The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1920-11-04

honuouS 'ote TOlleu up Dy It's re-
publican opponents who have be-
yond a question of doubt created
new plurality and majority records
that in the case of the president
elect. Hon. Warren @. Harding,
newspaperman and United States
senator, of Marion, Ohio, is without
parallel in this country's history.
In casting about for comfort demo-
Gratis find none in the election day
achievements of their party. The
only solace that issues comes from
the fact that we now have in pros
peet, after an interlocking period OF
two years, legislative and executive
departments of the government that
Will be in perfect accord.
One can attribute the sweeping
republican victory to any one OF
many causes, or what is more plaus-
ible, to combination of causes.
Plainly, the people OF the United
States desire a change, and this de-
sire was subordinated in an en-
phatic sense to whatever desire may
have existed for a league of nations
or any other utopian departure.
When Vice-President Marshall said,
Il find one-third of the people of
the United States for the league of
nations, one-third against il and the
other third are passive on the sub
ject," he probably voiced what was
a prediction truism. But the pas
siye third, If one may Judge from
the election returns, made an active
two-thirds when united with the ac-
tive opponents of the administra-
tion enterprise, for one can review
the campaign to his hearts con-
tent and find nothing but league of
nations discussion. Cox made IL his
paramount and almost sole talking
subject and Harding only slightly
less so with the result that one may
logically view the result, In recount
ing the campaign and the results of
the election that followed as a re-
pudiation OF the entrance of the
United States into European alli-
ances of whatsoever nature, albeit
the republicans would put into ef-
feet a concord of nations" or re-
yiye the Hague tribunal.
To which causes may be added
another affecting organization and
money disbursement, forms of po-
litical activity at which our republi-
can brethren plainly excelled. Prof
iting from the experiences of eight
years ago the leaders of the party
closed the riffs In the clouds long
in advance of the election. Malcon-
tents and fire eaters of the Johnson
and Borah type who threatened and
bluffed in advance OF nominating
time were later found working
steadfastly In the ranks when they
were called upon. And while every
active party worker aud rostrum
speaker talked, cajoled and in
yeigled, the fellows on the side lines
paid their party assessments and
thus the merry work went on. The
contest may be aptly likened to a
game of football between a highly
trained, coached and equipped col
lege team and an aggregation that
had never seen a pigskin and we
may truthfully add that from the
first the contest was unequal and
the results we're never In doubt
We may now expect to receive a
modicum of the promised repubh-
can prosperity, the skies are to be-
come roseate to the degree of the in
finite, soup houses are to remain
taboo and men will be in such de-
mand for labor that they will be
shanghied after the fashion of sail
or boarding house days. With re-
publican president and congress
working in concord there is no tell
ing what all we may expect in bene-
fits, but we will surely see our be-
loved country made over into mod
ern Utopia in which the government
will socialistically pass around tar
iff benefits to the chosen few on the
Atlantic seaboard that must be paid
by some body of citizens who by the
same token will be penalized, in ex-
act ratio to the protection afford
ed.
Harding carried every state In
the Union outside of the solid south
where republican immigration has
greatly increased the party's vote
and even that stronghold promises
to eventually become predominant
ingly republican If the present ratio
of increase Is maintained. One may
summarize the vote of the northern,
middle western and western states
very fairly with the statement that
Harding received two-thirds of the
votes cast by the partisans of the
two major parties and Cox the other
third.
The large countrywide vote for