The Dominion. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1910. THE REPUBLICAN DISASTER.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 974, 15 November 1910, Page 4

The Dominion. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1910. THE REPUBLICAN DISASTER.

Wβ are at last able to get something like a clear view of the remarkable victory of the' Democratic party in the United States. The most significant item in recent cable messages is tho ' statement that "tho Eooseveltian defeat in . New York is interpreted as a Conservative victory due to dislike of Mr. Roosevelt's demagogic campaign, " This is natural enough, as all will realise who remember the remarkable extracts from his speechesthat reached us by cable, but the full reports of those speeches make him appear little less than a plain unvarnished Socialist. Discussing his Ossawatomie speech, the Springfield Republican was unable to conceive of a more radical speech being delivered in Amorica by anyone, outside the Socialist party. The New York Post said of the speech: "It makes progressives like Cdmmins and Lα Follette look like, mossbacked reactionaries, and Bryan himself appear like apre-Adamitc."-His Colorado attaok on the Supreme Court led the Socialist Gall of New York to rebuke the Socialists for being more backward than the exPresidcnt, and the New York Herald pertinently observed: "When ho.makes the Sooialist organ blush for its timidity, the Colonel is certainly going some." Having seen Mr. Roosevelt, as the guiding spirit of the "Insurgents," whirling :. through tho country _ bent upon arousing popular passion without showing any inclination to direct it, the steadier Republicans- could not have hesitated long about deciding that the Democrats were preferable to oithor division of thoir own party. This is emphasised by the fact that the Republicans managed to hold their own in Pennsylvania while losing so heavily in New York, which is Mr. Roosevelt's own State.

Although meagro as yet, tho particulars to hand respecting the various candidates are interesting. It is extremely odd that the great revolt against "Cannonism" and the Tariff should have failed to destroy either Mr. Cannon or Mr. Payne. Tho defeat of Mr. Tawney is.ono of the regrettable kind, for he has done some good work in connection with Mb. Taft's and Secretary MacVeagh's efforts to bring economy in public expenditure into the first line of tho party's cares. Tho two most interesting personalities in the fight are of course Judge Harjion, .1 elected Governor of lOhio, and Dn. Woodrow Wilson, elected Governor of New Jersey. Both of these Democratic leadors are strong. 1 and able men, and their success must go far towards strengthening the Democratic position for the elections of 1912. Judge Harmon is an old practical politician—ho/ was allied with Cleveland—but Dr. Wilson is not. He. is tho head of Princeton University, bu.fc, like eo many, other University Presidents, ha has taken a leading part in the formation and direction of public opinion upon political subjects. When ho was announced as the Democratic candidate for the Governorship of New Jersey, he was objected to in some quarters as merely a learned person, but college presidents have often come into politics as-brilliant, loaders. Judge Hughes, for example, the retiring Governor of Now York, was a college professor. His public statomonts show that the new Governor of New Jersey is a sane and cautious Democrat, as far removed in his way of thinking from Mr. Bryan .as from Mr. Roosevelt. With loaders like these, the Democratic party certainly looks far loss likely to injure America than it has done in late years. Whether thoy can control and direct the forces that make up the party remains to ho seen. The chanco that thoy may do so is not however,

§rcat enough to justify the hope mt by 1912 the .Republican party will bo re-bom, purged of its asEOciations with coiTupb influences, and strong enough to assume again the full control of the nation.