Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1893-11-11
ACCOUNTING FOR 1T
Two Causes to Which Democratic
Politicians Ascribe Their
Defeat.
Dissatisfaction Over the Financial
Question and Disappointed
Office Seekers.
The President Evidently Not Sur
prised-Awaits Vindication by
Time.

rrlSed-AWaltS tlnalcatlOn by
Time.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.-The result of
the election has been received with sur
prise by all political parties here. The
chief surprise of the Democrats arises
not from the fact that they were de-
feated, but that the defeat was 80 gen
eral in all doubtful states and the Re
publican majority so overwhelming. A
grain Of comfort is accorded them in the
defeat Of the Populists in Virginia and
the election OF O'Ferran to the governor
ship. but the blows have been SO crush
ing in the states Of New York, Mas
sachusctts, New jersey, Ohio and Iowa
that even the success i'll Virginia is
Hardly Psraled Triumph.
Expressions from nearly all the prom
inent Democratic leaders at the Capital,
as indicated i'll these dispatches several
days ago, showed that the Democrats
We're prepared for defeat in those states
where the free coinage element is strong,
and the disappointment over the passage
Of the repeal bill is intense. But it was
hardly expected that in the sound money
states of New York and Massachusetts
the Democratic najorities of the past
would be so ruthiessly moved down and
the careful efforts OF perfect organize
ton avail so little. Despite this, how
ever, all the prominent Democratic lead
ers unite in ascribing the general defeat
throughout the country to two causes.
Ct1icc Seekers and Farmers.
The dissatisfaction of the agricultural
element over the financial question and
the widespread apathy of disappointed
Office seekers who have failed to realize
the fruits Of Democratic victory. In the
State of Ohio alone was the tariff ques-
ton a prominent theme Of discussion,
Mckinley and Neal SO e,nphatic,:lly
representing the declarations Of their
parties i'll this respect. But here, too,
the Democrats are routed by the same
inexorable Republican majority. In
Iowa the defeat OF Boi,'s is important,
not that it means Republican governor
in that state and a Republican United
States senator next winter, but that it
Practically Removes I:oics
from the list of Western candidates for
the presidency in 1895. The judgment
Of the party leaders have approved the
first declaration Of Governor Bcies last
summer that he would not be a candi-
date for governor at the fall election, and
when he finally rcconsidered aud en-
tered the race for third term. it was
felt that lie had everything to lose and
little to gain from the campaign that
the popular Foraker was unable in Ohio
to stem the popular sentiment against a
third term and when the Republicans Of
iowa reproachad the Democrats with de-
parting from one Of the cardinal princi-
pies Of their party III nominating man
for a third term. they placed their oppon-
ents OH the defensive, practically, from
the very beginning.
Popuiists stil Hopeful.
The Popul;sts still contend that later
returns will show that their party has
made far better showing in various
states than is conceded them in the
earlier dispatches. In Virginia, they Sue
caeded in terrorizing the Democrats for
the past two weeks. but the leaders of
the latter party rallied from their panic
in tine to make unprecedented efforts to
get cut their full vote and it looks as
though the Populists would have stood a
much better chance for victory by max
ing a still fight. The Populist senators
and representatives, who are in the city
are an21icusly waiting the latest news
from Nebraska and Kansas, and expect
cheering news from the official returns.
They Were Prophets.
There is one element Of the defeated
Democracy that views the general Re-
publican victories with a philosophic res
ignation that amounts to almost salts
faction. This element comprises the free
coinage Democrats who have so bitterly
reproached President Cleveland for fore
ing the repeal bill through congress, and
who have been predicting that the adj
ministration's disloyalty to the Demo-
cratic national platform would be re-
buhed by crushing defeat in all the
great state elections this fall. These men
now point to the Democratic defeat as
the result Of the party's departure from
its faith III the recent extraordinary ses-
sion, and are already preparing to coax
the majority back to the orthodox faith.
Low the President Took 1t.
The president did not show that in
tense interest in the returns that would
have indicated confidence in a Demo-
cratic victory. Early in the evening the
president went out to his country home,
instead of remaining at the executive
mansion as usual on election night, and
the returns he received We're only those
Of sufficient Importance to be telephoned
out to Woodley by Private Secretary
Thurber, as the latter received them
from the telegraph wire at the White
House. Several members Of the cabinet
drove out to the presidents house early
il the evening, but none of these gentle
men have thus far given any expression
Of the causes that led up to the general
defeat.
The president was doubtless undis-
couraged Ly the defeat, as he has cons
tantly repeated to those members of his
party who have been predicting Demo-
cratic defeat as the result Of the admin
istration's financial policy. that time
would vi.ldictte the party and show that
the majority was right i'll demanding the
immediate and unconditional repeal of
the Sherman act,
Situation at SAINT Ander.
MADRID. Nov. Dispatches received
from SAINT Ander say that the buildings
ruined and rendered unsafe by the re-