Springfield weekly Republican. [volume], November 14, 1912, Page 4, Image 4

About Springfield weekly Republican. [volume] (Springfield, Mass.) 1851-1946

Image provided by: Boston Public Library

                
4
TO REHABILITATE G. 0. P.
TAFT SAYS PARTY WILL LIVE.
PRESIDENT STARTS FOR CAPITAL.
Plans tor National Republican Cinb
in Be Organized Entirely Apart
From National Committee.
President Taft already has formed plans
for holding together and strengthening the
republican party. The plans are indefinite,
but he declared at Columbus. O- last
tveek to friends who accompanied him
north from Cincinnati that the party will
continue to exist; that it will be as active
ns in the past, and that there is no reason
to believe that its chances of future suc
cess were not excellent. So far as the
president’s plan is concerned, he hopes to
see organized a "national republican club
entirely apart from the repuolican national
committee, which shall cherish the princi
ples of the party and he a source of po
litical activity not only during election
years, but at all times. The president
spoke of the republican club of New York,
the Hamilton club of Chicago, and other
organizations similar in character and ex
pressed the belief that through these clubs
interest and loyalty could be kept alive.
To a suggestion that he might be the re
publican party's nominee in 1916. the pres
ident replied with a smile hut made no
comment. He laughingly repeated his in
tention of returning to Cincinnati and the
practice of law. The president is con
vinced that the task of President-elect Wil
son will not be easy. He said last week
that he earnestly hoped Mr W ilson would
not call an extra session of Congress to
revise the tariff. He wished, ho said to
see the present prosperity continue as long
as possible.
Mr Taft declared that Mr Wilson would
face a Congress made up to a large ex
tent of untried men who have come to be
lieve in “histrionic publicity” and who be
lieve that tc show their faith with the peo
ple they must at times be "insurgents”
and oppose the program of the leaders.
The president was particularly interested
in any tariff revision program and laughed
when'he said he was eagerly awaiting the
democratic efforts to reduce the schedules
of that "iniquitous Payne-Aldrich law.”
Asked if he did not consider Air Wilson
more conservative than radical, the presi
dent told the following story about Senor
Zias. head of the radical party in Cuba:
”Zias was campaigning once,” said the
president, “and was accused of being a
conservative. 'I am not a conservative.’
said Zias. 'I am a radical. I must speak
ns a radical on the platform to keep my
followers, hut in office I am not a radical.’ ”
The president left Columbus at 5.40 for
Washington. He expected to stay there
with but few trips away from the White
House until Aiarch 4. He announced last
night that he will not visit the Panama,
canal during the Christmas holidays, as he
had planned, and authorized Congressman
Sherley of Kentucky, a caller in his private
car, who was on the way to Panama, to
give Col Goetlials his “kind regards.”
Richard L. Jervis, one o£ the husky six
foot secret-service men who has guarded
President Taft since he was elected four
years ago, last week was notified to pro
ceed to Princeton. He will be joined by
other secret-service men later. "Jimmie”
Sloan, who has been head of the White
House secret-service force for seven
years, and “Jack” Wheeler, his princi
pal assistant, who has laid out the Taft
trips, will stay with the president.
COLONEL ANALYZES RESULT.
A Sanguine View of Fntnre—Elated
Over Big Popular Vote—Say. Battle
Ha. Just Begun.
Theodore Roosevelt made a formal state
ment at New York Alonday bearing upon
the election and the future of the progres
sive party. In line with previous expres
sions of his own and of his colleagues, he
reiterates that “the progressive party has
come to stay,” and ”so far from being
over the battle has just begun.” He re
gards the party's showing in polling over
4.000,000 votes in the face of numerous
obstacles naturally in the path of a new
movement as "literally unparalleled in the
history of free government.”
The statement follows: ”1 congratulate
the progressives of the country—that is, I
congratulate those good men and women
who. with sincerity of purpose for the
common good, have had the vision to look
into the coming years and see what the
future demands from us who work in this
present. What the progressive party has
done since the theft of the repuolican or
ganization hy the republican bosses at
Chicago last June is literally unparalleled
in the history of free government, worked
under representative institutions.
“Three months have gone by since some
hundreds of earnest men and women gath
ered to found the new progressive party.
Without much money, without any organ
ization, against the wealth of the country,
against the entire organized political abil
ity of the country, against the bitter hos
tility of 90 per cent of the press of the
country, against the furious opposition of
every upholder of special privilege, wheth
er in politics or in business, and with the
channels of information to the public
largely choked—the progressive parti- has
polled between 4,000,000 and 4,500,000
votes: has hopelessly beaten one of the
old parties, both in the electoral college
and in the popular vote; lias taken second
place in the nation, and either first or
second place in some 37 of the 4* states
“No task in any way approaching this
has ever before heen performed hy any
party in our country. Such a feat, per
formed by volunteers hastily brought to
gether, and without any previous co-opera
tion with each other against the trained
veterans of the political arena--these
trained veterans including the entire mer
cenary forces of politics--should he a
source of pride not only to those who per
formed the task, but to all believers in
good citizenship and in tlie capacity of
Americans for self-government.
"During the campaign I said repeatedly
that this was in no shape or way a one
man movement, but a movement for great
principles—a movement which has sprung,
as ail healthy movements ill our democ
racy must spring, from the heart and con
science of the people themselves. This
truth must be kept steadily before the
minds of all of us. The progressive partv
lias come to stay. If either of the old
parties will endeavor to put into legisla
tion any one of our planks it can count
upon our hearty support in so doing: but
we will not rest content until the entire
platform is enacted into law and becomes
part of our political system, national and
state.
"I am prond indeed that the great good
fortune has been mine to fight shoulder to
shoulder with the men and women who,
in the ranks and in various positions of
leadership, have waged this great battle
for social and industrial justice. So far
from being over, that battle has just be
gun. We will not rest content until every
feature of the progressive program has
been put into effect, and when this lias
heen done unquestionably there will have
opened to us new avenues along which it,
will still he a duty to work for the moral
and economic betterment of our people.”
WILSON ANSWERS FELICITATIONS.
Princeton University Deelare* Holiday
in Honor ot Distinguished Aiumnns.
Gov Wilson sent replies Wednesday, last
week to congratulatory telegrams of Presi
dent Taft and Col Roosevelt, and issued a
statement in which he declared that "there
is absolutely nothing for the honest and
enlightened business men of the country to
fear” from the democratic administration.
To President Taft at Washington, Presi
dent-elect Wilson sent the following tele
gram: "I warmly appreciate your kind
message and wish to express my sincere
personal regards." President-elect Wilson
sent to Col Roosevelt at Oyster Bay the
following telegram; “My sineerest thanks
for your kind message. Pray accept my
cordial good wishes."
President-elect Wilson made the following
statement Wednesday “The result
fills me with the hope that the thoughtful
progressive forces of the nation may now
at last unite to give the country freedom
of enterprise and a government released
from all corporate and private influences,
devoted to justice and progress. There Is
absolutely nothing for the honest and en
lightened business men of the country to
fear. No man whose business is conducted
without violation of the rights of free com
petition, and without such private under
standing and secret alliances as violate
the principle of our law and the policy of
ail wholesome commerce and enterprise
need fear either interference or embarrass
ment from the administration. Our hope
and plumose is now to bring all the free
forces of the nation into active and intelli
gent co-operation and to give to our pros
perity a freshness and spirit and a confi
dence such as it has not had in our time.
"The responsibilities of the task are
tremendous, but they aTe common respon
sibilities which all leaders of action and
opinion must share. And with the confi
dence of the people behind us everything
that is right is possible. My own ambi
tion will he more than satisfied if I may
be permitted to be the frank spokesman
of the nation’s thoughtful purposes in these
great matters.”
Princeton university declared a holiday,
which is a rare thing on the college cal
endar. Besides the fact that Woodrow
Wilson had for 10 years been president of
Princeton university, there was the thought
that a Princeton graduate had triumphed
in a triangular contest with a Harvard
and a Yale alumnus. Not since the year
ISOS, when .Tames Madison was elected,
has there been a Princeton graduate in
the White House. Coincidentally James
Madison came from Virginia, the native
state of Gov Wilson. As another parallel
not more than 100 yards from the Wilson
home is "Westland, where Grover Cleve
land lived and died.
Gov Wilson received the following mes
sage Wednesday morning from President
Hibben of Princeton: fin the name of
Princeton university I extend to you the
congratulations and best wishes of your
alma mater upon your election to the presi
dency of the United States.”
BOSTON PROGRESSIVE MEETING.
Resolves to Stand Firm lor the Fu
ture—Defeated Candidates for Gov
ernor In This State, Vermont and
Yew Hampshire Make Speeches.
The meeting of the progressives in Tre
mont temple, Boston, Saturday night was
full of enthusiasm and large enough _fo r
an overflow meeting—3ooo men and wom
en in the temple, and 300 or more in
Faneuil hall. There was wild cheering
and the waving of bandannas and Sags
and the temper of the occasion was against
compromise with aqy other political
party. Everybody declared that the pro
gressives would win in 1916. A collection
for the support of the cause yielded SBOOO
and a supplementary one netted $364 to
pay for the rental of the hall. The rally
had been preceded early in the evening
by a banquet in Ford hall, which was
attended by about 300 men and women,
the greater part of the men being chair
men of city and town committees.
Matthew Hale, who presided, announced
that the party would fight on without com
promise. “If we do this,” he said, “we
shall win in this state next fall and in
the United States in 1916.”
Fraser Metzger, defeated candidate for
the governorship of Vermont, told that his
state had been almost taken out of the
republican column. "In the rock-ribbed re
publican stronghold of Vermont, we came
within 900 votes of winning. It’s not a
good thing to win too quickly—we enjoy
the fighting too much —but in two years
from now Vermont will be a progressive
state. We are still standing at Armaged
don.”
Henry Hume, defeated candidate for the
governorship of Rhode Island, related that
“we in Rhode Island, which is the most
rock-ribbed republican state in the Union,
are controlled hy a bossSvho draws a regu
lar salary.”
Charles S. Bird, defeated candidate for
governor of Massachusetts, said, in part:
“Now that it is too late, the leaders and
bosses of the republican party see the
death blow that they gave the party at
the Chicago convention, a blow from
which they will never recover. President.
Taft’s position in the political history of
the country will be pitiable, indeed. You
all know what he called the progressive
platform—a crazy-quilt platform—and you
have seen what has happened. Our vote
represents the most determined and force
ful part of the electorate. One progres
sive elector has a lighting force equal to
that of five men from either other party.”
IVinston Churchill, defeated candidate
for the governorship of New Hampshire,
said in part: “One thing is certain. The
republican party is scuttled, not by us, blit
for its sins, for its insistence on minority
rule. To its ultra-conservatism this coun
try will never return. It is probable that
the party will enter one more election.
They won’t get even the Alormon states
then. Brigham Young was born in Ver
mont. If the republican party docs enter
the field again, they will probably have
a stalking horse candidate, a near-progres
sive. In the future there will be only two
parties in the United States, representing
true democracy, one the party of conserva
tism, the other that of progress which we
represent. Before tlie democratic party
can be of real service it must first rid it
self of Tammany hall and of the bosses.”
Daniel Cosgrove, defeated candidate for
lieutenant-governor, spoke briefly on the
fact that no lines of race creed or accident
of birth were drawn by the bull moose
party. George IV. Kirchway, dean of
Columbia law school, concluded with some
leference to the legal i.spects of progres
sive legislation.
The meeting adopted resolutions pledg
ing the party to no compromise; another
set, reciting that the republican party is
apparently getting ready to play its fa
miliar old rricks in the coming Legisla
ture, in order to secure the election of a
standpat senator in place of Senator
Crane, and railing on progressives to pro
vide a candidate of their own and to stick
to him to the end: and finally a resolution
that the chairman appoint a committee to
wait on Gov Foss and demand that he in
vestigate the eoal question and see what
can be done in the way of reducing the
price.
Unless William J. Bryan changes his
mind—which he is little likely to do—lie
will not accept office of any kind under
the Wilson administration. He can be
Los more service outside than in.
THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1912.
MINOR PLACES REPUBLICAN.
LANGTRY FALLS TO DONAHUE.
COMPLETE VOTE FOR PRESIDENT.
-Wilson's Plurality 1 S.OOO— Estimated
Vote for Lieutenant-Governor —
Vote of toe Minor Pnrtte*.
The democratic rictory of last week in
Massachusetts apparently did not extend
below the offices of governor, lieutenant
governor and secretary of state. The vote
of the missing towns for governor ou Tues
day showed a republican plurality of 1983.
By the Boston Globe’s figures on minor
state officers, the democrats have elected
the secretary of state, while the present
republican incumbents have been re-elect
ed as auditor, treasurer and attorney-gen
eral. The figures are made up in each case
from the complete vote of Boston and all
other cities, and all the towns with the
exception ot a few small ones. Their vote
is estimated on the basis of the towns re
ceived in full, so that the totals given on
every case arc the votes of the entire
state. The estimated vote is as follows: —
Secretary of State.
Donahue, dem 166,282
Langtry, rep . 161,706
Donahue's plurality. 4576.
Auditor.
White, rep 166.711-
Carens. dem 150.598
White's plurality. 7113.
Treasurer.
Stevens, rep 166.566
St Coeur. dem 155.800
Stevens's plurality. 7967.
Attorney-General.
Swift, rep 168.480
Anderson, dem 164,557
Swift's plurality, 3923.
The complete Tote of the state for pres
ident and governor is given herewith:—
For President.
Roosevelt 141.925
Taft 156.018
Wilson 174,057
Wilson's plurality. 18,030.
For Governor.
Bird 1 25.883
Foss 192.764
Walker 143.448
Foss's plurality, 49.316.
The estimated state vote for lieutenant
governor was as follows: Walsh, 185,-
500: Luce. 146,000: Cosgrove, 1)0,000;
Walsh's plurality. 30,500.
Returns from 1034 out of 1102 voting
precincts in Massachusetts give the fol
lowing vote for prohibition, socialist and
socialist labor candidates for president
and governor: For president. Chafin, pro
hibition, 2439; Debs, socialist. 5940;
Reimer. socialist labor. 1558: for gov
ernor. Mulligan, socialist labor, 8115;
and prohibition. 2383; Sawyer, socialist,
10,334.
Republicans will control the Legisla
ture of 1913 by 54 on a joint ballot. The
complexion of that body and a comparison
with 1912 shows;—
Senate.
1913. 1012.
Republicans 27 26
Democrats 13 14
Republican plurality 14 12
House.
Republicans 135 145
Democrats 05 04
Socialists 1 1
Progressives 6 0
Indepeudeuts 2 0
Tied 1... 1 0
Republican plurality 40 51
On Joint Ballot.
Republicans 162 171
Democrats 108 108
Socialists 1 1
Progressives 6 0
Independents 2 0
Republican plurality 54 63
THE INCOMING LEGISLATURE.
IT IS STRONGLY REPUBLICAN.
President Greenwood and Speaker
Cushing Will Be Re-elected—Some
of the Changes—Material for the
Committees.
From Our Special Reporter.
Boston, Wednesday, November 6.
If Alassaehusetts had a republican gov
ernor to issue our annual Thanksgiving
proclamation, he would be very likely to
say; "Thank God for John F. Fitz
gerald.” As pins have saved the lives
of many people by their not swallowing
them, as the hoy said, so Massachusetts
may be thankful for John F. Fitzgerald,
for, by having him, we are going to get
rid of him. Whereas, if we had not had
him half as strong then wc should have
had him for good or bad for United States
senator, for six years, to succeed Senator
Crane. Tlie strong vote for the entire
democratic state ticket makes it quite
probable that the Senate and House, or,
at least, a majority of the joint conven
tion. would have been swept by the demo
crats if it had not been for the Fitzgerald
scare which was, worked so successfully
by the republicans. It was a perfectly
legitimate argument, and the result seems
to prove that it was absolutely necessary
that it should have been urged to the
full iu order to prevent the election of
the mayor to the Senate. As it stands,
the Senate and House are more strongly
republican than they were last session,
and then they had more republicans in
all than they did in 1911.
It is now as certain as future political
events can he that President Greenwood
and Speaker flushing will be re-elected to
their respective positions. There will still
remain in the path of the governor the
republican Senate and House to block bad
democratic legislation, as well as the re
publican council to prevent the confirma
tion of bad democratic nominations. No
new laws can get through without the in
dorsement of the republicans whenever a
measure is made a party issue. If the
Legislature had been democratic then it
is quite probable that there would have
been presented with a strong prospect of
success some of the measures which were
threatened before the election, such as tlie
repeal of tlie liar and bottle bill, the an
nexation of suburbs to Boston, the repeal
of the Boston police commission law and
other measures tending to weaken our
standards. But, as the matter stands, the
governor has no better chance than he had
last year for the passage of his bill for a
public utilities commission. It may be
quite true that be will argue in his inaugu
ral that he made that one of the issues
upon which the people have indorsed him,
and therefore the Legislature ought to
pass the measure. But tlie practical an
swer will be that the Legislature is re
publican. that the governor is a democrat,
and that the republican Legislature does
not approve the proposition of the demo
cratic governor.
It will not escape thp republican poli
ticians that their salvation, accomplished
by means of Fitzgerald, gives them their
strongest hold in the future when the very
puzzling and possibly very combative prop
osition must he settled whether the repub
lican party shall go the way of the whigs,
and the progressive party succeed to the
republican heritage, or whether the pro
gressives will follow to tlie woodbine'll
shadow the independence league and the
populists. Here in Alassaehusetts. at least,
the republicans can say with much force
that it is preposterous that the party
I which controls the Legislature ia-Scuate
and House, which has seven out of eight
of the council, which lins nine representa
tives iu Congress while the progressives
nave none, shall surrender its magnificent
strength, prestige, memories aud possibil
ities for a new party which lias only four
or five representatives, no senators, no
councilors, no congressmen and no pros
pects that it will have any under normal
conditions, even if its candidates for presi
dent and governor did run better than the
majority, of the political prophets predict
ed. It may be that the strongly int ranched
position, by reason of the Legislature,
j which the party holds in this state, and
[ the absurdity of its surrendering, joined
with a few other such positions elsewhere,
may make the immovable anchorages
which will hold the grand old party to its
positions, prevent its being swept into
oblivion by the powerful tide of the pro
gressive party and may make it stronger
and the dominating force four years hence,
or sooner, and leave the country still with
the democratic and the republican as the
two great parties of opposition.
At the time of writing, the returns of
the Legislature are not complete. But they
assure entire republican control in the Sen
ate and House, without any balance of
power being held by the progressives, it
also insures the election of a republican to
succeed Senator Crane. Samuel TV. Ale-
Call stands just the same as a candidate
as he did before the election. Congressman
Weeks, by his safe defeat of John J.
Mitchell, has also saved his prospects so
that he will be well able to meet McCall.
Then there is also the candidacy of ex-
Gov Draper. On the face of the situation,
since Draper has been out of .office two
years, while Weeks and McCall have been
in all the time and have had legislative
experience at length in Washington, which
Draper lacks entirely, it seems most rea
sonable to predict that Draper will stand
third from the beginning and that the real
issue will iie between McCall and Weeks.
When it comes to the organization of the
Legislature, after the election of the pre
siding officers, the Senate judiciary will
begin well. Senator Stearns of Cambridge,
its second man in 1912, is re-elected, and
so is Allen of Middlesex, the fourth man.
unless the margin of 70 votes he has by
the returns is not wiped out by the recount
asked for by Cox, the moose candidate,
who stood second. Hunt of Worcester, the
last member, was one of the democratic
candidates to go down in defeat.
On the Senate ways and means commit
tee, Ross of Bristol, second member, who
had both the republican and progressive
nominations, is re-elected, and so is Eld
ridge of the Cape. Three of the five mem
bers of the committee on rules, or the steer
ing committee, are back again. They are
President Greenwood and Alessrs Stearns
and Blanchard of Middlesex. So the Sen
ate administration will be in competent
hands.
When it comes to the important stand
ing committees, Alessrs Coolidge of the
three-county district, chairman of agricul
ture, is re-elected, and so is Wheeler of the
YVorcester-Hampden district, tlie second
on the list. The committee on banks and
banking saves only the Boston democrat,
Joyce, the third member. Out of the four
on the Senate end of the committee on
cities, Senator Coolidge of Northampton is
the only survivor. Allen, first, and Halley,
democrat, third, of the committee on con
stitutional amendments, are returned. Bar
low of Middlesex, first, and Joyce of Suf
folk. third, on counties, are back again.
Clark of Brockton, chairman of education,
is the only senator returned. Stearns,
chairman of election laws, is back. Every
one of the three on federal relations is out-
AlcLane of Bristol, second on fisheries and
game, is the only one returned. Hersey of
Hingham, second on harbors and public
lands, is the sole Senate survivor there.
On insurance, the two republicans, Stowe
and Alulligan, are down and out. but the
two democrats. McCarthy and Halley, are
returned. Hess' of Bristol, chairman of
labor, comes* back, and so does Quigley. the
third senator ou that committee. Coolidge
and Alack of Western Alassaehusetts, first
and third, respectively, on legal affairs, are
the only ones re-elected there. AlcLane of
Bristol and Clark of Plymouth, first and
second on liquor affairs, come back, but
Hunt of Worcester, third, stays at home.
On mercantile affairs, Eldridge of the Cape
and Ross of Bristol, second and third, are
returned, but the others do not. On metro
politan. Stearns, second, and Allen, third,
return. All of the senators on military
affairs are out, except AleCarthy of Marl
boro, third. McCarthy, too. is the Only-
Senate survivor of the Senate end of the
prison committee. Wheeler, Clark and
Quigley, the entire Senate membership on
public charitable institutions, are all back-
But, to offset that, the next committee,
public health, is cleaned out entirely of its
old senators. Public lighting keeps Blan
chard of Middlesex, second, and Hersey of
Plymouth, third, but loses the other two.
Public service loses every member, and so
does railroads, and that is a singular fact,
besides being of large importance. Roads
and bridges holds Eldridge of the Cape,
first, and Ilorgan of Suffolk, the third
man. The committee ou state-house loses
Stowe, hut holds Alack and Honran. Street
railways keeps Blanchard of Aliddlesox. the
ranking member, and Alack of Berkshire,
the fourth. Taxation still has Barlow of
Middlesex, second, and Quigley of Hamp
den, third, but loses the two others. Wheel
er of Worcester and Hampden, second, is
the sole Senate survivor of towns. Hersey
of Plymouth, chairman, and Halley of
Essex, third, are the re-elected members of
water supply. Taking the Senate, there
fore. it is in first-class condition, save fpr
such an exceptional spot as the railroad
committee, and it will be well able to pro
ceed with businyss right from the start.
When it comes to the House, with the
committee on rules, the administration
committee, most important, Speaker Cush
ing will once more ho the head, and he
will have, of the present committee, Alessrs
Bothfeid of Newton (perhaps, for the fig
ures are not in yet), Cox of Boston, Put
nam of Westfield and Meaney of Black
stone. That is enough to make sure that,
tin- administration will go on about as
before. It looks as if the ways and means
committee would lie pretty thoroughly
overturned. Some of the strong jpen are
out. and there must he a new making
over. On the judiciary, Cox of Boston,
chairman, is elected again. Further dowra
in the list is Clark of Lee, who was one
of the strong men last session. Meaney 1-:
hack again, but there have been promo
tions to the Senate and defeats for re
election, so that this important committee,
too, is much the worse for wear. The
House end of the committee on agricul
ture is all buttered to pieces. This always
suffers because of the local practice of
rotation iu office. Lyman of South 1-ladVy
is one of the unfortunates Joft outside of
the breastwork*. The committee ou backs
and hanking will lose its ton' well down
to the middle, aud precious little will be
left of it. The House end of the commit
tee on cities is also scattered, so that there
is very little of it left and nothing .-it the
top. There is a Hit of the middle of
constitutional amendments saved, hut. the
top and the bottom are gone. Counties U
in the same class, and so is drainage. So
arc the committees on education, election
laws aid federal relation-:. On fisheries
and game, Sharp of Nantucket, the chair
man. and a first-class one, is returned for
a third term, hut there is not much h ft.
Neither is there of harbors and public
lands. Insurance is in the same bad fix.
Irahor may yet have Ellis of Newton, if he
lias pulled through. Look of Tisbury and
perhaps more, hut most of the members
are gone. Legal affairs is badly shattered.
Wright of Rowe is one of the saved for
the committee on the liquor law. but most
of his colleagues are missing. Mercantile
affairs has suffered a severe mortality.
Metropolitan saves some, and may have
enough to give the cues to the new mem
bers. Military is largely missing, and so
is the House end of prisons, public char
itable, public health, public lighting, public
service, railroads, and so on. It. seems as
if there had not been a year in recent
times when the House membership of the
committees was as badly cut to pieces as
iit has been in this election. Many of the
old etandbys-are will Jae
need of patience in breaking in the new
members.
If there should be n lot of new radical
legislation presented in consequence of the
development of the progressive party, as
is quite possible, then it is evident that we
are in for some rather crude proceedings,
both in parliamentary and committee pro
cedure, as well as in the subject jnatler
of the petitions and bills offered for legis
lation.
ELECTION IN CONNECTICUT.
GOV BALDWIN’S PLURALITY.
Its Size Greater Than Expected—The
New Congressional Delegation.
From Our Special Correspondent.
llaktfobd, Ct., Saturday, November 9.
The result of the election in this state
was a surprise to everyone who had at
tempted to forecast it without prejudice,
and had an average knowledge of tin; sit
uation. The surprise was not over the
fact of a plurality for Wilson or tor Bald
win. but over the magnitude of each. Ins
greatness of the change front the recent
political attitude of the state is suggested
by a few figures. At the last, presidential
election Mr Taft had a plurality in Uon
neetictit of 43,660; this year he tails be
hind Mr Wilson 6049. In a total vote of
about 181,000 this year the republicans
fall behind their vote of 1908 almost 00,-
000. Take the case of the governor. Two
years ago Gov Baldwin had a plurality ot
'1715, but he was the only democratic can
didate elected oil the state ticket. Re
publicans have been saying that he could
never be elected again, that lie only got
in through a combination of circumstances
that could not recur, and that he has
made too many enemies to he seriously
considered. But when the ballots were
counted. Gov Baldwin had a plurality this
year of i 6,351. Not only that, but the demo
cratic state ticket was elected, the state
Senate has become democratic and the
House is so evenly divided that its work
ing majority probably depends ou the con
currence at any time of three or four pro
gressives. Add that the state elected a
full democratic delegation in Congress,
and the radical change in the temper of
the voters is plain beyond question. There
had been plenty- of indications of a change
in this direction, but great uncertainty as
to its extent. Many voters had made no
positive statement of their intentions,
many more were suspected of having en
couraged an idea that they would do one
thing while they really meant to do an
other. And besides all this some of the
party managers unquestionably gave out
estimates more favorable to their own side
than could fairly be gathered from any ac
tual information they had. Even the quite
positive estimates given out just before
the election by the chairmen of the three
parties (each claiming the election of his
own ticket and giving figures) were found
when taken together to require about
100.000 more votes than there are voters
in the state. The democratic estimate was
rather low, but the others made up for it.
The greatness of the change, coupled
with the corresponding action aIL over the
country has already a sobering effect even
on those given to be careless of political
responsibility and duty. Undoubtedly
some such have been elected in Connecti
cut this year, hut thus far they have re
spected the obligation a victory of this
magnitude places on those who have unit
ed to win it. It is not a product of self
interest achieving its own end for its own
good, hut an obviously sincere and disin
terested effort by a large number of voters
to improy-e the civil condition here and in
the nation. But the most important thing
in this connection is that the movement is
not toward the leadership of a hasty,
wordy man who thinks too much of him
self and too little of the cause. If it had
been, tlie Roosevelt following would very
likely have won.
There is reason to believe that nothing
iu the result of the. election pleases_ more
Conpeetieut people, than .the re-election, of
Gov Baldwin by so impressive a majority.
They have perfect confidence in his scru
pulous honor, and his public spirit, and
his intellectual capacity. They may find
him a little stiff in manner, but possibly
they respect him the more for it. Theit
experience of the Tom. Dick and Harry
kind of politician has not left a favoraole
impression and lots of people still believe
that a sound scholar’ and a man who re
spects himself because he has reason to
is better than a lively politician who never
learned anything thoroughly but the aft
of getting votes before the election and in
the Legislature afterward. That is one
desirable part of the qualities that made
Connecticut "the land of steady habits. ’
Besides this he is exceptional in his own
class. Probably he was at heart as much
surprised as anyone else at the vote he
received this year. The republican mana
gers had practically assumed that lie could
uot be re-elected, but the only visible ba
sis for that opinion was that he had in
office stood against the combinations that
exact improper favors through the Leg
islature which they are believed to con
trol.
These men have been drunk with porver.
They have succeeded because they were
so largely able to control electious to the
l egislature, and this hold has now slipped
away from them. Doubtless their first
idea will be to establish like relations with
tlie newlv elected members. There at
once will come a test of the highest import
ance. If the democratic members yield
therp will be nothing gained in state leg
islation hut a change of beneficiaries of a
corrupt svstem. They have, however,
more to risk by yielding. People were ac
customed to the old way and rather hope
jets of changing it. Now they look for
different things and will be far more ac
tive in demanding them. They have, found
out that they can elect men without the
approval of the republican junta, and they
are likely to demand a stricter account
from the men whom they have chosen.
There has been a disposition in some
quarters, not all republican, to make light
of the file men iust elected to he repre
sentatives from Connecticut in Congress.
It is true that collectively it is not as
strong a delegation as might be, hut it is
probably finite as good as that which is
presently to disappear.- One member of
tlie former delegation is re-elected. Thom
as L. Reilly, the only democratic repre
sentative of Connecticut in the present
Congress,. Certainly neither Mr Henry
nor Mr Higgins added materially to the
strength of the state's representation. Air
tlill is in many ways a strong man hut his
strength lay in defending and exploiting
tariff views that are not accepted hy the
democratic Party. He has an enormous
fund of statistics and a wagon-ioad of
onf-ard-driert argument to he used oh the
republican side of any tariff question that
arises. There is an advantage in having
iu the House men who have full and mi
nute knowledge. He might if returned
have made a useful cheek to some extrav
agant or ignorant propositions, but there
is no reason to believe that he would have
confined himself to any such service or
been content with less than obstructing
with all his skill the very mortifications of
tlie tariff law. to obtain which the present
members were elected. He lias never had
ranch skill in persuading or convincing,
and his really extensive knowledge of tar
iff laws and Ids stubborn insistence on his
own views, generally backed hy figures
from which lie draws his own inferences,
have heen of great service to his own par
ty. His arguments were largely and un
necessarily technical, few on cither side
understood them fully., or cared to, but
they made an impressive appearance in
the Record. The youngest and perhaps the
most promising of the new members is
Augustine Lonergnn. who was chosen iu
the first district. Air Lonergan is « Hart
ford lawyer, and has proved himself a very
effective public speaker. If the democrats
could have nominated one man for Con
gress who would in the popular mind have
stood more in the position of Gov Bald
win, it would ImTe been a gaiß. But when
the nominations were made no such man
was found who seemed disposed to go
earnestly into the contest -and there find
to he a contest—since the common belief
that it was a democratic year brought a
great many candidates who did not wait
to be asked. Among the new men Mr
Lonergan had, one especial title to consid
eration in that two years ago he was a
candidate against E. Stevens Henry, who
had represented tlie Ist district for many
years. Mr Lonergan made a very thor
ough canvass and mine so near winning
that he astonished everybody, probably
himself included, for the district was
strongly republican and Mr Henry had
heen its representative for many years.
At that time the district consisted of
Hartford and Tolland counties, and at the
next preceding election Mr Henry iiad
had a plurality of 11,234. In the 1910
campaign Mr Lonergan out the Henry
plurality down to 1235. It is a curious
tact that at that time he carried Tolland
county in which Mr Henry lives. Since
that time the state has been redistricted,
and the first district now consists of Hart
ford county alone. This Mr Lonergan
carried this year hy 17.236 to 16,726 sot
the republican nominee.
THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION.
COMMENT ON ELECTION RESULT.
Believes it Will He "A New Birth of
Freedom.”
[From the New York World.]
But this victory is no tawdry partisan
triumph. It is no vote of confidence in
the democratic party ns a party. It is a
mandate from the people, and woe be unto
tlie leaders of this democracy if they fal
ter in obedience to that mandate.
The country is seething with political
discontent, in spite of its unparalleled ma
terial, wealth and prosperity. This dis
content is confined to no particular class
or section. Rich and poor alike, children
of fortune and children of poverty, have
begun to lose faith in the efficacy of their
government to establish justice and pro
mote the general welfare. They lire not
sure where the fault lies; they are not
united as to the remedy: but this they
know —that their institutions have heen
seized by privileged interests ami turned
against them; that subtle, mysterious
forces operating unseen have proved time,
after time that their power over public
affairs was greater than the power of the
people as a whole, and they demand that
tlieir government be emancipated from this
partnership.
This is the great work that confronts
Woodrow Wilson and the democratic
party—to restore popular confidence ii: the
institutions of the republic and re-estab
lish a government of the people, by the
people and for the people.
Asks Wilson to Choke Bryaniaiu Into
Eternal Silence,
[From the New York Sun.l
The best wish that the Sun can ex
press for the president-elect, a compara
tively untried man facing an unparalleled
opportunity, is that he may seize upon
the windpipe of Bryanism at the very
start, and with all the strength that the
sinews of long, lean fingers possess, throt
tle that persistent and fatal thing into
eternal silence.
That matter settled, there is nothing
hut good promise in the overwhelming
vote of confidence and trust which the
American people gave yesterday to Gov
Wilson. As state after state came up to
him last night in the bewildering uniform
ity of the returns, he must have felt that
no president in all the long line ever en
tered office under fairer auspices or with
larger opportunity.
Good luck to him and entire adequacy
as the president of all the people, with a
commission such as that which sends him
to the White House; and fair and impar
tial treatment from everybody. He may
be sure of it from the Sun.
Standing; Over the Grave of the Re-
pnblienn Party.
[From Air Munsey's New York Press.]
An impressive body of sovereignties, re
fusing to budge when the land slid gen
erally away from Taft to Wilson, rallies
around the standard Theodore Roosevelt
has raised over the grave of the republican
party.
The progressives in the "United States'
Senate now have the power and rank of
the second political party to reward them
for their unflagging devotion. Into the
House of Representatives there comes a
swarm of progressives to challenge the
swollen majority of the same democratic
Congress that voted a policy of naval
scuttle and plans a program of industrial
reaction.
Between what ill may threaten the coun
try through executive and legislative weak
ness and folly at Washington there stands
now the progressive party. The cause has
not triumphed, but its banners have beeu
earned far forward and they are planted
to stay.
The progressive party is no longer a
name, but an American governmental in
stitution that will long endure.
The Man and the Party Will Be on
Trial.
[From the New York American.]
The party and the president which as
sume the reins of government in Aiarch
must rise or fall by their practical per
formance or their failure to perform.
William Howard Taft four years ago
went into power on a tidal wave of pop
ular approval. No new president ever
carried into office a more universal con
fidence and affection. He had nearly a mil-,
lion and a half majority of popular votes
behind him. He had 321 votes in the elec
toral college to Bonn’s 162. He was
propped and sustained bv the positive good
will of the country.
As yet to-day William H. Taft, an
honest man and a lover of Jits country,
by the simple failure of himself and his
party to fulfill his Own and his party
pledges, goes out of office discredited aqd
condemned with his majority, popular and
electoral, shrunken to a minority so piti
ful that It is in itself a rebuke great
enough to break his heart.
As for. the great progressive' party,
which Theodore Roosevelt has ably led to
such astonishing and significant results in
yesterday's election, its future will de
pend as much upon Woodrow Wilson as
upon Theodore Roosevelt,
If President Wilson proves to he as
progressive as a majority of his country
men- if the democratic party is tmth
courageous, and constructive, not reck
lessly radical, neither Bryanized nor
fossilized—the party will gain a still
greater triumph four years from now,
and there will be no need of a new pro
gressive party.
Mr Roosevelt Held Responsible.
[From the New York Tribune.]
Gov Wilsonwins the presidency through
the division of his natural opponents. He
did not inspire enthusiasm or show him
self a stronger candidate than Mr Bryan.
He owes his victory not to superior pub
lic confidence in himself or the de
mocracy. but to Air Roosevelt's desire to
wreck the republican party the instant he
could not rule it. Inspired by over
weening urnibitiou and personal animosity,
Air Roosevelt turned against the party
which hnd given him the highest honors
and through which he. had obtained his
marvelous hold on the popular imagina
tion. Its leaders and policies were thp
leaders and policies whch he had
lone comended, and he stood ready
to take a nomination from it if he could.
But when it declined to depart from its
historic traditions of loyalty to representa
tive government undPr fixed constitutional
guarantees and an independent judiciary
and take up radical and revolutionary
doctrines which he had opposed along
with it until he saw in them a suitable
instrument of personal aggrandizement, lie
devoted his energies to tearing down the
structure built by Lincoln. Seward. Grant.
Garfield and McKinley which has ever
been the home of liberty and Constructive
statesmanship. He has brought the party
to defeat. Perhaps lie takes pride in, his
achievement, conscious that
The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian
dome
Outlives in fame the ploug fool that rais'd
It.
But in the eyes of the world such
fame, with its trail of ahandoned prin
ciples. is a melancholy exchange for the
universal admiration for a mini who. after
exercising the highest power in the re
public, achieving great things and per
ioral ins great services,-retired to private
life commending to the people the wisdom
of the tradition which forbade that he
should again he president.
The President-Elect Hemlnded of Mis j
Program.
[From the New York Herald.l
On November 4, the day before election,
in outlining the policv of the democratic
party, you said that it would he to—
Go forward without postponement or ex
periment or confusion to effect reforms which
tin whole country watts for. . . . to effect
them hv the ordinary processes of legisla
tion. willing to he guided hy the common
counsel of the nation ns a whole, the plain
people with the rest, regardless of any in
terest. the little as well as the big. a
carefully considered course of moderate yet
courageous reform.
These words you should keep before you
during (lie next five months, which will he
the period largely devoted to the selection
of your counselors and to the mapping out
of a definite program. You will take over
tlie administration of a country actually
more prosperous than at any other period
of its history. If you leave it that way
at the end of your administration you will
he regarded ns one of the greatest presi
dents that ever lived.
You propose to do great things. Your
program actually contemplates the remak
ing of industrial America. But we trust
that your program to the very end will in
clude the maintenance of the status quo
of prosperity.
The Duty of the Democratic Party.
[From the New York Times.)
The party will devote itself to works of
progress, hut of sane and healthy prog
ress. It will not destroy. For one thing,
it will neither wreck nor maim any of our
institutions. That danger has been es
caped. It will revise the tariff, but it
will so disprove those amusing republican
predictions of yum and panic that their
very authors will smile at file memory of
them. Honest business will have all free
dom. equal opportunity, every lawful right
and privilege. Mr Wilson lias said that
dishonest business will go to jail. We
think lie means it. That is not a program
at which the righteous need stand in fear.
Mr Wilson .will lie a conservative president
in the best sense of the word; the demo
cratic party in that”best sense will he a
conservative party. It would lie blind, in
deed. if it did not see that it is only
through a wise conservatism that it can
retain the confidence of the country. The
people have just voted overwhelmingly
against radicalism, against agitation.
There will now be a ruthless tight for con
trol between the warring factions of the
republican party. It will outlast the next
presidential election. The most ordinary
foresight of political events brings the de
mocracy’s path of duty plainly into view.
Great Wisdom Shown iu the Nomina
tion.
[From the Boston Herald.]
The democratic party exhibited great
wisdom in the selection of Woodrow Wil
sor ns its nominee. In no perfunctory
sense may it he said that he is “a gentle
man and a scholar.” Beyond that, he has
shown himself capable of arousing great
enthusiasm and of attaching to nimself
friends and supporters as with bands of
steel. He inspires loyalty. He acquits
himself creditably He should prove a
successful president. That he will be the
Herald sincerely hopes. He has been the
leader of a party: he now becomes the
president of the whole people.
Determined to Prevent the Success of
Roosevelt*
[From the Boston Advertiser.!
The expected happened. The republican
party had its vote fairly evenly divided hy
the “progressive” split, on the face of the
returns. But even that is not exactly a
correct interpretation of the returns. All
over the country voters by the tens of
thousands, in republican states, while
avowing perfect confidence in President
Taft, cast their votes for Gov Wilson, in
order to make sure that the Roosevelt move
ment should come to nothing. The total
of these votes, the country over, probably
cannot, be estimated in figures of less than
seven places. A round million would prob
ably be an underestimate. The result, as
announced to-day, shows that this determi
nation to prevent the success of the Roose
velt movement was successful beyond the
imaginings of those republicans who con
tributed to the success of the democratic
candidate.
The Fears of a Republican hrgaa.
I From the Philadelphia Press.]
The administration that will be ushered
in next Aiarch will be a subject of the
greatest interest. Gov Wilson has never
shown a capacity or willingness to co
operate with men who will not hold their
will and desires subordinate to him. In
whatever situation his lot is east he de
sires to be the whole thing, and that is
going to be very difficult at Washington.
It may be accomplished, but not without
many tempests and much bitterness. He
is a man of high character and no one
can doubt he is sincerely patriotic in ail
his purposes. We hope he may he re
strained from laying his hands' too vio
lently on the protected industries and la
bor of his country and that his administra
tion may not in consequence be charac
terized by the calamitous results which his
policies so plainly threaten.
Finds Comfort for th.e Third-Party
Movement,
[From the Philadelphia North American.]
Mr Wilson was nominated as a pro
gressive and elected because a large part
of the people of the nation believe him to
be one. This is in itself a victory for the
progressive party.
Had it riot been for the fight made by
Col Roosevelt and hls followers at Chi
cago, and their avowed determination to
establish a new party pledged to pro
gressive principles, Air Wilson would not
have been nominated at Baltimore. The
nomination would have gone to a recog
nized reactionary, and the people of this
country would have had a choice between
a reactionary named hy the democratic
wing of the bipartisan machine and a
reactionary named by the republican wing
of the same machine.
If Air Wilson, lives up to the promise
of his progressive followers, the nation
will owe it to the progressive party that
it lias not a tor.v in the YVhite House.
But. whatever Mr Wilson's policy as
president, the new progressive party will
force a realignment in the democratic
population just as it lias already done in
the republican. A political party can no
longer endure in this nation “half slave
and half free.”
If Mr Wilson aligns himself with the
progressives of his party, the powerful
state bosses will force an issue that will
disrupt the party. If he follows the foot
steps of Taft, the progressive voters of
his party will revolt, just as the pro
gressives have already done in the re
publican party. And even Air Wilson’s
eonsumate skill at balancing cannot keep
these two forces long together in one or
ganization. with the militant progressive
party leading the cause of humanity and
battering at the walls .of privilege.
The Triumph Carries Its Warning;.
[From the New York Evening Pozt.l
But by the same vote with which Gov
Wilson’s wonderful success has been at
tained. solemn warning has been given.
It is not an hour for foolish elation. No
man perceives this more clearly than
W oodrow Wilson. His earliest words are
ull of deep responsibility, and of the
sobering’ which such a victory as his car
ries with it. We may be sure that no
eye is keener than his to read the signs
in the political heavens. He sees in this i
election the breaking up of the great deep.
1 nrt.v allegiance was trampled upon. In
the casting of ballots impatience visibly 5
went with, hope, imperious demands for
the future alongside condign punishment .
for the past. The vast and fluctuating
electorate stands ficadv to inflict its dire
penalties upon democratic failure. The
new administration will he conscious of :
working under the eye 0 f a severe task- |
master. Gov-W Ilson must he fully aware 1
ot an this. He must understand perfect- |
V wh*i courage and strength f
ot will and calmness under obloquy he/s
will need in order to prevent the partif. ; /
victory from being transmitted Into /, ;
( t«sh for spoils. This would i# al
iainoly lead down a stepp place into tnf ,