REPUBLICAN VICTORY

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 36, 6 November 1920, Page 7

REPUBLICAN VICTORY

I 0 PARTY COMMITTED TO GREAT TASKS electors display political INDEPENDENCE MEN'S INFLUENCE ON - WOMEN'S VOTE 'By Telegraph-.Press Aseociaiion-Oopyrirht , ( . New York', November 4. J. he "X eiv Y or k Tiiues's" correspondent ai Haslungibn reports that Republicans who seriously analyse the results say that ilnrdmg and the Republican Party, who enter into control next March, are committed to great tasks, and are facing C IS , 1-espuiisibilif.ios. Harding has neonlfi U 1^\ ,t b - lr ,;he whole ?h™.„'« A. bo^ e tho eleotors r ,? t the - v aro 110 lo "B c i' » loyally )■ , party . as . m times P" 54 - Tl »'s •uter symptom ot the oleetlon is givin» tho Republicans real food for ilhoiifrhc°. Jliey see m it a real national display of I'uiitical independence, and cannot fail 0 recognise that, unless the Republican tally during the next four years justices the verdict of the voters, there will bo a decided swing to either the Democratic or some other partyAus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ; Now. York, November 3. .tolitieal experts have begun to analyse the vote and determine the exacli position of women. It is self-evident that the women, like the men, wcni'i for tho Republicans, and tho cause is considered complex. Cox's plea on behalf of the League was expected to attract the women. It failed to do so, because the mon'g influence on tho women's vote appears to have been predominant. It is predicted ilhat the women can be oxpectcd during most elections' to voto like th» men, giving, during so-called "landslides, great majorities to the successful candidates. It is felt that on few issues can it bo expected thaii women will vote contrary to the men.. It is thought that tho belief that women can bo depended upon to cast an independent vote is.only an illusion.—ins-N.Z. Gable Assn.

: WOMAN SOCIALIST ELECTED. . Washington, November 3. , Wone of the minor partieg figured in the Presidential results. Morion Lang, tin first woman Socialist to bo elected to tlu\ New York Assembly, was a successlul candidate.—R-euter. I "END OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS" 5 _ VARIOUS REASONS FOR THE ; DISASTER, : „ , Washington, November i. senator Johnson declares that Mie eleci tion moanS the cud of the League of Na- , nous. No amount of sophistry could obscuro tho issue that the menacing and entangling League had been emphatically repudiated. American spirit had responded to \llio endeavour to denationalise it. ■ ~^| r ' Bryan' declares that President U ilson laid tho foundation of this disaster, and Governor Cox completed the structure The President attempted to drive from public life every Democrat' who dared to differ with him, even in tho minutest detail. .Sir. Henshaw,' chairman of the Prohibition National Committee, tele, graphed to Cox that ho believed tho League of Nations, as advocated by. tho Democrats, would luivo been victorious if it had not been so inseparably hitched to tiie "booze wagon" by the Administration air Washington and tho Convention at San Francisco.—Renter.

WILSON MAY PRESS FOK RATIFICATION OP TREATY".. New York, November i. The'"New York Times" correspondent ot Washington Elites that irreconcilable .Republican Senators assert that the election ends the iiglul to have tho United Slates join the league of Nations. This view is not shared by other Republicans,"" who way that tho League was not tho real issue of the election, ond that America's cntranco into some form of association was always assured. The-question now agitating Senatorial cirolcs is whether President Wilson will return the Treaty to the next session of tho Senate, beginning in December, wiiJi the intimation that the Lodge reservations will lie acceptable. Somo friendsi of President Wilson say that he is undaunted and will press for the ratification of lOie; Treaty bet'oro ho leaves office. It is pointed out that the Senato will bo weil able to say that the people have repudiated Wilson and his handiwork', and refuso to consider the Treaty fur-ther—Aus.-N.Z Cable Assn. EFFECTS OF'LEAGUE'S DEFEAT. » (I!ee. November (i, 0.40 a.m.) Washington, November i. The view is expressed in diplomatic • circles that; tho defeat of the League of Nations would have a profound elt'ect on foreign chancellories, and uhat one result would probably be the removal of any doubt concerning the renewal of tho Anglo-Japanese alliance.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RESIGNATION ofmN SUGGESTED OPENING' WAY FOR HARDING TO ASSUME OFFICE. Chicago, November 4. Mr. W. J. ]3r.van, in a statement, sug-ire-sis that as the. result of tho election President Wilson should resign s immediately and allow the Vice-President, Mr. Marshall, to assume office. Then Mr. -Marshall should appoint Mr. Harding as Secretary of State, and himself resign. Tho laws regulating succession Ho tho Presidency would thus placo Mr Hard- ! ing in tho President's chair and enable him io carry out his. programme inline- ' (iiately, instead of waiting till March.— : Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. j