The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-09
The Republican Victories.

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Various reasons viii be given for the
sweeping victories the republicans won on
Tuesday The chief reason is doubtless
( the business depression that followed tie
Inauguration Of q democratic aduliIistr4-
ton. The tendency IS TO blame the patty
IL power for hard times. There are many
thousands Of people out Of WORK AID
other thousands who have suffered seTcre
. business reverses within the last few
months. Very many Of them want 10 put
: the resDonsi 0ilty upon somebody for
their misforrunes, and they have eX-
T pressed their displeasure with the party
in charge Of the government By vo-ing
+ against il. They refused 10 recognize the
/ fact that the hard times were due 20 re
. publican legislation.
There were. Of course. local causes in
some OF the states which helped 70 bring
about the defeat Of the Democratic party.
In New York for instance, Judge May
nard was nominated for associate judge
Of the court OF appeals. II was certain
that very influential faction Of the dem
ocrats would eudeavor 10 defeat him.
The independent newspapers ana most Of
the leading democratic ones Of the state
declared thev would no. support hin.
The machine politicians, led By Senator
Hill and others. refused % heed these
warnings. They bought they could elect
their ticket aud Judge MAYNARD without
the assistance Of the newspapers OF their
party aud without the aid OF the inhu-
entail democrats who opposed him. How
badly they were mistaken IS shown By The
fact that Judge Maynard lot oaly hurt
the whole ticket. but ran many thousands
Of so, 5 behind the ticket Tens s, thou
sands II democrats s.-.nte,i 10 teach their
leaders a lesson.
The silveri.es ought % be satisfied tina,
there IS no very strong sentiment in the
country in favor Of the free coinage Of
silver. The populist, as far as can yet
be determined from the returns. made no
gains anywhere. The ipopalist party is
the only one that stands sQuarely for the
free coinage OF silver al the present ratio.
In Virginia, where the only parties con-
tending were the democratic and populist,
and where the free silver coinage issue
was squarely made, the democrats won
splendid victory.
Il is not Improbable that the stand
taken by democratic senator's against the
repeal OF the purchasing clause Of the
Sherman law had something TO do with
giving the republicans large matorities in
New York, Massachusetts aud Ohio Nc
Kinley. ana those who assisted him in his
campaign in Ohio, spoke always in favor
OF sound money, and their utterances
were well received. In fact, in
all the states in which the
republicans were victorious the repUOIi-
can stump speakers and organs spoke for
sound money The democratic speakers
did the same thing for the most part,
but they were handicapped by the re
fusal Of so many democratic senators to
aid the administration in its efforts to
bring about the repeal Of that part Of the
Sherman law that authorized the pur-
chase Of silver bullion.
The elections show that the movement
Of the people was not towards the pOpulist
party-the party that demands the IN
limited coinage Of silver at the present
ratio, but toward the Republican rarty.
which is against free silver coinage.
Those democratic leaders and democratic
newspapers that declared that the defeat
Of the free coinage Of silver would cause
thousands Of democrats 10 leave the
Democratic party and Join the populist
party find nothing in the returns that
sustains them. The democrats lost votes.
not 20 the pOpu.iss party, but to the
Republican party, the party that pre-
tends to be against silver.