NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE results of the Congressional elections in the United States are more than usually interesting. The Republican party has lost a good deal of ground, but it is clear that it will still have a working majority in the House of Representatives. But though the Republicans have managed to scrape through the elections without a defeat, it is admitted on all sides that they were only saved by the personal popularity of Mr. Roosevelt, and that but for his influence throughout the United States they would have sustained a crushing defeat. This fact will doubtless not be lost on the party managers, whose first business is to win, and who would 'rather win even with a horse they were afraid of and disliked than lose with one after their own heart. The result of the elections is therefore freely said to make Mr. Roosevelt's nomination for President at the next election a certainty. But if he obtains the Republican nomination his election is certain, for he is not the kind of President the American people want to get rid of.
