The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-11-16

accounting for last weeks election
results, but the s'demnition total" is
what puzzles, abstracts and bewilders
the Democratic party. 1t is com
Drehtnsible that Maynard,
THE BALLOT Bon THIEF,
in New York should be damned and
buried by majority of 100000 in
favor of the Republican, candidate
for the Court of Appeals; but how
about the election of the Republican
State ticket by majority of 10000,
when on Y Il year ago the DemOcra-
tic State and National ticket were
elected by 10000 plurality. 1t is
easy to understand how people with
any self-respect or Hith any sense of
decency left should vote against
Maynard. Every respectable lawyer
in the State, every bar association
had denounced him criminal;
every reputable newspaper-both
Democratic and Repubhcan-had
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of all this indignation the Hill-Cro-
ker machine nominated him for
Judge of the Court of Appeals-the
highest judicial tribunal in the great
Empire State. The nomination was
made by the machine as Maynard's
reward for stealing the election re-
turns of Duchess county two years
ago, which resulted in the organiza-
ton Of Democratic legislature and
the subsequent election of David b.
Hill to The United States Senate,
and still later the election of "boss"
Murphy to the Senate. SO, to-day,
the Senate is Democratic by virtue
of Maynard's theft Of the Duchess
county election returns. Dan La
mont, the Presidents alter ego, went
to New York and voted for May
nard. Mr.. Cleveland did not vote
but was careful to have the state
ment printed IN all the newspapers
that he was willing to vote for him,
but public business detained him in
Washington. 1t is the wont of
great many to exalt Mr.. Cleveland
on a lofty pedestal away above the
gang" in New York whose dolnina-
ton in that State has been found a
disgrace on the whole country. 1t
took a revolution to dethrone the
corrupt Tweed ring twenty years ago
and history repeated itself last Tues
day.
The peoples victory over Hill and
Croker in New York and boss Nc
Laughlin in Brooklyn is national
triumph which should command the
enthusiastic reclamation of every
honest man in the land.
DISGUST, ALARM, DISAPPOINTMENT.
The thirty-fve thousand majority
practically $4,000, when Cleve-
lands plurality Of $4,000 year ago
is consideration the Republican
State ticket was an emphatic express
sion of general disgust for Mr.. Cleve-
lands administration; profound APP
prehenslon about radical tariff legis-
lation, and disappointment at the
obvious incapacity of d Democratic
congress. The appointment of Van
Allen as ambassador to Home because
he contributed $4,000 to the Demo-
cratic campaign fund, and the APP
pointment of Roosevelt as Secretary of
Legation at London, because of a
$4,000 contribution To the same
fund, disguised decent people every
where, and practically in New York
where these snObs were knoWn. Van
Allen voted the Democratic ticket
once only since he attained manhood
| Roosevelt Roosevelt, the bipenated
| dude-has never been accused of do
ing so plebian and common thing
as voting Democratic ticket.
Mr.. Cleveland's Cabinet appoint
ments shocked and startled the people
/! in the Northern and Western States.
The appointment of Hoke Smith
an accident, in the fullest sense of
the word-as Secretary of the Inte-
rior, was II bitter disappointment to
the soldier sentiment of the country,
; and Smith administration of the of
flee has driven every Union soldier
Democrat in tbs country back into
the Republican party. He has edit
ed the Pension bureau on horseback,
in buff-colored leggings, and has
managed to become the most uni
formly cHssed man in public life.
The list might be extended to in
clude Gresham, who up to the event.
full hour when he took the oath of
office as Secretary Of State, the rank
ing Cabinet appointment, was Re-
publican.
And Secretary Carlisle's admins
tration of the Treasury Department
has enraged and disguised the bust
ness sentiment of the country. The
silver people charge him with treach-
cry and the business people charac-
terize his administration as weak.
vascilating and cowardly. Add to
this the general distrust of Demo-
cratic legislation the revision of the
tariff, and no one should be at a loss
to account for the Republican IL
dial wave that swept over New York.
New Jersey, M sachusett Ohio
and Iowa. The possible exception
is New Jersey-Democratic, goddess
New Jersey. For ten years that lit
tie State has been dominated by a.
ring of gamblers corrupt scoun-
drels who ruled the people with
rod of iron and disgraced the State.
Idle mills and unemployed labor
helped the revolt against the Demo-
cratic machine. Virtue was trirm-
plant and the State is freed from
curse that threatened the extinction