St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-06
THE COURIER JOURNAL.
CINCINNATI Nov. 5.-The official count
in the Sixth Kentucky district shows the
following maiorities.
Carlisle's majority 1853.
MIR. CARLISLE

was visited tonight by representative of
the Associated Press, who asked him what
In his opinion was the cause of the com
parativeY small majority received by him
at the recent election. He said:
Ii the vote against me last Tuesday had
been larger than the vote against me hereto
lore some significance might be at acheG to
1t. Such, however, is not the fact. Two
years ago my opponent received 1925 votes
or nearly If not quite twice rs many as were
cast against me Tuesday, and yet two years
ago my majority was nearly 5000 If it had
been generally supposed that the opposition
to me really amounted to anything | think
my majority at this election would have been
5000 or 1000. Outside of the cities and the
towns adjacent to them it was
SCARCELY KNOWN
that had an opponent. and even in the cities
and towns my friends attached very little i'm
portance TO the opposition. They were
thrown OF their guard by the fact that sew
eral times heretofore candidates had an
nounced themselves in opposition and hsd re-
ceived a very small vote. They supposed it
would be the same way this time, and there
fore gave scarcely any attention to the cleo
ton"
Being asked if his views on the tariff
affected the vote to any extent, Mr.. Car
| isle said;
The tariff question had no more influence
upon the vote this time than it has had at
previous elections in this district. There are
always few men who vote against me on
account of my advocacy of revenue reform,
and presume they die so at the recent cleo
| ton, but have no reason to believe that the
| number was greater than usual. This con-
gressional district is overwhelmingly in favor
of a revision of the tariff and reduction of
taxation, and no man who openly takes the
opposite ground could be elected on any
| ticket. OF course, q systematic attempt will
be made TO show that the losses sustained by
the Democratic party at the recent elections
are due to its position on
THE TARIFF QUESTION,
but q careful examination of the returns will
prove that there is no foundation for such a
conclusion. The losses are ty 10 means con-
| fined to the states or districts whose repre-
seGtatives voted to cosider the tariff bill at
| the last session of congress, and there Is
| nothing in the result to discourage the advo
| Gates of revision and reduction. Many causes
contributed to the defeat of our candidates
| in different localities. Some of the causes
| were local and some general. 1t is too early
| to attempt to enumerate them, but think it
| is safe to say that local causes have con-
| tributed far more to produce the result than
| general ones. At any rate, there is no great
| cause for alarm or dependency. The Demo-
| cratic party has survived many defeats which
would have been fatal to any other political
| organization. and this little repulse will only
stimulate it to greater eXertious in the future
We need not surrender any principle or ADAM
don any policy heretofore announced, but we
must prepare to meet our opponents openly
and manfuly on every issue that divides the
| two parties