Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-11-17
They Know.

VI Tuesday.
Thomas B. Reed, (Rep.) said; 1t will
penetrate even the secret session of the
House Committee on Ways and Means.
The voice is loud enough to reach even
where the members ofttat committee are,
but the people must recOllect that it IS
steady persistence which is necessary to
obtain the fruits of victory.
Elk Postmaster General Clarkson (Rep0
said 1t was a knock down for the bosses
in this State, and also notification TO the
Democratic party to abandon their free
trade policy. The American people have
that they are tired of IFS
prospect of tree trade. The Democracy
went into power on the promise that they
would revise the tariff. The day after
the election of lS9! they were for free
trade.
Ex-Speaker GAlusha A. Grow Dem
said To New York State it is settled for
a generation at least that no ballot thief
can be elected to the highest court in the
State, even though its Governor and ex-
Governor may plead his cause. The IN
dependent Democrats, and especially their
leading newspaper organs, like The
World, are entitled to the thanks of all
honest people for the part they played in
achieving this stupendous victory.
Charles W. Hackett. Chairman OF the
Republican State Executive Committee
said 1t was a victory of the people in
this State, and the death knell of the
houses. 1t demonstrates the power of the
people when they unite IN revolt against
the wrong and battle for the right. We
concentrated our fight upon Judge Mayn-
ard, because we believed that popular IL
dignation would defeat him.
National Committeeman Conger said
I believe that McKinley's triumph to-
pether with the political revolutions
which have swept New York, Iowa and
Massachusetts,, will stay the hands of The
men who are now at work upon a bill to
wipe out the protective tariff.
Murat Halsted (Rep.) The Presidents
silver policy was carried by Republicans.
Tariff reform is a mystery. The Van
Allen incident is all that remains of civil
service reform. The country must 60 10
the Republicans to find certaintes The
Democratic party, as administered, has
not even patent medicine for principle
lie; alone a business mind and method.
Clark Howell, Atlanta Constitution
Dem. is very windy, he has from first
to fourthly: The administration in power
must give some better evidence than that
already offered that 1t proposes to carry
ont its pledges for relief if it expects to
hold the public confidence. The people
do not approve OF the slow manner IN
which the machinery of the new admins
tration has been pat to work. Congress
should have been called in extra session
on the day that the President was in
aucurated. The President should take
the people into his confidence at once.
Charles H. Taylor, editor of the Boston
Globe. (Dem.): Probably the country
will not have adjusted itself to tie change
by next fall, and the logic OF onr political
history indicates that we must look for
further Democratic reverses next year
Such reverses can only be avoided or re-
duced to minimum by the exercise Of
the greatest wisdom and patriotism. In
the third and fourth years OF Cleveland's
Administration, abundant prosperity will
undoubtedly have become widespread and
the Democratic party will be able to fight
the next national campaign with every
argument against change of admlnIstra-
tion in its favor.
Editor James W. Scott, of The Chicago
Herald, Dem The result in New York
State is iuconseguential. The country is
Democratic without New York, and the
West will again elect Democratic Presi-
dent-next time Western man.
Editor J. c. Hemphill, Charleston News
and Courier. Democrat In New York
New Jersey, and Iowa the issues were
purely local and of moral rather than
political or partisan character. The re-
suits IN these States would seem to
strengthen rather than weaken the party
In my opinion the most significant Of the
elections on Tuesday, regarding the re-
suits from a national standpoint, was that
in Virginia. The Populists, who have
been encouraged to Lope that If they
could break the ranks of the solid Sonth
they would pave the way for the success
of the POI ulist movement at the next
Presidential elections, made the utmost
exertions to capture Virginia. Free silver
vas the controlling Issue in the campaign,
and the Democrats, who stood for SOUND
money, won the fight. The victory IN
Virginia means that in the next national
election all the Southern States will stand
by the national Democracy. Generally
speaking, l would say that the effect OF
Tuesdays elections will be most whole
some on the Democratic party. 1t leaves
the Democrats no chance to dodge at the
next session of Congress.
Senator Teller: President Cleveland
had always belieyed the November cleo
tons would be a complete yindIcation of
his course. He bad oftentimes been
warned by the Democratic members, that
he would get himself and the party into
trouble if be continued in the course he
had mapped out; but he knew better than
they did, and now he has heard from the
country.
Editor J. B. McCullagh, st. LOUIS Globe
Democrat, (Rep) "A result so general
aud so uniform as that OF Tuesday must
be traceable to general causes, and there
are two of these in sight One is the
business depression and the other is the
spc ctre Of free trade which stalks through
the halls of the new Congress.