St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-11-14
Obe Californian.
~. John.bnry. Thur-day, Nov. "a, 1859.
THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS.
Tanner Accounts for ohio,s Vote.

One of the causes was the antipa thy
and objection to civil service reform.
All over the state can be found intel
hgent, earnest men who have looked
back on the victory of year ago
who wanted something given them
for doing good service. and they
found this Chinese god set up in the
wood barring their way, and a good
many men have taken a crack at civil
service by their ballot Corporal
Tanner.
The Muewumps Did 1T.
Iowa gone Democrat What is the
country coming to? The everlasting
bottom of things seems to be drop
ping out In 1881 the republican
candidate for governor of the Hawk
eve state was elected bv a majority
of nearly 10000. From these figures
to a democratic majority of 5000 is
tremendous sweep of the pendulum.
A violent epidemic of mugwumpery
must have broken out on the prairie
bottoms where voting the straight
ticket has usually been considered a
cardinal virtue Portland Adver-
tiser, republican.
The Defeats Are Medicinal.
The defeats this year are medicinal.
The republican party ought to make
the best possible use of them. If they
teach leaders that it is not sensible
to disregard public opinion, if they
help the administration to realize
where it's true friends are. if they
warn voters that Indifference and
lazincss put in peril the interests
which they profess to hold dearest,
if they show managers where the
party organization is deficient, they
will do more good than harm New
York Tribune, republican.
The Leaven Working.
1T is evident" that the leaven of
whole lump The West, which has
suffered the most from the unjust
burden of tariff taxation, has awak-
ened. The state platforms of both
Iowa and Ohio were abreast of the
St. Louis platform on the subject of
tariff reform. The people have con-
sidered and passed judgment. 1t
was for the people to decide. They
are now deciding 1t is enough
for me to say that am satisfied at
the indications and results of Tues
days elections. The verdict in Vir-
ginia indicates that the South is still
faithful to the democracy of Jefferson
and Jackson EX-President Cleve-
land.
Must Revise the Tariff.
Also it should be remarked i'll can
dor that those who are influential in
controlling the plans and policy of
the republican party, from nation
al standpoint, must look to it sharp
" that the causes for discomfort and
lack of interest, which were unfortu-
natclv operative to some extent on
Tuesday in Massachusetts, as we'll
as in Ohio and Iowa, be removed.
Or, to express the same idea positive
ly, the leaders of the republican party
must insist upon an aggressive and
consistent course i'll the coming Con
gress along the lines approved by the
people SO heartily q year ago, of
tariff revision, civil-service and cleo
ton REFORM Boston Advertiser, re-
publican.
What Mr.. Harrison Ought to See.
This adverse verdict in every por-
llOIl Oh lHC COuIIlI v CStllHOl DC IIllSln-
terpreted 1t cannot be said to be
based on the tariff issue alone, but
plainly that had much to do with it,
and the blindest must see that it will
not do to try to carry out the bar
gain made in the Senate bill. And i'll
addition to what the country has
clearly said on the tariff, we should
say that Mr. Harrison and his advis-
ers could make out what it has to
say on the civil service They must
at least understand, as they survey
the figures of the elections of Tues
day, that the spoils system has not
helped them. Can they see that it
will not help them, but hurt them, in
the future P New York Times, indie
pendent.
Hill and New York Necessary.
The result of the recent elections in
the others, however, have been to in
crease rather than diminish New
York's Importance as the decisive
state in presidential contests, and to
make her more than ever the great
electoral prize. The blows to the
republicans in Virginia, Ohio, Mass
achusetts and Iowa show that the
pinch of the struggle in 1892 will be
here, as it was here in 1876, in 1880,
in 1884 and in 1888. And it will be
fiercer than ever AS for the election
in New York, it confirms with the
emphasis of seven years uninterrupt-
ed demonstration that by nature
New York is a democratic state. All
that is needed is the touch, the
inspiration of a democrat at the
'front.' New York Sun, democrat
A Severe Rebuke.
The long and short of it is that the
administration has been severely re-
buked. It's tariff policy is not grow
ing in popularity. Its extravagant
schemes for making government ex
penditures equal the revenue in order
to preserve and perpetuate the war
tax burdens are not meeting with
general favor. The voters are begin
ming to view with disapprOval an
extreme tariff which taxes domestic
production far more than it protects
They are coming to see the necessity
of more room for the play of Ameri-
can labor, and they are unable to
see how, if this growth of trade with
our neighbors be so much more de-
sirable than otherwise, a tariff de-
signed to tax 1t out of existence is al
SO acknowledgements Republi-
can, independent.
THE INDEPENDENT VOTER