Milford chronicle., 1928-11-09
VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
HOOYer's Election Means Country
Does Not Want A Change

Just before Mr. Hoover started fol
California to vote he said that if all
those who agreed with him went to
: the polls and voted that way he
would be elected. 1t is evident that
. they fulfilled his expectations.
Even the Democrats admit that
this is a Republican nation. When
the party is united it wins the cleo
ton. Wilson was elected in 1912
i because of a split in the Republican
ranks. The total vote pOlled against
, him was greater than that which he
received. The differences of opinion
that were acute in 1912 survived in
some of the States in 1916, and it
was because Hughes made no con-
cessiOns to the Progressive senti-
ment in California that he lost the
State and the election, while the
Progressive, Hiram johnson, was
reelected to the Senate by a major
ity of nearly 100000.
In 1920 the party was united and
won by majority of about 100000
Mr.. Coolidge, who succeeded to the
presidency on the death of Harding,
was so satisfactory to the country
that he was elected in 1924 by a ma
jority also of about 100000 over his
Democratic opponent, and the La
Toilette bolt did not win support
enough to prevent him from geUUlng
a majority over all. And Mr.. Cool
idge's vigorous treatment of the men
involved in the oil scandals destroy
ed whatever effect they might other |
wise have had on the fortunes of |
the Republican Party.
So it was with confidence that the
party entered the campaign this
year with the prestige of the Cool
idge Administration back of it and
with candidate pledged to continue
the Coolidge policies. 1t was admit
ted by the Democrats that Governor
Smith was the only man who had
the remotest chance of defeating Mr..
Hoover, and they were doubtful
whether even he, with his record of
numerous victories in New York,
could do it. The result once more
demonstrates that when the issues
are clearly drawn the people can be
trusted to make the right decision.
The personality of the candidates
affected the voting to some extent,
and there was some shifting of sup
port from each party to the other
because of it, but the basic issue
was the continuance of the Repub-
lican policies for four years more. {
The party had met the problem of ]
postwar rehabilitation and had
solved it. 1t had reduced the war t
debt by $4,000, 100000, thereby saving s
the taxpayers hundreds of millions
of dollars in interest on that debt. S
1t had arranged for the payment of
the loans made to the war Allies. It v
had reduced taxation four times, and
in spite of the increase in population F
it had kept the cost of running the
Government down to a reasonable 7
amount through the introduction of
the budget system. 1t had passed a 7
protective tariff law over the oppO-
sitiOn of the Democrats and had re- T
sisted the Democratic demand for an
reduction in duties at a T
time when it was manifest that if
certain industries were to receive C,
proper protection the duties must be
raised. u
Furthermore, its candidate was a -
man peculiarly fitted to carry on the n
work which Mr. Coolidge had so well "
begun. He devoted himself during n
The campaign to explaining what had
been done in the past and what he =.
hoped to do in the future as the Off "
;1al head of the Government com -
nltted to the Republican doctrines,
He declined to permit the opposition -
o divert him from this program, and II
le refused to enter into controver-
lies with any one. He acted on the ~
assumption that his function as a
andidate was to indicate to the III
ountry what he would do when
lected and to trust the great Re- ID
'ublican masses to commission him
o do it. He can look back on his d.
ignified course with satisfaction.
nd now that the strife is over even Dc
hose who voted against him must
dmire him for it. pu
1t is now certain that the Govern
lent, under the efficient leadership
Mr.. Hoover, will do its utmost to
olive those perplexing problems that
'oubled the country in recent years
nd will do its best to meet new
as they arise. There are
ways such problems in a growing !
ountry. They spring in part from
rowth and in part from changing
ldustrial conditions. The Republi-
IN Party has held the confidence of Wi
lie country for many years because Tn
its ability to handle these prob
ms with constructive intelligence.
retains that confidence this year
the election of a man who has
refused to support pass Tar
g fads and whose record of con- WI
ructive achievement in both pri- ""
tie and public business is his certi-
'ate of fitness.