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THE ATLANTIAN
November, 1922
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Democratic Victory
Accurately Forecasted
(Special Correspondence.)
Washington.—The great Democrat
ic victory of Tuesday, accurately fore
casted by Chairman Cordell Hull, of
the Democratic National Committee,
marks the beginning of the return of
the people to the Democratic party
and the restoration of that party to
complete power in 1924. It is more
than a protest against Republican in
competency and failure. It is a repu
diation of the major policies which the
present reactionary Republican Con
gress and administration—the most
reactionary in history—have advocat
ed and foisted upon the people. It is
a repudiation of tari%-robbery, of
a reputation of tariff-robbery, of
tax-shifting and tax-juggling, of
kerism, of reckless appropriation and
extravalant expenditure, of the alli
ance between the reactionary leaders
of the Republican party and special
privilege and of the re-enthronement
of the spoils system in government de
partments.
In many of its features the election
was a personal rebuke to President
Harding himself. The Republican
candidate for Governor of Ohio, who
is supposed to have won his nomina
tion by reason of being an administra
tion favorite, was defeated; Senator
Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, the
president’s fellow-vacationist and boon
companion, was emphatically and de
cisively squelched; Newberry, who ob
tained a certificate of character from
President Harding prior to the trial of
the Newberry case by the Senate, was
repudiated wherever there were Dem
ocratic majorities; Lodge, the adminis
tration’s spokesman in the Senate, has
been humiliated to a degree which in
some respects is worse than his de
feat would have been, and a recount of
the votes in Massachusetts may add to
his humiliation. There were minor
casualties in the presidential coterie.
President Harding had definitely
committed himself to the Republican
policies and candidates that were on
trial. He spoke for them by the lips
of his Cabinet officers. He gave every
sign that he regarded the result as
either approval or disapproval of the
Republican administration’s acts and
omissions. The supreme court of the
electorate has given its decision. Mr.
Harding and the Republican Congress
stand condemned for the future no less
than for the past.
One thing lacking in Tuesday’s elec
tion was the failure to give the Demo
crats a substantial majority in the
House. A small Republican majority
in the House, however, is equivalent to
a democratic victory. The balance of
power will be held by progressives
and radicals who are as much oppos
ed to Republican reactionism as the
Democrats.
Republican reactionism has been
checked but not destroyed. The work
so auspiciously begun last Tuesday
wjll be completed in 1924.
Republican Revolt Expected
On Ship Subsidy Bill.
In the face of the country’s verdict
against the Republican Congress and
the Republican administration, re
turned by the voters last Tuesday,
President Harding has made good his
promise to urge the passage of the
ship bonus bill, which contemplates
the sale of the Government’s mer
chant marine for $2,800,000,000 less
than it cost and the bestowal of $750,-
000,000 in subsidies on its purchasers.
A special session of Congress is to
be called for November 20, it is of
ficially announced, that the ship bonus
bill may be rushed to enactment, if
possible, before March 4, 1923.
The evil principle upon which the
Republican profiteers’ tariff law is
predicated is the foundation of the
ship bonus bill. The latter, like the
former, has for its purpose—and in
minds of its advocates has for its jus
tification also—the granting of pub
lic funds to private interests under
the color of conferring a public ben
efit.
It is believed that many Republican
Senators who are to confront the
voters in 1924 and| Republican Repre
sentatives who narrowly escaped with
their political lives last Tuesday will
not be obedient followers of President
Harding in passing the ship bonus bill
as they were in enacting the profiteers’
tariff bill. If the President hasn’t
learned anything from the elections, it
is felt that most of the Republican
Congressmen have derived a salutary
lesson from it and are not likely t,
forget it within the short’ space of
thirteen days. ' • ‘
President Harding will find the mar
shaling of enough votes to pass his pet
measure in the special session or the
regular session beginning next month
a difficult task, it is predicted. It is
expected that instead of a quick dis
posal of the bill, the President may be
met in the Senate by a demand for an
investigation of the -auspices under
which the ship bonus scheme was con
ceived.
LET “PAT DO IT”
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The Intruder.
A large dog attended a motion pic
ture theater at Ann Arbor the other
night, and lay on the floor watching
the show quietly and intelligently, not
once reading a caption aloud.—Detroit
News.
“Are you smoking a Corona-Co
rona?”
“Don’t repeat, I heard you the fir.
time.”—Harvard Lampoon.
Her Steady Job.
“How long will it take you to com
plete your trousseau, dearest?”
“The rest of my life, I hope, dar
ling.”—Bulletin (Sydney).
Tourist—Is this a quiet place ?
Fisherman—Well, it were, sir, until
folks began coming here to be quiet.—
Punch.
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