Evening star., 1926-11-05
West Still Republican.

against the Republican party and ad-
ministration OF Government failed to
materialize in Tuesdays elections,
notwithstanding the rumblings of dis
appointment over farm-relief legisla-
ton in the last session Of Congress.
A review OF the election in the States
west of the Mississippi and in the
corn belt States east of the great
river shows that the Republicans held
their own. Where Democratic vic
tories were won they represented a
swing back to more normal condi.
tions
Republican senatorial victories were
recorded in California. Oregon and
Washington, the Pacific Coast States:
I'm Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Colorado,
Kansas, South Dakota, North Da-
kota, Iowa. Wisconsin, Illinois, In
diana and Ohio. Democratic senatorial
victories were recorded in Arizona,
Oklahoma, Missouri and Kentucky.
OF these four States, Oklahoma is or
dinarily Democratic by from 10000 to
$4,000 votes. The two Republican
Senators elected there came into office
in the wake of the Harding and Cool
idge iandslides and because of dis
SenSionS among the Democrats. In
Missouri and Kentucky the political
sentiment is shown by the fact that
the Democrats have majorities of the
House delegations, and in Arizona the
single member of the House, now
Senator-elect, Is Democrat.
With the exception of John ]. Blaine
OF Wisconsin, no new Republican
radicals were elected. Both Nye and
Brookhart, In North Dakota and Iowa,
respectively, have been members Of
Ousted last Spring in an election con-
test which seated a Democrat. In
Wisconsin there is no farm revolt
against the Republican party. The
La Toilette faction, which put Blaine
into Office. has dominated the State
for years. Indeed, Wisconsin is ad-
mittedly well Off in its agricultural
communities.
The Republicans held their lines
well in the elections to the House in
the West and Middle West. They
gained one seat in California, one in
Kansas and another in Minnesota,
from the Farmer-Labor party. The
Democrats picked up two Republican
seats In Illinois, three in Missouri, one
in Nebraska and probably one in
Kansas. Here was no wild scramble
to defeat the Republican party.
In gubernatorial elections the Re-
publicans overturned Democratic ad.
and perhaps in Nevada, Arizona and
New Mexico. The Democrats chalked
UP gubernatoriM victory in South
Dakota and another in Colorado,
where Republicans have held sway.
The farmers of the West and Mid
die West are still faithful to the prin-
ciples of the Republican party, it ap-
pears. They do not see the wisdom of
repeating the Republican protective
tariff. as they are urged to do by
some of the Democratic leaders. They
fear the loss of domestic markets if
the standard of living for the indus
trial East should be lowered by such
a political prank. Indeed, several of
the Democratic candidates in the elec-
tions announced they would not seek
reductions in the tariff schedules on
the industries of their States. This
was true, for example, in Colorado,
where Sweet, the Democratic nominee
for the Senate. announced he would
support the duties on sugar and WOOL
which vitally affect the people of his
State and which have been directly
under Democratic attack.
The farmers of the West believe
that the tariff can be made more eff.
fective for agriculture: that a system
stabilizing to some degree the agricul-
tural industry of this country can be
devised and set up. But they still
hope and believe that these benefits
will flow to them more surely through
the Republican party than the Demo
cratic.