Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-11-10
CAUSE OF DEFEAT
Senator Chandler Gives His
Views ON The Subject.
OTHER DISTINGUISHED MEN
What ThGT Think About The
Landslide.
THE LATEST RETURNS
In Some States the Official Count
Can Alone Decide.
THE NEXT HOUSE.
How the Popular Branch Of The National
THE NEXT HOUSE.
How the Popular Branch Of The National
Legislature Will Stand
SENATOR CHANDLER SPEAKS.
His Opinion the Causes That Led TO the
Result.


Result.
Special Dispatch TO The Evening Star
CoscoRD. " H., Nov. Senator Chandler
said in the Monitor last night: '.The result OF
the election Of yesterday is not wholly sur
prising n consideration be given TO the methods
Of the democratic party adopted since the elec-
ton OF Harrison and Morton in 1885. The
democratic leaders then realized that they
could not hope even with the aid OF the solid
south 70 carry the country in a presidential
election unless they could obtain votes in large
numbers against the republican policy Of pro-
lection from the very citizens interested in the
protected industries. Therefore they began
their efforts to arouse the operatives against
the manufacturers, the laborers against the
capitalists and the poor against the rich by all
the arts OF mendacity and demagogy. They
succeeded only too well.
by misrepresenting the Mckinley bin they
obtained their triumphs in the election Of 1880.
1hereupon by the most stupendous outrages
upon the election laws of New York state its
senate gerrymandered the Legislative districts,
repealed the non-partisan election and police
laws Of New York city and prepared for enor-
mously swollen and fictitious maioritiss In that
metropolis and in Brooklyn, by means OF which
the empire state was made hopelessly demo-
cratic.
THE SAME TACTICS REPEATED.
'The same tactics have been repeated in 1891
All tariff laws were declared unconstitutional,
and voters whose very substance depended
upon those laws were made 20 vote in favor OF
these declarations. The south with It's l. 500. 900
suppressed colored votes, was kept democratic,
and unrestricted and violent Tanmany
democracy returned just such majorities ~ 10
pleased in New York city.
AT the west the democrats threw away all
principle and united with the advocates Of an
irredeemable and wildcat currency in tho effort
TO choose Weaver electors and 20 throw the cleo
ton into the House OF Representatives, whsre
Cleveland would be sure Of success
THE REPUBLICANS MANLY fraHr
Against these odds the national republican
party, under it's magnificent leader, Benjamin
Harrison, has fought an open, manly, earnest,
honest battle. but has been overcome, and for
the second time in thirty-two years q demo-
cratic President is 20 enter the White House.
We shall waste no time in vain regrets. The
situation is not without its alleviations. The
republican party never appeared TO better ad-
vantage than il did in 1885 and during Cleve-
lands maladministration Of government The
Mckinley bill is still upon the statute books
1t cannot be removed even by the solid south
controlling the presidency and the national
House of Representatives.
1T matters little who hold the federal Offices.
II does matter whether protection is unconsti-
tutional and whether free trade called a tariff
for revenue only, shall become the national
policy"