the form in which it expresses itself in the j the polls seems to point to the conclusion, that | fully as a people. But there was a desire to future, but as to the continued maintenance the people did not stampede over to the Demo- break away from party bonds. People someand growth of the People's party, as it is cratic party. The tremendous Cleveland ma- times become so held in by party that they at present organized and inspired, there jority in the Electoral College will hide this become restless and will break out. That is is much more room for doubt. For the fact for a while and make it appear that the what it was this time, and just what were the sake of temporary successes it has in Democracy won a positive victory. This is reasons behind it all no one of us can tell at many instances allied itself with the probably false. It will probably soon appear this moment." Democracy, and while these two have much in that there was less of a Democratic victory common at the West, it can scarcely be said than a Republican defeat. The people fell that they have been in every instance actuated away from the Republican party; in large num by the desire for the triumph of a special prin- bers they joined independent parties of protest, ciple rather than their own immediate advance as the large third parties' votes denote; some as political organizations. Here is the danger of the discontented probably went over to the of the Populists, for when two political parties Democrats, but a large majority either stayed fuse to beat a third, the weaker of the allies is at home or voted in some way against both likely to reap only a, small share of the accru- Cleveland and Harrison. The full returns will ing benefits, and to risk its very existence into probably show that the Cleveland vote was not the bargain. There are many political observ- swollen by the vote that Harrison lost. There ers who believe that this fall's successful fusion is little doubt that this view is correct. If it schemes are harbingers of ill to the juvenescent finally proves itself true at all points, then may party which has so eagerly embraced them. the Presidential year of 1892 bear close comparison with that of 1856. Then may we conBoston Herald (Ind.-Dem.), Nov. 10. ~ - The subjects that are before us in the near future, and which the growing People's party has had the wisdom to include in its platform, are national questions and issues, and they appeal to men of the country rather than to the old lines of party fealty. In this respect we are distinctly shifting away from points already abundantly debated to new issues which confront other nations as well as ourselves, and which grow out of the commercial and industrial and social developments of national life. The recent contest has been principally in the field the educated common sense of the business of economics. The entrance into this field means that these questions and their social relationships are the questions of the near future, and it is with the greatest interest that we can turn to the present educational forces of the nation and find that the brightest and best young persons among us are training themselves to meet intelligently the issues which are near at hand. clude that history is repeating itself; that the J. S. Clarkson in the Iowa State Register, Nov. 11.-It is an order from the American people for a change in the industrial and economic policy of the Government. The result is not a personal defeat of President Harrison, nor really a defeat of the party. is a Protection defeat, a repudiation of high tariff, a Republican reverse in a field where it put aside all the nobler issues and staked everything on the economic and mercenary issue. It In the day of new energy the Republican party will not allow a million of its voters to be disfranchised because they are its members, and it will draw its line openly and boldly, and free itself alike from the Carnegies, gain cheap labor, and from all others wearing Fricks, and others who betrayed Protection to its name for purposes of their own gain. Dispatch from Washington, Nov. 11.-Senator Sherman said: "I am not given to discussing the reasons for the result of an election, but I have no hesitation in saying I believe Mr. Cleveland owes his victory to the tariff question. The Democratic arguments on this issue appealed to the laboring men, who of the benefits of Protection, and they voted thought they were not getting their full share against us. Since the Democrats have elected their President, I am glad that they will also be in full control of both Houses of Congress, so that the entire burden of responsibility will fall on their shoulders. I suppose they will that we will have an opportunity of testing carry out their ideas of tariff legislation, and practically the two systems of Protection and. Free Trade as applied to this country. Per-sonally I have no doubt as to what the popular verdict will be four years hence." St. Louis Chronicle (Ind.), Nov. 10.-Weaver has made a strong fight. His party took up the advocacy of free coinage of silver, a pernicious, flatulent fallacy, but one that won them votes all through the West. That fact discounts the moral effect of their vote. Had they advanced upon the old parties boldly demanding the abolition of class privileges, and not at the same time demanding special bene- VARIOUS VIEWS ABOUT PAST AND FUTURE RE- doctrine in the 51st Congress. They objected PUBLICAN POLICY. From an interview with Benjamin Butterworth, Philadelphia Times, Nov. 13. The McKinley Law is responsible. The people grew restless, discontented, and resentful over the abuses, not the uses, of the Protective fits for classes within their ranks, there would to a condition of things that by law took from be to-day a third party rising as irresistibly as one to give to another, that infused the blood did the Republican party from its original de- From an interview with Hon. Thomas W. of one industry into another-not that wages feat in 1856. The Populists have not dared to Palmer, President of the World's Columbian in the protected industry might be larger, but a be true to their motto, and they stand to-day Exposition, Chicago Herald, Nov. 13.-No man that the profits of the capitalists in that inin no whit better form than did the Greenback-could have carried the Republican party to dustry might be swelled. In other words, the ers in 1876, notwithstanding their larger vote. success. Neither Mr. Blaine with his brilliancy masses objected to being robbed for the benefit Denver News (Silver organ), Nov. 11.-In and magnetism, Mr. Reed with his great parlia- of those who are protected by tariff schedules. any event, free coinage has been made a liv-mentary reputation, nor Mr. McKinley with his They wanted conditions equalized, and they ing, vital, aggressive issue in national politics. record as a protector of American industries said so last Tuesday with an emphasis and a It now has disciplined generals, and an immense could have made up for the absence of a great unanimity that fairly took away the breath army of devoted followers. These will never moral or sentimental issue in the campaign. of the Chinese wall policy and almost swept again flinch, whether in State or national conThe lack of this was what defeated Mr. Blaine the Republican party off its feet. I had thought. in 1884. ventions, and, displaying courage and deterThe campaign was waged on mate- that perhaps the modification of the McKinley mination, as well as independence, the old rial issues and mathematical lines and an arith-doctrine, as enunciated at Minneapolis, coupled parties at least the Democratic party-will be metical campaign will never be triumphant to with the radical tariff plank in the Chicago compelled to espouse their cause or lose the the Republican party. It must have something platform, might cause a reaction from the ver bulk of Democratic States. Never again will more to inspire it than the bread which perish-dict of 1890, but the result shows that the the threat of a Force Bill destroy the logical eth. There are hundreds of thousands of men wrath of the people has risen rather than discussion of party principles in a Presidential who care nothing about the tariff or Free Trade, abated. They have put their feet down unmis-campaign in the South. With all fear of that and who think but little over the currency, takably on McKinleyism. The heavy losses political crime removed, the free coinage senti- who would be brought out and be vital forces suffered by the Republicans everywhere show ment of the South will exert itself; and should if some great moral or sentimental question that the sentiment of the people is unanimous Mr. Cleveland effectually interpose his veto or were involved. on this question. I do not blame the Republiinfluence against the measure, many of the can managers. All the political skill, all the Southern States will swing out of the Demo- Dispatch from Thomas H. Carter, Chairman money that could be used could not have cratic column to take their places with the new of the Republican National Committee, to Presi-stemmed the tide. It was the verdict of the party, that will have for its corner-stone finan-dent Harrison.-The returns show we have independent voters born of deep-seated conviccial legislative reform, with free coinage for been defeated by a pronounced majority. The tion." silver indelibly carved upon it. The outlook defeat can only be attributed to a reaction for free coinage is bright. It may not come against the progressive policies of the Republican party. as early as we hope, but, if the men of Colorado will stand firm and true by the pledge of the Silver League, the friends of silver in the other States will rally to them and make sure the victory not far from view. New York People (Socialist), Nov. 13.-It seems clear, every additional fact gleaned from Dispatch from Chicago, Nov. 10.-The veteran editor Joseph Medill says: "The great masses of the laboring people were dissatisfied Nov. 11.-Speaking of the results of the elec- troubles. Dispated from Cincinnati, New York Times, and also ignorant of the true cause of their tion, General Lew Wallace to-day said: "There and, not thoroughly understanding the measThey blamed the McKinley Bill,. was a great feeling of unrest. I do not take iture, listened to the Democratic leaders and bethat there was so much of an insane desire for lieved what they said when they told the labor-a change merely. Our people vote thought-ing men the McKinley Bill protected the: take?" he was asked. Louisville Commercial (Ind.-Rep.), Nov. 12. -Under all the circumstances it is fair to conclude that the labor unions practically declared a boycott against the Republican ticket and that the country has to take account of a new secret oath-bound political party, which regards nothing but the narrow interests and prejudices of a class. If this is true the labor unions have "bit off their nose to spite their face." If Protection is not for the interest of the workingmen of the country it is not of enough interest to other people to bother about, and if they care so little about it as to strike it down whenever they get into a quarrel over wages or hours its most ardent supporters will soon be ready to let it go. already rich manufacturers but gave the poor that party power to repeal the McKinley Bill will be found disappointing and wanting. man no relief. They could see no immediate and substitute a tariff for revenue only, or abol- Then, again, will the Republican party come return for themselves, and whenever a man be-ish the tariff altogether. They have given that into popular favor. came suddenly rich they attributed it to this party power to extirpate all existing trusts and measure, and were disappointed to think they monopolies, whether in manufactures or minhad received no corresponding benefit. Dis- ing, in currency or in transportation, and to appointment leads to dissatisfaction, dissatis- make similar combinations forever impossifaction leads to discontent, and when a people ble. When all this has been done, what are discontented they revolt. That is the his- next? Negations are barren. For more than tory of this last campaign." thirty years the Democratic party has not "Do you think the McKinley Bill was a mis- originated a single measure or policy. Until it develops a creative power yet unsuspected, what has it to exist for after its noes have been duly recorded? The instant that party, passes beyond the region of barren negations and attempts to do anything, the radical hostility of its elements, one to another, must begin to operate just as the explosive forces in powder are set free by a touch of the live coal. One other permanent fact is that the party and policy under which the people have enjoyed the highest prosperity they have ever known cannot go out like a snuffed candle. In the minds of all men that party and policy will live, challenging comparison every hour. I myself favored a modified tax," answered Mr. Medill slowly. "I would have increased the free list and I don't believe I should have raised the tax any. I think the McKinley Bill was a mistake, but men wiser than I and more in the councils of our party decided that this measure must be passed." From an interview with Hon. Charles Foster, Secretary of the Treasury.-There were three classes of people who voted the Democratic ticket: One was a set of manufacturers who got tired of labor troubles and who came to the conclusion that Free Trade was better for them because it would reduce wages and thus compensate for the reduction of the tariff. Another class concluded that the McKinley Bill was too high. I do not know what effect those people had, but it was an excuse for such people as MacVeagh and Gresham to turn front. The third was cheap labor. That class thought the profits made by the manufacturers were not fairly distributed; that proprietors got too much and they too little. The school question affected Illinois and Wisconsin. In fact, the Lutheran Church made itself felt in the West. When I got to Ohio I discovered trouble among the laboring men. They were talking about Homestead and about Carnegie being too rich, while they were poor. The Republicans seem to have lost as many votes in Pennsylvania as were lost in Ohio. Dispatch from Springfield, Ill., Nov. 10. Senator Cullom was asked his opinion as to the cause and meaning of the landslide in Illinois and in the nation. The Senator promptly replied: Our losses in this State are mainly due to the school question, but in the nation at large they are due, in my judgment, to the passage of the McKinley Law and the impression in the minds of the masses in regard to it. When it was passed the people expected us to revise the tariff, and revise it in the direction of reduciug duties, and while we did make reductions, they were disappointed and dissatisfied because so many increases were made. When the bill came to the Senate from the House we cut out many of these increases, but when it went back to the House and got into the conference committee enough of them were restored to put us on the defensive and at a great disadvantage. Yes, I think, our defeat can fairly be attributed to the McKinley Bill.' Boston Journal (Rep.), Nov. 10.-The Republican party has nothing to apologize for or regret as regards its policy, its methods, or its candidates. Its policy has been well tested, and has redounded to the national credit and prosperity. Its methods are open to the light of day. Its candidates have borne the severest scrutiny without detriment. Our opponents will find the Republican party a watchful antagonist, and their lease of power will not be a long one. Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph (Rep.), Nov. 11.-The cause of Protection has been hurt by the extravagant expectations as to what it is possible for Government to do for the people by means of the fiscal policy. People talked pockets of manufacturers and that it depended simply upon their own will and pleasure how much of the fund they would pay over to their employés. Looked at from this point of view Protection was bound to be a failure. Its benefits have been so long experienced that they are regarded as a part of the natural order of things, so that it got small credit for the good it does while it got great blame for not doing what it cannot do. Add to this disaffection some special provocations in the way of lavish appropriations, the Federal Elections Bill, etc., and then break down the force of habit by putting on the people a new-fangled voting system, and the revolution is explained. as if Protection put money directly into the Protec publican defeat has, of course, brought to the Detroit Journal (Rep.), Nov. 12. The Resurface its due proportion of sneaks and caitiffs. They are rushing around, explaining that it was the odious McKinley Bill that did the business. They were all the time opposed to it. They knew it would injure the country and, perhaps, ruin the party. If their advice had been followed, it would never have been loaded upon the shoulders of the party. It was contrary to good policy, correct economy, and was bad politics in the bargain. They wash their hands of it, and now that the party is defeated it must repudiate all that it has been fighting for, join the enemy, pull down its colors, and run up the flag of the other camp. Such groveling and whining disgusts every manly Republican and excites the scorn even of honest Democrats. faint cry which is raised that the election of St. Paul Dispatch (Rep.), Nov. 12.-The Cleveland, and of a Democratic Congress, means the downfall of Protection, attests in its way that those who raise it do not believe what they themselves avow. The country has not declared against Protection any more than it has in favor of Free Trade. It has declared against the attempt of a national executive to usurp the powers and functions of the party will in the stead of the decrees of that party. which elected him, and to put his individual To Republicans the party owes its defeat, not to Democrats or Populists or Mugwumps. Either by voting for the opposition candidates several States have set the seal of their conor by not voting at all the Republicans of the demnation upon a President who provoked party dissension, repudiated those who elected of party loyalty, and who in his nature is as him, made his personal hostilities the measure incapable of arousing and winning the warm fealty of others as is a man of buckram. 10. Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin (Rep), Nov. -Inasmuch as the workingmen of the land have voted for Free Trade, thus revolutioniz. ing the policy of the National Government, the sooner the new policy is tried the better. Let We cannot agree with those Republicans who Syracuse Standard (Ind.-Rep.), Nov. 12.too hastily have reached the conclusion that in the result of the election is to be discerned the extinction of Protection as a party principle. Its rejection is the temporary command of the majority, and its survival in its essential Dispatch from Boston, Nov. 11.-Congress- strength will best be secured by any attempt to man Henry Cabot Lodge said of the election: put into force a series of economic measures "It means very clearly that the verdict of the based on the fallacy of Free Trade. people is against the Protective policy, and in tionists could ask for no quicker way of returnfavor of a change which will bring tariff for ing to power than the enactment of a law our country have a full taste of tariff for revrevenue only or Free Trade. The majority of consistent with the declaration of the Chicago enue only, and then we will see how the workthe people evidently want to try that experi- platform stigmatizing as unconstitutional the ing people will like it. Republicans, who have ment. In the West, also, it means that a large levying of duties in excess of actual necessities been striving to maintain high wages in this number of people desire cheap money in the for revenues. To that extremity it is hardly country and protect labor in every possible form of free coinage or State bank paper. The likely the winning party will go even in its way from the grinding effects of cheaper labor Democratic losses in Congress have weakened maddest moments. It is the sober second in Europe, cannot be expected to longer sucthe sound money element, and the Protection thought which resides in the human intelli- cessfully resist the Free Trade policy for element in their party. Their places have been taken by Republicans who are Protection that guarantees the country against the worst gence, whether it be Democratic or Republican, which the workingmen have voted. and sound money men, but the result of that that the incoming party can do and reassures change will be to leave the Free Trade and the country. The commercial supremacy of cheap money element in the Democratic party the United States cannot be ruined by any more supreme than ever." " New York Tribune (Rep.), Nov. 11.-Dem ocratic armies have been shouting "No Force Bill! No McKinley Bill! No monopolies!" Very well; the people have given the Democratic party power to prevent any new Election Bill and to sweep away all United States laws regulating elections. They have given policy in four years. Syracuse Journal (Rep.), Nov. 12.-The Republican party is the only party in this country occupying an affirmative, definite, matured attitude. The Democracy is merely the party of opposition, of many factions and fragments, which, under the necessity of unification and of doing something on definite lines, Indianapolis Journal (Rep.), Nov. 11.-The fact remains that New York City gave Mr. Cleveland thirty-six_Electoral votes and Chicago twenty-four. The vote in those cities was controlled by Tammany and the slums. It is humiliating to intelligent, patriotic Americans to know that the election was thus decided by the worst element in the two largest cities of the country, but it is a fact. point in universal suffrage that the balance of power almost invariably passes into the hands of the rabble in large cities. It is the weak THE PRESIDENT-ELECT. REPUBLICAN AND INDEPENDENT OPINION. Indianapolis News (Ind.-Rep.), Nov. 12. The President of this year was not merely elected, but nominated by the people. Not only did the politicians of his party do all they could to prevent his nomination in private scheming, but they used public affairs to that end. The conduct of the House of Representatives was calculated to defeat him. The plain mandate of the people as expressed at the polls in 1890 was disregarded in order to set up the "pins," as it was hoped, to prevent Cleveland from being the nominee. Never since Lincoln has there been a President so entirely the choice of the people as in this instance of Grover Cleveland. with a conviction which cannot be undermined, | closer than it was last year. The trouble at OHIO! New York Mail and Express (Rep.), Nov. II. THE OHIO SURPRISE. -No one will deny that Mr. Cleveland is Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.), Nov. II. strong with the better rather than with the -Our esteemed Republican contemporary, worse elements of his party. In some things the Chicago Inter-Ocean, on the morning folduring his first term he displayed deep convic-lowing the election, had a ringing editorial tions, and in one of two signal instances all headed "Ohio!" and the exclamation point admit that he had the courage of those convic- which took the place of the period was big and tions. We do not hesitate to commend his bold and black. "Here is the clarion note which original attitude toward free silver, although our unhorsed contemporary bugled out over no one will claim that he has maintained that the chaotic field of battle and defeat: attitude conspicuously during the recent campaign. The people who voted for him in large There stands McKinley's State; look at it! Repubpart believe that Grover Cleveland is better lican and Protectionist by 25.000 majority, reaching than his party, and look to him in the coming sylvania, a State full of workmen, who have rolled up across its boundary line and clasping hands with Pennfour years, the last which he can ever hope to serve as President, to find him the Chief Ex-tection. Whatever the Protectionist of New York may over 85,000 majority for Harrison, McKinley, and Proecutive of the nation more than of a party. If have done, whatever mistaken religious zeal may have these hopes shall be realised it will be a pleas- stands the great industrial State of Pennsylvania, at done in another State, there stands Ohio, and there ant disappointment for the nation, and, on the the head of the Ohio river, each of them solid as a rock threshold of his Administration, we bid the for Republicanism and Protection. President-elect Godspeed in every patriotic Yes, "there stands McKinley's State; look purpose that lies in his heart. at it!" Gone is that "25,000 majority,' "like the mist on the mountain, like the dew Topeka Capital (Rep.), Nov. 10.-It would on the forest," and the vote is so close that be foolish to assert that the country is in any only the official count can settle it. Yes, there great peril from the Democratic party. The stands Ohio, but the State which has furnished party is in the main patriotic and intelligent two out of seven Republican Presidents and and will not exploit any hobbies aside from reared a third (the defeated candidate for rethose which themselves are open to debate. | election himself) and whose Governor was conWe endured one Administration of Grover sidered the leader of the party and its next Cleveland and the country still lived. There is nothing heretical or preposterous in the principles of the Democratic party. That Cleveland has been elected President by an enormous majority is infinitely preferable to even a slight extension into new territory of the dangerous follies of the People's party. It is a source of congratulation to all good cit-publican press. That is the only safe rule in a izens that the party of fiat and socialism is dead beyond the possibility of resurrection for many campaigns in the future. Lincoln (Neb.) Evening News (Rep.), Nov. II. It is fortunate that a man like Cleveland will occupy the President's chair immediately after the political revolution. With another man at the helm Democratic zeal might seri. ously disturb the peace and security of the nation; but with Cleveland as President, Democratic recklessness will be curbed. Mr. Clevelard is not a believer in free coinage; neither is he a Free Trader. He would be likely to veto a free coinage bill (but he will probably never have the opportunity), and his tariff views are so much at variance with the declaration and intent of the National Democratic platform that he can properly be called a Protectionist. On most public questions Mr. Cleveland is reasonably sound, more so than almost any other Democrat in the country. The business men of the country would rather see Grover Cleveland President, if the President has got to be a Democrat, than any other member of his party. CONGRESSMAN HARTER'S TRIUMPH. If it could Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.-Rep.), Nov. 12.The Republicans made extraordinary exertions mander, and second by plans to defeat his reto defeat Mr. Harter, first by their gerryforts succeeded, Mr. Harter having been elected election on Tuesday last. Neither of these efby a majority of nearly 2,000 votes. Every Republican, as well as every Democrat, in the fair Congressional representation, or for honest country who feels any concern whatever for money, should rejoice in the triumph of this able, honorable, and useful member of Congress, In the long and strenuously contested which occurred in the House during the last struggle for free and unlimited silver coinage, nominee for President, is thought to be stand- session, there was no force opposed to that ing in the Democratic column! But there stands Pennsylvania; at least she was standing iniquitous and ruinous scheme which there at the hour of going to press, although ably directed than that which Representative was more powerfully or so inteiligently and that 85,000 majority had tumbled some 20,000. Harter brought to bear against it. Stick close to Pennsylvania and let other States be said that the defeat of the free coinage inialone, bewildered contemporaries of the Re-quity was by the determination of one man storm like this. accomplished in the House, it having been already passed by the Senate, Mr. Harter was that man. It is, however, well known that views in favor of safe, honest money, but that Mr. Harter contended not only for his own he especially represented in the contest against free and unlimited silver coinage the views of that subject. Democrat as Mr. Harter is, he dealt the heaviest and the most effective blows which were struck at the scheme of a powerful faction of his party in the House to debase the As the leader in the fight against currency. free silver, and as the representative of Mr. Cleveland's opposition to it, Mr. Harter, in a greater degree than any other Republican or Mr. Harter's return for another term to the Democratic member, contributed to its defeat. scenes of his courageous and successful contest against free silver is a triumph which the whole country may be properly congratulated upon. It is precisely such broad-minded, honest, able men as he that are needed in Congress. Lynchburg Virginian (Dem.), Nov. 12. This Grover Cleveland on that occasion and on New York Times (Ind.-Dem.), Nov. 13.Denver News (People's party), Nov. 10.There were so many gratifying incidents" in Differ as one may with Mr. Cleveland, he is the result of last Tuesday's election that it is unavoidably impressed with the sturdy chardifficult to keep track of them all. Among Cleveland Leader (Rep.), Nov. II. acter of the man. No one can contemplate his the Democrats again began resorting to the man Harter of Ohio, in a district that was cut In 1888 them was certainly the reëlection of Congressmarvelous history-crowded into the narrow demagogue cry about the rich oppressing the out for the special purpose of defeating him or space of ten years-without a certain wonder poor. The election of Campbell followed in any other Democratic candidate who might be and admiration. It can be the work of neither r889. In 1890 the Republican plurality was nominated in it. chance nor fate. It is the commanding in- under 11,000, and but for the strong personal- and courageous stand against the free-silver Mr. Harter took such a firm fluence of sturdy, honest, and broad, practicality of Governor McKinley and the weakness delusion and has been so conspicuous in his adcommon sense. The people are impressed of Campbell the State would have been much | vocacy of a sound currency that his reëlection Dispatch from Youngstown, O., Nov. 10.Robert Walker, a close personal friend of Governor McKinley, saw the latter on a railway train to-day, and asked him what he thought of the result of the election. The Governor said: "The verdict was rendered by the American people, and their will is law." Detroit Evening News (Ind.-Dem.), Nov. 14. -The first Napoleon was not knocked wholly speechless at Waterloo. His first words were, paraphrastically-placing his hand over the fifth button of his coat" This stomach-ache did it." The last Napoleon, our little Napoleon, has not yet uttered any first words. Boston Globe (Dem.), Nov. 12.-Where is William McKinley? He has scarcely been heard from since last Tuesday. It seems but yesterday that the overweening and boastful Napoleon of Protection stood in Music Hall declaring that the last Democrat would retire beyond the setting sun on Nov. 8, or words to that effect. Mr. Reid partially atoned for the wild ranting of his Boston partner by his gentlemanly and moderate language. The reviser of the robber tariff has turned out to be the huge Jonah of the Republican craft. He kept up his foolish invective until the very eve of the election: but "Oh, how different in the morning." William McKinley has been "called down." His own State has repudiated him, and it is doubtful if after the expiration of his term as Governor he is ever chosen again to public office. He was at the Hoff truth, the downfall of political heresy, the con- Times. This has called forth indignant pro- Utah a it. New York Tribune (Rep.), Nov. 13.-Edward Murphy in the chair of Seward, Fenton, and Conkling! And yet it seems to offend the sense of nobody who supported Cleveland. The New York Times, which denounced Murphy three months ago as a political bandit," "blackguard," a 'devil," an evil-doer," and which has steadily held him up as one of the vilest politicians in the land, declared yesderday that his election had been agreed upon without the faintest sign of disapproval. The to time made out Murphy to be thoroughly New York Evening Post, which has from time unscrupulous, a "boodler" and a political harpy, now calls him "Mr." as a distinguishing mark of its esteem, and turns from a statement of the honor that awaits him to perform squaw dances on the prostrate bodies of "ignorant fanatics like McKinley!" It begins to look as if Mr. Cockran were as much in error when he said that the regular Democracy and the Mugwumps couldn't "fuse "" as when he declared it to be impossible for Cleveland to carry New York. Murphy Detroit Free Press (Dem.), Nov. 11.—GovHe is admirably New York World (Dem.), Nov. 16.-The will doubtless be elected. ernor McKinley is his own iconoclast. From figures for Utah are 207,905, exceeding those representative of the Democracy of New York. his own lips came the proof that the worship of any of the six States last admitted except He is in politics for what he can make out of bestowed upon him was undeserved. There South Dakota. A gas He has already made millions. Utah is also supposed to be was a popular idea before the campaign that he Democratic, but there was the additional excuse company, an electric lighting company, a was a thinker, an economist, and a statesman. of polygamous practices on the part of the bridge company, and a street railroad comHis speeches on the stump forever dispelled Mormons That objection was once sound, pany in Troy, all absolute monopolies; a street the delusion. His equipment in point of intel- but it is less pertinent now. The Mormon railway monopoly in Albany, and the lect and knowledge is far inferior to that of a Church has apparently surrendered to civiliza-berry" grab in this city-these are the expresdozen men in his party whose claims to leader- tion, and Utah will now probably come into sions of his political principles. He is a Demoship he regarded as far below his own. His the Union with a Constitution in harmony with crat for franchises, with whatever else, such as Free Trade or State bank currency, may be exhibitions of ignorance were given whereever the country's institutions. thrown in by absurdly serious persons like Carhe appeared. He displayed himself a demagogue, dishonest in some of his contentions lisle, Morgan, and Mills. He will carry into the councils of the Senate all the weight and digand inexcusably ignorant in others. The monopolists used him as their tool in Congress, nity to which the superb Democracy of New York is entitled. We doubt if a choice could and it needed but his public appearance in such be made more characteristic of the party as it a campaign as is just closed to show his utter exists in this State to-day, more expressive of unworthiness and incompetency. The false its aspirations or more true to its genius. idol shattered itself. When Mr. Sherman seeks information as to New York's position in great matters of finance, what Democrat can answer with more authority than Murphy? When Mr. Aldrich inquires after the sentiment of New York in proposed adjustments of the tariff, what Democrat will know better how to enlighten him than Murphy? The change of popular thought in this State which has resulted in the preference of Cleveland over Harrison, and of Hill over Evarts, renders it especially suitable that Edward Murphy shall be the next Senator from New York. STATEHOOD FOR UTAH. Salt Lake Tribune (Rep.), Nov. 10.-Reasoning from natural causes, there will be no loss of time after Mr. Cleveland gets in the White House again, with both branches of Congress Democratic, in giving Utah State hood. Utah as a State would have three Elec toral votes for their ticket if they gave the Territory Statehood, and that will settle the matter. Our judgment is that there will be a call for a Constitutional Convention next summer, that a Constitution will be framed, that it will be carried to Congress at the opening of the session in 1893, with a demand for admittance on that Constitution, it having already been regularly framed and passed upon by a vote of the people. We look to see Statehood for Utah in January, 1894. Address to the People of Utah by the Democratic Territorial Committee.-The Democratic Territorial Committee hereby extend cordial congratulations to the people of Utah. Victory has crowned the struggles of the great party for the right, both nationally and locally. This grand consummation fills our hearts with inexpressible joy. It is the triumph of THE NEW YORK SENATORSHIP. AN INTERESTING SITUATION. Huckle An animated discussion has begun among the Democrats of New York about the Senatorship. The next Legislature will choose a successor to Senator Hiscock, and it will be controlled by the Democrats. Immediately after the election Lieutenant-Governor Sheehan and Mr. Richard Croker declared for Edward Murphy, Jr. The Elmira Gazette, Senator Hill's organ, warmly advocated Mr. Murphy's cause, and it became evident that there was a general preference for him among the Hill Democrats. Mr. Murphy operates at Troy a brewery of magnitude, and is, in fact, best known to the people as a millionaire brewer. It is understood that he is not looked up to with pride by the better element of the Democratic party. In the field of national politics his chief reputation was obtained at the Chicago Conven- JOY CANNOT BE CONFINED IN NASHtion, where he became conspicuous by publishing an interview denouncing the Mugwumps. But Mr. Murphy has for years been the Chairman of the New York Democratic State Committee, and it is claimed by his friends that he has done more for Democratic success in the State than has been accomplished by any other man. The so-called anti-machine Democratic papers, like the Brooklyn Eagle, have started an anti-Murphy campaign that promises to become earnest. The situation is complicated by the nomination of the Hon. Carl Schurz by the New York VILLE. Nashville American (Dem.), Nov. 12.-Joy cannot be confined. It will express itself. Young and old join in the carnival. They all feel young now. It seems a new birth to liberty, to hope, to patriotism. The old antebellum pride of home and country has returned. We are in the Union. From ocean to ocean, from the lakes to the Gulf, spreads the swelling tide of redemption. The long, black night of despair has opened into glorious morning. Freedom reigns and the republic lives. Justice and truth are enthroned again, and 65,000,000 of people are in the gladsome light shed upon | opening his shameful traffic in indulgences, | Anarchist violence, devoted itself to breaking the republic by the fathers. Why should not aroused his fiery indignation. The Schloss-up the Anarchists. the joy of youth make the welkin ring? Why Kirche of All Saints lay within the preshould not gray-bearded men become boys again during the resistless spell of this glorious victory? It is spontaneous; the streets are filled without concert of action; the heart must find vent for its fulness; the air is filled with continual shouts of joy by the enthusiastic multitudes; the sky is illuminated with countless rockets, typical of the fire of triumph which burns in the breast of the multitudes; music floats upon the air; youth and age sing and shout and dance together upon the streets. Day after day the glorious carnival continues. Long pent up feeling must have an outlet. Should not nearly thirty years of patient, heroic struggle in the gloom almost of despair have its requital? Should not the final dawn of the morning fill the hearts of the people with glory? The answer is the tireless step and shout of the populace as it fills the streets far down into the evening hours. Triumphant joy overcomes for the time the exhaustion of nature. Re-entrance oF HENRY W. BLAIR.-Our old friend Mr. Blair will again shed the effulgence of his intellect upon national affairs. Blair is a hard fellow to suppress, and nobody has ever done it with much success except the Chinese. They squelched him down to a grease spot. His plurality for a seat in Congress from the 1st District of New Hampshire is only a few hundred, but it is enough to assure his election. He will now have a chance to take his old education scheme out of its bandbox, and, like the itinerant preacher, can turn his barrel upside down and draw out a lot of his stock sermons and literary curiosities. Blair will be one of the chief problems which will confront the Democratic majority in the next Congress. He will be more trouble to them than tariff or free silver. - Philadelphia Evening Telegraph (Ind.-Rep.), Nov. 12. THE MISCELLANEOUS. PRESIDENT'S THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION. a cincts of the Elector's palace at the other Worms. and THE SLAVE TRADE STILL FLOURISHING. The slave trade appears to be on the increase on the East Coast of Africa, owing probably to the high price of slaves. A report just to hand from a generally reliable correspondent states that caravans from the interior, most of them with a quantity of human merchandise, are arriving on the coast daily. These caravans, it is declared, have experienced no difficulty in passing through Vituland, and slaves have also been embarked at points in the neighborhood of Zeilah, Djiboutil, Massowah, and Suakim. The Arabs are said to be greatly incensed, however, at the great number of their captives who are lost before reaching the markets, the proportion being, under present conditions, about 70 per cent. of the number with which the caravans start from the interior. The traders will now accept in exchange nothing but fire-arms of the best manufacture, and ammunition. Raids on a large scale by numerous and well-armed bands of traders are expected to be made, as soon as the winter sets in, towards the countries further to the south-that is, into the territories of the Congo Free State and British and German East Africa. The prospects are certainly not encouraging.-The Colonies and India (London) THE ANARCHISTS IN FRANCE. New York Times, Nov. 16. —The situation in France at present is analogous to the situation in this country after the Haymarket massacre. The explosion in Paris last week was a crime of the same cruel and cowardly and detestable nature as the explosion in Chicago. Yet that atrocity has been praised, and the The gifts of God to our people during the repetition of it commended to the working past year have been so abundant and so special people of France, at meetings of which the that the spirit of devout thanksgiving awaits police has taken no notice, but which were so not a call, but only the appointment of a day, far public that the newspapers had no diffiwhen it may have a common expression. He culty in finding them in repeating has stayed the pestilence at our door; He has what was said at them. It seems safe to say given us more love for the free civil institutions that in this country, where freedom of speech in the creation of which His directing provi- is held far more sacred than in France, such a dence was so conspicuous; He has awakened thing could not have occurred without the a deeper reverence for law; He has widened prompt arrest and arraignment of the incenour philanthropy by a call to succor the dis- diary orators, or else that there would have tress in other lands; He has blessed been a general and effective expression of pubour schools and is bringing forward lic indignation at the police which had failed to patriotic and God-fearing generation to disperse the meetings and arrest the orators. execute His great and benevolent designs for The responsibility even of a State Government our country; He has given us great increase in for the action or inaction of the local police material wealth and a wide diffusion of content-would be very vague, while no responsibility ment and comfort in the homes of our people; whatever for it could be brought home AN UNSUITABLE NAME FOR AFRO-AMERICAN He has given His grace to the sorrowing. to the National Government. In France, on LADIES.-We 'print in another column of the Wherefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President the other hand, the police is under the direc- Age a short article from Col. W. Conant of the United States, do call upon all our peo- tion of a Prefect who is merely an agent and Church, the editor of the Army and Navy "wench" by ple to observe, as we have been wont, Thurs- representative of the central Government, Journal, on the use of the term day, the 24th day of this month of November, which is technically responsible, and, after it the Internal Revenue Record, in referring to as a day of thanksgiving to God for His mer- has had notice, is actually responsible for Afro-American women who had secured seatscies, and of supplication for His continued care whatever is done or omitted by the police. A to witness the Columbian parade in New and grace. Government which does not venture to take York. We quite agree with Colonel Church energetic measures to support itself against that the term "wench " was once used to the assaults of Anarchy does not deserve describe a "maid-servant or working girl." to exist, and neither does a Government We find the term used in all old English that is looking for a modus vivendi with authorities; but, as Colonel Church admits, men who are avowedly hostile to any Government. It does not seem that there can be much political risk in taking proceedings against the Anarchists, since the Radicals and Socialists, among whom alone their apologists can be sought, are in any case the enemies of the Ministry. It is, indeed, inconceivable that any faction or group" in the Legislature could have been arrayed against the Ministry if that body had, from the first outbreak of THE LUTHER CELEBRATION. London Times, Nov. 1.-Wittenberg, the old University town, once a part of the Saxon dominions, but long since incorporated with Prussia, is revered among German Protestants for its association with the principal scenes of Luther's stormy career. There in the University by the Elster gate he had been studying scholastic theology and preaching the doctrine he drew from the writings of St. Augustine, when the mission of the " pardoner," Tetzel, the term has long degenerated into an opprobrious epithet and is now used in this country to describe a woman of low social position or loose morals. There is no doubt that the Internal Revenue Record used the term in this latter sense, and that is the reason why we resented the indecent and uncalled for characterization. The Record writer did not. know wether the women were Afro-American ladies or wenches.-New York Age. |