Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-05
THE NEW YORK PRESS.
What the Metropolitan Journals Say
UDOn the Result of the ElectiOns

Upon the Result Of the Elections.
The New York papers generally comment at
length upon the result Of yesterday election the
Times and World ascribing the democratic tidal
wave which swept over the country to the con-
duct of the House Of Representatives, particu-
larry the dictatorial management OF Speaker
Reed and to popular revolt against the Nc
Kinley tariff bill. The Tribune considers that
the new tariff bill has been sustained.
The World says: The mex. House Of Repre-
sentatives will be democratic by seventy ma
jority.
This result is due to the conduct of the ma
jority of the present House. The people have
fttingly rebuked the partnership with mon
opoly and plutocracy into which the republican
party has forced the government. They have
rebelled against the additional burden of taxes
with which they have been loaded for the
benefit of the contributors to republican cam
paign funds. They have uttered a protest
against the republican attempt to maintain
their power in the Senate by the creation of
peterborough states. They denounce the ex-
travagance Of Congress which has brought the
Treasury face to face with ruinous deficiency.
They have given an adverse verdict on Mr..
Reeds arbitrary denial Of the rights of the
minority and his destruction OF deliberative
the character OF the House.
In view OF this verdict any attempt to per-
petuate the ascendancy Of the republican
party by the enactment Of the force bill, or OF
partisan reapportionment based on a fraudu-
lent census, will be desperate defiance of the
expressed will of the people.
GOOD NEWS ALL AROUND.
The Herald says: The news from all parts Of
the country is encouraging and exhilarating.
The Mckinley bill has been tried in the bal
ance of popular common sense and found
wanting. Democratic Congressman have been
elected by large majorities in the old repubIi-
can strongholds-in New England, the middle
states and the great west. Russell Of Massa-
chusetts has made wonderful fight and won a
decided victory. The enemy retired in dis
order and left him master Of the field. He is a
brilliant and promising young man, with q
clean record and an enviable future. He has
fought the ground inch by inch, forced Brack-
EFT to the wall, split the old high tariff argu.
class governor for the old Bay state. Things
il workin'."
REBUKE OF THE NATION.
''Mr. Thomas b. Reed was elected Speaker of
the House in the present Congress by ma
joritv of T." says the Times when the House
adjourned the dictator had succeeded in maxi
ing that majority a. When the House meets
in December 1891, Mr.. Reed, if he is the cand-
date of his party for Speaker. will be defeated
by majority of at least 10. That is the re-
spouse Of the country to his insolent challenge
to accept a House Of Representatives 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 bill, post
poned until after the elections 1t is not so
much the reversal as the indignant reputation
OF the popular verdict which Mr. Hiscock
claimed had been given in advance in favor Of
the Mckinley bill. 1t is the rebuke Of the ma
ton to the party managers who had set up the
na1f nf N<lx
pie to bow down and worship it. 1t is the no.
tlce to MIR. Harrison and his administration
that the government Of the United States can
not be bought with money or with patronage
more than once by the same purchaser"
TRIUMPH FOR THE NEW TARIFF.
The Tribune says: 1t is a marvellous thing
that the new tariff has been SO far sustained by
the people, before its beneficial effects could
be realized and while all its real and imagi-
nary burdens were most fresh in the minds of
men. In spite of the carefully cultivated scare
about rise of prices the people have shown
that they not only adhere to the principles of
protection, but heartily uphold Congress in
brave application of them. Though the bur-
dens were wildly exaggerated, while the bene-
fits are yet to come, the people in nearly all
the formerly republican districts where free
and fair vote was possible have sustained the
republican party and its policy. In many re-
spects this il the most honorable triumph ever
achieved by free suffrage in this country, for it
shows a stronger faculty of deliberately dsre-
garding present convenience in wisely grasp
Ing future prosperity than the people have
hitherto displayed. Whether it shall appear
i'll the light of complete returns that the
gerrymanders in five states, and the denial of
free suffrage in ten, have deprived the republic
cans of their scanty majority in Congress or
not, the result is a most cheering triumph. For
it proves that, with the apportionment which
new census justifies and with law to secure
fair and free elections, the popular vote will
insure an overwhelming republican victory.
VICTORY.
The Sun says The anti democratic combina-
ton in New York city was as varied as the vicis-
STUDIES through which the national democracy
has wrestled its way during the last six years.
under false pretences of friendship locked arms
with the guerrilas already there and ragged
themselves in front Of the republicans. The
men who had vitiated 1t with mugwumpery,
who had stabbed it with ordinary treachery,
and who up to that time had consistently
fought it with honorable hostility, were all on
one side, with different motives, but with the
single purpose Of demoralizing and shaking its
power in the metropolis. The New York de-
mocracy is mistaken. II has elected its candi-
date by majority which shows that In the
next great canvass, when its enemies will no
longer be left with any cover for deception, its
strength will be as pregnant Of victory az the
national democracy could desire. It was for
that that the democratic south and northern
democrats hoped. 1t was for that that the Sun
labored. They have won.
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