Huntsville gazette., 1892-11-26
PRESS OPINIONS.
What Republican Journals Say of the Ro-
suits of tho Election.
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they have held their own in all the ex-
slave states. They have carried New
York by a larger plurality than that
state gave to any party before in a
presidential year since 1872, when
Grant swept it by 53, coo. Their lead
in Indiana apparently is greater than
was that of the repu blicans in 1883,
which was 2, ,343. They have also car
ried Illinois, with seven or eight of the
electoral votes of Michigan. The re-
publicans have lost in the west, in ad-
ditlon to these states, the states of
Kansas, Colorado. Nebraska, Wyoming
and Nevada, which have been won by
Weaver.
The house of representatives has also
gone democratic, and the senate proba-
bly, is keeping it company. Republican
reverses have been sustained in several
states which elect legislatures that are
to choose successors to republican SEN
ators whose terms end on March next.
In the present senate the republicans
have fOrty-seven mem bers, the demo-
Gratis thirty y-nine and the farmers al
lance two. Thus the republicans have
plurality CT only eight and ajority
of but six in that body. Considerably
over half of the twelty-nine senators
whose terms expire next March are re-
publicans. If the democrats win four
of these republican seats without
losing any of their own the senate will
be tied as between the repu blicans
and democrats, with Stevenson cast
ing vote in their favor. As the repub
licans are gaining nowhere, but losing
in many places, the democrats are like
ly to have the next senate.
The democrats, therefore, will be in
undisputed control of all branches of
the government for the first half of
Cleyeland's new term at least. Their
aiority in the house will not be SO
great as it is in the present body, but it
will be great enough to give them a de-
cided preponderance on all questions
on which partisan lines are drawn.
They will thus be entirely re-
sponsible for all the legislation
of the two years beginning with
March, 1898. Often in the past
eighteen years control has been
divided owing to lack of partisan
harmony between the two branches of
congress or between one or both and
the executive, and for this reason each
party has been enabled to shirk re-
gree. With the democrats for the next
two years, however, the situation will
be different. They will have complete
and undisputed sway in all departments
of the government, and the people will
be able to hold them to rigid ac-
countab ability for the management of its
afairs.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
SILVER PLEDGES.
The democrats have won son their
silver pledges, and a party in which the
free silver south occupies SO command
ing position, a party which has prac-
ticaliy been out of power for thirty
years. and does not know how to rule,
party which has not shown at any
time in its history the capacity TO deal
with financial or economic subjects,
will now be called on to settle the sill
yer question, while the repu ublicans
watch the performance critically.
After the 4th Of March the govern
ment will be in the hands of democrats
and all the responsibilities will be on
their shoulders A democratic presi-
dent and secretary of the treasury will
have to see to it shat sixty-fve
cent silver bullion is kept at d
parity with one hundred cent
gold, and that there will not be a sud-
den demand for the last-named metal
which will exhaust the governments
stock of gold and cause the silver cur
rency to drop to its commercial value,
and give the country a dollar whose
purchasing value will be less than two
thirds its face. Should that happen
there would be sudden revulsion of
feeling on the part of hundreds of
of those who voted for Cleve-
land, and they would begin asking
themselves what they had gained by
exchanging party which had given
them currency at par with gold for
fourteen years for one which broke
down the moment it came into power.
Chicago Tribune.
CLEvELAND's DILEMMA.
The election OF Cleveland places him
aud the democratic party in an embar-
RAISING dilemma. The party which
supports him is pledged by its platform
to repeal the Mckinley bill and to
enact u tariff for revenue only. 1t
will not do this, because it dare not do
it if it could, and would not do it if it
dare. But during the next four years
it will have to face its broken pledges
with all that section of the party that
were fooled into believing them sim
cere. 1t will make. of course, a noisy
parade of seeming to revise the tariff.
If it shall undertake to do so with any
tariff scheme which seeks to subvert
the protection which the Mckinley bill
affords to American industries, the at
tempt will only have the effect of DEM
onst -ating the value and Importance of
that measure, and will arouse d popu-
lar feeling in defense of that policy
which could be awakened SO effectual-
ly in no other way. 1t is easy enough
to deal in generalities of denunciation.
But a tariff measure is necessarily q
matter of specific detail, and the mo-
ment the democratic party is forced to
abandon its ground of negative criti-
cism and frame an actual tariff policy