The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-08
one-haif. ~hsis the Repabssesn voss fab
90 sniy one-hsfh-

mssy voted the ReYahliean ticket TIE
hattie vas fc1ght directly on the tariff
issas. and On fAas fssas sn aggregate Den
ocrstsc xasio-ify Of ss.ss in the ksars Of
Ssv York essy, rIthia she dominion Of
Tsmmanv Hall. Was simoss snfiresy wiped
oct. and . Eep1hiiean consressmen ssnt
By Democrats workfnrnenss votes % pre-
sent their protest q; washington- Eyea
last November. when the Democratic
party wss beaten in the state by over - 90
plurality these t~o districts. in sAseh this
potifiesi revosusion has just taken place.
gsvs so Democ-ati- plurality. Tsunasy
made tie vacancies In these two districts
when q norninAsed Fellows fer district
attorney and Fitch for com ptrolier. and
Tammany worked day and night 70 elect
Brown and strauss.
These districss represented VERY large
vofkingmsn's vote ana the rssuit Of the
election shoss the prevailing temper Of
the working classes. These elections are
conclusive proof fhss the Democratic
party cannot expect to rstsin the ~c.king-
mems vote II IL persists In its warfare on
America indussriea In these sUo dis
iricts the Democracy have lost nearly
1900 votes. A rroportionase loss in the
other eight congressional districts Of New
York city would mean an aggregate DEM
ocrssse loss Of nearly 5000 votes. and
would extinguish the Democratic majority
Of q. 60 which Was secured la the ten city
eongresssonai distrits in November. 1892
The evolutionary character Of the
change may be gathered from the fact that
Quigg is the third Republican congress-
mar elected from Nev York city since
1878. when Levi p. Morton, Edwin En-
stein and Arson g. McCook we're re-
turned. In 1880 one Republican congress
man vas elected: In 1886 one Republican
Congressman. The New York Saa, the
able organ Of the Tammany Democracy.
frankly confesses that the loss of the
Fourteenth district and the reduction of q
Democratic plurality of 1850 in the Fiji
teenth district TO 1857 is the Judgment of
Democratic New York upon the cowardiy
and insensate policy Of the leaders without
leadership at Washington. These are the
first fruits of the Wilson bill"
The Sun considers what would have
been the effect Of general disaster to the
Democrats similar TO that which the ac-
cident OF circumstances confined TO one
district in New York. We will leave out
Of the estimate ths states Of the South
which are sincerely behind this sectional
49, g.
the probable Democratic losses at the
North. whose industries are assailed by
this insane enactment. In California the
Democracy would have lost 1 in the
Fourth district; In Connecticut the
Democrats would have Lost Congress
men; IN Delaware, /; in Illinois, Z;
in Indiana, IL; in Kentucky. 3: in
Maryland. 3: in Massachusetts, 4; in
Michigan. 4; in Minnesota, 2; in
Nebraska. 1: in Missouri, 10; In New Je--
sey. 1; in New York, 8; in North Carolina,
s: In Ohio, z; In Pennsyivania. 4. in
Rhode Island, ?; in Tennessee. 2; in yir-
ginia. .; In West Virginia. 4: in Wy
oming, l. The Democrats in the present
congress are els; Republicans, 10; Popu.
lists. II, total Of $50. Necessary TO q
majority. i7s; Democratic margin over a
majority, 36. A Democratic loss of City
Representatives would give the Republic
ans control OF the house and according to
the figures Of the Sun. the Democracy are
dangerously likely TO lose from eighty to
100 seats in consequence of the Wilson
tariff bill.
Another loud warning to the congress.
sional Democracy is the election of Q Re-
publican city government in Duluth yes
terday on the tariff question rs an issue.
has been replaced by Republican elected
by 2. $50 majority on q vote of 1900. An
other straw is the resignation of Demo
cratic Congressman sibley. OF Pennsylva-
mia. who denounced the Wilson tariff bill.
His Democratic constituents endorsed his
opposition to the bill and urged him to
continue in tie house. Another objee.
lesson that Is rapidly converting the Dem
occatic workingmen to protection is the
failure of Judson's glove establishment
in Gloversviiie, New York. II was the
largest in Fulton county and employed
1000 persons. lis proprietor in the presi-
Dental campaign of isa2 was an ardent
Democrat aud an advocate of the election
of Cleveland. He defended the tariff
plank Of the Democratic platform, pooh
poohed the Republican claim that disaster
would follow the Auccess of the party of
free trade and offered to give employmen
to any Glovsrsvililan who might lose his
work a. the result Of Democratic victory.
Mr.. Judson today is like the small boy
who was kicked in the face by the horse he
was teasing-he is not nearly 80 cheerful but
he knows good deal more than he did In
November, iss2. and he has been greatly
annoyed by the unemployed who have
called upon him and asked him to redeem
his campaign promise. When the Wilson
bill was being framed Mr.. Judson was one
Of several Democrats from the Mohawk
valley who appeared before the way. and
means committee and asked for the reten-
ton Of Mckinley duties.
Mr.. Judson is one of vast army of
Democrats who have paid the penalty of
Democratic success in 1902.