The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-10
AFTER THE BATTLE.
What Chauneey DepeW Thinks Of the
Great Victory.
BOSS McKANE LIKELY TO FIND
OUT WHAT LAW MEANS.

He Is Liable for Contempt of Court, vio-
1ation of Election Laws, and Civil and
Criminal Actions for Assimilation of
All Parties Determined that He Shall
Be Punished-The Effect of the EIec-
tion on Business.
New York, November 9-Hon. Chauncey
NJ. Depew, speaking of the elections, said
to a reporter yesterday:
"The first effect of the universal and
astounding Republican victories upon
the Republican mind is to enforce the
doctrine of the resurrection. We were
told just after the Presidential election
last year, with an emphasis and unani-
nifty which disturbed even those of the
most stalwart faith, that the Repu ublican
party had been retired for a, quarter of a
century, more or less; that the tariff was
dead, as an issue, and that Mckinley
and McGinty would be synonymous
terms at the bottom of the sea Now we
observe that the supposed Republican
corpse was not only not dead, but hardly
in a condition of suspended animation.
For the result in this state in it's
magnitude" Mr.. Depew added, 1--WE are
indebted to Independent Democrats
and the independent press. And yet, ex-
cept for the conditions favorable to the
acceptance of Republican principles, as
demonstrated all over the country, the
Independent Democratic help would
probably not have carried us much
further than the defeat of Maynard and
possibly the overturning in Kings county.
The nomination OF Judge Maynard
called acutely to the attention of the
voters of the state the assaults upon the
integrity of the ballot which have been
made during the two years Of Democratic
rule. The overturning of the safeguards
about the ballot in the great cities. the
reducing of the number of the inspectors
of elections in this city, the effort to
hamper the votes in the country districts
which failed by only one vote, were all
of them openly claimed by the Demo-
cratic leaders to mean a very large addi-
tion to Democratic majorities through
the inspectors of elections.
The canvass made against Judge
Maynard by the Republican, Democratic
and Independent press aroused every
voter in the state to the conditions which
would exist if his vote was to be nullified
or neutralized by fraud. To cap the
climax came the John Y. McKane out
RACES at Gravesend. / have no doubt
that the civil war inaugurated there for
the avoWed purpose of casting 1900
fraudulent votes gave %, 900 votes to the
Repu blican state ticket. 1t sent thrill
of alarm and Indignation over the whole
state, the like of which | have not met
since the war. Every body thought that
McKane must have some powerful
promise OF immunity or he would not
dare to defy the Supreme court and
ridicule its processes. There is no
ncti iaI, 4Io WI, oE
people in every state in the United States
is more intently fixed at present, and
will be until it is decided, than the one
as to whether the Supreme court or John
Y. McKane embodies the judicial powers
in this state. The election of the state
officers secures an unimpeachable can
vassing board for the next three years,
and the election of Republican legisla-
ture at once defeats the vast schemes
which were projected for capturing the
other cities of the state against the votes
of their citizens"
In closing the interview Mr.. Depew
said: When we take into consideration
that outside of New York, Massachusetts,
has been redeemed, and Iowa and Ohio,
by the greatest majority since 1868, and
that Cook county and Chicago have gone
Repu blican, it is notice served in the
most emphatic way upon the present
Congress that they must not touch the
GaflU. IL is noJlce GhaG Will not be
disregarded. No tariff bill on the lines
of the Democratic National platform can
possibly reach the President for his sig
nature. The knowledge of this fact will
lead to rapid revival of business
throughout the country. The next House
of Representatives. will be Repu blican,
which will assure that revival and bring
about an unprecedented financial and in
dustrial boom. 1t will be impossible for
the Democratic leaders to carry the
country unless they can pass substantial
ly free trade measures, and these free
trade measures produce a prosperity
greater than that which existed under
Republican legislation. These two con.
ditions are absolutely essential to the
Democratic party's holding power in this
country. AS they can accomplish neither
result, they will retire from office in four
years from now in every branch of the
government.
"The state of New York is worth about
so per cent more in good citizenship and
moral fibre today than it was yesterday.
The United States at large is worth
about 100 per cent more in the prospect
which is before it with a continuance of
the policy which has made it what it is.n