The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-11-19
SrPUBLICANS SOLEMN
AFTER Big VICTORY
Mindful OF Responsibility
But Determined To
Make Good.


jority of 1852 in the House and 22 in
the Senate, the Republican party has
returned to power with a solemn
sense of responsibility after ten years
of Democratic control.
The fact that the House majority
is larger than ever given any party
in the history of the country and that
the Senate majority is sufficient to
make sure of the passage of all party
measures, does not cause citation
among the leaders in either branch
of Congress so much a determination
to do away with the evils in admins
tration which caused the landslide in
their favor.
1t is only within the facts to say
that no party ever came to power
with such a serious sense of RESPONSE
bility as the Republican party at this
time. In interviews with those who
are to WELD that power one is i'm
pressed at once with this feeling that
the party must do great things to
make good and that it will do them.
The Republican party is the party of
constructive effort. 1t lost Congress
in 1910 on the Democratic promise to
reduce the cost of living, lost the
presidency in 1912 by split and in
1916 by promise to keep us out of
war. 1t returns to take up the bur-
den where it laid it down, having in
the meantime during the war outvied
the Democrats in patriotic submersion
of partisanship. 1t is united as it has
never been.
The Democratic party, on the 9TH
er hand, is literally shot to pieces.
Because of the nature of the cam
paign he waged, Cox is generally dis
credited so far as the National Capital
is concerned. Beaten worse than AL
ton b. Parker, in 1904, he cannot
hope to again lead the Democratic
hosts. Because the Wilson admins
tration was so utterly repudiated, it
is unlikely that William G. McAdoo |
the Presidents son-in-law, can take |
up its guidance. Already three times |
beaten, William Jennings Bryan
would be glad to take the reins again;
but the South will not again accept |
him. Governor Smith, of New York,
defeat, Is too closely allied with Tam
though he made great race in his
many to make any widespread appeal |
to the country. Champ Clark has gone |
down in the general landslide. Claude
who will now assume the
leadership in the House, halls from
North Carolina, and Is out of the
running for national leadership.
Senator Oscar Underwood, Of Alaba-
ma, will for the time at least come
nearer to being the leader of his par
ty than any other man because of his
titular leadership of the Democratic
majority in the Senate; but he and
Bryan are bitter enemies, he is too far
South to be potent. and he does not
appeal to the progressives. Many see
In William R. Hearst an aspirant for
Democratic honors again, but his at
titude toward war questions would
probably prevent that.
Furthermore, the Democrats are
without any great issue to stand upon
after defeat, such as enthused them
after the defeat of Cleveland in 1883.
Both the i'll health and the unpopu-
larity of President Wilson would pre-
vent his return. The league of ma
tons is dead, buried beyond the
slightest chance of resurrection. I'm
der the Republican administration
the government will be conducted for
America, contenting itself with TO
the most friendly relations
with all while protecting itself from
the possible aggressions of any of
them in the future. 1t will not as
sumo that the millennium is at hand
and hence propose immediate disar-
II will have the greatest
Navy in the world and an army suf-
fcient for development ito meet any
In this the Democrats
can have no issue. They will resume
he place formerly held by them dur
ing the Roosevelt administration as a
mere party of negation.
A GOOD HEART