Huntsville gazette., 1891-11-21
THE STATE ELECTIONS.
Opinions of the Republican Press
On the Results
The General Impression Is That the Re-
publicans Have Suffered No Loss
Protection Heartily In
dorsed.
New York and Massachusetts.


New York and Massachusetts
One need not look far to find the
| principal cause for the republican de-
| feat in New York. The first causes was
the persistent and emphatic manner
in which the Cleveland and Hill and
other democratic leaders pressed home
| upon the rank and file of the party
that the result of the election this fall
would determine the fate of the presi-
dental contest next year. State issues
counted for nothing With this argu-
ment every last voter was whipped
into line. soreheads and all. Even the
disgruntled county democracy, which
had had all kinds of indignities heaped
upon it by Tammany, was alarmed
and forgot its resentment. Cleveland
in all his speeches and in his innumer-
able letters and interviews kept reit-
Grating: ''If you lose this year you
viii lose next year" Hill for once
was agreed with Cleveland and made
the same kind of talk. Tammany
shrewdly stepped one side and let
the burden Of the issue fall
on national politics. 1t had its
effect both south and north of Harlem
river. 1t was just as apparent in the
rural districts as in the metropolis 1t
brought out every democratic vote in
the country, while the republican vote
did not materialize as it should. Mean
while the Tammany following was
perfectly drilled and disciplined and
was forced into line, as its voting per-
centage shows when compared with
previous years.
One Of the principal causes which has
tended to pull down the old-fashioned
forty and fifty thousand republican
majorities in Massachusetts to the
meager majorities by which republicans
still carry the state in presidential
years is to be found in the changed
complexion of the vote of Boston. 1t
has become an overwhelmingly demo-
cratic city by the steady increase of the
irish voters and by the influx of
| French Canadians, who vote the demo-
cratic ticket, though it is the republican
policy which gives them their good
wages which attracts them to the state.
| 1t is also to be taken into, consideration
that the Americans Of the city and
state are continually moving west and
that Irish and CanHdian-French for
eigners are just as continually taking
their places. There is no prospect,
therefore, that Boston will be anything
but democratic city in the future,
and as fixedly SO as New York. And
so of the manufacturing towns where
protected workmen support the free
trade ticket, not knowing the effect of
what they do.-Chicago Tribune.
Mckinley Iudorsed.
Ohio has vindicated Mckinley and
indorsed the Mckinley bill. Gov.
Campbell cannot say that the Cincin.
natl democrats did it. The Cincinnati
democrats held up their side of the
contest notwithstanding all the rumors
that they would cut Campbell heavily.
McKinley's gains come from the
country. He made large gains in
every country district in the state,
showing that the farmers are no longer
deceived regarding the Mckinley
tariff nor opposed to it. This gain also
shows that the peoples party cut little
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loud and long about what their party
would do, but their very opposition to
Mckinley and Sherman strengthened
these two men with the Ohio farmers
The issues were drawn definitely be-
tween the two old parties, and they
held their vote. Mckinley made it a
national campaign and never touched
upon state issues. The tariff and the
money question were the issues, and
these divided the voters in Ohio. Gov.
Campbell discussed nothing but
the tariff, and it is reasonable to con-
clude that it was the tariff that made
Ohio republican this year by greater
plurality than in state campaign for
years.
McKinley's losses were in those cities
where Campbell appealed to the labor
vote and sought to array it against the
republican party. He succeeded to a
certain extent, as is shown by the de-
creased republican pluralities in Gin
cinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, Springfield,
Youngstown, Akron and other cities.
But in spite OF this the country vote
swelled McKinley's plurality to figures
that are greater than they have been
before. 1t is a vindication Of NcKin-
ley and an Endorsement of the McKin-
ley bill by the farmers Chicago Inter
Ocean.