The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-04
Yesterdays ELECTIONS.

HERALD readers no doubt will have pom
dered the interesting news of yesterdays
elections before turning to this page, and
they will have had the advantage of some
what later returns than those at hand
when these comments are written.
To person who had been absent from
the country for some years, beyond the
reach Of the mails, the spectacle of the Re-
publicans Of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massa-
chusetts and Iowa whooping up their par
tisans with big speakers and barrels of
money, to keep the Democrats from taking
permanent possession of those states. would
be indeed strange and amasing one. The
idea of these bomb proof citadels
OF Republicanism being surrounded
by the Desieging armies of the Democracy,
determined ii not confident, seems like a
politicians dream. instead of reality of
the people! Why, to change the figure,
these commonwealths rocked the cradles
of that generation whose spokesman wers
the CAMERoNs, the THAD STEvENsEs, the
kELLEYs, the GROWS, the CHAsEs, the
GTDDINGsEs, the SHERMASs, the SUMMERS,
the DAwEsEs, the WLsos, the KIRK
WOODS and the ALLIsoNs. Fifty, sixty,
eighty and one hundred thousand have
been the figures marking the Republican
maiorities in one or another of these states
the very plenitude of pride and power,
And to-day it may be the patriotic boast
of every Democrat that such armies
have passed over them and left
them struggling, until now their
banners are on fields won or lost in the
heart and centre of the adversary's coun-
try. Where, indeed, outside of protected
New England, can the party expect to be
triumphant, if not in these rock-ribbed old
hatcheries of Republican politicsa
Take Ohio. Has there ever been seen
such Titan effort put forth as that of the
manufacturing interests in behalf of Nc
kINLEri Money without stint. Campaign
orators without number. The Washington
treasury department put TO work to fur
nish documents. The secretary himself, in
violation of the spirit of, the civil service
rules, taking the stump. Every influence
of the administration bent to this worse
than partisan purpose, this conspiracy
to cheat the people away from their
convictions! The secretary of state,
the premier of the cabinet, signalizes
his resumption of functions by ordering
every foreign consul to furnish data for
the American manufacturers, thus making
our representatives their agents and drum
mers. Is it any wonder that campaign
money flows freely from the protected
Golfers of those wards of the government?
is it any wonder that eastern national
banks have been 'denuded'' of their sur
plus Of crisp new 81 and 81 bills to 20 into
the hands of the DUDLEYs and CLARKsoNs
Of the Republican political committeesl
Yet with all these untoward influences
against them, see the noble fight the De-
mocracy has made in Ohio! They have
lost the state, to be sure, but by a margin
of some $4,000.
a Democratic victory in New York is
not surprising. There the disintegration
of the Republican party has been rapid.
fractional contests have sometimes torn
the party asunder, and occasionally the
Republicans in great conflicts have reaped
the advantage; but the state is at heart
Democratic. A triumph now, however,
% SoPSSioiiy IL CSm6nIS Ul6
party for the election next year and guar
antees its electoral vote for the nominee of
the Democratic national convention. In
this respect the result overtops all other
incidents Of the work of yesterday
AT the hour when we write, sufficient re-
turns from Iowa are not in to determine
with much positiveness the fate of either
the guoernatorial or the legislative ticket
From the cities accessible by telegraph. we
learn that the Democratic vote was very
heavy, and in places like DUBUQUE Des
Moines, Sioux City. Burlington, etc.. the
majority fully equals expectations, as also
in the German communities, where the pro-
hIoltion issue was most absorbing. From
appearances, those who would have been
willing to vote for Republican mem
bers Of the Legislature under other
circumstances, have found it difficult
to separate state and national CUES
tons, and therefore vote for BoIEs pretty