The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-11-14
Clarkson's Views.

WAsHISGToN, Nov. Can .Associ-
ated Press reporter this evening asked
First Assistant Postmaster General
Clarkson for an expression of his views
concerning the results of yesterdays
election. Mr.. Clarkson said: THE
invariable results of the year following
presidential elections have repeated
themselves this year. There are many
surprises III the republican defeats,
but they come from local causes IN ev-
cry state except Virginia, and there
the result was gained by the usual
method Of fraud, suppression and a
false count. A democratic state cleo
ton board, aided by democratic leg
isiatuIe. appoints all the judges of the
election and the law clothes these cleo
ton judges with police court powers
and they can order any voter they
please to Jail for the day anu reign alb
solute in arbitrary power. The republi-
GALS III Virginia did not have the selec-
tion of asingle judge of election in the
whole state. With such machinery the
Democratic majority might easily have
been 100 900 instead of 10000. The
negro is disfranchised in Virginia
The black man gives up his right To
hold the Offices ana now the democrats
any choice, even as between the white
men who are to hold Offices. General
Malone and the republicans made a
gallant fight and had an honest major
ity of the votes of thestate on the tar
if and the state debt question, but
nothing can via against complete
and skillful system of fraud. The at
tempt to couple the national admins
tration cOnspicuously with the defeat
10 10 a nd ha yiv, Il,
showed the same friendly interest in
Malone that he did the candidates in
other states.
The causes operating in Ohio aud
many other states were largely the
same, and mainly reaction against
radical temperance and Sunday legis-
lation. The Sunday law and the en-
forcement of it changed Hamilton
county and its Germans against the
republican party, and Governor Fora
ker went down with it.
In Iowa the main cause eff the change
is due to prohibition. The state has
been very close on state issues ever
since prohibition was made "a law. The
republicans elected their governor four
years ago by only 500 plurality and
two years ago by 5000 plurality. The
counties bordering on the Mississippi
river, having large cities, such as Du-
of them with European or foreign
population, holding a majority of the
votes are intensely anti-prohibition
and they have voted overwhelmingly
against the republican party because
it stood in that state for the law and
its enforcement. There was also some
republican dissatisfaction on account
of the present governors views of the
railroad question and his irritating en-
fOrppmPnt of the railroad laWG Rut
Iowa has been gradually losing it re-
publican majority for years. Over 20,
600 Republicans have left the state.
going into the Dakotas, Kansas and
the southwestern country, while the
later immigration to the state has been
largely democratic. This year results
are in the main simply increased evl-
dence of the indispOsition of majority
of the American people to accept pro-
hibiti' and too radical legislation on
questions that are moral and social,
rather than political.