The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-15
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WHO DID 1T?


course pr0te ectionist Democrats will
Ioa ssgerly come forward with .sI told,
yot ID, account for Dem ocratic defeat,
yeform has done.ths business for
81 Some have alread y gone SO far as.
quote PRESIDENT: :gle gleYelahd as saccepting
his: defeat ssthe result of his
Ieform policy SO vigorously urged.
laongSY s
szhingt ten correspo pondent of the;
Iadel lphia Tines thus reports the.
fssiidents 3 opinio Of the cause Of Demo-
cratic defeat
3nfi1g the morning seVeraI prominent:
81 lsnal lcraEic politicians had interviews.
the Pfeide IS they were disposed
share the wild hopes of Chairman n
Bfics; but the Presid dents did not encour-
E3ssage; anyssuch illusions. He had given
tbs battle when he retired soon after
midnight HeS had but little to say. in
explalations of the result. He is fully
atssfied, however, after a careful analysis
the: :9oteas given 5tosd lay, that the defeat
not to; ;bef attributed dsto his advanced
8sposiEion on tariff reform, not to any mis-.
fakesin the administrat management,
sof pnbiic saf fairs, but ssolely to the party
|'sssiiiiscords I'M eMs York city and the dis
sbsd eonditio g0f the party throughout
State due to actional intrigues. He .
SssSiinkss that tSt be- tariff reform issue will
sSslf predominate5 in Democratic party
sa'oetrine snd id a square contest in the
|sfl tslres s1n merits will win.
rstary " Whitney isSthus reported BY
|s|e n 50 saps scorrespo pond ent.
Secretary w hitney, who returned last
sslsht from N NewsY York, said ::s'ssI have been
iNsM York for three weeks doing all III
SS6nld to- help our people out. We did all |
%5esc sconld butsw hen the reconciliation of
Sontending factions in New York was.
made eshopeiess by the refusal to come to
|ny ground Of agreement, made up my
mind what TO expect. It was evident to
@me5tea days ago that we were not keeping
::pacs sWith our pponeDts. The schemes
which they were playing kept our people
lin nueeasing commotion. Of course,
eVefYthiDY honorable is fair in politics. as
only say that our people were
80 much broken up by factional fights
ssstiatsthey found it difficult to keep up
with these campaign man@uvres. The
Tariff issue was only incidentally connect.
Ft5 the result. The Democratic pol
sition was not properly brought before
the people. hey did not understand it..
But they will before another election.
lido not admit yet that We have lost any
thing on the issue. We doubtless have
sthes Other priyotalS States, and have lost
sNewsY Fork on onr own family differences
sarid. as / think not on the tariff. The
rs policy: has always been one of
tariff reform and not of free trade. This
5sbattle VILE beifoug ght5over again. If the
sRepnbE bEcans think that the Democrats
have been eftswithout an issue they are
mistaken The contest over tariff reform
shaso1iy conime enced. When we look at
the results and study the causes of defeat
sWe Wemigh say that the contest on tariff
sssues has been Just commenced"
New ork Times, the leading
sMngaump journal Of the Union, thus
sspeaEs of the causes which led to the
sdefsato Of the national ] Democratic ticket:
Harrison has been elected and Mr..
sCIeveland defeated Ia the State of New
York by the treachery of David B. Hill,
and his. followers, BY the un-American
part of The Irish vote, and by money.
itn; tie merits of the two candidates and |
on the Issue between the two parties
there IS noToom for doubt that the ma.
siforiisy they voters of the State were with
thesP President The fact that New Jersey
and Connecticut, States in which the
protectionId doctrine is far stronger than it
ID ins this State, and in which all the
legitimate vantages Of zad dvocating the
:doctrine are more favorable to the Re-
prbIicanssth in a New York, have re
:mained steadfastto the Democrats. ..is of
itself fsuficient.t to show that it is not these
Influences that have turned the vote of
yswSs York In favor of high protection.
sEhe fact that Governor Hill is re- elected
afft thessame contest that withdraws the
electoral vote Of New York from Mr..