The congressional election of 1914 was profoundly affected by the European war. Early in the year it appeared that conservative opposition to the Democratic program was growing, and that the Democratic majority was likely to be cut down. The Progressive party appeared to be weakening, and the control of the Republican party was settling back among those Republicans against whom the Insurgents had made their protest. But President Wilson's precise neutrality won the confidence of all parties, and although conservatives like Cannon, of Illinois, and Penrose, of Pennsylvania, won over Democrats and Progressives alike in a few cases, he retained for the Sixty-fourth Congress a working majority in the House and an enlarged majority in the Senate. His election in 1912 had been, in part, due to the dispersion of Republican strength caused by the Progressive schism; in 1914, the influence of the Progressives was negligible and the Democrats retained their power in the face of the whole Republican attack. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Between 1909 and 1914, the _Outlook_, to which Theodore Roosevelt had been an occasional contributor, and which had been a strong supporter of Republican policies since 1898, was the regular organ through which Mr. Roosevelt addressed the public, over his signature as Contributing Editor. In a similar way William J. Bryan reached his followers through the _Commoner_ (1900-), and Robert M. LaFollette through his _LaFollette's Weekly_ (1909-). _Collier's Weekly_ became a center of the adverse criticism of President Taft. All of these, as well as the more general periodicals, are indispensable sources for the period, but are so highly partisan as to need constant correction for prejudice. The election of 1908 is treated in Stanwood's _History of the Presidency from 1897 to 1909_, while that of 1912 is excellently described in the _New International Year Book_ for 1912. The theories of the new nationalism are in T. Roosevelt, _The New Nationalism_ (1910). INDEX Adams, Charles Francis, 55, 56. Agricultural colleges, beginning of, 17. Agriculture, changes in, 14, 15; in the South after the War, 39, 40; Department of, created, 142, 157; main reliance of Western pioneers, 149, 151; discontent in North and West, 178, 179, 184; depression of, in South, 195; diversified by decline of cotton values, 204, 205. Aguinaldo, Emilio, 267, 278. Alabama Claims, the, 55, 56. Alaska, gold mines in, 241; settlement of boundary, 284, 285. Aldrich, Nelson W., 118, 326. Algeciras, United States in conference at, 318. Alger, Russell A., 253, 274. Allison, William B., 89, 255. Altgeld, Gov. John P., 222, 279. Alverstone, Lord Chief Justice, 285, 286. Amendment, the Thirteenth, 33, 42, 48. Amendment, the Fourteenth, 42, 43, 48, 196, 197. Amendment, the Fifteenth, 46, 47, 48, 196, 198. American diplomacy, 286. American Federation of Labor, 121, 183, 208. American Railroad Union, 222. Ames, Adelbert, 47.