The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-11-13

THE splendid triumph of justice and
decency in the election last week is only
preparatory. Power has been turned over
to the Republicans by the votes of great
publicans. 1t is astonishing how evenly
the Democratic loss ranges throughout the
country. II is about 10000 votes in Mas
sachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecti-
cut, out of 30l 900 cast in the Presidential
election of lS92-a trifle over a quarter.
1t is about 100000 votes out of 1,2S4,000
in New York, New Jersey and PennsYl-
vania-a trifie less than a quarter. 1t is
about 1854, 900 votes out of a total in 1892
of l ,472,000 in the i've Central Western
States-Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wiscon
sin and IllinoIs-again a shade less than
quarter. 1t is apparently about POI, 900
votes out of total in 1892 of 1923, 900 in
Northern States beyond the Mississippi,
not of the Pacific Slope-again nearly a
quarter. And in Texas the Democratic
loss appears to have been $4,000 out of
239. 14S votes in 1924 little more than a
quarter. Taking all the States of which
definite reports have appeared, the loss is
about 1,116. 600 votes out of 4,119,000 cast
in 1S92-a little more than quarter. Of
the 1.116,0OO 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 a year of Congressional cleo
tions only.
At least twenty five Democrats in hun
dred have failed or refused to vote for
Democratic tickets, of whom not far from
ten in a hundred have voted for Republi
mendous cannot be attributed to local
causes. The horrible exposures of vice
and crime in New York, the splendid up
rising of the people against municipal cor
ruption in Brooklyn and Buffalo and Jer
sey City, did not produce after all loss
of Democratic vote materially greater than
was seen in widely separated states like
Main and Oregon, Massachusetts, and
Texas, Connecticut and Iowa.
1t is great 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 per-
sonal friends had entire direction of the
Democratic party, as in Michigan and
Wisconsin. the overthrow was as COM
plete and the Democratic loss relatively as
great as in states like New York and Mary
land, where his personal resentment at
the support of his personal foes led many
to expect that his friends would strike
back.
The only cause which fits and explains
all the facts is the indignation of Demo-
cratic workingmen because the policy Of
their party has done them harm. This
single force is 30 much more powerful
than all others that even the astounding
exposures of rottenness in New York
made the Democratic loss scarcely greater
than 1t was in states where no personal
corruption existed. 1t is as if the men
who were affected by proved misconduct
and rascality could be counted by hun
dreds. but the men who were affected by
the prostration of their industries could
be counted by thousands 1t is a concu-
sion not tiattering to the Democratic vot-
ers. But 1T is nevertheless the lesson
which the returns unmistakably teach.
that the Democratic workingmen have be-
come profoundly disguised 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.-Neto York 1fib
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