Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-07
Senator FarweI Says: 1--WE Didn't
Get Votes Enough"

Get Votes Enough"
CHICAGO, Nov. 6.-lSpecial Telegram to
THE BEE. ITO what cause do you attribute
the general republican defeatl" United States
Senator Farwell was asked tins evening.
~ answer the way Grover Cleveland did
when ne was defeated. We didn't get votes
enough. There was general apathy mani
tested among the republicans yesterday that
is never shown when any great issue Is at
stake. On the other hand, the democrats
worked as they always do like Trojans, and
Of course we lost. That is characteristic of
the democrats; they do more real work than
the republicans. If candidate on the re-
publican ticket parts his hair in the middle
or wears an unusually clean shirt there is
sure to be some sort of a man who gets up
and raises kick and says that that candi-
date must be knocked out We republicans
breed dssenters, and don't care how strong
you put that in, for it is a fact. don't know
why the republican party ls jumped on to
sometimes by its own friends, but 1t is so,
and II only occurs IN my opinion during such
elections as we had yesterday. With vital
issue before US, the republican party is as
strong to-day as ever"
'Do you think that there was any dissat-
isfaction with the president and that the
general democratic victory is a rebuke to
him and his administration"
II hardly think so, although from what l
have learned from visitors from other states
there has been good deal of veXation eX
pressed over the delays in appointments.
But the president has good and satisfactory
reasons for delaying appointments, and
haven't any objections to make When
last saw him at Washington, he said:
Senator, am going to act as decently tow
ard the democrats as they did toward US, and
no man shall go out of office at Chicago be-
fore his term expires That is the right
view Of things, and as the terms of most of
the democratic o1iceholders in the custom
house expired only month ago, see no
particular reason for any kicking. just yet,
although there is now no excuse for delay
ing appointments"
f'Did the tariff question have any nfluen ce
yesterday?'
mot q particle. That wasn't considered.
Given an issue and the republican party will
show its old strength. see nothing dis
couraging in yesterdays defeat"
Ciarkson Reviews the Result.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.-When an Associ-
ated press reporter this evening asked First
Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson for
his views concerning yesterdays election
that gentleman said
''The lnvariable results of the year follow
ing the presidential election have repeated
themselves. There are many surprises In
the republican states, but they come from
local causes in every state except Virginia.
There the result was gained by the usual
methods fraud, suppression and false count
ing. The democratic state election board,
elected by democratic legislature, appoints
all the judges of election and the law
clothes these election judges with po-
lice court powers and they can order
any voter they please to jail for the day
and reign absolute in their arbitrary power.
The republicans of Virginia did not have the
p.,fa n nj n n
whole state. The negro is disfranchlsed
General Malone and the republicans made
gallant fight, but nothing can go against
the complete and skillful system of fraud in
the state.
'rhe attempt to couple the national ad-
ministration conspicuously with this defeat
is understood, as the president showed only
the same friendly interest in Malone that
be did in the republican candidates in other
states.
1.-THE causes operating in Ohio and Iowa
were largely the same evidently, and were
mainly a reaction against the radical temper
ance and Sunday legislation. The Sunday
law ana the enforcement of it changed
Hamilton and its Germans against the re-
publican party.
Sin Iowa the main cause Of the change is
due to prohibition. The state has been very
close on state issues ever since prohibition
was made law. The counties bordering on
the Mississippi river having large cities, such
as Dubuque, Davenport and Burlington, all
of them with a European or foreign-born
population, holding majority of votes, are
intensely anti-prohibition and they voted
overwhelmingly against the republican
party because 1t stood in that state for the
prohibition law and its enforcement.
"There was also some republican dissatis-
faction and alienation on account of the
present governors extreme views on the
railroad question and his irritating enforce.
ment of the railroad law.
'Iowa has been gradually losing its repub--
lcan majority for years. over 30, 900 repubi-
cans leaving the state and going into the
Dakotas, Kansas and the southwestern
country, while the immigration to the state
has been largely democratic
"This years results are In the main
SIMPLY increased Wilderness Of the indisposi-
tion of the majority of the American people
to accept prohibition and too radical legisla-
tion on questions that are moral and social
rather than POLITICAL