The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-11-18
PRESS OPINIONS.
What Republican Journals Say Of the Re
suits of the Election.

north nave declared In their favor, and
! they have held their owa in all the ex-
slave states. They have carried New
York by larger plurality than that
| state gave to any party before in 4
| presidential year since 1872, when
Grant swept it by So, coo. Their lead
in Indiana apparently is greater than
was that of the republicans in 1888,
which was 2,34S. 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-
ditIon 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 members. the demo-
Gratis thirty-nine and the farmers al
lance two. Thus the republicans have
n plurality OF only eight and majority
of but six in that body. Considerably
over half of the tweaty-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 viii
be tied as between the repu Olicans
and democrats, with Stevenson's cast
ing vote in their favor. AS the repub-
licans are gaining nowhere. but losing
m 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
Cleveland's new term at least. Their
majority in the house will not he so
great as it is in the present body, but it
will be great enough to give them n 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-
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 a rigid ac-
countabi bility for the management of its
affairs.-St. Louis sGlObe-Democrat.
SILVER PLEDGES.
The democrats have won on their
silver pledges, and Il party in which the
free silver south occupies so command
ing position, party which has prac-
tically 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 10 settle the sill
YER question, while the republicans
watch the performance critically.
After the 18th 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 chat sixty-five
cent silver bullion is kept at a
parity with one hundred cent
gold, and that there will not be 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
thousands of those who voted for Cleve- !
land, and they would begin asking
themselves what they had gained by !
exchanging a 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 |
and 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 a 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, 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 a popu-
ar feeling in defense of that policy
which could be awakened so effectual-
" in no other way. 1t is easy enough
% deal in generalities of denunciation.
But a tariff measure is necessarily a
natter of specific detail, and the mo-
ment the democratic party IS forced to
abandon its ground of negative criti-
ism and frame an actual tariff policy
lpon the lines its leaders have been
lrginG; the moment, in other words, it
begins its threatened assault upon the
American industries that have been or
ire being built up under the republic
IN protective policy, that moment
viii seal its doom with the people of
his country.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
PRESIDENT HARRISON.
Whatever may have been the result
# this election, Benjamin Harrison,
he president of the United States,