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10 THE ATLANTIAN November, 1922 It is for your convenience that— The Wise Drug Co. Is So Centrally Located—No Matter Where You Are Going, It’s On Your Way. ONE OF THE FINEST SODA FOUNTAINS IN THE COUNTRY Make our store your meeting place—so convenient to the Howard, Grand and Lyric THE WISE DRUG CO. Howard Theatre Building. Telephone Ivy 3041 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” 510 Courtland St. 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. EISEMAN’S Invite their many friends among Organized Labor to visit them at their pres ent location 132-134 PEACHTREE OPPOSITE CANDLER BLDG. EISEMAN’S