Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-11-09
TELEGRAPHlC.
CAUSES OF DEFEAT.
Didn't Got Enough Votes, That's The
Great Reason.
PROMINENT POLITICIANS VIEWS
hawaiian Affairs aud the Brooks
IslAnds.-A Chicago Wreck,
Etc, Etc.

wAsurSaroN, Nov. $40 ex'
presslons Of opinion on tue elections
yesterday are to be had from members
OF the administration. The Pfesijent
stayed out ut woodley, presumably to
work on hls message. Secretary Her
bert was at the department but
short time this morning, and secte'
tary Gresham declined 10 express ON
opinion.
The prominent Democratic leaders
at the Capitol are peculiarly reluctant
to assign any particularly cause to
tho Republican landslide and
tho Dcmoufauc defeat. Chair
man Sayefs VI tho appropriations
committee seemed cheerful ana
said, with laugh, "rhe prin-
cipal reason seems TO be- that We did
not get enough votes. There may nave
been some other particular anu incl-
dental reasons, but we did nos get
enough votes, ana that IL about all
there is to say about II. The cominlt'
tee on appropriations did not cause II,
anyhow. We can prove ala alibi'"
Chairman Wilson OF the ways and
meAne Committee said: 81 nm mighty
glad ID came now, instead OF later ~
the administration. The election In
Virginia shows that tue Populist up.
rising has not gained heauway. Az
coon IN Democratic measures can be-
taken TO restore the prosperity OF tho
country everything will DO all right
again"
Ex-senator Malone Of Virginia said
he regarded the result M au acknowl.
odgmunt on the part of this people that
they had made mistake IN putting
Cleveland In the White House.
Ek.CongtUasmau Ben Gable OF I'LL
noiH saiu: "As to the general causes,
tue business depression IL PERHAPS the
most potent. The public seemed to
blame these conditions upon the party
ia power. | hold that tho sdministTa-
ton and the Democratic party arc not
responsible. The business conditions
grew out OF the pefnici0us legislation
enacted by the Republican party"
Judge LOChfeu, commissioner o.
pensions, said: "It II the natural re-.
suit Of hard times. Unthinhing people
have charged the financial troubles 10
the party In power"
Fret Assistant Postmaster General
Frank Jones said. "rhe Democratic
party will toe the scratch next slmo.
Blows Of this character cannot iehze II.
a knockdown with the Democracy
ouly acts NJ n touio. Tho result ~ due
10 local causes"
Representative Burrows Of Miohl-
gau ssii the general result indicated
that the laboring people Of the country
were undoubtedly opposed 20 free trade
as advocated by tho Democratic party.
In ohio the lssue was squaruly on the
tarii.
Representative Mcmillan of Teuneg.
see said that no one well potted on the
subject looked Tor victory In Ohio,
Massachusetts and Iowa. The result
was not uue TO the tariff agitation, for
no one knew what tno changes In the
,arii would be.
The lost, ediioTially, will say 10.
morrow; Nlf the results Of the great
political landslide Tuesday demonstrate
one thing more than another, 10 IL that
when really great principles or great
economic interests are Involved In q
contest the merely partisan yoke hangs
loosely around the public neck. In
Massachusetts, In Ohio, Ia Iowa the
tariff question undoubtedly eNettet 4
powerful influence In maintaining and
increasing the Republican maj orities
Tue great Republican Victory In New
York, however, furnishes tho mos
impressive Lesson OF the day. II ~ 4
lesson, n Wisely conned, tho Dem
ocracy OF the empire state may prod
by"