Smyrna times., 1893-11-15
RIGHT TRIUMPHED.

OF Lnfee weeks Win MS vile IN That
city interviewed after the election with
the following result:
RIGHT TRIUMPHED.
When Times reporter shook hands
with him in the Stratford the other
night the Senator had Just laid aside
the newspapers and was settling a
skull cap over his white locks with an
air of satisfaction and reflection. His
mood did not change during the talk
which followed, and only his eyes
frightened and his rugged complexion
heightened as he discussed with vary
ing emphasis the several recent sur
prises in the political world.
He is not an easy man to do justice
to an interview, for his philosophy has
a sharper edge and his argument a
deeper force as he puts it himself, but
this is the best the interviewer could
do.
Speaking of Tuesdays elections the
Senator said:
II have just read that we have won
everywhere by large mojOrities, and
rejoice with the rest of my party. But
my gratitude is the greater because it
was good deal more than a victory
tor protection and Republicanism. 1t
was a re-assertiOn of the right of the
ajOrity to rule, of the freedom of the
ballot, of the purity of the bench of the
good which we have in US, and the
force which the people can exert when
their liberties are threatened. Why, it
seems as though right had triumphed
wherever it had an issue with wrong!
ha1 70 hat t,ok
publicans of this cOuntry-and by that
l mean the democratic Republicans and
not partisans-had reached a stage
when a revolution was necessary to re-
store them 30 power. The criminal
classes had taken possession of our
large cities, and were in control of their
governments and the peoples interests.
The political ring was more powerful
than any tribunal, and the political
trickster seemed to have begun a reign
which, to my mind only blOOdshed and
violence could overthrow.
THE PEOPLE RESUME CONTROL.
But in one day the people have
arisen in their might and utterly wiped
out every vestige of the ring and its
wrOngdOing. By force of ballots more
potent than a force of arms they have
wrested their vast interests from the
men who have abused them for so long
and believe that it i'll only take one
more election day to complete the good
work. The result has changed my
opinion nightly and has re established
my belief in the indestructible founda-
ton of Republican principles.
ITO learn that the result cannot be
claimed as strict party victory one
needs only to analyZe the votes. In
New York and New Jersey the issue
was clear one between the ring and
the people, and partisan lines were as
nearly Obliterated as they ever can be.
In New York, Brooklyn and Buffalo it
was an uprising of honest voters
against the corrupt political leaders,
and the overwhelming majority shows
how thoroughly aroused they were to
their danger. Beside this issue there
was that other element of weakness in
the ring ticket injected into it by the
nomination of Judge Maynard.
I'm New Jersey the lines were drawn
between honest government and the
| corruption of race track legislation
with equal force. Such scenes as were
enacted in Gravesend and Buffalo and
Camden were the expiring blows which
the ring struck at the honest public,
and the vengence of the people is now
only a question of time. From what
learn in the newspapers the victory in
every instance is so OVerwheling as to
completely turn the tables, and to pre-
clude any possibility of the criminals
escaping the punishment they deserve.
WANDERING STATES RETURN.
The Republican party can, however,
rejoice with reason at its return to
power in Massachusetts and Iowa and
over its marvellous majOrities in Penn
sylvania and Ohio. The manufacture
ing States, l do not believe, will ever
part from the principles of protection
again, and Iowa as a farming State has
learned what our farmers in Vermont
have always known-that protection
means as much to them as to the manu-
facturer. It means that they will have
a home market, and that they can sell
their product to their neighhors instead
OF sending it abroad to a doubtful mar
ket at IL doubtful price,"
Passing from a review of the election
returns to the broader question of the
national prosperity, the Senator said /:
"The repeal of the silver purchasing
clause of the Sherman act was wise
piece of legislation because it did away
with legislation which was unwise. It
will not settle the financial problem
aud it will not relieve the country of
its present business depression. / do
not believe that at any time there was
a majority of Senators in Washington
who favored it, and the enactment of
the Voorhees, bill was brought about
by influence which the Senators have
always held and which they believe a
majority of the people hold,
"The Senate is in favor OF free coin
age. 1 do not believe that any i'm
mediate legislation favoring silver will
be enacted, but il is certain to come. |
have always been opposed to free coin
age, but in the varied interests strug-
Cling to control our finances / think
there will ultimately develop plan to
coin both gold and silver, the former to
be the standard and the latter to be a
currency adjusted in value with it.
That is the most feasible legislation to
my mind which now presents itself.
MAKE GOLD THE STANDARD.
"Gold and silver are hound to drift
apart and there is not enough gold to
maintain our currency by itself. II
there was enough gold the difficulty
would be comparatively easy of settle.
ment. One might as well make wheat
and corn the equal standards of value
and then attempt to maintain that
value when climatic conditions favored
wheat and the crop Of poFa was light.
Legislative foFOe cannot overcome in.
trinsic value In metal any more than it
can Ia vegetables.
"The plan of making gold standard
and adjusting silver to it at all stages
of property and depression Is Que
which guarantees to a man the return
of value for value given. The details
Of such legislation would only mean
the naming of a commission to arrange
the adjustment whenever the variable
market demanded It. The commission
might be the President and his Cabinet
or It might be--as is now the case in
the adjustment of foreign money values
the Secretary Of the Treasury.
"Rut neither money nor lack Of It il
the cause Of the business depression
which the country is feeling now. The
present condition comes from the de.
, claration in the Chicago Democratic
platform that tariff except for rev.
enue only is unconstitutional and the
declaration of the party In power Of its
, intention to affirm 1t. The vast pro-
J ducing interests In this country of sixty
millions Of people have felt that blow
. with severity that makes itself too ap-