Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-01
RETURN REPUBLICANS TO
POWER IN WASHINGTON
The Democratic Party Has Failed and
Should Be ousted-For the Same
Reason Unworthy Candidates
for Local Office Should Be
Defeated

Ior Local Orlce ShouId Be
Defeated
NATIONAL, state and municipal officers
~ aresto be chosen at the election to.
morrow.
The issues in the choice of national Off
GERS are different from those involved in the
choice of state officers.
The Republican party is committed to GER
tain policies and methods in the conduct OF
national business, and the Democratic party
is committed to certain other policies.
When the difference between the theories
of government Of the two parties tends to
disappear stress is laid on the efficiency or
inetiiciency of party in carrying on the
business of government.
This year the outstanding national issue
is one of efficiency. The Democratic party
has broken down since the armistice as an
instrument Of government. But that break
down did not begin with the armistice. 1t
started soon after the party came into power
IN March, 1913. 1t proceeded at once to
change the tariff laws, which it had been
attacking for years as iniquitous. The pur-
pose of the revision Of the laws was ad-
mittedy to put the foreign producer on an
equality with the domestic producer in the
American market nominally in the interest
OF the consumer. The Republican policy
and practice had been to give to the do
mestic producer slight advantage over the
foreigner. Under 1t we had developed from
nation devoted almost exclusively to agri-
culture into one Of the greatest manufactur-
ing nations in the world. New industries
have been established which produce goods
that years ago we were buying from Europe,
and the domestic goods are sold at a price
much lower than that which we had to nay
when we were dependent on foreign manu-
facturers. This policy has provided work
Tor millions OF Americans. 1t has provided
market for raw materials that would other
wise have remained unutilzcd and it has in
creased the national wealth by billions.
When the Democrats in 1913 turned q cold
shoulder to it-they did not dare turn their
backs on it all at once-disaster followed
quickly. There was stagnation in business.
men were thrown out of employment and
soup houses were opened for the hungry in
all the large cities. The war occurred and
interrupted the exporting business of the
Foreigners and left our markets to our own
manufacturers. Its effect was to raise n
higher wall around America than the highest
which the most extreme high tariff advocate
had ever asked for.
In the prosperous times of recent years
there has been some danger that the SOUP
house era which followed within n few
months after the Democrats had their way
with the tariff laws would be forgotten.
Little stress has been laid on it in the cam
paign drawing to a close but it has not been
ignored completely. The business men who
suffered have not forgotten it even If the
average voter has let it slip from his mind.
The voter who believes in protecting the
American market against a food of foreign
goods VIII not forget 1t when he goes into
the voting booth tomorrow and he will cast
his ballot for the Republican presidential
electors and for the Republican candidates
for Congress.
His determination to do all In his power
to return the Republicans to control in
washington will be re enforced by his
knowledge of the Democratic failure to make
peace and to put the country on peace
footing. Not only was the country unpre-
pared for war when we entered 1t the
country was just as unprepared for peace
when the fighting stopped. Although the
administration must have known from the
moment of the sinking of the Lusitania that
we could not keep out of the war, it did ab-
soutely nothing to get us ready. We were
told that If we did anything Europe might
think we were preparing to fight and we
trality. And the presidential campaign of
1916 was fought on the issue "He kent us
out of war; the most dishonest and hypo-
critical issue ever stressed by political
party in the history Of the United States
We got into the war when we could not in
decency stay out any longer, but we have
not been able to get into the peace because
Democratic craftsmanship fell down when
II came TO the mastering of the nation be-
hind the treaty.
The only thing to be done under the cir
cumstances is to dismiss from Office the
party which has failed and to call ON the
other party. The election of a Republican
President will not be enough. There must
be Republican Congress to work with n
Republican President.
Those voters who are dissatisfied with
what has been happening in Washington
will vote for the Republican candidates for
Congress. In this state there are seven
Democratic members of the national House
of Representatives. The defeat of five Dem
Ocratic candidates in these seven districts Is
confidently expected. In New Jersey and
Delaware the obligation to vote for the Re
publican candidates is more pressing than
it is here. The issue is not on the per :
sonality of the candidates, though that is
important, but on the election of men to
Washington who will support the Repub-
| ican President.
The new voters in Pennsylvania should
| remember that five members of the House of
| Representatives are to be voted for in each
| district. We have four congressman at :
large, voted for throughout the state, in ad =
dition to one member of the House voted for
| in each district The casting of ballot
for the four congressman at large is as i'm =
| pOrtant as the casting of ballot for the
! district representative. The four candidates
representing the whole state will not be
elected unless the Republicans vote for them.
The experienced voters know this. The
women who will go to the polls for the first
time tomorrow will find the names Of the
congressman at large in the proper place
on the ballot. II they vote straight ticket
a mark In the party square will be enough,
but il they split their ticket-7-that is. II they