Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1920 — ELECTION RESULTS [ARTICLE]

ELECTION RESULTS

The Democrats at least have one ray of satisfaction in the results of Tuesday’s elections' —their defeat nationally and in Indiana was so overwhelming that the Republicans have ■all the machinery of government and must take full responsibility therefor. They have had, it is true, the congress for the last two years and field up all beneficial national legislation for political effect and th eh charged the Democrats with ,the re'aults of their shortcomings!' And, strange to say,, have made Idts of Ignorant “wops" believe it. Now it is different, and ;we’re glad the tail .went with the hide and no responsibility for inefficient legislation or the conditions brought about through the inaction of congress can be shifted to the "Democrats. The same is true as to state, matters, and whien all the hungry horde who have been kept away from the SMiblic cribs for the. past eight years gets in action and endeavor to recoup the “feed” missed, during these .years, there will be much more wailing and gnashing of teeth from- the

taxpayers. But the Republican taxpayer must grin and bear it, for he will, be getting just what he‘voted for. k The causes for the g. o. p. landslide are various, chief among which was the poisonous propaganda started two years ago by the Republican oligarchy and abundantly fed from the millions of dollars brought in bythe “Boys’ Get the Money" squads. Added to this was the bid for support from all the malcontents, the anarchists, the pro-Ger-mans, the pro-Irish and to' every traitor to his country, and the “victory” may prove a very dearly purchased one. s And, too, many thoughtless people wanted “a change.” Notwithstanding the fact that the country was never so prosperous as it has been during the past eight years; that there is not a tramp in the country from one end to the other; that every man who wants work has a job at the highest wages he ever received and could pay the high prices for everything he had to buy and have money left; that he is living oetter today, too, than ever before in his life, there was discontent among the workers and they wanted “a change.” And they will have it, never feaV. Whether the change will be pleasing remains to be seen, but they voted for it and they will surely get it. , I As for the Democrats, they temporarily lay down the reins of na-

tional government with a clean 'record and have no apologies to make. The administration fought the greatest war in the world’s history to a successful conclusion, something that the Republicans cannot yet conceive of as possible, and while the latter spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for ‘smelling committees,” not a single crooked thing did they uncover. The record has been a clean one, and after a brief trial with the hungry horde who are already battling for places at the pie counter, the people once more will turn to the Democrats, the , party of She people, for clean and honest government.