St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-04
YESTERDAYS WORK.

yesterdays WORK.
The result of the election in four states
can be emphaticaIy claimed as Demo-
cratic victory. New York comes to the
front with Democratic plurality of suf-
iicient magnitude to remove the state
safely from the list of doubtfuls in the
coming presidential election. A con-
sentative estimate gives ROSWELL. p.
FLOWER a plurality of $4,000, the Re-
publican committee cOnceding 10000,
and the New York Tribune 5000. Mas
sachuSetts is ours by, probably, 1000
plurality for Gov. RUSSELL. In Iowa
the polls did not close until 9 o'clock,
which necessarily prevents the appear
ance of satisfactory returns at this
hour. Local Democratic gains, however,
indicate the reelection of Gov. BOIEs
by small plurality. Ohio has been
carried for Mai. MCKINLEY by from
1900 to $4,000 plurality. This sums up
the situation at the close of the IN OSt
exciting state elections that have ever
in New Jersey. Maryland and Virginia,
states conceded Democratic in advance,
the gains on the Democratic side are
enormous. Pennsylvania has overcome
the handicap of defaulting state treas
urerS and general administrative crook
edness, and carries in the Republican
LOT hx- fha ,ol OH
In New York the political complexion
of the next assembly is in doubt. The
unexpected happened when MIR.
FLOWER ran so far ahead of HILL 5
plurality, $4,000, in 1SSS-and that, too.
Oh much smaller vote. In South Da-
kOta the returns indicate the election Of
JOLLEY to succeed the late Congress-
man GAMBLE. The result, as whole,
is one that is most encouraging to the
advocates Of tariff reform and Demo
cratic principles. 1t will, Of course, be
noted that it come as a flattering in
| dOrsement of GROVER CLEVELAND, for
wherever his voice was heard, both in
New York and Massachusetts. Demo-
cratic gains responded to his stirring APP
peals in behalf of political consistency.
One of the most encouraging features
of the battle in New York is the re-
markable Democratic gain in the cOun-
try districts. it is significant in the
fact that among the thinking. iDtelli-
| gent classes, national, as well as state
issues, have been duly considered, and
adherence given to Democratic princi-
pies. While in the city of New York
| local issues divided and weakened the
Democratic vote, III the country it can
be said that the Democratic forces have
invaded the strOngholds of Republican
Ism and carried the day. The cant ure
of the city of Elmira, the home of JACOB
SLOAT FAssETT, by Governor elect
| FLOWER, is a case in point.
Everything considered, the loss of
Ohio need cause DO depression in the
minds of Democrats. Here Republican
ism made its most desperate fight-a
fight for national existence as a party.
For the defeat of MCKINLEY for second
time within the year would nave virtu-
ally removed the tariff question from
the political arena in the presidential
contest. Hundreds of thousands of dol
lars were poured into Ohio by protected
manufacturers all over the country.
| MCKINLEY stands as the acknowledged
champion of the tariff tax, and around
his standard rallied the tariff-made
! plutocrats IN almost every state in the
Union. IT. Is hardly too much to say
that his defeat would have settled in
advance the presidential question of
1892. This the Republican party fully
realized, and the financial sinews of
politics have protected Ohio through
one more stOutly contested election in
that state. To the Republican party
the struggle meant everything; to the
| Democrats the fight was not OF vital
Importance, and the loss of the state
signifies but little.