The Coconino sun., 1920-11-12

ueilDeTdteiy Set dDOut HldklnR tne dn- nouncement unmistakable.
 But Harding will make terrible mistake if he too does not learn much from the result of this election. It re- establishes certain definite principles in the American political code, which future presidents will violate at their peril.
 It might be possible to conceive of 15,000,000 people being moved by a mob spirit and visiting punishment on some innocent victim in an hour of madness. But here we have i5,00O, ,000 mature men and women of normal in- telligence who have been making up their minds for years; who have been following for months the develop ments of an intensive campaign of public information and discussion; and who have gone individually to the polls in 100000 separate localities and have severally and thoughtfully re- corded in writing their fixed choice and conviction. There is something mighty impressive about such a ver- dict.
 A certain humility is becoming in Senator Harding at this moment. As he himself says, this is not personal victory. He is acceptable. But he has still before him the making of his place in history and in the hearts of the American people.
 The most skillful of pilots cannot bind the storm winds and still the wild waters, but he can handle his ship so as to bring her safe to port and save her for many another wide voyage. Harding is the chosen pilot. He boards the ship on, the high seas, and there are storms east and storms west, and the way must be run. The ship is staunch. But the compass has been tempered with, the machinery has been all but ruined, the crew has been demoralized. Stout heart here, or disaster.
 Now, at last, the whole world knows where Wilson stands with the Ameri- can people, and where the American people stand with the world. This election result is the voice of America, fearless, true to itself, faithful to the trust it holds, ready and anxious to serve through conserving unimpaired it's mighty power, and determined to defend it's right to peace.
 It is particularly a cause of thank fulness that both houses of congress will be strongly republican. There will be no division of forces in the ad- ministration, and there can be no shifting of responsibility. There is no reason why comprehensive construc- tive program cannot be pressed to full filment in the first two years, that will go far to repair the ravages that the national fabric has suffered, and to fortify the nation against enemies from within as we'll as without.
 Today the American nation draws a long deep breath, smiles contentedly, feels inspired with renewed confidence in itself, and takes up it's task with cheerful determination that is in no wise hindered by broad comprehension of its difficulties.
 Here is a people that respects itself.
 The entire world will gasp, and then admire, and then acclaim with praise; for is it believable that the over whelming majority of American citi- gems will deliberately choose, to do that which has neither right nor. req son?
 The American alone, among all the peoples of the world, have had .he moral strength and political wisdom to expose the wrong in spite of its glamorous patronage and haloed au- thonty, and to stand out to the end against a project calculsted to inn