The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-09
GOVERNOR MKINLEY TALKS
He Attributes His Success to His
Protection Speeches,
And the Free-TPade Utterances of His
OppOnent-Views of Ex-Governor
Campbell-Press Comment.

his message His intention is to spend sew
eral days of each week in the country en-
gagged in this work. Secretary Herbert
was at the department but short time this
morning, and Secretary Gresham declined
to express an opinion on the results Of
yesterdays voting. Attorney-general Olney
was asked for an expression, but he also
declined to say anything on the subject 1t
would have been the same he explained,
had the result been different. The At
torney-general left Washington this after
noon for New York to be absent for day
or two.
The prominent Democratic leaders at the
Capitol are peculiarly reluctant to assign
any particular cause for the Republican
landslide and Democratic defeat. Chairman
Sayers, of the appropriations committee,
seemed cheerful despites the discouraging
news that kept piling in with later dis
patches, and said, with a laugh: 1.-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 I'm
the grand result We did not get enough
votes, and that is all there is to say about
it. The committee on appropriations did
not cause it, anyhow. We can prove an
allbi."
Chairman Wilson, of the ways and means
committee, seemed anxious to get the very
latest news from the several States. He
said: Il am mighty glad it came now in
stead of later in the administration. The
election in Virginia shows that the Popu-
list uprising has not gathered any head
way. AS soon as Democratic measures can
be taken to restore prosperity to the
country, everything will be all right again.
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he regarded the result as an acknowledge
ment on the part Of the people that they
had made a mistake in putting Mr.. Cleve-
land in the White House.
Ex-Representative Cable, Of Illinois,
said: LAS to the general causes the busi-
ness depression is perhaps the most potent
The public seems TO blame these condi-
tons upon the party in power. 1 hold
that the administration and the Demo-
cratic party are not responsible for this.
The business conditions grew out of per-
nicious legislation enacted by the Repub-
lican party. 1t was the Democracy's legacy
and not it's acts
HE FORGETS PENSION SUSPENSIONS.
Judge Lochren, Commissioner OF PEN
sions, in speaking 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: "The Democratic party will
toe the scratch next time. Blows of this
character cannot phase it. A knockdown
with the Democracy only acts as a tonic.
The result is due to- local causes. The re-
suit in Ohio is the one of most Importance
1t brings Mckinley once more in popular
view as a political success and raises his
prospects as a chunk of presidential tim
ber.''
Representative Burroughs of Michigan,
said that the general result Of yesterdays
elections indicated that the laboring people
of the country were undoubtedly opposed
to free trade as advocated by the Demo-
cratic party. In Ohio, he said, the issue
was squarely on the tariff, and the enor-
nous victory showed how strong public
sentiment was on that subject
Representative McAiliin, of Tennessee,
was one of those Democrats who had not
expected an overwhelming victory for his
party yesterday, for he said that no one
well posted on the subject looked for VIC
tory in Ohio Massachusetts and Iowa The
result he believes, was not due to tariff
agitation, for knew what the
changes in the tariff would be.
Hon. William r. Morrison, Of the Inter-
state-commerce Commission, said that in
the forty-five years he had been voting the
Democratic ticket such reverses had hap
pened to him, and he was not to- be dis
couraged by such a result as yesterday.
Next year will be a Democratic year,
said NIr. Morrison.
The chief surprise of the Democrats here
arises, not from the fact that they were
defeated, but that the defeat was so gen.
eral in all doubtful States and the Repub-
Hcan majority SO overwhelming. A grain
Of comfort is accorded them in the defeat
of the Populists in Virginia and the cleo
ton of O'Ferrall to the governorshlp, but
the blows have been so crushing in the
States of New York. Massachusetts, New
Jersey, Ohio and Iowa that even the sue
cess in Virginia is hardly paraded as a
triumph. Expressions from nearly all the
prominent Democratic leaders at the Capt.
toll indicated in these dispatches sew
eral days ago. showed that the Democrats
were prepared for defeat i'm those States
where the free coinage element is strong
and the disappointment over the passage
OF the repeal bill is intense. but il was
hardly expected that in the sound money
States Of New York and Massachusetts the
Democratic majorities of the past would
be so ruthlessly moved down and the
careful efforts Of perfect organization
would avail SO little. Despite this. how
ever. some Of the prominent Democratic
leaders unite I'm ascribing the general de-
feat throughout the country to two causes
the dissatisfaction In the agricultural ele-
ments over the financial question and the
widespread apathy OF disappointed Office
seekers who have failed 10 realize the
fruits OF the last Democratic victory.
IN IOWA AND OHIO.
In the state of Ohio alone was the tariff
question the prominent theme Of discus
sion, Mckinley and Neal 50 emphatlcally
representing the declarations of their par
ties IN this respect But here. too. the
Democrats are routed by the same mex
orable Republican majority. Ia Iowa, the
defeat of Boies is important. not that IL
means a Republican Governor in that State
and Republican United States Senator