The morning call., 1890-11-08
The RESULT.
Ben ButterWOrth'S Views on the
Election.
4 Will Have No Material Effect on The
Republican Party.
Candidates for The SpeakeTShip Of the Next
HOuSe-A Democratic Majority
In Illinois.
Special to THE MORNING CALL


WASHINGTON, Nov. Ben Butterworth
Is as cheerful and humorous as ever, not
withstanding the election results He heard
a reporters questions, rs the Republican
party dead? Has rigor mortis set IMP" and
stopped to shake his head, as old men do at
a wake, with one eye on the corpse and the
other on the table in the next room.
SIT is not dead" exclaimed the Ohio Con-
gresham, Frightening suddenly, as 8 sad
man does when he unexpectly finds dime
in the pocket of an old vest. sit is not
dead, but sleeping. What seems to be death
is but transition. These revolutions Of
popular feeling come every now and then,
but they cannot last. There will be no new
parties grow out of these old ones. One
will live for one reason. one for another. The
Republican party has too many glorious
memories to die.
GREAT GOOD ACCOMPLISHED.
81 venture to say that no party ever ex-
listed that has done so much good to human
ity as the Republic an party, whatever its
faults may have been. The Democratic
party will not die, because il can't be killed
After the war the Democrats hadn't any
thing at all; but look at them now. Why
the word Democracy alone is enough to
draw million voters III this country. 1t has
4 pleasing sound. The idea of equality that
it conveys appeals and is genial to every
man"
" just like the word protection"
DUE TO TIE M'KISLEY ACT.
'0h, WELL" exclaimed Mr.. Butterworth,
"this result is due to the Mckinley act more
than any other thing. The country was ripe
for it, and people were explaining the reduc-
ton and not the rise in the tariff. My opin-
ion is that four out of five Republicans de-
sired a decrease and not an increase in the
rate of duties.
Mind you, MY opinion rs TO some of the
features of the Mckinley bin has never
changed one particle. There has been a
feeling of unrest among the people, and with
the unWleldy majority the Democrats Will
have IN Congress, and the unwlSe legislation
of dreameTs that VIII result, the feeling will
be increased and the end will be that the
Republican majority viii sweep back again
In two years"
THE sPEAKERsHIP.
The Speakership of the House is now the
uppermost topic here. The candidates so
far announced are Crisp. Blount, Bynum,
Hatch. Springer, Mcmillan, Lockwood of
~NCW 1OIhy AC-1OOU VI -Ntm JeiSS1. anu
Mills. 1t was believed that Mills would
prefer to be the leader of the House as
Chairman of the Ways and Means Com
nlittee, but telegram from him to OBrien
Moore, the Washington correspondent of
the st. Louis Republic, says he would be
candidate. 1t Is generally believed here
that Mr.. Mills will have walkoyer.
MILLS POLICY.
He is regarded as one of the ablest men
in the Democratic party and is fine par
Humanitarian. 1t is said, by parties who are
in position to know whereof they speak,
that Mills, ii elected Speaker, will not fol-
low the old fOgy lines of his Democratic
predecessors, but will appoint on the Ways
and Means Committee several of the new
members elected from the Northwest and
New England States on account Of the Nc
Kinley bill 1t is believed that young Hoar
of Massachusetts would go on the Ways and
Means Committee.
A DEMOCRATIC SALUTE.
a salute of ifty-two guns, to celebrate the
Democratic victory, was fired from point
several squares TO the southwest Of the
White House this evening. 1t was intended
TO fire the salute on the white lot," imme-
dtately south OF the Presidents house,
where previous salutes of this nature have
been fred, but Colonel Ernst, Superintend-
ent of Public Buildings and Grounds, posi-
lively refused permission l0r it to be fired
from there. BE did not think it proper
should be fired under the windows of the
White House and on property belonging to
the whole people.
Iliuois.
CHICAGO, Nov AT last the returns
from the State of Illinois have become suf-
fciently complete to announce deciSively the
result on the State ticket. The Democrats
have won and Edwin S. Wilson of Olney is
OIL ta6 Sfata Traasorar Inv
Raab of BellevilIe Superintendent Of Pub
lie Instruction by So. IA. No compilations
have been made yet on the Trusteeship of
the University of Illinois, but the indica-
tions are that the three Democratic NOM
inees are also elected by slight majority
Not until to-day have the Republicans Of
Illinois realized the full extent of the ava
lanche which has obliterated their old-time
majority in the State.
Fuller returns to-day showed that in ad-
ditiOn to Democratic gains heretofore an
nouneed in their Congressional districts,
Payson and Hill have also been defeated and
Snow and Stewart CD elected Both Con-
gressmen, Hill and PaySon, have telegraphed
the Associated Press conceding their defeat,
the former by $50 and the latter by from 500
to 700. This makes the Congressional dele
CATION stand fourteen Democrats and six
Republicans. The Congressman elected are
as follows: First, Taylor (R.); Second. Nc
Cann W., lHlTu, DurOuT0W (D.l, rOuTLn,
Newherry D); Fifth, Hopkins R1; Sixth.
Hit R); Seventh, Henderson (R); Eighth,
Stewart (D); Ninth. Snow (D); Tenth, Post
R.); Eleventh, Cable D.); Twelfth, Wike
(D3; Thirteenth. Springer DD; Fourteenth,
Scott o.; Fifteenth, Husey d.; Sixteenth,
Fithian DD; Seventeenth, Lane d.;
Eighteenth, Fornam (D.); Nineteenth, Will
Jams d.; Twentieth, Smith R). The
great delay in arriving at an authentic con-
clusion in this State has been due to the
lateness OF the returns owing to the
tremendous amount Of scratching. All the
estimates on which previous reports were
based were yalueless in view of the political
tidal wave which swept over the State. and
which Is unprecedented in the history of
Illinois.
CHICAGO, Nov. THE Evening journal,
for many years one Of the stanchest of Re-
publican papers, in the course of a double
loaded editorial on the political situation this
evening, says: what now shall be the Re-
publican party's course? Simply this, that
it must live up to what are its real princi-
pies. The Mckinley bill must be modified
OF the party has been held, and the leaders
must obey the dictates of that caucus.
There is no occasion for delay until Dem
ocratic Congress assemblies, and Repub-
llcan Senate has given assent to the changes
required. The Republican party is the party
Oh the people and one Of reform within it
SELF 1t now has its opportunity"
Minnesota.
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. T. Returns from
keventy-six of the seyenty-nine counties
give Merriam R.) for Governor 800 plur-
ality. The official count will probably be
necessary. The election of Halyersen (Al
lance for Congress from the Fifth District
Is conceded