St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-05

by heavy swing the other way, and which
IS modified by the fact that the state is
flexible and easily moved; for the Dem
ocratic party it deepens and intensiiies the
conflict between the policy of President
Cleveland and the purposes of the spoilS-
hunting Democrats who nominated Hill
aud who will be embodened by his election
The president must surrender or the coming
session of congress will be embroiled in
bitter struggle.
THE MUGWUMPS ROUTED.
The News (stalwart Republican, says:
The greatest question settled by the Demo
cratic victory is the position of the Mug
wumps. They are completely routed, horse,
foot and dragons. The "Holier-than-
thou" politicians went in to show that they
had the balance of power. The result
shows that they have no power. Neither
the president nor the Republican party any
longer owes them anything. Humpty
Dumpty has had his fall. The election of
Hill is complete vindcation of the policy
of the straight-out Democrats, which
is a protest against civil service
reform and against Mugwump in
fiuence with the president. One
reason for Hilps large majority is that
nearly every Democrat was outraged by the
position of John Kelly, with whole state
instead of a city to back him. To the Re-
publicans. the fact that the administration
and the Mugwumps are rebuked can OBJ
scure the fact that they have lost pivotal
state.
WISE DEcLARAr1oNs.
The Record says upon the anticipated re-
suit in New York the Republicans had
hoped to form the party again as national
organization on the old basis. A victory
would have been claimed by them as a
triumph OF the same bIoody-shirt policy
which prevailed in Ohio; as a condemnation
of President Cleveland's administration on
its very threshold, and as the
expression of the sober second
thought Of the people, foreshadowing
an early restoration of the Republican
party to power. But the policy of section
alism is rebuked signalIy in the great En-
pire state. The administration of Presi-
dent Cleveland is sustained, and the Re-
publican party must eliminate the bloody
shirt if it hopes to maintain its ground as a
national organization. John Sherman
must be sent TO the rear with his entire
budget of SectionaliSin. Malone must be
dropped with his mixture of reputation
and race hatreds. and the party must be re-
constructed on new lines.
The Times Qnd.): However the nomina-
ton of Gov. Hill may have been aided by
the spoiIs element of the party, he wisely
planted himself so squarely on the
Cleveland platform of civil service
reform that the party could cordially come
to his support, and his election will be a
bulwark of safety to the Cleveland admin
Stration in its heroic battle for honest gov
eTnment. The odds were clearly against
the Democrats in New York until both can
didates and the party themselves in the dis
trict accord with the present, and the fact
that they did so and won victory is dis
tInctive Democratic battle, unaided by the
Independent Republicans, proves that the
president is impregnable in his own state.
His party wins on his own platform, and
the Cleveland Republicans who refused to
support Hill warmly support the president.
He can, therefore, turn to New York, the
pivotal state IN our national contests, as his
earnest champion, and factions in congress
will be silenced by the verdict of the Empire
state.