Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-07
TnURsDAY. NOVEMBER 7, 1883.
A splendid victory and i,s Lessons

Day before yesterday was held DAY
for the Democratic partys almost all over
the United States. To employ favorite
simile OF the first Napoleon, the Demo
cracy are basking in the sun OF Aus
terlitz. We have met the enemy and |
they are ours, horse, foot and dragons,
bag and baggage, scrip and scrippage. |
The Democratic psrty has held all its
own States aud made astonishing gains.
1t is greatly to be regretted that the
Congressional elections did not take
place Tuesday; for, if they had, the
Democracy would have controlled the
House of Representatives by hand
some majority, instead of its being left
to our opponents by slender majority
Of five. In the only Congressional elec-
ton which took place Tuesday, that in
New York City, to supply the vacancy
made by the death of the lamented Cox,
Mr.. Amos Cummings, the Democratic
nominee, was elected by majority
which recalls the popularity of Cox him
self. He, as Mr.. Cox was, is journal.
ist-a bright and sterling one, and a
member OF the staff of the New York Sun.
But perhaps it is just as well that The
Republicans should control all the de-
partments of the government and be
clothed with all the fateful responsible
ties thus implied at time when it Is
sought to press upon the shoulders of the
people the burdensome tariff which grew
out of the necessities of the war,
and whose repeal the Republicans
have obstinately blocked. But,
Notwithstanding the fact that
Congressional elections did not figure on
Tuesday, the victory is signal, significant t
and instructive.
The campaign in New York was
handled with consummate skill by Gov
ernor David Bennett Hill. He placed
himself at the head of the Democratic
cohorts and sounded the charge of battle
in person. Everywhere his wise coun-
sells and clarion voice told for the right.
and, as he predicted, victory perched on
the Democratic banner in the Empire
State. The true significance of this un
rivaled statesman begins to be apparent
to the most purblind politician. The
Republicans always appreciated him at
his true worth, fact which was shown
by the incessant abuse which they have
heaped upon him. Gov. Hill was elected
Lieutenant Governor of New York
on the ticket with Cleveland by 1917
900 plurality when the latter received
the 1872 900 which electrified the people
of the United States under Arthur 8
administration. When, in the Cleveland
Blaine campaign of 1884, Mr.. Cleveland
carried the State of New York by 1.100
plurality, Mr.. Hill was elected Governor
the following year by 11,000-in year
exactly equivalent to this, in which all
of Harrison's supporters and henchmen n
go down. The crowning. evidence Of
Hills phenomenal popularity occurred
in the last Presidential election, in which
Hill, for Governor, was elected by nearly
twenty thousand plurality, while Harri-
son carried the State OF New York by
thirteen thousand. No fact mas ever been
better authenticated in political history
than that many of Mr.. Cleveland's inju-
dicious Democratic friends and all his
Mugwump supporters knitted Hill in
that campaign, while Hill and his fol-
lowers to man stood in with Mr.
Cleveland. The able and popular Gov
ernor of New York supports the demand
for the abolition of the war tariff, with
such reconstruction of its provisions as
will insure to American labor, not mo
nopoliss and trusts, due protection. II
other words, Governor Hill stands on the
platform on which Cleveland was elected
In 1884. He is also the "boss" anti
sumptuary statesman.
The result in Ohio was predicted by
the HERALD some weeks ago. Camp.
bell, the gallant Democrat who has
buried Foraker, never to be again resur.
rected, occupies substantially the plat.
form of Hill. He was for reduction of
the war tariff and for re.adjustment Of
the duties which should protect
the laborer both in what he
made and in what he bought. 1t
was asserted that the fact that he
entertained views slightly different from
those Of Mr.. Cleveland on the tariff would
defeat him. This does not seem to be
the case by the latest returns.
The Democratic success in Iowa is a
thing to be forever remembered. 1t is
sign that sumptuary law fanaticism has
reached its food, and is now on the fast
running ebb tide. The old New England
Blde Laws, transplanted from the shadow
of Plymouth Rock to the Far West, have
run their race and lost their force. With
Iowa securely under the fostering winge
OF Democracy, what may we not hops
for in the future? Kansas will make
pleading appeal for membership in the
party of Jefferson and Jackson.
and old Vermont will return to
the Democracy, which infused
warmth in her frigid veins in the
days of auld lang syne. The appearance
of the latter State in that role is of snch
an antique date that few Americans ever
knew that the thing had occurred, while
as to Kansas the Democrats carried her
only few years ago on the same pro-
hibition issue that has now given us
Iowa.
Alas poor prohibition partyI TIA davs