Los Angeles herald., 1890-11-06
GROVER REJOICES.
He Is Delighted Over Tues
days Victory.
The Mckinley Bill Repudiated
at the Polls.
The Verdict of the People Is in Favor
of Tariff Reform.
Comments of the New York Press on the
Republican Waterloo-Reed's In
science Rebuked.
Associated Press Dispatches.

Associated Press Dispatches.
New York, Nov. 5.-To an Associated
Press reporter, on the results of yester-
days election, ex-President Cleveland
said: II am delighted. l challenge
the right of any man in the country to
rejoice more heartily than over the re-
suits of yesterday. MY qualification is
that of an American, proud of his fel-
low-countrymen who, though led away
for time by party prejudice and blind
confidence in cunning and selfish lead
ers, could not be deluded to their ruin.
They have demonstrated that in dealing
with them it is not safe to calculate that
they are stupid or needless of the well
fare OF their country. The necessity of
tariff reform with its consequent reduc-
ton in the cost OF living, and the duty
of the Democratic party to advocate it,
has been fully demonstrated by the ac-
tion of the people yesterday. Their de-
cision has been deliberately made, and it
is all the more significant, because they
have voted upon their reason and judg-
ment; because they have proved that
corruption is powerless as against their
convictions. OF course there is nothing
for the Democratic party to do but push
on, battle at all times and in all places
on the lines which they laid down; that
lie, to insist upon the wise adjustment of
tariff taxation to the reasonable needs
of the government, as opposed to the
plan which enriches favored class at
the expense of the masses of the people.
Until a victory is won, the question of
tariff reform will not be settled, nor the
pledges and professions of the Demo-
cratic party to the people redeemed"
Reeds Challenge Answered.
The Times says: ''When the house
meets in December, 1891, Mr.. Reed, if
he is the candidate of his party for
speaker, will be defeated by majority
of at least seventy. That is the re-
sponse of the country to his insolent
challenge to the house of representa-
tives, which he thanked God was no
longer deliberative body. 1t is the
answer of the country, also, to the tariff
policy of the Republican party, put
upon the statute book just in time to be
voted on by the people, and to the force
TONS"
The Nations Verdict.
The Sun says: cat the present
writing there seems to be no doubt that
there will be Democratic majority in
the house of representatives of the
Fifty-secOnd congress too numerous for
the enterprise of Speaker Reed and his
counters-out to choke. This majority
does not proceed from under the rain
bow which Brother Brice discovered in
Ohio, and there is no evidence yet that
the free-trade speeches of Mills in Min
nesota, Wisconsin and elsewhere are
largely responsible for it. The redemp-
ton of the house is the nations verdict
upon the policy of outrage and fraud
which has been the one feature of Re-
publican rule since Harrison came in,
and in this respect the voice of the ma
tion is in unison with that of New
York's triumphant Democracy on this
glorious fourth of November"
The Tribune's Yawp.
The Tribune says: 1t is TO be remem-
bered that if Republicans of the senate
do their duty, this is the last national
election that will be held without the
defense of the peoples rights which the
election law will give. Had there been
yesterday free vote and fair count,
with no dishonest gerrymanders to defeat
the popular will, there is no room for
doubt that Republican triumph would
have been beyond all dispute. 1t is a
marvellous thing that the new tariff has
been SO far sustained by the people be-
fore its beneficial effects could be real
lied, and while all its real and imagin-
ary burdens were most fresh in the
minds Of the people. In spite Of care
fully cultivated scare about rise in
prices, t..ie people have shown that they
not only adhere to the principles of pro-
lection, but heartily uphold congress in
the brave application of them.
Tried and Found Wanting.
The Herald says: The Mckinley bill
has been tried in the balance of popular
common sense, and found wanting.
Dare They Enact the Force Bill?
The World says: In view of this
verdict, any attempt to perpetuate the
ascendancy OF the Republican party by
the enactment of force bill or of q par
tisan reapportionment based on a fraud
ulent census, will be desperate de-
tiance of the expressed will of the peo-
pie.
The Fifty-Second Congress.
The Post in its last edition says: A
number of congressional districts are in
doubt-two in California, several in
Iowa, two in Kentucky, two in New
York. 1t seems safe to say, however,
that the Democratic majority in the
next house will not be less than 80. 1t
looks as if it might be 100.
The Evening World Democrat) esti-
mates that the Democrats will have a
majority in the next congress of between
63 and 81.
The Mail and Express (Republican)
comedies a Democratic majority of at
least so.
The Evening Sun (Democrat) places
the Democratic majority at about So.
Election Inspectors Arrested.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5.-E. w. Browne
and Patrick O'Brien, respectively Demo-
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