The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-09

Party in Power is
Always Target
By MARK SULLIVAN

WAS6lNGION, u. u, NOV. 81 ne
Republicans are frankly dismayed-
Most of their leaders counted conf
IDENTIFY ON a Ainimum majority of ~
in the lower house. Many of them ex-
pected as high as so, and there is
probably not a Republican leader OF
any Importance who did not count on
a majority of at least 80. They under
estimated the quality of sullen dis
content, of angry dissatisfaction, which
is clearly the present mood of the
country.
This election is the second one Of a
series of oscillations more violent than
we have been accustomed to. The
first was in 1920 The Republicans
then being out were the beneficiaries
of it. This sort of thing is likely to
happen again and again, since the gov
ernment has got into SO many outside
activities, the party in power is al
ways the object of an aggregate Of
many resentments.
The party In power Will continue to
be blamed for high taxes. They will
be blamed in some parts of the coun
try for enforcement of the prohibition
law, and in other parts of the country
for lack of effective endorsement
Radicals Selected.
In almost every case where radical
was running on the Republican ticket
the Republican won. The radical
strength and the farm block strength
in the senate will be increased. The
strength of the isolation group in the
senate is also clearly increased. The
victory of Reed in Missouri is a tri
umph for this issue on fight made un
der exceptionally adverse circum
stances. Correspondingly the defeat
of Hitchcock in Nebraska means the
passing out of the man who led the
fight for the League of Nations on be
half of the Democrats in the senate.
On the other hand, it is quite clear
that in Massachusetts Lodge would
have been defeated If there had been
the faintest approach toward thorough
organization and good management In
part of the Democrats locally in that
state. The Democrats nationally have
won their present victories on mere
shoestring of leadership, shoestrine
of resources, and a shoestring. of or
ganization. If they had had anything
approaching Republican resources and
Republican organization their victory
y
One cheering result is the return 70
the lower house of such able and sea
soned Democratic leaders as Cordell
Hull of Tennessee and several other
former congressman. BY the addition
of these and few other, the tota'
amount of leadership in the lower
house will be increased. At the same
time, Republican leadership and Re
publican morale, both in the house anc
the senate, are decreased by the re
suits of these elections.
klan Aided Defeat.
In Indiana. there were three things
that operated against Beveridge. one
was the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan Is
said 10 be stronger in Indiana than in
any other northern state. Beveridgt
did not attack the Klan by name; but
various aspersions uttered by hin
about groups" and racial prejudice
were taken by the Klan as occasion
for passing the word to vote against
Beyeridge. Also, during the last few
DAYS of the compaign, Governor Henry
Allen. of Kansas, came into Indiana
to speak for Beveridge; Allen had JUS
started to drive the Klan out OF Kan
sas, and in his Indiana speeches II
behalf of Beveridge, he attacked the
Klan.
Another group against Beveridge
was the radical labor following. BeV
eridge expressed opposition to the
Adamson law. That law was not al
issue in the campaign, but Beyer1dg'
included opposition to it in his pro
gram. AS everybody said, it was
COURAGEOUS, but it wasn't politics
There remains, finally, the inevitable
implication that Beveridge must have
been cut by some of the regular Re
publican organization in the state.
senator Harry New and New!
friends undoubtedly resented wha
Beyeridge did to them in the primaries
last spring. This aspect of the Bev
eridge result will have echoes fo
MANY wears to come. Beveridget
friends will be sure TO resent it. AM
Indiana may turn Democratic for
long time
Ralston Presidential Material.
Ralston. by carrying this big doubt
ful state of Indiana fL\ the Democrats
is thrust in the foreground as poss1
bility for the Democratic presidentia
nomination in 1924. 1t has airead
heen understood that Ralston woul
have the backing Of Bryan.
The victory in New York was du
rartly to the personal popularity of tn
Democratic candidate for governor
and partly to the strong anti-prohlo
ton sentiment in the big cities of tina
state The considerable number G
Italian and other foreign voters l
New York city felt that they could e.
press themselves against prohlbito
nv voting the Democratic ticket.
In Ohio, the fact that victory appear
10 have been won by Fess, the Repui
liean candidate for the senate, Will
the rest of the Republican ticket l
that state was defeated. is due largei
to the fact that the dry sentiment c
Ohio was in favor of Fess as agains
Pomerene. Also. Pomerene. the Den
ocratic senator, was opposed by Tadicf
labor Both Fess and Pomerene hav
to some extent anti-labor records, bt
as between the two, labor in Ohio n
garded Pomerene as its particular el
emy and made the drive against hin
Before Campaign Claim
Before the election the Republican
we're claiming that with reduced m;
iority in the lower house. they woui
be better able TO put through thei
program. They claimed their big M
J jority was a handicap. There wa
and is nothing in this. AS it appeal
at this hour, the Republicans ma
have lost the house Even II the
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