Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-11-11

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THE announcements of the election
returns in own last issue have not been
changed materially by the full returns.
Both parties gained victories, the Re-
publicans reversing several states that
went against them last year, but the
Democrats feel the result is especially
significant for them in entering on the
next campaign, ard have out their big
ROSTERS, elephants and other methods
of rejoicing. Mr.. Cleveland has re-
gained much of the ground lost since
his anti-silver letter, and looms up on
all sides as the standard bearer for '92
with Boise of Iowa for second place.
Whether President Harrison will be
again a candidate, is less certain than
before the election. The popular voice
will be overwhelming for Blaine, if his
health will permit; If not, Mckinley
may have a strong support. The con-
test after the tickets are in the field.
will be a close one in any event.
We can arrive at the party feeling
the better by quoting from each. A
Democratic writer after speaking of
the disappointment in Pennsylvania
says:
''Iu the other States, however, the
triumph of the Democracy was COM
plete. Look at Flowers nearly $4,000
majority in New York and with the
majority in New York city less than
usual, too. Take off your hat to Gov
ernOr Russell, sterling young Demo-
crat who is personally known to Will
mingtOnians, who for the second time
has successfully assailed the Republ-
can majority of the old Bay State and
been reelected Governor of Massachu.
sets by an increased majority. Turn
your eyes to Iowa, a State that used to
be good for $4,000 Republican majority
and see the figures that announce the
election, for a second term, of Horace
BOies, a Democrat, by a majority of
1900, together with full Democratic
state ticket. Look how the Democrats
swept New Jersey, and note how our
nelghbOr Maryland was more thor
onghly Democratic than ever. True
the Republicans carried Ohio, but it
was only after fight that required the
most tremendous efforts, and then the
majority was below 10000, only half
of what it should have been in that
surely Republican state after such a
contest.
The elections of Tuesday last dem
Onstrated beyond a doubt that the
Democratic party will enter the PreSi-
dental contest of next year with every
assurance of success.
This clearly shows the jubilation on
the one side. Turning to the Republi-
can side we have another view, as fol.
lows:
The only difference in the main is
that the Democratic maiOrities in New
York, Maryland and Iowa are larger
than expected. New York, Massachu-
sets and Iowa hold on to Democratic
Governors, while Ohio exchanges her
Democratic Governor for a Republican
Governor, and Pennsylvania would
have exchanged hers if she could have
got at him. AS she could not Gust
Pattlsen, she gave 10000 majority with
promise that she will give 100 900 for
In the line of Legislatures the Repub-
Hcans have lost none they held a year
ago, and have gained those of New
York and Ohio. The Democrats have
lost to the extent of the Republican
gains: To sum up, then. the Demo-
Gratis lost two States-Ohio and Penn.
sylvania-and have lost the legislature
OF two States-OhiO and New York.
But this is not the total sum of Repub-
llcan victories. Wherever the cleo
tons were held in the West and
Northwest, outside of Iowa the Repub.
licans made clean sweeps. They car
rled the cities of Chicago and Detroit
by larger majorities than they ever did
before. They elected a Republican
Congressman in Michigan to succeed a
Democratic Congressman deceased.
They carried Colorado, Kansas and
Nebraska with Old-time Republican
majOrities, and elected a Republican
Congressman in South Dakota ia place
OF Republican deceased. but with a
larger majority. In short, outside of
Iowa they took everything that offered
IN the West. Prohibition kept Iowa
from electing the Republican State
ticket this time, but that party was
entrusted with the Legislature. Pro-
hibitiOn will not keep the State from
the Republicans next year. Neither
can Massachusetts, though electing a
Democratic Governor, be expected to
cast her electoral vote for anv other
than the Republican candidate. New
YORK IS still left as a doubtful State.
ana there Is where a great battle is to |
De fought. If James G. Blaine could |
cut GroVer Cleveland's majority of |
10000 in 1881 down to a beggarlv |
LOO two years afterward, the same |
man, benjamin Harrison or William
Mckinley, can turn Flowers Demo
cratic majority of 900 in 1891 in a
safe Republican majority in 1892"
The Farmers Alliance that cut such
large figure last year, has been liter
ally swept out of the way, leaving the
two great parties strongly confronting
each other, with clear field. Every |
man looks at it soberly and |
sees a desperate struggle
ahead, the result of which cannot d.
guessed by the wisest The situation
is very strongly stated as follows b, =
contemporary
ITO the credit of the Democratic
party may first be set down the Avlid /
South, and her sixteen states, and one
hundred and fifty-four electoral votes.
In nine Of these Southern States the
election will be but farce, but their
eighty-fOur electoral votes will count
for the Democratic party all the same.
In the other seven there will be CON
tests, but under such Democratic man
ipulations that the result will be the
same as in the other Southern States
where there is no pretense of fair cleo
tiOns, and the seventy votes of these
seven States may be counted with the
other eighty-fOur Southern votes, max
ing one hundred and fifty-four in all