The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-14
A Land With Neither Old Party and
Plenty Of Free Silver.
GREAT REJOICING AMONG THE
BRITISH DEMOCRATS.
The Papers There Still Shouting Cleve-
lands Praises While Merchants Pre-
Over in France, They Are just Waking
Up to the Significance of the Result
An Estimate of Democratic Strength
in the Senate

An Estimate of Democratic Strength
in the Senate.
DEs MONIES, Ia, November 12.-Gen.
Weaver, in conversation here last night
said: ''The Peoples party holds the
balance of power in more than three
fourths of the states and will hold the
balance Of power in the Senate after
March next, besides controlling the legis-
latures of six or seven states.' Gen.
Weaver held that this would enable the
party to act as breakwater against
vicious legislation and enable it to
enforce economic measures such as the
free coinage of silver and the adoption
of an American system of currency. He
said the Democratic party came into
power as the result of violent reaction
of public sentiment and not at the bid
ding of the quiet, well informed people.
The reaction which threw the Demo-
cratic party out of power at the end OF
Cleveland's administr ton, gave
the Republican party complete
control of the government.
People were disappointed with Mr.. Har-
risons administration, and a second re-
action, still more violent than the first,
displaced the Republican party and re-
instated the Democratic party; but with
this marked difference, it has given the
Populists the balance of power in the
upper house of Congress. General Wea-
yer further said: s'The task now before
the Democratic party is impossible of
solution from their standpoint. If they
reduce tari;f taxes there win be deficit
unless they reduce them to point that
will stimulate importations in order to
keep up the revenue. In that event, la
hor will become dissatisfied, and the
next sensation will be an explosion that
will break the party into fragments. The
Republican party is as dead as the Wing
party was after the Fremont campaign of
1856, and can never again seriously give
battle for national supremacy.
ssThe new party is the coming factor in
national politics, and it will be in power
before the advent of the Goth century.
1t holds the key Of the political situa-
.tion in America"
REJOICING OVER THEIR VICTORY.
Cleveland's British Supporters Jubilant
at His Success.
LONDON, November 12.-In comment
ing on the result of the Presidential cleo
tion in the United States, the Times says:
''The Democratic victory is so complete
that it carries with it an obligation to act
up to the pledges of the Chicago plat
form. 1t is no longer necessary for Mr..
Cleveland to assume the hedging, mini
mizing tone which marked his letter of
acceptance"
The Telegraph this morning publishes
number of interviews on the result of
the American election with representa-
tives of various trade interests of Great
Britain. The president and secretary of
the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and
the heads of various firms in that city
are represented as being pleased at Mr..
Cleveland's victory, but not sanguine of
any immediate result in the way OF tariff
reform.
A number of interviews had in Liver
pool make it apparent that keen interest
is evinced there in the result, and that it
has been the chief topic of discussion in
the cotton market, on the Stock Excange
and among the frequenters of other busi
ness centres of that city. The opinions ex-
pressed are various. Liverpool ship
owners especially have suffered from the
Mckinley law.
A number of the interviews represent
the citizens OF Belfast as jubilant over
Mr.. Cleveland's victory, and as talking of
nothing else, the linen industry having
suffered severely through the Mckinley
tariff. Sir Daniel Dixon, the mayor of
the city, who is a ship owner, says he is
rejoiced for the sake of Belfast. and that
he anticipates improved trade both in
her exports and in freights.