The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-11-22


tho9Sh the Democratic leaders are con-
tehulhg that as soon as the new tariff law
mas thoroughly adjusted itself and the opera
| tlon or the income tax Is felt the treasury
VIII be relieved, the Republicans are not
! willing 20 admit this. So thoroughly con-
WINGED are they that this government can
not be successfully administered without
protection that they are banking on it that
the present tariff measures will prove q
| failure. The issue of bonds TO recOup the
depleted gold reserve they look upon as a
means Of temporary expediency only and an
expedient that cannot be availed Of too
often.
Assuming, then, that governmental ex-
penses will continue to exceed receipts,
| pointing to the way in which the gold re-
| ceived from the last bond issue slowly but
surely dwindled away and claiming that the
same fate awaits the anticipated increase
| in the reserve from the present bond issue
and holding to the belief that Democratic
| dissensions will preclude the possibility of
relief coming from that quarter, they assert
that next summer will find President Cleve-
| land with depleted treasury on his hands
and then, nolens volens, he will be forced to
| call together his political opponents to save
| the National credit. Not very pleasant
outlook, certainly.
Chairman Babcock of the Republican con-
| gressional committee, in speaking of the
above matter, Is quoted as saying that the
Republican party would not aid Mr.. Cleve-
land during the approaching short session,
because they did not believe in the Demo-
claim. under protective system an issue of
bonds would not be necessary. He Is Of the
opinion, however, that the Republicans
would take no steps to force an extra SEES
sion, preferring to let matters run their own
course. The people would not submit to
any extreme measures on the part OF the
| Republicans, such as preventing the pass
age of the appropriation bills.
THE STAY AT HOME VOTE.
Here come some large-sized crumbs of
satisfaction for those among the Democrats
who have been asserting that the result
of the election was not to be attributable
to wholesale conversions to Republican ideas
but to the failure of thousands of Demo
Gratis to go to the polls and vote. 1t Is a
resume of statistical research on the part OF
Mr.. Frederick c. Waite, Republican and
special agent Of the late census, the paper
being read at meeting Of the National sta
tistical association, held in this city today.
1t has created quite good deal OF comment
and is in part as follows:
ITO show that the Republican farmers
did not vote for CLEVELAND in 1872, l analyzeH
the election returns, town by town. al
throughout the rural districts OF new iofh.
and discovered that the rural vote Tor
Cleveland was even less in 1880 than In 1888
in every agricultural county OF the Pm
pire state. Cleveland's vote in lS92 was less
than in 1888 in the rural townships OF all Ine
agricultural counties. This year the ne
pubicans have not cast as large per cent
of the full vote as in 1888 In single state.
Hence, the only reasonable conclusion Is
| that in lSJZ the ulSSutlSHeu NepupiIah
| farmers, and this year the disseminated
Democratic laborers, Joined the stay-at-home
vote. The stay -at-home vote has increased seq
| in New York from 10000 In 1888 to lS5,oOo
| in 1892 and to 425O00 this year. in Penn
sylvania, from 10000 in 1888 to 230OOO in
| 1892 and to 100000 this year. 1t has In
creased in Ohio from 10000 in 1888 to- 49,
| 600 in 1892 and to 290. 900 this year; in Mich
| igan, from 10000 in 1888 to 100000 in 1882
and to 100000 in 1893 and 1894. South
Carolina, when she had 10000 less voters
| than at present cast 1S3,621 votes for
HAYES and Tilden. The total vote this year,
however is not much over 10000, or about
one-fourth of the full vote. 1t Is the stay
at-home party which has made such phe-
nomenal gains. The immense Republican
pluralities this year are not the result of an
| extraordinary Republican vote, but of an
| exceedingly small Democratic vote. Wis
consin has not polled for the Democratic
| candidates such small percentage of her
| full vote for twenty-five years. In Penn
| sylvania the Democratic party has not cast
| on an important election such small vote
| for half century. The astonishing featr&s
/ of the recent election are the same as those
of 1892, when 1000, 900 Republican farmers
| stayed at home, while their POpulist breth-
rem cast 1,042, 531 votes on the strength OF
| visionary promises. Census and registration
| statistics disclose the fact that this year
| the stay-at-hOme voters numbered about
| !, 100000. If TO these we add the 100000
| Populists, the 100000 Republicans, and the
| scattering vote, we have over 12,O0O,0OO who
have shown dissatisfaction with the present
| administration of public affairs, to be placed
over against the 100000 Democrats who
voted approval"