In several other respects the election was @ notable one It was the first time that members of the national Senate were elected, not by the different State legislatores, but, in accordance with the recent. ly adopted Constitutional amendment, by direct vote of the people. The election also marked the most total extinction of the Pro gressive party, the great bulk of its recent adherents having returned to their former allegiance to the Republican party. Two years sgo the Progressive candidate for the Governorship of New York polled 393,183 votes. Last week the Progressive vote in that State was lew than 60,000, and in some States it fell so low that the Party lost its legal status as a separate political party. And be it noted that wherever Colonel Roosevelt snd his lieutenants worked the hardest for success, there the detest of the party candidates was the most complete.
The prohibitionists and the advocates of woman's suffrage put forth tremendous exertions to have their respective measures by the voters in 8 number of western States, and not without success. In Ohio and Calif-amia prohibition overwhelm mingly defeated, but in Colorado, Arizona, Oregon and Washington amendments to the constitution pro hibiting the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors were adopt ed in Ohio, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota and adopted in Montana snd Nevada, Effect on next Presidential Election.
To return for a moment to the general political situation, it hardly Seems to s non-partisan observer 8 if the results of the recent election can be regarded as in any foreshadowing, as some politicians would have us think, the result of the presidential election two yeast hence. It is the general opisiou that the country is on the eve of revival of business that not {e¥ believe will amount to While the war in Europe has bed most depressing and distri! effect on business conditions here orders for foodstuffs, clothing munitions of war to be shipped Europe are now coming in it numbers and volume that industrial establishments sre "0" ing night and day to supply
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