The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-11-18
ELECTION TUMULT AND
SHOUTING SOON SUBSIDE
Having Precipitated the Great Land
slide, Voters Go About Their Bus
mess, Leaving POST Mortems"

j. A. N. In Baltimore News.
The quadrennial grand prix having
taken place, bankrupting by its re-
suits writer's vocabularies of figura-
tive expressions indicating something
stupendous, overpowering and unpar-
alleled, the numerous millions, male
and female, who participated in the
event, have calmly resumed the rou-
tine of their daily affairs. The election
over, the electorate has hung out the
business-as-usual sign and has dis
missed politics from its mind.
Considering the extraordinary ma
ture of the recent phenomenon, re-
markably little general, as distin-
/ gulshed from technical, comment has
ensued. Perhaps this is because the
voters had discounted" the result of
the election, to employ the phrase
which the financial experts love. At
any rate the post-election comment
is lagely professional" again to
borrow the idiom of the stock market.
Such participants in the fray, vic
tors or vanquished, as have wished
to make statements, have uttered
their announcements and the news
papers have dutifully published them.
The most notable of the losers have
taken the verdict of the people" in
good part, that being the only thing
left to do, and Mr.. Bryan has once
more stirred the risibilities of the
nation and gratified his personal ami
mus by suggesting that President
Wilson ought to resign at once.
The more ingenious and less plac-
able of the Democratic newspapers
excel themselves in explaining how
1t happened and groanlng over the
folly of a blind and perverse electo-
rate; the less bitter of the opposition
press, having, during the heat of the
conflict, had little to say about the
Presidents physical condition, lest
sympathy for Wilson should be trans
muted into votes for Cox, are now
beginning to print sympathetic de-
scrlptions of the stricken President"
to whom in the fullness of time, they
may even ascribe the status of mar
tyr.
The more magnanimous Democratic
journals are admonishing their read
ers that, since the people have spoken,
since the die Tor, more properly, the
ballots) is cast, the President-elect
will be not the President of the party
but of a people, great and united, and
that as such he is entitled to the sup
port of every 100 per cent, of course)
Americana tenet which the Repub-
lican Organs" naturally uphold.
The more enterprising publications
are already indicating to Senator
Harding the personnel of his Cabinet,
and if the President elect can accom-
plish this initial and important bit
of construction to the liking of all his
supporters, he will, by that achieve
ment alone, have done much to vindi-
cate the judgment of those who cleo
ted him by such an overpowering ma
jority.
Whether the League of Nations has
/ been buried or merely mutilated re-
mains an open question, though one
/ thing is sure-the Wilson League"
so far as the United States is con
cerned, has ceased to exist No one
Administration which was repudiated
achievement of Mr.. Wilson's Admin
istration, in the opinion of no less an
authority than the President himself,
is the League of Nations.
Not only will Maryland have two
INepuDllCdIl EotIdIOTS Ill IHe new OOn-
gress Ito say nothing of four Repub-
lican Representatives out of the total
of SKI, but one of those Senators will
be especially close to the Administra-
ton. The Senator-elect, Mr.. Weller,
is close friend of Senator John W.
Weeks of Massachusetts, who, in turn,
is close friend of President-elect
Harding, and who is likely to have a
Cabinet portfolio, it is said. The ju-
Nor Senator from Maryland should
thus stand exceedingly well with the
Executive, and as Mr.. Weller has al
ready indicated that his interest in
the affairs of the nation will not pre-
clude solicitude for his State, Mary
land may have something to gain.
After his campaign, not the less
strenuous for being silent, Mr.. Weller
has hied him to Florida for a respite,
thereby fulfilling to the letter pre-
dictions emanating from not too SYM
pathetic quarters. How accessible
and visible Mr.. Weller will be, now
that he has been elected, is arousing
much interest. AS a candidate, he
was, to say the least, not obtrusive.
Nor did he talk much. Perhaps he
will not talk much in the Senate, and
IN that august body, where loquacity
is certainly not at a discount, the
presence of a man who believes in
deeds rather than in words may not
be such bad thing.
The question of Federal patronage
is already being discussed and now is
an excellent time for suggesting ELI
gibles." That Galen l.. TAFT will be
rewarded for his efforts, that the lean
years of toll will be succeeded by the
fat years of preferment, is generally
admitted. Mr. TAFT has worked hard,
no less hard in the days of discour-
agement than in the hours of triumph.
The Republican party has scored a
tremendous victory in MARYLAND, and
if Mr.. TAFT should fancy being Col
lector of Customs or Collector of In
ternal Revenue, the belief is that his
aspirations will be gratified, and they
should be without question.
For some days the election as it
affects Maryland, has been comment
ed upon at length. Senator Smith
is receiving congratulations upon the
showing which he made in the face
of a Republican landslide. 1t was
Baltimore City which defeated him,
"Wet" voters in the CITY and hostile