The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
A GENERAL REVlEW.
Encouraging Prospects for Republican
Victory in 1892.

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 governorshipso of New York,
Massachusetts and Iowa, they are more
| than comforted in recovering the con-
troll of the legislature in both Massa-
chusetts and Iowa, and in retaining a
majority in the New York senate, with
a majority in its assembly if fraudu-
lent methods do not prevail.
Then, too, the republicans have elect
ed their state ticket, with the excep-
tion of the governor, in Massachusetts,
and in part probably also in Iowa.
Pennsylvania has been swept by a
large republican majority, which af
fords most gratifying confirmation of
the confidence with which we are wont
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 their party fealty by the
claptrap hue and cry against a few rec
reant republicans.
Michigan's congressional district,
contested in this campaign, has been
recovered from the democrats, and the
Farmers Alliance vote in Kansas,
Nebraska and South Dakota has been
so sternly rebuked by the people of
/ Tot 20, -, ha
dition of an insignificant factor in
future elections. In Kansas, as an ex-
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 "a, while the
republicans have been conceded 24S
and the democrats TO- The alliance as
factor in Kansas politics is therefore
dead beyond resurrection.
The most substantial and signal re-
publican victory, however, is that in
Ohio. 1t is victory of such peculiar
significance and influence, in view of
1892, that it affords us compensation
for temporary losses elsewhere. Il
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 this
entire country, but that as well of all
Europe. The campaign was 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 that the cam
paign of next year must be contested
upon with even greater desperation.
But the 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 at stake, and
che intense concern which the free
trade party, both in this country and
in England, felt and manifested in the
struggle for supremacy, Mckinley mag
nificently gained the day, and the
splendid republican principles and
policies of protection for American in
dustries, and of sound, sagacious and
honest financial system, received the
emphatic Endorsement of the people of
Ohio, as a stimulating presage of a
still grander republican victory that
shall sweep the whole country in 1892,
when the party of protection, reciproc-
ity and au honest currency shall not be
handicapped by merely state issues and
the petty contentious, rivalries and
jealousies of factional leaders and local
politicians.-N. Y. Mail and Express