Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-11-07
THE ELECTION.

The late election was al unusually
quiet one throughout the Union and
by The unusually light vote cast one
would Judge that but little interest
was manifested. Such lie not the case,
however, as the fight IN Ohio, New
York and Iowa has been full Of in
ierest aud national Importance. In
Ohio the contest was confined eXclu-
sively to the tariff question, aud the
election of VIM. Mckinley TO the
gubernatorial chair proves conclusive.
ly that majority of the people OF that
state favor a protective tariff or the
Mckinley bill as it now stands. Nc
Kinley and Campbell were two of the
foremost men Of the state, both men
of irreproachable character and UNI
improbable integrity; both were
party leaders and recognized opponents
of their respective parties. BY the
vote of last Tuesday the Republican
party is bound to adhere closer than
ever to a protective tariff policy and
its weak kneed adherents must fall
into line or fall By the wayside. The
victory for Mckinley in Ohio has de-
cided the policy of the presidential
campaign for 1892. The Republican
watchword will be 'Reciprocity and
protection TO home industries"
The questions at issue in Ohio were
purely of a national character, but In
New York the campaign was more of
local nature. II. p. Flower, the
Tammany Hall candidate of the Dem
ocracy, is a prominent politician and
well known millionaire, while Fassett.
the Republican candidate, is known
only as collector of customs in New
York city. The fight has chiefly been
maintained within Democratic ranks
and has been at times quite bitter, but
as the day of election approached both
factions seem to have thrown aside
their prejudices and voted the straight
Democratic ticket, not only giving that
party the victory but also giving
Tammany Hall the privilege of naming
the Democratic candidate for president
in 1892.
The salient issues in Iowa politics
this year have been the tariff question,
the silver question and the temperance
question, with but small space devoted
to the two former and nearly all the
time and all the money devoted 10 the
latter question. The Democrats de-
clare ''for carefully guarded tax law
in the interest of true temperance,
which shall provide an annual tax OF
$500 to be paid into the county treas
ury and such further tax as each
municipal or town corporation shall
prescribe" The Republican platform,
after stating that the laws of Iowa
have made the saloon an outlaw, and
that the outlaw has the protection,
counsel aud patronage of the Demo-
cratic party, says tive recognize that
the issue is between true temperance
and free aud: indiscriminate traffic;
we renew our pledge to the people aud
submit the issue 10 them" Upon this
question has the battle been fought in
Iowa, and that it has been hot one
no reader of the daily papers can
doubt. The Republicans think they
have reclaimed great many Of the
old prOhibitionists who had left the
party and the Democrats think they
have absorbed large portion of the
German element whose natural affiIia-
tons are with the Republican party,
but who have become disgruntled by
the stringency of the prohibition laws
passed by a Republican legislature,
and are ready to unite with any party
that will wipe them from the statute
books.
A LESSON FOR KANSAS.