Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-15
PRESS COMMENTS.
A Million Democrats Revolt.
On. Y. Tribune.)


The splendid triumph of justice and de-
cency in the election last week Is on!
preparatory. Power has been turned over
to the Republicans by the votes OF great
ar1uy of citizens who have not been ne
publicans. 1t is astonishing how evenly
the Democratic loss ranges Throughout
the country 1t is about, 76, 900 votes IN
Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Con-
necticut, out of 3O1, 900 cast in the presl-
Dental election of 1S92-a trlfle over a
quarter 1t is about 800, 900 votes out OF
| l. 2S4, 600 in New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania-a trihe less than quarter.
| 1t is about 1854, 900 votes out OF total
in 1892 of LAP, 900 in THE five Central
Western states-Ohio Indiana, Michigan,
| Wisconsin and Illinois-again shade less
than quarter. 1t is apparently about
| POI. 900 votes out of total in 1892 OF S23,
900 in Northern states beyond the Mlssls-
sippi not of the Pacific slope-again near
| ly a quarter. And in Texas the Demo
cratic loss appears to have been 5000,
out of 239, 14S votes in 1S92-a little more
than quarter Taking all the states of
which definite reports have appeared, the
! loss is about /, 116, 600 votes out OF 4, 49,
900 cast in 1S92-a little more than
quarter OF the 1,116,00 Democratic
votes lost in these states part voted the
Republican tickets directly, though no
close estimate of the proportion can yet
| be made, but it was enough substantially
| to compensate for The natural decrease In
the Republican vote comparing year
of presidential election with year OF
congressional elections only.
At least 25 Democrats in hundred have
failed or refused to vote for Democratic
tickets of whom not far from ten IN
hundred have voted for Republicans di-
rectly. An overturning so tremendous
cannot be attributed to local causes The
horrible exposures of vice and crime IN
New York, the splendid uprising OF the
people against municipal corruption in
Brooklyn and Buffalo and Jersey City,
did not produce after all a loss of Demo
cratic vote materially greater than was
seen in widely separated states like Maine
| and Oregon, Massachusetts and Texas,
Connecticut and Iowa. NJ Epsses.ssssssf go
The loss in New England was shade
| greater than in the Middle states, and the
loss in the great Central states of the
West about as large in proportion. Where
| the Democrats have won heretofore by ald
of the Populists, their, loss is about the
same as in states where they have this
year Republican and Populist combina-
ton against them. With men of pure
personal character, like Professor Wilson,
of West Virginia, their loss is about as
great as with the most shameless dema-
gogues, such as Hill of New York. All
these things show, beyond possibility of
mistake, that the great cause of Demo
cratic defeat was of national character.
1t was displeasure with Democratic con-
duct, not in city or state, but in the
United States, and particularly with the
Democratic administration and Congress.
1t is grave mistake to suppose that no
part of this chorus of popular censure is
directed at the President. In states where
his closest and most devoted personal
friends had entire direction of the Demo
cratic party, as in Michigan and Wiscon-
sin, the overthrow was as complete and
the Democratic loss relatively as great
as in states like New York and Maryland,
where his personal resentment at the
support of his personal foes led many to
expect that his friends would strike back.
No man assailed the President more bitter
ly than Senator German, but he comes out
of the catastrophe with less of personal
|
tor Gray, or Senator Palmer If there is
difference, indeed the popular rebukc
appears to have been more indignant and
emphatic in states where the Democratic
party heartily sustained the President
than in other states where it treated him
with contempt.
The only cause which fits and explains
all the facts is the indignation of Democra-
tic workingmen because the policy of their
party has done them harm. This single
force is so much more powerful than all
others that even the astounding expos
ures of rottenness in New York made the
Democratic loss scarcely greater than il
was in states where no personal corruption
existed. 1t is as if the men who were af-
fected by proved misconduct and rascality
could be counted by hundreds, but the
men who were affected by the prostration
of their industries could be counted by
thousands. 1t is conclusion not flat
tering to the Democratic voters. But it is
nevertheless the lesson which the returns
Enthusiastically teach, that the Democratic
workingmen have become profoundly dis
gusted with the national policy for which
they voted in 1892, and so disguised, that
even the worst exposures of infamy have
had only subordinate influence