. Review of reviews and world's work. alliance between the West and theSouth, thus making the Democracy a greatTadical force in opposition to the East. Thereis nothing in the results that even super-ficially justifies these fanciful attempts togeneralize. Except for several borderStates, the South does not participate inPresidential contests. It has only one realparty, and its electoral vote is pledged inadvance to the Democratic ticket. TheSouthern leaders have not been in very sym-pathetic accord with the Wilson policies,and the Souths control of the Democraticparty is for distinct reasons o
. Review of reviews and world's work. alliance between the West and theSouth, thus making the Democracy a greatTadical force in opposition to the East. Thereis nothing in the results that even super-ficially justifies these fanciful attempts togeneralize. Except for several borderStates, the South does not participate inPresidential contests. It has only one realparty, and its electoral vote is pledged inadvance to the Democratic ticket. TheSouthern leaders have not been in very sym-pathetic accord with the Wilson policies,and the Souths control of the Democraticparty is for distinct reasons of its own. TheDemocrats in the Presidential year have al-ways the advantage of starting with a largeassured block of Southern electoral Republicans in normal times do, indeed,hope to carry Vermont and they encounter, even in those two States,well-organized opposition; and everywhereelse they must fight for what they get. TheSouth, therefore, from Virginia to Texas,was Wilsons from the start, without a con-. HOW DID IT WAS HK JARRtD BV THK HUCHESETTE TRAIN? DID HIRAM JOHNSON DO IT? OR. BlT WHY GO ON ? From ihc Herald (New York) test. In those States where Southern senti-ment is strong, but where there is a realRepublican Presidential vote, no great Wil-son wave was discernible. Thus in Vir-ginia and Kentucky, Wilson actually losta good many votes as compared with1912. His gain in Maryland, Missouri, andTennessee was slight and unimpressive. , ^ ^ The most striking change in the Utah and . • • c i • tht Mormon entire countrv is to be lound in^^ Utah. Nowhere else has made so remarkable a score. Hehas gained much more than 100 per cent,over his popular vote of 1912, while theRepublicans have greatly fallen of?. Thereare four or five other States in the Mountainregion in which the Mormons, who controlthe politics of Utah, are strong enough toturn the scale from one part>- to the of these States this year have gone for
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