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

NEW ORK, NOV. 4.-Ihe World,
in commenting upon the result of
yesterdays election, says: 'fWhat does
the Democratic victory mean? 1t
means, first Of all, that the Democrats Of
New York are once more united. The
thousands of Democrats who last year were
repeIIed by doubts of Mr.. Cleveland's Dem
ocracy and the Republican journals that
supported him have all returned to the
fold. 1t means, too, that they have returned
to the party almost entirely for the very
reason that Gov. Hill was known to be
true, genuine Old-faShioned Democrat who
enjoyed the opposition of the MugWumps
and did enjoy the favor of Mr.. Cleveland.
1t means an expression of the party's belief
that AIr. Cleveland probably means well,
and that the mistakes he has made are
due to ineXperience, an excessive self-reli-
ance, the gross batteries and hero worship
OF the Mugwump journals and their false
light of leading. It means, above all, that
the fact that Gov. Eill was the representa-
tive Of real Democracy, and not of sham
Mugwump Democracy, secured his election
by majority probably fifteen or twenty
times greater that the state gave Mr.. Uleye-
land last year. This is the lesson of the
election. The hope of the election is that
its lesson will be understood and needed
at Washington. Farewell, Mugwumps,
farewell"
The Times says: ''There is one urgent
reason why the story of yesterdays election
should be read in the light OF facts which
account for its most untoward result. That
the election of Hill was distinctly Teac-
tionary step must be admitted. but it was a
step taken in consequence of the follies,
and blunders worse than follieS. of the
leaders Of the party opposing him, and not
through an incurable adherence to bad
political theories and methods. The one
fact which stands out prominently is that
the Republicans organized their own de-
feat. They began to work at Saratoga
when the convention adopted resolutions
which were an affront to the intelligence of
/ the sober members of the party. A direct
insult was given to the thousands of indie
pendent men of both Democratic and Re
publican antecedentS, whose votes were so
vitality necessary to success. The bitter
partisanShip of the unreaSoning Republican
organs and the ceaseleSs reviling of the
president gave fatal check to the progress
of the Republican recruitment. If the evil
results of Mr.. Hills election could be con-
fined to this state there would be no serious
occasion to fear for the stability of the re-
JOiuuo 1CCO!ltIy pOIdiCu III Tic laws OI
the land. But, as we have already pointed
out, the triumph Of the candidate of the
presidents enemies in the most important
state in the union Will immeasurably in
crease the insolence of the spoils-
seeking crowd, and will subject the
president to a pressure far greater than that
which he has thus far successfully resisted.
If his difficulties and his perplexities in
crease beyond even his tremendous powers
Of endurance. he will scarcely find consola-
ton in the reflection that his own vote.
however reluctantly given, has contributed
to the result
The Evening Post says: ''When the full
figures in yesterdays vote in New York
are received they will make an unusually
interesting study. At present it is possible
to consider pluralities for the state as
whole. This shows plainly that if the vote
for Davenportin the state at large had been
as full as it was in the city of Brooklyn. he
would have been elected. He was, in fact,
defeated by what has always been consid-
cred the Republican stronghold of the state
the portion north of the Harlem river.
Hills total vote in this city falls over 5000
| behind Cleveland's, and Davenport falls
over 1900 behind Blaine. The transfer
of Tammany's total from Blaine last year
to Hill this year ought to have made
greater change than this. and the fact that
it did not indicate that many independent
Democrats did not vote for Hill" The
Evening Post places Hills majority in the
state at 12. 15S and states that the next leg
isIature will be composed of 2 Republicans
and II Democrats in the senate and 7S Re-
publicans and 80 Democrats in the as
Sembly.