Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1886-12-09
.. CALM REVIEW.

~clAlHS upon the 1reSlucncy. Inor6
are two ways of contemplating those
SELECTIONS now in respect of the subjects
In be decided in 1888. One way is to
consider the comparative effect upon
She fortunes of candidates. The other
way is to consider the comparative eff
1ect on the voting strength OF parties,
chat is to say, the division which would
aave taken place in the Electoral Col
gege if the Presidential election had
been determined on the basis of the
<ote cast during the present month.
There are 4G1 electoral votes in the
United States. OF the Electoral College
203 votes are majority. In 1884 of
these 401 electoral votes 219 were cast
Cor Mr.. Cleveland and 1872 for Mr.
Blaine. At the elections lately held
states representing 207 electoral votes
went unqualifiedly for the Democratic
Eicket and of the original Republican
states, Commonwealth aggregating
342 electoral votes went for the Repub-
dican ticket, without perceptible shrink
age The remaining 80 electoral votes
m the college were cast by States
which are legitimately to be character
.lzed as doubtful in the politics of the
future, and which the result this year
was very close-so close that in sew
aeial of the States official returns will
be required to decide for which party
a majority of their people. have cast
Aheir ballots.
1t will thus be seen that if all the
surely Republican States and if all the
doubtful States were given to the Re-
publican party, that organization would
sven then have but 1874 votes against
IL L1I1 al -
party. The opponents of the Demo-
cratic party will perceive that they
must devise or discover some method \
Of carrying the State of New York be-
fore they can hopefully expect to elect
the President of the United States.
New York seems to be a permanent
tumbling-bloc in the way of such
calculations. 1t has gone Democratic
over q longer series of elections than
any which have passed consecutively
&c the credit of the Republican party
in this State in all the history of that
organization.
New York went Democratic in 1882,
. in 1888. in 1884, in 1885 and again in !
1886. The most elementary reasoning
leads to the conclusion that the State |
should be expected to go Democratic |
m 1887 and in 1888, because the pres |
Gige, the future and the inclination of |
the party, victorious for four years in |
succession, will be enlisted in produc-
ing such a result, and because that |
party is now and then will be in execu- |
tive. control of the Government of the |
Commonwealth and of the United |
States
The House Of Representatives of the
EIftieth Congress viii be securely |
Democratic. We may be sure that the |
next House of Representatives will be |
moderate, business-like and practical. |
We may be sure that the present House |
OF Representatives, in its final session |
during the ensuing winter, will be |
marked by u Christening sense of re- |
spOnsibility, which will lead it to act |
cautiously. prudently, slowly, doing |
little more than passing the necessary |
appropriation bills, and not trying to
revive or unsettle any of these large !
questions which the people have pre-
ferred should not be brought to de-
Slsion at the present time.
1t will also be seen that many of the |
losses in congressman are due to local |
and personal causes. Districts West, |
South and East have got tired of voting |
for the same men. There was dis |
position in many quarters to have rev |
blood brought to the front. The result |
is seen in Congress which contains |
perhaps a smaller proportion of re- |
elected men and larger proportion of |
xnen new to public functions than any |
which has assem- bled for twenty wears |
IN the United States.
The Presidents friends very spirit |
eddy maintaino that any attempt TO
hold the Administration responsible |
EGr these local losses and for these set |
Ebacks is unfair They declare that |
MI Cleveland has not concerned him |
self with the petty details of politics, |
hut that he has been reasonably con- |
siderate of the position, the power, |
and. relatively speaking. of the rights |
of politicians of large degree, whose |
,primacv in the leadership of the party |
IS attested by the results in contests of |
large proportions, and by the consent !
sof large communities.
There is much to justify this con-
Clusion. He who talks with men on |
Ghe street, at their places of business. |
or on the avenues of travel, finds that |
the President is highly respected, that |
hiss honesty is admitted, that his firm
ness is appreciated, and that his |
homely, direct, personal way of doing |
things contrary to precedent and out |
OF routine, has commended him to the
people, as truly as it may have lost |
him the regard of that limited and |
supcrstitious class. the politicians by |
profession.
The President certainly has n coign |
of vantage in the Presidency itself !
which is not to be lost sight of. His |
Administration can not be regarded as
n failure without a confession of judg- |
ment against the party itself. The in |
%ciination of Democrats to succeed on |
their own behalf must be made |
SYNONYMOUS with the effort to repre- |
sent that the administration of their |
own election has been successful also. |
This does not mean that the party is !
hound to the denomination of Mr.. |