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GREAT PAPERS
GIVE VIEWS ON
THE ELECTION
While the presidential election was
still a matter of doubt, the following
opinions were expressed by the great
eastern newspapers:
Boston Globe—What an amazing
election! Predictions baffled. Theories
smashed. A great nation standing
stock-still with fascinated eyes fixed
on a row of cold figures—figures big
with destiny.
Whence comes this doubt, this
amazing postponement of decision?
Geographically, it comes from west of
the Mississippi. Westward the course
of decision takes its way. Since 1884,
the last time we had to go to bed
without knowing who was elected, the
trans-Mississippian states have more
than doubled their electoral votes.
Political power has taken Horace
Greeley’s advice with a vengeance,
gone west and grown up with the
country. In the seesaw of decision
the far west has borne the east up
into the air.
As late as 1896 the belfry on city
hall in New York was the pivot of
presidential elections. In two decades
the center of gravity has shifted out
beyond Chicago. President Wilson has
to walk from I’assamaquoddy Bay be
yond the Alleghanies before he can
get a state to shake hands with him.
From Ohio he must cross wheat lands
and the Father of Waters before he
comes to another electoral welcome.
Yet the candidate who has to rest his j
decision with the south and the farj
west, runs neck-and-neck with the j
candidate who carries the great popu- j
lous states of New England, the east:
and most of the middle west.
Picture the consternation of the J
grand panjandrums of Tammany and
Wall street. On the evening of the
first day, secure in the knowledge that
New York and Illinois has gone for
Hughes, they flashed their result:
“Hughes elected”: then waited for
Deadman’s Gulch and Bonanza Ranch
to climb into the New York band-,
wagon. By another sunset that band
wagon had crossed the continent: the
decision has leaped from Hell gate to
Golden Gate.
Sudden interest in strange, trans
continental voters. Whose brown \
hands are these depositing ballots in ;
New Mexico? Dusky Mexican-Ameri-j
cans helping settle the destinies of the
nation. Sudden desire to know what j
are the large cities of North Dakota, j
There aren’t any. We find ourselves
submissively awaiting the judgment of
the Yon Yonsons and Ole Olesons of
the great Northwest. It is their
innings.
Thus the physical geography of the
election. Even more amazing is its
mental geography. It is not the out
come of a battle of physical conflict
which is awaited by these huge
throngs at the bulletin boards. They
are abiding the issue of a mental con
flict—the mind of a nation at conflict
with itself. Passion and excitement
are tinged with scientific interest. Not
blows, but figures, will decide. It is
the knowledge that those figures will
be true which prevents the passion
coming to blows. A nation has staked
its head, or its headship, on figures,
and by those figures it will abide.
So the sun goes down, and comes'
up, and goes down again, until watch-,
ers begin to feel a sense as of some-:
thing tremendous happening—some
thing which they do not yet under
stand, but feel to be fraught with in
finite possibilities of good or ill. Old
dykes are down; democracy is at flood
ttide. Old thought molds are burst:
the molten metal of public opinion is
flowing white hot into new forms.
New forces are afoot, new faiths.
Millions of minds are vibrating with
the same ideas. The air hums with
events unborn.
The Old World fights. The New
World votes. We stand at one of civ
ilization’s cross-roads. In the dead of
night there is a sound as of the
trampling of many feet. Democracy
is marching on.
New York World—At midnight
Tuesday Mr. Hughes seemed elected
beyond a shadow of a doubt, and every
newspaper so announced the result.
New York had gone to him by an over
whelming majority, carrying with it
New Jersey and Connecticut. Illinois
and Indiana were republican. The
old alignment of states which had de
cided so many presidential elections
had given its electoral votes to Mr.
Hughes, and apparently President
Wilson was hopelessly beaten. For
half a century these five states had
been the United States in a national
election. Their voice was the voice
of the Union. With these states se
cure, Mr. Hughes’ election was a rrtat
ter of majorities. Then somethin*
happened. The west spoke. Slowly
the east came to a realization thaJ
Mr. Hughes was not elected. Every
thing was in doubt. The swing was
toward President Wilson. The west
had repudiated reactionary republi
canism. Kansas had followed Colorado
and Nebraska into the Wilson column.
Utah, Idaho and Wyoming had fol
lowed Montana and Nevada. Washing
ton was democratic, with California
turning to Wilson and Oregon hanging
in the balance. Early Wednesday
morning it became apparent that'the
issue rested wholly with the west, and
that the west would determine wheth
er President Wilson was defeated or
re-elected. The west has indeed spo
ken, and nothing better has happened
in a generation than this shifting of
the political balance to a section
which still maintains the old ideals of
the republic, which is not owned by
its pocketbook and which has never
made a god of its bank account. To
elect a president without the sordid
assistance of New York and the hard
ly less sordid assistance of Illinois
would be a double triumph. Even to
lose the presidency by a small margin
in such circumstances would be a
moral victory that Mr. Wilson could
always remember with pride. Wheth
er he wins or loses in the final count
of the states that will decide the re
sult, his leadership has wrought a
mighty political revolution in the
United States. The cash register pat
riotism of New York has been spat
upon by a virile American west that
is keeping the faith of the fathers.
That in itself is a smashing victory
for American democracy and the
World welcomes it as the beginning
of a new political era in the United
States.
New York Evening Post—Whoever
has carried the election, and whatever
the precise complexion of the popular
and electoral vote when all the re
turns are in, the United States stands
today in the presence of something’
like a political revolution. It glares
at one from the map. The republican
party is confined to a fringe of states
in the east and north. Even in them
its former hold is broken. Look at
New Englaand. The assured republi
can majorities are gone. Only by the
narrowest of margins was victory
won. And when we think of Ohio and
Kansas lost, and the confident republi
can ascendency in a half dozen other
states of the northwest imperiled or
shattered, we can hardly be blind to
what is going on. The scepter of
power is passing to the west in con
junction with the south and south
west. It came very nearly doing so
visibly in Bryan’s first campaign. If
he had not had a fatally weak issue,
the thing might have been done then.
Now it is virtually an accomplished j
fact. As clearly as Monroe marked
the ending of the Virginia line of
presidents, or John Quincy Adams
that of the New England line (Pierce
was little more than a tool of the
south), the election of 1916 will be
regarded by the historian as having
written finis to a chapter of American
polititcal development.
Providence Journal—At every pres
idential election there are surprises,
but it seems as if there had been more
than usual this year. One of the ord
inary features this time was the
strong showing in the west of the
presidential candidate who failed to
capture the so-called pivotal states.
It has been an adage that as goes
New York so goes the country, and
when on Tuesday evening, it became
apparent that Mr. Hughes had car
ried both New York and Illinois, with
prospects good in Connecticut, New
Jersey and Indiana, a good many sea
soned political observers took it for
granted that he would sweep the re
gion between the Rocky mountains
and the Pacific ocean. As later returns
came in, however, it was seen that
the Wilson tide was unexpectedly
strong in that part of the country.
The early announcement of Mr.
Hughes’ election were based on the
analogies of former years. But the
verdict of one state, this year, has
proved no criterion of what another
state would do.
Springfield Union—It is left to the
far west to settle the outcome. For
the first time in the history of the
country a democratic nominee has
looked to that section to overcome a
heavy adverse vote in the east. This
is significant of the rising political
power of the west, and furnishes an
unusual example of the submerging of
the will of the great populous centers,
putting accustomed signs at naught,
and turning what seemed Tuesday eve
ning to be a Hughes landslide into an
extremely close contest.
New York Globe—A map of the re
sult shows an unwelcome territorial
cleavage. Beginning with the Atlantic
ocean, north of the Mason and Dixon
line, there is a solid block of Hughes
states, except Ohio, reaching to the
Mississippi river. Then beyond, ex
cept for Iowa and South Dakota, there
is almost an equally unbroken Wilson
territory, and added to this are the
states of the solid south. * * * Never
before has there been a greater call
on the republican party to go back be
yond doubt to the Lincoln tradition
ind to remove the grounds of suspic
ion against it.
Boston Transcript—Whatever dis
appointments the final result may
'ji'ing, there is encouragement in the
iroof before us today that the old sec
tionalism is passing, and that the la
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bor vote cannot be delivered by its
leaders nor the vote of the hyphens
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a prejudice in America, whether of
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BORN WHEN JEFFERSON
, WAS PRESIDENT—NOW 110
WAXAHACHIE, Tex., Nov. 25.—
Mrs. Narsis Burns, born when Thom
as Jefferson was president of the
United States, will celebrate her 110th
birth anniversary tomorrow. Her
three daughters, the eldest of whom
is 89, and many of her 110 grand and
great-grand children will be at the
celebration. Mr. Burns died 30 years
ago.
Born in Madison county, Tenn.,
Nov. 26, 1806, the now Mrs. Burns,
whose maiden name was Yarborough,
moved to Texas with her father’s fam
ily at the age of ten. She has lived
in the Lone Star state since. Her ear
liest memories go back to the time
of her arrival. She married John
Washington Burns, a veteran of the
Texas-Mexican and the Mexican war
of ’46-48. He later fought on the
confederate side in the Civil war.
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