The Red Cloud chief., 1892-11-18
PRESS OPINIONS.
what Republican Journals say Of the ysc-
suits Of the Election.

north have declared in their favor, and
they have held their owa In all the ex-
slave states. They have carried New
York by u larger plurality than that
state gave TO any party before in n
presidential year since 1872, when
Grant swept II by 80. 900. Their lead
in Indiana apparently is greater than
was that OF the republicans In 1855,
which was o,34s. They have also car
ricd Illinois, with seven or eight OF the
electoral votes Of Michigan. The re-
publicans have lost in the west in nd
dition 10 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 IL company. Republican
revcrses have been sustained In several
states which elect legislatures that are
to choose successors to republican sem
ators whose terms end on March 4 next.
In the present senate the republicans
have forty-sevcn members. the demo-
Gratis thirty-ninc and the farmers al-
lance two. Thus the republicans have
a plurality Of only eight and a majority
Of but six in that body. Considerably
over half of the tw%caty.nine senators
whose terms expire next March are re-
publicans. II the democrats win -four
Of these republican seats without
losing any of their own the senate will
be tied as between the republicans
and democrats. with S~tevenson's cast
| ing vote in their favor. As the repub-
Leans 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
Clevcland's new term Mt least. Their
majority in the house will not he so
great as II Is in the present body, but II
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 we years beginning with
March, 1903. Often in the past
eighteen years control has been
divided owing to a 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-
sponsibility for legislation In some de.
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 n rigid &c
c~ountability for the management Of its
aKairs.-St Louis Globe Democrat.
SILVER
The democrats have won on their
silver pledges, and q party In which the
free silver south occupies so command
ing a position, a party which has prac-
tically been out of power for thirty
years, and does not know how to rule,
. party which has not shown Mt any
time in its history tho capacity to deal
with financial or economic subjects,
will now be called on to settle the sill
YER question, while the republicans
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 OF
their shoulders. A democratic prcsi
dent and secretary Of the treasury will
have to see to it that sixty-f1vt
cent silver bullion Is kept at
parity with one hundred cen
gold, and that there will not be a sud
den demand for the last-named meta
which will exhaust the government
stock of gold and cause the silver cur
-~-.- A. ds.~ 81 sk~ rns~as ,u1,n
and give the country q dollar who's
! purchasing value will be less than two
thirds its face. Should that happel
there would be a sudden revulsion O
feeling on the part of hundreds o
, thousands of those who voted for Cleve
land, and they would begin askinI
themselves what they had gained b,
exchanging q party which had give
. them currency at par with gold 10
. fourteen years for one which brok
> down the moment II came into power
. Chicago Tribune.
, CLEvELAND's DILEMMA.
/, The election of Cleveland places mir
and the democratic party In an embar
RAISING dilemma. The party whic
; supports him is pledged by It's platforr
to repeal the Mckinley bill and I
enact q tariff for revenue only. ]
will not do this, because II dare not d
{ it IL 1t could, and would not do II II
: dare. But during the next four year
!. IL will have h face It's broken pledge
with all that section of the party tina
r were fooled into believing them sin
. cere. 1t will make, Of course, a nois
Q parade Of seeming 10 revise the tariff
| II IL shall undertake to do so with an
2 tariff scheme which seeks to subvel
|, the protection which the Mckinley bi
: affords to American Industries, the a
t tempt will only have the effect Of den
a onstrating the value and importance {
Q that measure, and will arouse a pop,
lar feeling In defense of that polio
0 which could be awakened SO ~effectua
. ly in no other way. II Is easy enoug
= to deal in generalities OF denunciatio,
( But a tariff measure Is necessarily
4 matter Of specific detail, and the m
|, ment the democratic party is forced
abandon It's ground of negative crit