The record-union., 1893-11-11
PRESS VOICE
OF Interior California on the Recent
Elections.

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| Newcastle Ne,0S (R.): Who says the Re-
publican party is dead?
Los Angeles Herald Cd: 1t was not
even the celebrated "off year," which is
so often fatal to administrations. The
party of Jefferson and Jackson has met a
/ Waterloo, and there is neither wisdom
nor policy in attempting to disguise the
fact. President Cleveland has Temporal
rily wrecked the Democratic party, and
but for it's indestructible vitality he would
have given it its death blow.
Kern County Echo (R.): Some piping
voices were heard year ago declaring
that the Republican party was dead.
They may as we'll conclude first as last
that its demise will not be celebrated as
| long as there is a free trade contingent in
the land strong enough to threaten our
| industries.
Oakland Times CD: This is not par
tlsan triumph or partisan defeat; the
Republicans cannot truthfully claim q
victory, nor need the Democracy be dis
couraged by the thought that they have
suffered defeat 1t is merely the voice of
the people in angry rebuke of an admin
! istrative policy that almost savors of
| Caesarism.
Marysville appeal (R.): Virtually de-
termineS the successor of Grover Cleve-
land for President. The handwriting is
on the wall, and it reads William McKin-
ley or Ohio.
San Jose Record (R.): The object lesson
which the party in power has offered to
the people of the United States has pro-
duced its legitimate effect.
San Jose Herald (D.l: The most sur
! prising feature of the elections. as far as
indicated by the dispatches so far re-
ceived, is the fact that the Populists made
no very decided gains.
Stockton Independent (R.): The hoped
for reaction has taken place. The people
show the most promising signs of having
recovered their mental balance and to
have seen the error of trusting to Demo-
cratic promises.
! Woodland DIa5J (R.): 1t is in order for
Governor Altgeld and President Cleve-
land to exchange condolences.
! Los Angeles Times (R.): The refluent
tide has set in, and nothing short of the
impossible intervention of Providence
can avert the stranding of that badly
managed craft, Democracy.
Woodland Democrat Cd: Democrats
are not so easily discouraged as to lose
! heart on account of the insignificant re-
verses of Tuesday. If our Repu blican
friends are foolish enough to delude
themselves with such an idea they will
certainly discover their mistake when the
next national campaign rolls around.
Fresno Republican (R.): The elections
of yesterday show that when misfor-
tunes abound and dangers threaten the
people instinctively turn to the Republi-
! can party-the party which has led the
country through perils which would
! have destroyed a weaker nation or ma
ton guided by minds less able and spirits
less patriotic.
Riverside Enterprise q.): The result
| though not pleasant, is by no means sur
prising. Such changes in the popular
vote always occur after period OF great
! financial depression such as this country
has passed through. The party which
chances to be lin" always has to meet a
reverse at such time.
| Oakland Tribune (R.): 1t was national
| fight, and the handwriting is upon the
wall. Grover Cleveland and the men
who stand with him are not greater than
! the law nor than the people who make
| the law. No man, at this late day, can
| set himself above the liberties of the
J American nation, and say that this law
upon the statute books. That much can
| be read in the election returns.
Santa Rosa Republican (R.): In this
! election we have an expression of the
sober, second thought on the tariff ques-
tion more than anything else. 1t is a
warning that the party in power may
/ well heed.
Oakland Enquirer Q.): In yesterdays
elections the Republican party won one
of the greatest political victories in its
history. 1t has completely reversed the
decision of the country pronounced last
year, and although no Congressman were
elected yesterday, it can hardly be
doubted that the voting will have great
influence on Congressional acts.
San Jose Mercury (R.): The returns
from all the great States show that the
people have returned to the principles
and the ranks of the Republican party.
Had they intended merely to rebuke
| Cleveland's administration, they Nigh
have voted the Populist ticket.
Fresno Erpositor d.: The Republic
cans no doubt find much comfort in the
result of yesterdays elections, but in
reality there is but little of political sip-
nificance in them. Massachusetts, Ohio.
Iowa and Pennsylvania are always safely
Republican. Occasionally a strong man
| like Boies, RUSSELL Campbell or Pattison
may, through personal popularity, over
come the Republican majority, but such
events are rare. Should the elections
next fall tend to the Republicans as
! strongly as that of yesterday, then that
party may call it ground swell or land
slide in their favor.
Stockton 1IdiG q. d.: The result of
| the Eastern elections should su rprise no
one. This is an 'of year." and for rea-
| sons which it would be tedious to ex-
plain. in such years the party in power
almost invariably gets black eye. In
| this instance there was another cause in
operation more powerful than the first
and equally certain. That was the hard
| times. 1t is not creditable to the popular
| intelligence, but is none the less a fact
| that in the public mind depression in
! business is commo My ascribed to sinister
political influences.
Vallejo Chronicle (R.): The Worlds
! Fair seems to have enlightened the whole
Nation.
! bakersfield Californian Il. r.: In its
| broadest sense it says, Let well enough
alone and avoid radical changes in gov
ernmental policy" In other words,
I'VE do not want change"
Napa Register (R.): The fellows who
! have been saying "the mission of the Re-
publican party is ended'' have been
wiped from the face of the earth.
Modesto Herald (R.): Never since the
war have the masses spoken so olecisively.
! They acknowledge that they made mis-
take a year ago, and with unparalleled
unanimity they repudiate the false god
| that drew them into the wilderness of
hard times and suffering.
Visalia Delta: The result of Tuesdays
elections in the East is gratifying in the
extreme, but it is not cause for sur