Life — November 6, 1919 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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MBER 6 a9 “ While there is Life there’s Hope" VOL. 74 No. 1932 Published by LIF \xpemw MILLER, President and Treasurer PUBLISHING COMPANY James S. METCALYR, Secretary 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York English Offices, Rolls House, Breams Bldgs., London, T was a good election. The disgust of Massa- chusetts got home in the shape of a huge, unprece- dented majority tor Calvin Coolidge, the Republican candidate for Governor. It was not because he was a Republican that Mr. Coolidge got so many votes, but because he stood for law and order against the forces that had sympa- thized with the Boston police strike. His opponent, Mr. Long, took, as far as he dared, the side of the policemen who had gone on strike, and made im- possible promises, as to restore five cent trolley fares and to pay world- war veterans an additional bonus of a year’s pay ($360). He flirted with the Sinn Feiners and with labor organi- zations, and the Boston Central Labor Union called upon organized labor and its friends, irrespective of party affilia- tions, to beat Governor Coolidge. The result was a majority of 125,000 for Coolidge, the greatest majority ever given to a governor in Massachusetts. That was good and very important, and must be an immense comfort to many Massachusetts voters who have been saddened by the recent course of their state’s representatives in the existing world crisis. When Mr. Lodge set out to destroy the Peace Treaty, he undoubtedly had a good share of support from the old Bay State aristocracy. Republicans w would not go with him in his opposi tion to Mr. Wilson and all his works, helped to elect Walsh Senator. The strongest claim Mr. Walsh had on independent votes was his assurance that he would support the Wilson measures. When he ratted, raised the green flag and came out as the co- operating colleague of Mr. Lodge in treaty busting, the Massachusetts liberals felt that they had been not only swindled, but disgraced. They saw nothing political in their state to be proud of, and they did not like it. ~ The election has helped them. They can be proud of Governor Coolidge’s majority and find in it assurance that the elements in Massachusetts which Candidate Long truckled to, and to which Senator Walsh cried “Kam- erad,”’ are not the elements that, in the long run, are going to rule their state ND in New York the election, though not so important as in Massachusetts, was very nice. Tam- many was beaten. Murphy and the House of Untermyer were checked in designs on the bench. Judge New. burger, to whom Murphy denied re- nomination, was re-elected comfort- ably, and the younger Untermyer, who was to have had his place, was urged to sit down elsewhere. Tam- many’s monopoly of the Board of timate won in the untoward election that gave us Mayor Hylan, was effec- tively invaded. Voters picked their men with much more disregard of party than usual. It was as though the calm sense of the electorate had reasserted itself, and it encouraged the hope that calm sense was gaining in relation to affairs generally, and might presently work out peace for the world and shelter, food, and commodities for its inhabitants. ANP truly an impression of common sense on the affairs of this world would now be very timely. People have had to spend so much time, energy and money in fighting, that fighting of one sort or another has come too much to seem a natural con- dition and become too much a univer- sal habit. No doubt war develo; pugnacity, and hang-overs of it sur- vive when peace comes. Europe is crammed with such hang-overs, and our share of them has made itself known in strikes and in the violence of the disapprobation of the Peace Treaty that has been exhibited in the Senate. Apparently the Peace Treaty has now come to a stage when it needs only judicious handling to be ratified. If entrusted to suitable nurses, of the quality, say, of the Honorable Murray Crane, with instructions to get it ratified and with power to dicker with Senators, the world might get it very shortly and in such form that it need not go back to the Conference. There should be an index made of it and all the thunder which the Senators still desire to discharge should be punctiliously inserted in that. Every- thing that can be said about it has been said some time since and for the rest of the talk—Mr. LaFollette’s for example—leave to print ought to do just as well as actual declamation. Perhaps the accomplishment of the election may expedite the fate of the treaty somewhat. Mr. Wilson seers in excellent mental condition, but while he is disabled, his power of per- suasion is practically in at ce, and to put it in commission might be a fortunate stroke for ail concerned, in- cluding the world, the country, and himself. His strength is in hanging on. He is less accomplished or practiced in letting go, and that is a greater effort for him. That, in spite of his iilness, he is strong enough to hang on. there is no reason at all to doubt; b comicbooks.com{a)