Gunnison news-champion., 1920-12-10
SOME POLITICAL HISTORY

The Democratic party has died and
been buried so often, only TO expert
cnce glorious resurrection al the
nest election, that we are not at all
cast down by the immensity of our
late defeat. We anticipate a sweeping
Democratic majority in the house and
senate two years hence. and we have
historical precedent 10 justify our
faith.
In 1872 the Democrats and Liberal
Republicans supporting Horace Gree
ley against General Grant We're buried
under an avalanche of ballot. Grants
popular plurality was 796,99l. an IN
precedcnted figure for that day. and
he received 2Ss electoral votes to a
meager eS for Greeley. Yet two years
later the Democrats swept the coun-
try and gained control of congress. In
the presidential election following, in
1876, they elected their candidate for
president, Samuel J. Tilden. BY a plu-
rality of 250.935 in the popular vote
but were defrauded Of the victory BY
the notorious electoral commission.
In 1850 Garfield was elected presi-
dent by small plurality and the Re
publicans secured lac seats in con-
Satoc saS 100 LOT tne DsrlG-
Gratis. Two years later a Democratic
landslide followed, giving that party
control OF congress by 1873 TO i24, and
in 1884 that great Democrat, Grover
Cleveland, was elected and the Demo-
cratic majority in congress increas-
ed.
-Four years later, tho Grover Cleve-
land received more popular votes than
Benjamin Harrison. the latter secured
majority in the electoral college and
became. president. Two years there
after. in 1890, the Republicans were
nearly wiped out in the congressional
elections, 236 Democrats being elected
TO congress and only IS Republicans.
In 1892 Cleveland decisively defeated
Harrison and senate and house were
Democratic by substantial majorities.
Two years later the Republicans won a
victory, and then came Bryan and six
teen years of wandering in the wilder
ness for the Democratic party. Wood
row Wilson ended the G. o. r. debauch
Of power with his election in 1912 and
reelection in 1916, and by all the signs
OF the past the time was ripe for the
pendulum to swing in the other direc-
tion--and it did. 1t will swing back
agaiE, and there is no ground for Dem
ocratic encouragement.
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Steamboat Springs Pilot:-Whether
the League of Nations is scrapped by
the incoming administration or not, Il
- reasonably certain that Article \.
the chief bone of contention, is doomed.
1t is not improbable that eventually
the league covenant will be ratified
with some reservations and the elimi-
nation of Article X. The imperial
istic elements in England and France
viii not mourn the loss of Article X.
That clause was insisted on by Presi-
dent Wilson not for the benefit Of Eng
land and France but for the protection
of the weaker nations. 1t is virtual
ly the heart Of the league. as Mr.. VIII
son has always maintained. The
league may function in q way without
Article x, but mot with the high pur-
poses that were in the mind Of the
author. Without Article x there will
be no guarantee Of the territorial in
tegrity Of the smaller nations MEM
hers Of the league, and the stfll ex-
istent Inst for exploitation by the great
powers Of Europe will have NO eject
i've check. In the end, without Ar
tiele x, greed may wreck tie leskue
ard plunge the world into . nee cd
more terrible war.