The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-09-27
Elections In Maine and Yer.
mont Indicate the Temper
of the People.
Third Party Disappeared In
the East, as 1t Will in
the West.
Substantial Benefits to Minne-
sofa From Republican ADJ
miniStration.

The Republican flag hangs high and
dutters proudly in the breeze of popular
approval this week. While everybody
believed that the utter disgust of the
people of this country with their expert
ment of 1882 which showed itself at the
polls in all the states where elections
occurred last year had increased rather
than diminished, there was no positive
proof Of it. Now Vermont and Maine
have spoken. And they tell just the
same story that was told year ago by
the 100000 majority against Maynard
in New York and the nearly 10000 for
the Republican ticket in Pennsylvania.
They have not only gone Republican,
which was to be expected, but they
have
Given the Biggest Najorities
for the ticket ever heard of. Vermont
led off with little short of 10000, only
fifty votes short of the majority for
Harrison in the triumphant year, 1883.
Maine goes one better with majority
that will fall little if am below 10000
when all the returns are inl In both
states the legislatures are both practic-
ally solidly Republican. There will be
nine Democrats in the Vermont body,
and less than that in Maine. These
are victories that count for something.
They indicate temper of the people
that cannot be mistaken. The
Most Gratifying Thing of All
is the fact that the third and fourth
parties disappear, utterly wiped out of
existence. The votes for Populist and
Prohibition candidates are not worth
counting. Yet the people of these two
states are as alive as any to new issues,
they have felt the stress of hard times,
their workingmen have followed with
as careful interest as any the progress of
recent disturbances. It is proof
enough Of what every shrewd polit-
ical observer insists upon; that the
movement summed up by the Peoples
party reached its height in 1892, that it
will show declining strength every
where this year except in some little
benighted pockets OF territory where
intelligence has not yet penetrated,
and that two years hence it will not be
factor in the situation, if, indeed, it
puts any candidates in the field. That
has been the confident belief Of the best
informed students of politics. The re-
turns from Vermont and Maine make
it the handwriting on the wall.
The Minnesota Congressional Situation.
A few more candidates for congress
have made their appearance in Min
nesota this week, simplifying the situa-
ton. In the Sixth Major Baldwin was
renominated as matter of course, and
the Pops sprung surprise by resur-
recting Kittel Halvorsen, whose fame,
like PETERS, rests mostly on his beard,
There is very plain sailing over a
straight course there for Mr.. Towne.
In the Second the Democrats and Popu-
lists are actually going to run Jim
Baker again; Jim, who can give points
to Donnelly himself on the opportuni-
ties Of politics as a business, and who
has belonged to about as many differ
ent parties in the same length of time.
Such a fellow gets less dangerous
every time he is candidate. Lin
coins famous saying that you can't fool
all Of the people all of the time comes
into play. When man has been Re-
publican, Democrat, Populist and any
thing else that holds out to him hope
of an office within few years, GER
tain number of people are bound to find
him t. Jim Baker don't begin to be
q dangerous candidate in Minnesota
now. All that is left of him is his
lungs and his record. The latter can be
left to take care of the former.
Practical Experience with Republican
Administration.
In the meantime the farmers and
other producers of the state have had
practical experience of the benefits of a
Republican administration Of the laws
in Minnesota, through two important
decisions made by the state board Of
railroad and warehouse commissioners.
In the first, known as the Stevenson
case, the rates charged on grain by the
Great Northern from points in North
western Minnesota to Duluth and Min
| neapolis were declaaed unreasonably
high. and q schedule of reduced
rates was announced by the commits
sion. In the second case, the pitition OF
citizens of Moorhead for reduction OF
the rates charged for shipping coal from
Duluth is granted, and the rate by the
Northern Pacific is ordered to be set al
1925 instead of s.. These two decisions
will be Of vast benefit to the people OF
the Northern part Of the state. They
are the evidence Of straightforward
unflinching, but honest and careful ad
ministration Of the laws by the present
state government, with the single view
Of doing Justice to all. These are sub
stantial benefits which the people, II
their turn will remember when they ar
asked to pass Judgment on that admin
istration at the polls.
The Destruction Of Reciprocity.
One Of the most injurious effects Q
the new tariff act, which was least ag1
tated at the time and now threatens =
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