The herald., 1893-11-09
PRESS OPINION.

Newspaper Comment on the Republican
Landslide.
New YORK, Nov. SIN regard to YES
terday's elections the Evening Worlt
says: In Brooklyn as in the state tn,
result has not been Democratic defea
and Republican victory. New Yori
is still Democratic; Brooklyn is still
Democratic. In the state and sister city
the victory was won by honest and sim
cere Democrats over those who injured
the party by Objectionable methods and
bad nominations. The Democracy will
be all the stronger in the future from
the publication it received.
The Evening Sun Dem.), says: The
defeat of the Democratic party through
out the country must be assumed to be
! due more to Democratic defections than
to Republican gains. The whole elec-
tlons turned upon national issues, yet
the people voted heretofore to reform
the unconstitutional tariff in the inter
ests of those who wished to reform it in
the direction of tariff for revenue
only.
The Mail and Express (ReI } saws:
The result will enable the legislature to
override any vetoes Governor Flower
writes, and the Legislature will under.
take to repeal the Tammany anti-home
rule and anti-honest election laws, and
may legislate Tammany's city officers
into oblivion.
The Telegram Qnd. Dem. says: The
people OF the state of New York have
spoken at the polls and the day and
state are theirs. Ring machinery and
ring nominees are broken.
WASHINGTON, Nov. S.-The Post will
say:
If the results of the great political
landslide Tuesday demonstrates one
thing more than another it is that when
really great principles or great economic
interests are involved in the contest,
the merely partisan yoke hangs loosely
around the public neck. In Massachu- |
setts, in Ohio, in Iowa, the tariff auss-
tion undoubtedly exerted a powerful
influence in maintaining and increas-
ing the Republican majorities. The
great Republican victory in New York,
however, furnishes the most impressive |
lesson OF the day. This lesson, ii wisely
conned, the Democracy of the Empire |
state may profit by.
,sSSIigTFIAARoofls4oN aa, -s--Tha Plain /
By majority certainly large enough |
for all practical purposes. Mckinley |
succeeds himself as Governor of Ohio.
To those closely in touch with events in
the Ohio campaign this is not a sur
prise; while the vote given Mckinley
by no means indicates either his per-
sonal or party strength in more stirring |
political times to come. 1t is patent |
that Ohio has just been the field of a
preliminary presidential skirmish; u
plan to that effect was long ago mapped |
out, and circumstances conspired to
render it apparently successful.
DENVER, Colo, Nov. S.-The Republi-
can (Rep.) says: The sweeping victo-
ries achieved by the Republican party
Yesterday can only be construed as an
overwhelming popular condemnation OF
the administration of President Cleve-
land and it's policies regarding the tariff,
finance and other momentous public
questions. It is difficult to say what
figure the silver question cut in the
elections.
The News (Pop.) says: The people
rebelled against Cleveland's despotism
his submission to British domination in
American finances; his disregard of the
people and their interests. and his CON-
plete surrender to the moneyed classes.
The tendency should be to make south
ern Democrats more determined for free
coinage and bring about an alliance be-
tween that section ana the west, which
mutual interests would seem to make
inevitable. The work Of the Peoples
party has lust commenced.