THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE T HE great and solemn referendum asked for by President Wilson has received the clearest and most complete answer possible. And the voice of the people has been explicit, not only as to the foreign entanglements involved in the kind of League insisted upon by Mr. Wilson, but upon the whole course of the Administration at home. The completeness of the Republican victory is amazing and overwhelming. The 'popular plurality of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge is the largest ever gained by Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates. Exact figures are not available as we write, the morning after election, but such estimated pluralities as that of 1,100, 000 in New York State (440,000 in New York City alone), 750,000 in Pennsylvania, and from 300,000 to 500,000 in Ohio are typical of the extent of the political landslide. Of the total electoral vote of 531 (266 needed to elect) Harding at this writing is credited with 391, and Cox with 140. Compare this with Mr. Wilson's 435 electoral votes in 1912 and 277 in 1916. The Democrats have carried hardly any States outside of the traditional solid South and some of the "near-Southern" States, while Tennessee appears to be in the Republican column. We speak below of the remarkable contest for the Governorship in New York and of the more important results of the elections as to Senators. NOVEMBER 10, 1920 be considerably swollen by the newly In an editorial on another page the THE RESULT IN THE STATE THE State of New York deserves special mention in comment upon the election for two reasons. First, it gave the unprecedented and astounding plurality of one million to the Republican candidate for President and at the same time nearly elected the Democratic posed subservience to Tammany and his advocacy of a "liberal enforcement' of the Prohibition Law. Another surprising result in New York State was the overwhelming vote by which Senator Wadsworth was reelected, his majority at this writing being estimated at from 300,000 to 500,000. He was vigorously opposed by some women leaders because he has persistently voted against woman suffrage and because his record on labor legislation in New York State for women and children has not been broad-minded or progressive. The women voters, however, apparently, and we think wisely, decided that it is more important at this juncture to give President-elect Harding the support of a Republican Senate than to punish Senator Wadsworth for voting, as they believed, wrongly in the past on issues which are practically settled. CAMPAIGN GOSSIP ow that the campaign is over and candidate for Governor, popularly and the election settled it is possible even affectionately known as "A1" Smith. The New York "Herald" rightly says that the extraordinary vote he polled in the face of an overwhelming Republican landslide is "one of the most remarkable personal triumphs in the history of politics." It is also a tribute to the ability of the American voter to exercise the right of discrimination and independent judgment even under the stress of strong party feeling. It is no disparagement to Governor-elect Miller, who has an admirable record as a lawyer, a State official, and a Judge of the State Supreme Court, to say that Governor Smith is admitted by thoughtful men of all parties to have been an unusually good executive. He came from the plain people, and he has quietly but firmly stood for the rights and welfare of the plain people. Even his membership in Tammany Hall has not obscured this fact. Both his political career and his political character illus. trate what an American of modest origin may do in administrative government who faithfully tries to educate himself and to stand for the general welfare as It will be interesting to compare the opposed to partisan spoils. Indeed, except total popular votes cast, when the fig for two weaknesses in his record, which, ures are obtainable, with the total of however, we believe, were the results of over 18,000,000 in 1916 and over real conviction on his part, he might 15,000,000 in 1912. The total will possibly have been re-elected his sup In this Presidential election the expected has happened. There have been no such complications and after-election uncertainties as marked the election of Wilson over Hughes in 1916. Even at the time of Roosevelt's victory over Parker in 1904, when the Republican plurality was enormous, and in the election of Taft in 1908, there were preelection doubting Thomases who ludicrously misconceived the probabilities. But in 1920 the trend of public opinion has been so strong and definite that the landslide was almost universally foreseen and by all but partisan "lastditchers" conceded. to refer to one or two episodes which respect, even when they do not agree with, the religious opinions and faiths of their fellow-countrymen, the political campaigns of those happy days to come will be conducted without such egregious mistakes. The other episode is perhaps still more discreditable to American politics. For weeks preceding the election furtive and whispering gossip about Senator Harding had been circulated throughout the country, often in the form of the phrase, "Have you heard the awful things that have been said about Mr. Harding?" with no mention of what the awful things were. It was said that the daily newspaper offices throughout the country had these stories in their editorial rooms, but that they were so bad as to be unprintable. Fortunately, a few days before the election the allegation upon which these rumors were based was made public. It was that some of Senator Harding's immediate ancestors were mulattoes, and that he therefore had Negro blood in his veins. Professor William Estabrook Chancellor, of Wooster University, in the State of Ohio, was dismissed by the Board of Trustees for circulating this allegation. On its publication the rumor exploded without harm to anybody except to its originators. The viciousness of this gossip lies not in the fact that it is a calumny, but that it was a definite and a concerted attempt to calumniate. Baseless rumor and gossip cease to be harmful when exposed to the open light of day. President Cleveland, when during his Presidential campaign he was attacked by rumor, said not only a brave thing, but gave expression to an eternal principle. When the rumors were brought to his attention, he dryly remarked: "Tell the truth." Any charge against a public man which is important enough to deserve attention is important enough to be made publicly and on good authority. (C) Harris & Ewing REED SMOOT (REPUBLICAN) Charges of any other kind should be THE NEXT CONGRESS CON YONGRESS in both houses will be There are 96 members in the United States Senate; there are 435 members in the House of Representatives. One-third of the Senate members and all of the House members are elected every two years. The Sixty-seventh Congress convenes March 4, 1921. This year for its Senate, in addition to the necessary thirty-two Senators to be elected, two others were chosen to replace losses by death. The Sixty-sixth Congress had a Republican majority of 39 in the House of Representatives. This will be in FRANK B. BRANDEGEE (REP) degee, of Connecticut, and Moses, of New Hampshire, all of whom were standing for re-election. There were also ugly Republican "splits" in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois, respectively endangering the chances of the present Republican Senators Lenroot and Watson and of the Republican nominee to succeed a Republican Senator in Illinois. Finally, in Utah there was Congressman Milton H. Welling's vigorous campaign against the Republican Senator Smoot, Mr. Smoot's reservationist views concerning the League of Nations not having pleased many of his fellow-Mormons. And in Missouri Senator Spencer, Republican, had to face an equally vigorous campaign waged by Breckenridge Long, Democrat and late Third Assistant Secretary of State. All four Senators and the Illinois candidate have been successful. NORTH DAKOTA, WISCONSIN, AND SOME DEMOCRATIC WORRIES creased to about fifty. In the Senate the THE Senatorial fights in North Da Present reports indicate that, as a result of the election, this majority will be very materially increased. This is a double consolation to Republicans. They recognize the irony of electing a Republican President and not a Republican Senate. Again, they see that the higher the Republican majority in the Senate the more impotent would be the discord of such "irreconcilables" as Senators Borah and Johnson. Most observers anticipated that the House would retain its large Republican majority. But the Senatorial situation was menacing to the Republicans. Their slender majority was threatened by very possible Democratic gains. There was, for instance, a large woman vote, independent of party, to be reckoned with against the Republican Senators Wadsworth, of New York, Bran kota and Wisconsin were both centers of lively political interest. In North Dakota it will be remembered that the Non-Partisan League captured the Republican organization and named as its candidate for Senator Dr. E. F. Ladd. It was expected that many Republicans would cast their votes for the Democratic candidate, H. P. Perry, but the early returns indicate that Dr. Ladd has successfully overcome this handicap. The Non-Partisan League candidate in South Dakota, lacking the Republican indorsement, was defeated by his Republican rival, Governor Norbeck. It is, not to be supposed that Dr. Ladd, of North Dakota, will be of much comfort to the Republican majority in the Senate, though he is nominally of that party. In Wisconsin Senator Lenroot, fac ing the vigorous opposition of his col CHARLES CURTIS (REPUBLICAN) Thomas J. Heflin, of Alabama, who Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, who succeeds Senator Hoke Smith, Democrat. Scott Ferris, of Oklahoma, Congress man, who succeeds Senator Gore, Democrat. In the border States the Democrats had their troubles. In Kentucky and Maryland Senators Beckham and Smith had to meet onslaughts from R. P. Ernst and O. E. Weller, respectively, med. It consists of Czechoslo and the issue of those contests is still undecided. Even in Oregon Senator Chamberlain's return is in doubt. THE PROBABLE RESULTS If present reports are confirmed, among the new Republicans in the Senate will be: Samuel M. Shortridge, of California, who apparently has been able to overcome the great popularity of the present Senator, James D. Phelan, Democrat. Samuel D. Nicholson, of Colorado, THE LITTLE ENTENTE HE "Little Entente" has been vakia, Rumania, and Jugoslavia. It is due to the initiative of Eduard Benes, Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister. The first reason for establishing this Little Entente is the common menace of Hungary. In the opinion of Hungarians, the Paris Peace Conference treated no enemy nation more drastically than it treated Hungary, a state which has represented a remarkable economic self-sufficiency. But the Conference, obstinately proceeding on idealistic ethnographical lines only, and FRANK B. WILLIS (REPUBLICAN) reason for the establishment of the Little Entente the common menace of Bolshevism. In resisting it Czechoslovakia stands worthily at the head of the Little Entente nations. In dealing with any unrest agrarian, industrial, political-the Czechoslovakian Government has already acquired enviable balance and poise. Thus the counsel which in an alliance a man like Benes could give would be of vital value. Such Rumanian statesmen as Bratianu and Jonescu and such Jugoslav statesmen as the Serb Pasitch and the Croat Trumbitch appreciate the advantages of Czechoslovakian leadership in a common resistance to a common enemy. The Little Entente aims not so much at definite political union as at an equilibrium and a unity of action more stable, and hence more influential, than have hitherto characterized the individual policies and efforts of the three nations. THE HARD OF HEARING THE OUTLOOK has already called at who, it appears, will succeed the present ignoring economic considerations, gave tention to the lip-reading lectures able and very independent Senator, Charles S. Thomas, Democrat. Frank R. Gooding, of Idaho, former Governor of that State and opponent of the present Senator, John F. Nugent. William B. McKinley, of Illinois, Congressman, who succeeds Lawrence Y. Sherman, Republican, the present Senator. Edwin F. Ladd, of North Dakota, a well-known professor in the State Agricultural College, a Non-Partisan Leaguer and nominal Republican, who succeeds the present Senator Gronna. Frank B. Willis, of Ohio, former Governor, who succeeds President-elect Harding. Peter Norbeck, Governor of South Dakota, who succeeds the present Senator, Edwin S. Johnson. Among the Democrats: to Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and Jugoslavia territories vitally essential to Hungary's well-being, particularly as regards mines, forests, and transportation. The Hungarians, a proud people, cherish thoughts of revenge. As soon as they can they will strike with armed force, now here, now there, to regain what they can of their former territorial integrity. Indeed, they are already at work in the Little Entente countries. Largely under the guise of Bolshevist agitation they are fomenting unrest and spreading pro-Hungarian propaganda there. In addition, the many thousands of former Hungarian Government employees, who derived their incomes from official positions held in the lost lands, have become so many agents for the reacquisition of those lands. Another menace forms the second on art given at the Metropolitan Museum for the benefit of the deaf and dumb. But there are a great many persons who are not deaf, but only deafened-we are apt to call them "hard of hearing." A league for the benefit of the hard of hearing has been in operation for ten years in the metropolis. Its headquarters are at 126 East 59th Street. It maintains an office and meeting-rooms and has some 11,000 yearly callers. It conducts free lip-reading classes under the auspices of the Board of Education and gives scholarships in lip-reading in private schools. It procures aural examinations, studies the problems of deafness, and co-operates in efforts towards its prevention. It maintains a shop in which deafened men and women may find a market for their handiworkthe sales are about $1,400 a year. It conducts eight clubs-for young people, for workingmen, for working women, card clubs, sewing clubs, etc. It has a free bureau for employment and educational direction, and places four-fifths of its applicants. In spite of limitations, the deafened can concentrate, observe keenly, be efficient, thorough, persistent, reliable, and appreciative. Some seven hundred people, mostly persons of moderate means and ninetyfive per cent of them deafened, have paid the expenses for about a decade of this pioneer organization. It needs more money. We believe that we have but to mention this fact to bring quick and generous response. THE FISHERMEN'S RACE E VEN in the midst of a Presidential election the race between the fishermen of Gloucester and the fishermen of Nova Scotia deservedly attracted almost Nation-wide attention. Of late years the builders of fishing vessels both of our own Eastern seaboard and of Nova Scotia have profited much from the lessons learned by the designers of racing yachts, but the fishermen have wisely and necessarily never departed from those standards of sound and seaworthy construction which were characteristic of the earliest of our defenders of the America's Cup. Representing the Gloucester fleet was the schooner Esperanto, sailed by Captain Marty Welch. Opposing him was the schooner Delawana, champion of the Nova Scotian fleet, sailed by Captain Himmelman. The races were sailed off Halifax, and the courses were some forty miles in length, so laid as to provide all varieties of sailing. The victory was to be determined by a series of three races, but the American vessel won the first two races held, thereby taking the trophy and the purse. In both races the American vessel manifested its superiority in a point of sailing which has long been the greatest stronghold of both American windjammers and American racing yachts, namely, a beat to windward. This is the point in which seamanship and design affect the result most tellingly. It is a matter of gratification to find that American fishing vessels and American fishermen are still superior in this regard. It is to be hoped that these races between Nova Scotian fishermen and Gloucestermen will be made an annual event, open only to vessels which are real veterans of their industry and which Underwood & Underwood THE AMERICAN SCHOONER ESPERANTO, WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL FISHERMEN'S RACE OFF HALIFAX with the Administration of Woodrow Wilson the policies and practices with which he and his party had become identified. The American people have had nearly eight years of experience in peace and in war with the kind of Government exemplified by Mr. Wilson and, under his influence and control, adopted by his party; and they have decided that for a time at least that experience has sufficed. They want a change. They saw no chance of getting that change by continuing the Democratic party in administrative power. No amount of argument during four months of campaign could withstand the cumulative power of more than seven years of facts. In undertaking to meet this situation, Governor Cox has argued that he, and not President Wilson, was the candidate; but the people were not voting primarily upon a candidate, but upon a set of policies and practices, and those policies and practices both Mr. Cox and his party had approved and accepted as their inheritance. Unlike Grover Cleveland, who was repudiated by his party and opposed by Mr. Bryan, his party's nominee, Woodrow Wilson has had the satisfaction of placing his stamp upon his party, and thus of submitting through his party his stewardship to the judgment of his fellow-countrymen. And his fellow-countrymen have chosen to have now another kind of stewardship. One of the policies which the American people have obviously wished to abandon is that which is termed oneman power or personal government. Long before he was President Mr. Wil |