The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-11
The Elections.

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ticket with plurality for the governor
of about $4,000. The republicans have
the state senate; the assembly is in
doubt, but the republicans will control
the legislature on jOiut ballot, insuring
the election of a republican senator to
succeed Mr.. Hiscock. In any event,
the democracy will not be able to carry
a partisan measure of any kind, and
their scheme for redistricting the state
and making New York impregnably
democratic in 1892 has failed. Mas
sachusetts re-elects Governor Russell
by reduced plurality. The rest of the
state ticket is republican by good ma
jorities, and the legislature is over
whelmingly republican. In Iowa, Gov.
ernor Boies, democrat, is reelected by
a small plurality, but the legislature is
safely republican in both branches. In
Pennsylvania the minor state officers
chosen are elected by majority of
about 50,000-a handsome reversal of
the plurality of some 10000 for the
democratic governor, Pattison. In Ohio,
Mckinley is elected by a plurality of
about 10000, against plurality of
over 10000 for the democratic governor,
Campbell, at the last election of gov
ernor. The legislature is republican in
both branches, with majority of forty
on joint ballot. Thus the scheme to
bind Ohio to the democratic chariot in
1892, after the manner of Michigan,
fails of success, and the election of a
United States senator to succeed Mr..
Sherman is assured.
In review of all the circumstances of
the elections, the result is undeniably a
republican triumph of great significance.
At points along the line there were
surprises and disappointments, but the
general result is in the highest degree
encouraging to the republicans. In
New York city and in Brooklyn the
democratic majority was kept down to
dimensions that gave assurance of VIC
tory in the country, but there was a
" slump" of an unexpected nature and
unlookedfor proportions in the repub-
lican stronghold. The republicans
above Harlem failed to do their duty.
Fassett was given the opportunity to
succeed at the points of greatest dam
ger, but in the locality from which re-
publican triumph comes to New York,
when it comes at all, he was slaughtered.
In another column we give Mr.. Fas-
sett's explanation of his failure to carry
the country by majority that should
overcome the democratic vote in New
York city and Kings county, and our
press notes hint at other causes. A
gentleman we'll acquainted with New
York affairs finds in Mr.. Flowers per-
sonal popularity a partial solution of the
mystery attending the country vote.
For twenty years Mr.. Flower has made
it business to do favors to all classes
of people. He has gone out of his way,
has sought opportunities, to build up
his personal popularity, for the express
purpose of constituting following par
tial to himself, upon which he could
rely when the time came to reach out
for the political honor he coveted, and
it must be admitted that he builded well.
In the country it is probably true that
Tammany as local issue was not
strong one. There national questions
as the leading consideration, discussed
by speakers of national reputation,
would very likely have aroused greater
interest among the voters. New York
retains her place as doubtful state,
and very likely will again be the pivotal
state in the great national contest.
To lockers on from the outside, it
seemed at the time that the republicans
of Massachusetts made fatal mistake
in nominating Mr. Allen over Mr.. Grape,
and in attacking Governor Russell per-
sonally. The nomination of Mr.. Grape,
man of national fame, would have
meant campaign along national lines,
and in a contest of this kind the ad-
vantage would have been with the re-
publicans. With men of the stamp of
Governor Long on the stump, the can.
vass would have signified something
more than a squabble between two
youngsters for the honor of occupying
the executive chair of the old Bay state.
No well-informed person doubts that
Massachusetts, is strongly republican on
national questions, and democrats who
are candid and intelligent are not burn
ing any tar barrels over the victory "
in Massachusetts.
In Iowa, as in Massachusetts,, the
democrats were fortunate in very pop
ular man for their candidate for gov
ernor, and his attractive personality,
aided by local issues, gave him the cleo