The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1920-11-18
REPUBLICANS SOLEMN
AFTER GREAT VICTORY
Impressed Only by Sense Of ResPensl-
hility and Determination 20 Make
Good 10 Limit.
BY SMELL SMITH.


Washington, Nov 14-With q major,
lty of I52 in the House and % in tbs
Senate. the Republican party has re
turned to power with a solemn sense Of
responsibility after ten years Of Demo
cratic control
The fact that the House majority is
larger than ever given any party in the
history Of the country and that the Sen
ate majority is sufficient to make sure
Of the passage Of all party measures
does not cause elation among the lead
ers In either branch Of Congress SO
much a determination to do away with
the evils in administration which oaus-
ed the landslide in their favor.
It is only within the facts to say that
no party ever came TO power with such
a serious sense Of responsibility as the
Republican party at this time. In inter
views with those who are TO WELD that
power one is impressed at once witH
this feeling that the party must dc
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 a split
and in 1915 by promise to keep US out
OF war. II 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 other
hand. is literally shot to pieces, Be-
cause Of the nature Of the campaign he
waged, Cox is generally discredited, so
far as the National Capital is concern
ed Beaten worse than Alton B Parker,
in 1904, he cannot hope to again lead
the Democratic hosts. Because the Will
son administration was so utterly re-
pudiated, 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, though
he made a great race in his defeat, is
too closely allied with Tammany to
make any widespread appeal to the
country. Champ Clark has gone down
in the general landslide, Claude Kit
chin, who will now assume the leader
ship of the House, halls from North
Carolina,and is out of the running fol
national leadership. Senator Oscar I'm.
derwood of Alabama. will for the time
at least come nearer TO being the lead
er of his party than any other man be
cause 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 doe:
not appeal to the progressives Many
see in William r. Hearst an aspiranr
for Democratic honors again, but hi:
attitude toward war questions woult
probably prevent that
Furthermore, the Democrats are
without any great issue to stand upor
after defeat, such as enthused their
after the defeat of Cleveland in 1888
Both the i'll health and the unpopularity
Of President Wilson would prevent his
return. The league of nations is dead
buried beyond the slightest chance oil
resurrection. Under the Republican ad.
ministration the government will be
conducted for America, contenting it.
self with fomenting the most friendly
relations with all, while protecting it.
self from the possible aggressions OF
any Of them in the future. 1t will no
assume that the millennium is at hant
and hence propose immediate disarm
ament 1t will have the greatest Navy
in the world and an army sufficient for
development to meet any emergency
In this the Democrats have no issue
They will resume the place formerly
held by them during the Roosevelt ad
ministration as a mere party of mega
tion.