St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-09
SILENCE IS GOLDEN,
Cabinet Ministers Do Not Talk
On the Landslide.
JUDGE L0cHREH CHARGES 1T UP
TO Hard Times and the Votes
Of Unthinking People.
MORRISON NOT DISCOURAGED.
Next Year Will Again Be a
Dem oeratic One.
JUDGE L0cHREH CHARGES 1T UP
MORRISON NOT DISCOURAGED
OPINIONS OF c0KGRESSMEK.

WASHINGTON, NOV. S.-NO express
sions OF opinion OH the elections of YES
terday were to be had from members OF
the administration. The president
stayed at Woodley, presumably to work
Oh his message. His intention is to
spend several days of each week in the
country, engaged In this work. Secre-
tary Herbert was al the department but
short time this morning. and Secre-
tary Gresham declined to express an
opinion OH the results of yesterdays
voting. The prominent Democratic
leaders at the capitol are peculiarly re-
luctant 10 assign any particular cause
for the Republican Landslide and Demo-
cratic:defeat. Chairman Sayers, of the
appropriations committee, seemed
cheerful, despite the discouragiue news
that kept piling IN with later dispatches,
and said with a laugh: The principal
reason seems to be that We did not get
enough votes. There may have been
some other particular and incidental
reasons, but they all merged into this
in the grand result. We did not get
enough votes. and that is all there is to
say about it. The committee Oil appro-
prlations did not cause ii, anyhow. We
can prove an alibi."
CHAIRMAN WILSON,
of the ways and means committee.
seemed anxious to get the very latest
news from the several states, and in
conclusion said: II am mighty glad it
came now instead of lIter in the admin
istratton. The election in Virginia sho ws
that the Populist uprising has not gained
any headWay. As soon as Democratic
measures can be taken to restore pros
perity to the country everything will DC
all right again."
Ex-senator Malone, of Virginia. said
that ne regarded the result as an &C.
acknowledgement ON the part of the people
that they had made mistake in putting
MIR. Cleveland in the White house.
EX-COngressman Ben Gable. Of I!li--
nois, said: LAS to the general causes
the business depression is perhaps the
most potent. The public seemed to
blame these conditions upon the party
in power. l hold that the administration
and Democratic party are not response
bic for this. The business condit ions
grew out of pernlcious legislation en-
acted by the Republican party. 1t was
the Democracy's legacy and not its
acts"
JUDGE LOCHREN,
commissioner OF pensions, in speaking
Oh the results of the elections, said: 1T
is the natural result of the hard times.
The unthinking people have charged
the financial troubles TO the party in
power"
First Assistant Postmaster General
Frank Jones said: 1.-The Democratic
party will toe the scratch next time.
Blows of this character cannot phase it.
A knOck-down win Democracy only
acted as tonic. The result was due to
local causes. The result in Ohio was
the one of most Importance. 1t brought
Mckinley once more in popular view
as political success, and raised his
prospects as a chunk of presidential
timber"
Representative Burrows. of Mlchi-
gan, said that the general result of yes
terday's election indicated that the
laboring people of the country were un-
doubtedly opposed to free trade as ad-
vocated by the Democratic party. In
Ohio, he said, the issue was sQuarely on
the tariff, and the enormous victory
showed how strong public sentiment
was on that subject.
Representative Mcmillan. of Tennes-
see; was one of those Democrats who
had not expected an overwhelming VIC
tory for his party this year, for he said
that no one we'll posted on the subject
looked for victory in Ohio, Massachu-
setts and Iowa. The result, he believed,
was not due to the tariff agitation, for
no one knew what the changes in the
tariff would be.
Hon. William r. Morrison, of the in
terstate commerce commission, SAID
that i'll the forty-fve years he has been
voting the Democratic ticket such res
verses had happened to him, and he
was not to be discouraged by such q
result as yesterday. Next year will
be a Democratic year." said Mr.. Morri-
sen. Attorney General Olney was
asked for ali expression of his views OIL
the result of the election. but he de>
clined to say anything on the subject.
1t would have been the same, be ex-
planned, had the result been different.
The attorney general left Washington
this afternoon for New York, to be abs
sent for a day or two.