Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-11-03
Cause Of the Landslide

BY overwhelming majority the people have expressed
their desire for change in administration and change
national policies With decisive maorities in both houses
and in full control Of the executive department h
republican party have for not making good
The result of the election surprises one was appar
Ct long before the campaign began natural reaction fol
lowing the and due to the unrest and discomfort prevalent
in all nations in periods of reconstruction The same dis
satisfaction and resessness that creating industrial and
political turmoil in Europe has created political upheava in
America in the vain hope that change in administrations
will be the magic cure-all of human ills
This unrest and discomfort has been sklfuy fomented
by years Of systematic propaganda to dscred President
Wilson his administration by the senatorial sabotage to
create mpasse in and charge it to democratic
neffcency and by making foreign relations and the
of the world the football of partisan politics The passions
and preudces of foreign born population artfu
played upon to unite the hyphenaed citizens in opposition to
the party conducting the war and sponsoring the peace
treaty.
The Republicans well organized and amply financed
The democrats dsorganized and without requisite funds
The personality of the candidates commanded slight aten
tion. Governor Cox made gallant single-handed fight
against Overwhelming odds and proved able campagner
Senator Hardngs and safe efforts aroused little
thusasm-but it would have made difference who the
candidates what the platforms were-the people
wanted change
Despite the effort to make it, the election not be
called referendum upon the League Of Nations for the
republicans appealed both for and against the League Root
Taft and Hughes promised the League in the the
party and Johnson Boah and Brandagee promised rejection
of the League in the of the candidate who blew hot
and cold the subject The treaty will probably be
speedily ratified with amendments, that delay has
served its political purposes
will be said of course, that the election is rejection
of President Wilson and his policies. With maximum of
achievement and penttude of Mistakes the Wilson ad-
mnisraton afford to wait for the verdict of history
When the generation has passed away the
achievements of Woodrow Wilson will live and be acclaimed
by future generations with those of Washington Jefferson
and Lincoln who helped make the world better place
to live in
To have united the vast population of this country with
it's divergent naonales, opposing creeds and conflicting
interests wonderful feat of craftsmanship To have
raised equipped and transported in few eetng months
of 100000 the hostile and landed
them in Europe without the loss of man. where their gal
antry rendered mpershabe glory America to have re-
breath Of scandal such followed the Spanish American
and to have financed the whole through the Reserve
bank creation of his administration sufficient
peuate Woodrow Wilson's name in history.
To have by his leadership united the free nations of the
world in the auocraey and become spokesman of
democracy and by his utterances to have destroyed the
morale of the to have imposed his ideals upon the
conference and secured the adoption of the League
Nations to end by all great nations except his own
lave been instrumental in freeing the submerged national
ties and long oppressed peoples of Europe and have blocked
he reaction trend toward Imperialism is the greatest
of any American.
Like the tickle Athenans who banished their greatest
eader because they tired of hearing him called he
ust the American people tired of the liberal ideas and
ofty ideals of Woodrow Wilson have the seal of their
sapprova on their great world leader who casualty of the
for peace lies stricken the capta-thus again prov
al lipUra tudao of