Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-19
A Republican Waterloo.


Republican Waterloo.
The result of yesterdays elections
was substantial democratic victory.
less emphatic figures than in the up.
heaval of last fall, it is sufficiently de-
cisive, both to define the issue on which
next years campaign will be fought
and to give the democrats every reason
to look for victory on the issue.
The bait. e in New York has ended in
a republican Waterloo. Its result
shows that New York is no longer a
doubtful state, and greatly simplifies
the calculations for the presidential
contest of 1892. More important even
than Flowers election as governor by
a greatly increased majority is the re-
ported capture of the general assembly.
A democratic majority in that body
means new apportionment, which the
republicans have prevented, in brazen
defiance of the constitution; redis-
tricting of the state that will abolish
one of the most infamous gerrymanders
in the history of American politics; the
gain of democratic United States SEN
ator. and such legislation in the inter
est of the people as will make New
SCCuEC1y OCuOCIdC1C 1OT Years.
Scarcely less important is the reelec-
ton of Gov. Russell in Massachusetts.
The republicans have claimed that his
election last time was simply a politi-
cal accident that ind icated no real or
permanent change of opinion among
the voters. His reelection on the eve
of presidential contest, after hot
campaign fought in the main on ma
the list of doubtful states, and lends
that on the tariff issue the old Bay
state is no longer republican.
Gov. Campbell's failure of reelection
in Ohio can hardly be regarded as de-
feat-it is rather a drawn battle. Ohio
is naturally a republican state, yet
after a campaign in which all the re-
sources of republicanism. financial
and otherwise, were lavishly mar
shalled, the republicans were barely
able to retain their lead of last year.
In its bearing on national issues the
result of yesterdays elections is signifi-
can't and well defined. It means that
next years presidential contest will be
fought squarely on the issue of protec-
ton on the one side and tariff reform
on the other. And this is a consumma-
ton most devoutly to be wished by dem-
ocrats.-St Louis Republic
Democracy strengthened.
Viewed as a whole, the result of the
elections throughout the country Tues
day was a glorious democratic victory.
Not only has the tariff reform party
held its own in those states which
have heretofore uniformly adhered to
it, but it has also routed monopoly in
some of its principal strongholds-
In no instance has it met defeat. and
In most cases it has gained victory in
the face of immense odds.
In New York Flower was elected by
a large majority in spite of the frantic
efforts of hls opponents to make Tam
many an issue. In the republican
states of Massachusetts, and Iowa the
candidates were conspicu-
ously successful Only in Ohio and
those hot-beds of politi-
cal corruption, were the democrats de-
feated, and that by a liberal use of
money where it would do the most
good
Thus, in the four important states
which elected governors the republic
ans were successful in but one, and in
that one by . slim majority. Had not