The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-11-14
GescraI Result OF She Elections.

GescraI Result of She Elections.
Looking over the whole field OF the
recent political engagement, We find
that the general result is much more
favorable TO the Republican party
than was at first indicated. =
While the Republicans have no: re-
gained the Governorships of New
York, Massachusetts and Iowa, they
are more than cOmforted in recover
ing the control of the Legislature in
both Massachusetts, and Iowa. and in
retaining a majority i'll the New York
Senate, with a majority in its Assem-
bly, if fraudulent methods do not pre-
vail.
Then, TOO, the Republicans have
elected their State ticket, with the
exception &C the Governor. in MGssa-
chusctts, and in par; probably also in
Iowa. Pennsylvania has been swept
by a large Republican majority, which
affords q most gratifying confirmation
Of TIE c~onhGeHce with which we are
want to look to that State in times of
party peril. The good people of
Pennsylvania are still stanch in their
glance to the principles, policies
practices Of the Republican party.
/ are not to be daunted in their
party fcalty by the ciaptrap hate and
cry against q few recrcant Republic
cans.
Michigaa's Congressional district.
contested in this campaign, has been
recovered from the Democrats, and
the Farmers Alliance vote in Kansas.
Nebraska and South Dakota has been
SO sternly rebuked by the people of
those States as TO reduce it to the con-
dition of en- insignificant factor in
future elections. In Kansas, as an cx-
ample, the Alliance got last year 42i
principal county offices, while the
Republicans got only IL. This year,
in lightweight counties heard from.
the Alliance can claim only 81. while
the Republicans have been conceded
2lS and the Democrats 10 The Al
lance as a factor in Kansas politics is
therefore dead beyond resurrection.
The most substantial and signal
Republican victory, however, is that
in Ohio. 1t is a victory of such pecu-
liar significance and influence. in view
of1S92. that it affords us compensation
for temporary losses elsewhere. If
only one of the two States, New York
and Ohio, could be carried by the |
Republican party at this particular
juncturc, then il had much better be
Ohio than New York.
The contest in Ohio attracted the
attention and interest not only of
this entire country, but that as well
of all Europe. The campaign Was
founded upon national issues. in which
the tariff was clean cut in its pronIi-
hence and emphasized in its central
and essential Importance to the future
prosperity and progress of the
american people. The great battle
was conducted upon identically the
same lines that the campaign of next
year must be contested upon with
even greater desperation.
But the brave and brilliant champ
ion of the distinctive American tariff
system was the courageous standard
bearer of the invincible Republican
forces in Ohio. and notwithstanding
the enormous interests at stake, and
the intense concern which the free
trade party, both in this country and
in England, felt and manifested. in
the struggle for supremacy. Mckinley
magnificently gained the day, and
the splendid Republican principles
and policies of protection for AIncri-
a Industries, and of a sound.
sagacious and honest financial system,
received the emphatic Endorsement
of the people of Ohio, as a stimulat-
ing pressage of a still grarder Eepub-
lican victory that shall sweep the
whole country in 1892, when the
party of protection, reciprocity and
an honest currency shall not he hand
icapped by merely Stale issues and
the petty contentious. rivGlries and
~jealOusies of fractional leaders and
local politicians.