the result in Maryland, whore the
Republican gains We're unquestion-
ably large There seems TO be no
doubt that while n Democrat is in
the lead for Governor, had stronger
political personality been nominated
on the Republican ticket the result
would not now be in doubt. These
gains. by Republicans in the normally
Democratic States of Maryland and
were very comforting to
the Republican leaders. who, OF
course, conceding that Governor Cool
ridges victory in Massachusetts was
a victory for law and order. pointed
TO the fact that he held the Republi-
can vote nicely which he won a year
ago, though on that occasion a Dem
Dcratic senator was also elected.
Vets in the capital were jubilant
over the victory they won in Ken
lucky and New Jersey and agreed
that the dry triumph in Ohio was
foregone conclusion. Yet the dis
observers saw little oppor-
tunity for any comfort to the wet or
dry side in the elections because
where whiskey making is
not at all an Insignificant industry,
hardly furnishes a fair test of the
issue, and the result in poulous Ohio
Is Offset by the victory for the vets
in populous New Jersey.
Most gratifying, too. from a neu-
trail standpoint is the fact that nei-
Their side won landslide. For party
politicians are apt to permit elections
results 10 affect them too easily. And
Just now a complicated election re-
suit with hardly clear cut party
victory for either side will make both
parties in Congress more responsive
10 public opinion and less interested
in the votes of special classes than
they otherwise might have been In
The midst of coal strikes and indus
trial crises and serious controversy
over foreign policy. elections will this
year be of ephemeral interest and
a -.