The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
METROPOLITAN POINTERS.

The Tammany machine is too badly
smashed to be repaired, but there is
! plenty Of work In New YORK politics for
honest members Of Tamnany. and they
will find honest ways Of doing it.-N. Y.
World (dem).
tariff protection has received a new inn
pulse by the republican victory at the cleo
ton. Sugar trust stock is one of the adj
vancing securities on the speculative mar
ket.-Chiago Herald (dem.).
The lesson which ex-President Harrison
draws from the election is Trust the
people" He Is late in learning wisdom. It
is not 80 long ago-in the days Of the
Lodge bill-that the Harrisonian motto
was Force the people. Chicago Times
(dem.)
In every county and city democrats who
have the welfare Of the party at heart
should meet and discuss the party's well
fare and should be Indifferent 10 the mere
personal fortunes of any politician This
is not a time for personal ends to be con-
sidered. 1t is the time for conscientious
voters to confer with each other. What
ever in experience. ability and conscien-
tiOus service politicians have to offer is
to be welcomed. But the arbters are the
men who vote.-St. Louis Republic (dem.).
1t is but just to say that the republicans
have accepted their great victory in an SX-
cellent spirit Some of the little fellows
bark away, OF course, about the instant
restoration of Mckinley duties, and there
is some talk about the protectionist cham
pions being the logical candidate in
1886, but, for the most part, the repub-
Hcan Interpretation of the elections Is that
they gave a verdict in favor of good gov
eminent and strict party responsibility,
and against machine politics, whether in
city, state or nation.-N. Y. Post (mug.).
An obvious if not the most important
cause Of the overwhelming democratic
defeat was without doubt in the financial
crisis which overlook the country soon
after the Inauguration of President CIeve-
| land. A large proportion Of voters judge
Of the political situation. as they find IL,
without searching for its underlying in
fuences. It was in vain to urge with
these voters the truth that the malad-
ministration of the republican party had
brought the crisis. 1t was enough for
them that the times had become worse
under democratic rule; and they acted ac-
cordingly.-Philadelph Record (dem).
Now that the clamor and din of the
great political battle which has ragged for
50 many months are dying cut il is graft
flying to note multiplying and unmistak-
| able signs of a revival of business. The
extended wave of commercial depress on
which started I'm 1891 to make its slugs sh
but disastrous circuit Of the globe trav-
eled in the same direction IS the vast tide
West After first traversing the old world
It reached this country early last year 1t
has moved with tardy step indeed. but
there is now every reason 70 hope that it
| has broken TO pieces and is fast disappear
! ing.-N. Y. Herald Qnd).
Although in Tuesdays election there
was nowhere trace of federal meddling
with the ballot-box, and although through
out the South the whites We're in absolute
control of the election machinery, no few
er than eight of the states formerly in
Guided within slaveholding territory have
sent republican representative to the next
congress. The states to which we refer
are Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia. Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee
and North Carolina. Indeed, 1t now looks
as if there will be as many republicans
from the former slave states as there will
be democrats from the former free states.
N. Y. Sun (dem).
Everything Is propitious now for the
democrats to start fresh. and they should
do it in the most resolute manner. If they
shall profit by the healthy cleanup that
has been given them by the people. and by
the defeat that they have well deserved
both in the state and nation, they can at
once become an important factor in politics
and get into hopeful shape for 1895. If
they do not understand the lessons of ad-
versity. and refuse the teachings which
the people have given them, the democ-
racy may as we'll close out business and
retire from the field of politics. The peo-
pie have given the democrats healthy
cleanup; let them appreciate it and fit
thmselves for future usefulness In our
political battles.-Philadelph Times