Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-11-14

They Cannot Realize II.
When the election news Of Tuesday
week came rolling in, the first effect upon
''protection" organs was paralyzlng.
That was hardly to he wondered at. Some
Of the more clesr-headed among them,
as soon as they rallied sufficiently to take
account of stock, frankly acknowledged
that local causes would not explain away
30 overwhelming defeat. But the rest
Of them appear to have been knocked
silly and to have remained so. In about
the only district in which the Republic
cans held 'their ownn-the city of Phil
edelphia--thsy will tell you that the
tariff did it; and had their party
carried Iowa and Ohio by
old time majorities they would
have said the same of those
states. They would have shouted
that the army of protection" was march,
ing on; that Ohio had stamped on the
hsresy of free wool; that the enlightened
farmers OF Iowa knew too well the worth
of the grandest home market the world
ever saw to lend an ear to free trade
fallacies. They would have sung hosannas
to the glory of "proteotion;" they would
have unfHrled the high tariff flag and
waved it for all there was in it. And
suppose they had also carried New York,
New jersey and Virginia. Wouldn'tthey
have rubbed it in on the tariff reformers?
But there is this singular popularity
about the situation from their standpoint
that in the one place where the returns
showed Republican gains, the city Of
Philadelphia, the tariff did it, while in all
the districts showing Republican losses,
the tariff had nothing to do with it.
Even the New York Sun, which on the
29th of last August declared that 1.-THE
tariff smashers appear to have completed
all arrangements for enlarging the re-
publican majority in Ohio" had the IN
blushing assurance to contend yesterday
that the tariff had no bearing whatever
on the result in that state. Had Ohio
gone $4,000 Republican, the acrobatic
Sun would have got up on
its hind legs and yelled ont II told
You SO; you tariff smsshers will never
learn that political dishonesty is party
expediency." But with Ohio 1000 DEM
ocratic, the Sua tells It's readers that the
revolution was wrought by Forsker's un.
popularity and Uampbelrs several-years-
ago allegiance to Vandalism. To be sure
Governor-elect Campbell acSepted the
nomination on straight-out and aggres.
live tariff reform platform, and in his
etter Of acceptance and his speeches on
the stump has proclaimed himself in
harmony with that platform; to be sure,
on last Thursday, he telegraphed to the
Washington National Democrat his con
viction that the result in Ohio
means, among other things, that the
cause of tariff reform, by which / mean
a careful, business-llke, prudent revision
of the tariff, is marching on" Yet the
Sun would ask its readers 10 believe that
this has nothing to do with the case, and
that Campbell would not have pulled
NAASu6A hoh Ao NV DoOh q 11huuhlllto
four or five years ago. On the same
ground we might reasonably expect the
Sun to claim that Governor-elect Boies
Of Iowa, owes his success to the fact that
he used to be Republican. 1t recalls
she story Of the Arab who refused to lend
rope because he wished to tie up mil
lion grains of sand with it. "Allah is
great" said the cautious Bedouin, land
we can 30 queer things with rope
when we don't want to lend it," 80 with
election returns protectionists" can do
queer things with them when they don't
want to acknowledge their real meaning.
In Iowa they tell MS that prohibition
did it; but Malone, running on free
whisky issue and backed by administra.
ton patronage and Doodle, was showed
under sbou, $4,000 votes deep in Viz.
ginia. In New Jersey they talk of fraud
at the polls, but in Massachusetts, where
under the Australian System Of voting
they admit that fraud was impossible, the
Democrats came near wlping out the Re
PuOlShh naJOrlIy VI 1000 III ONO they
ask us 10 believe that it was third.term.
ism, but this will not explain away
Democratic gain Of II 900 in rural Penn
sylyania. 1.-The election OF Campbell, ;
said the New York Press, il
advance of the event, twill b.
declaration that Ohio favor
free wool" In 1887 the Republicans hat
9 net plurality of 1908 III the eieh WOO
growing counties of Ohio; on last Tues
day the same counties gave a nat Demo
cratic plurality OF 1865. And they gave
this plurality for a candidate who hat
voted in congress for free wool and VIII,
hadmade tariff reform campaign speeche
in the wool growing districts. Yet tn
'pfotectiouists' ask the nation to believ
now that sweeping victory for the part
Of tariff reform An election in which tn
Democrats made gains everywhere, out
side OF Philadelphia to be explaine,
away by local causes. Do they take thei
readers for born foolss
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By his precipitate acknowledgment q
the statehood OF Montana, thereby fore