Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-04
LEADING EDITORIAL COMMENT
ON REPUBLICAN VICTORY

fare of Europe and Asia, while the re-
publicans protested all concern about
the land of Washington. Jefferson and
the home of the great American
eagle.
ut is we'll to bear in mind. how
ever. that millions of Americans who
believe that the United States should
and Will indorse the league Of nations.
with certain reservations. voted for
Harding yesterday.
Faced not with an election to win.
but with world which is to be given
over TO war or bound over to keep the
peace. the new President and the new
republican administration will prob
ably not fail in its duty to the para
mount interests of civilization"
The Detroit News.
row Wilson and all his works has
been returned. He and they are re-
pudiated.
The crashing preponde-ance of this
return, we take it. is not directed at,
nor to be accepted as Il judgment
of James NJ. Cox of Ohio. Gov. Cox
merely served as the vehicle of the re-
pudiation.
Nor is it fair. probably. to accept
this verdict, as Il wholesale rejection
of the principle of the league of ma
tons. 1t is Impossible to believe that
the American people refuse to join
with the enlightened nations Of the
earth in a combined effort to Danish
war from the world. Ii is more prob
able that they reject the Wilson Kind
of a league.
New York American:
There is no uncertainty as to the
leaning of the result of the solemn
referendum 1t makes perfectly clear
.aat the people were not fooled by the
league of nations. OF deceived by its
Iacking among international bank
srs and ill-informed. weepy sentiment
ralists.
Victory for the Wilson system of
government at this election, and VIC
tory for the Wilson league of nations.
would have meant for this country a
calamity not easy to estimate.
However. the impossible, fortu-
nately. has not happened.
After 140 years of self-government
this country has not decided to take
in half hundred bankrupt partners
to be managed by them.
The United States has voted for
government of this country by this
country.
The fourteen points are dead.
The league of nations, as regards
this country, is dead.
Europe has been notified that she
must fight her own fights. if she can
peace"
New York Herald:
Harding and Coolidge are elected
They have been swept into Office by
an avalanche. No such plurality has
President and candidate for Vice
President.
On the surface this would seem to
mean that Harding and Coolidge
carry further with the people in re-
spect of personal popularity or in the
nationwide confidence reposed in
them than the candidates of any pre-
vious national election.
Such conclusion would not be
sound. Political avalanches that
from quite another source. They do
not come at the call of personal popu-
larity. They are the expression of an
embittered people, the protest of an
outraged nation.
Wilson autocracy. impudent. in
lnefficiency: extravaganza, wasteful-
ness, are the source of the 1920 ava
lanche. The people of this democratic
country have had all they could stand
people have had all they could stand
or would stand of the democratic
party management of their affairs
management that has wellnigh
cankrupted the Treasury in spite of
Lha-.faci that It is sensezing the life
blood out of the people in taxation
Hence this election in its big bear.
ings is a nationwide protest against
a continuance of democratic rule.
New York Times,
The popular desire for change and
the highly effective organization of
the campaign would have given the
republicans something greater than
the old-time majorities But new.
strange and enormous reinforcements
came to them without virtue or effort
on their part, and these account for
the staggering overplus of the Har
ding figures. The proof Of it is seen
in the figures of the republican vote