The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-11-26
A GENERAL aEVLEM.
Encouraging, Prospects for Republics
Victory In 1909. ,

Encouraging, Prospects for Republican
Victory In 1909. -
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 not re-
gained the governorships OF New York,
Massachusetts and Iowa, they are moro
than comforted III Recovering. the Con-
troll of the LEGISLATURE III b6th Massa-
chnsetts and Iowa, and in retaining a
majority in the New York senate, with
n majority in it's assembly If fraudu-
lent methods do not prevail.
Then, too, the republicans have elect
ed their state ticket, with the excep-
ton of the governor, in Massachusetts,
and in part probably also in Iowa.
PENNSYLVANIA has been swept by a
large republican majority, which af.
fords a most gratifying confirmation Of
the confidence with which we are won't
to look to that state in times OF party
peril The good people of pennsyl-
vania are still stanch in their allegiance
to the principles, policies and practices
of the republican party, and are not to
be daunted in theft party fealty by the
claptrap hue and cry against a few rec
reant republicans.
Michigan's congressional district,
contested in this campaign, has bcen
recovered from the democrats, aud the
Farmers Alliance vote in Kansas,
Nebraska and South Dakota has been
SO sternly rebulIcd by the people Of
those states as to reduce it to the con-
dition of I'm insignificant factor in
future elections. In Kansas, as an cx-
ample, the alliance got last year 424
principal county Offices, while the re-
publicans got only II. This year, in
lightweight counties heard from, the
alliance can claim only Oh, while the
republicans have been conceded 24s
and the democrats 10. The alliance as
a factor in Kansas politics is therefore
dead beyond resurrection.
The most substantial and signal re-
publican victory, however, IL that In
Ohio. 1t is h victory of such peculiar
significance and influence, in view OF
1872, that it affords us compensation
for temporary losses elsewhere. 1!
only one of the two states, New York
and Ohio, could be carried by the re,
publican party at this particular juno.
ture, then it had much better be Ohio
than New York.
The contest in Ohio attracted the at
tention and interest not only of thi,
entire country, but that rs we'll Of all
Europe. The campaign vas founded
upon national issues, in which the tar.
iff was clean cut in its prominence 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 hat the cam
paign of neXt year must be contested
upon with even greater desperation.
But tho brave and brilliant champion
of the distinctive American tariff sys-
tenn was the courageous standard
bearer of the invincible republican
forces in Ohio, and Notwithstanding
the enormous interests Mt stake, and
the intense concern which the free.
trade party, 10th in this country and
in England, felt and manifested in the
struggle for supremacy, Mckinley mag
%nifcently gained the day, and the
splendid republican principles and
policies of protection for American in
dustries, and of a sound, sagacious and
honest financial system, received the
emphatic Endorsement of the people Of
Ohio, as n stimulating presage of {
still grander republican victory tha'
shall sweep the whole country in 1892
when the party of protection. reciproc
ity and M honest currency shall not bt
handicapped by merely stntc issues ant
the petty contentious, rivalries anc
~jealousies of factional leaders md loca
politicians.-N. Y. Mail and Express.