The morning call., 1892-11-10
Cleveland Has Added Almost a Solid
North to a Solid South.
POPULISTS STRONG IN THE GRAIN STATES
The Democrats Capture Both Houses and
Will Be in Complete Control Of
the Country.
Special to THE MORNING CALL

The fight has been won-and lost. Liter
ally it has been a tidal wave. Everyt thing
has gone. 1t looked black enough when
the fact of the utter rout OF the Republicans
in New York became known, but when
State after State, small and great. wheeled
into the Democratic column there settled
sort of apathy upon the Harrison shouters,
and even the fact that Ohio was probably
lost, " hich became known late last night,
failed TO awaken even the fantest show of
pain. The agony from the first heavy blow
had dulled the sense Of suffering for the
rest.
The result has been surprising, not only
Itself, but in its far-reaching magnitude.
Possibly il was to have been expected that
Cleveland, in an alliance of kept-falth with
Tammany, would carry New York. But
what Democrat, even the most enthusiastic,
dared more than hope that Indiana and
Connecticut and New Jersey would also
declare for the great tariff reformer? Then,
when it came to Illinois and Wisconsin and
Iowa, and even Ohio. why. the Democrats
went mad, and men Of no party had room
for further surprise. Even the slight hope
held out by Delaware to the Republicans
was broken, and the South stands solid.
The trouble this time appears to be that
IT stands solid alongside all the balance of
the country. Cleveland has not only been
elected. but be will have the largest major
ity in the electoral college that has been
given to a candidate for the Presidency in
recent times. The people clearly demand
revolution In the economic pulley Of the
country, and they appear to have given
Democratic President, Democratic Senate
and Democratic House of Representatives
with which to effect that revolution.
A surprising development in connection
with the result has been the strength shown
by the Populists. Where the Republicans
have not lost to the Democrats they have
lost to the POpulists. Always and every
where it has been the Republicans who have
Last. There is no hope for the
party anywhere. save the hope that
the policies advocated by its opponents
should prove, as the Republican party
has always claimed. economic mistakes
when reduced to practice. For the present
the people have chosen the theoretical side
Of the great economical question as against
the practical workings OF the other side, and
IN this country the people rule. That they
rule wisely. in the end, at least, is shown
by their ability to work a resolution with
out bloodshed. The Republican party must
trust to time for its justification.
The Popuist strength In the West, no.
tably in Kansas, Nebraska, and the Da-
kotas, marks new departure in national
politics, in that the people are seeking
remedy at the ballot box for the capitalstic
expressions of which they have so long
complained. 1t is not, perhaps, so much
revolt against Republicans as against the
corporations that have used the Republican
party, and have been permitted to use it,
for their own enrichment at the expense of
lhe producing classes. in the past staunehly
Republican.
Colorado and Nevada had the silver ques-
ton to settle, and in the fight to put the in
feriOr metal upon monetary equality with
the superior fought as much against Demo-
cratic policy as against Republican.