The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-09-20
FIRST VICI0R|'I II
Elections in Maine and Ver-
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.Ad-
ministration.
The Republican flag hangs high and
futters 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 1892 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 10000 majority against Maynard
in New Yozk and the nearly 200, 900 for
the Republican ticket in Pennsylvania.
They have not only gone Republican,
which was to be expected, but they
have h.
Given the Biggest Majorities
for the ticket ever heard of. Vermont
led off with little short of $4,000, only
fifty votes short of the majority for
Harrison in the triumphant year, 1888.
Maine ,-oes one better with majority
that will fall little if any below 5000
when all the returns are in. 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. 1t ls proof
enough of what every shrewd polit.
ical observer insists upon; that the
movement summed up by the Peoples
party reached it's height in 1892, that it
will show q 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
q 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.
Tho Minnesota Conversational Situation.
A few more candidates for congr ess
have made their appearance in Min.
nesota this week, simplifying the Gitua'
ton. In the Sixth Major Baldwin was
renominated as q matter of course, and
the Pops sprung surprise by resur-
recting Kttel Halvorsen, whose fame,
like PETERS, rests mostly on his beard.
There is very plain sailing over q
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 . business, and who
has belonged to about AZ many diher-
emit parties the same length of time.
Such fellow gets less dangerous
every time re is q candidate. Lin
coins famous saying that you can't fool
all of the people all of the time comes
into play. When a man has been Re-
publican. Democrat, Populist and any
thing else that holds out to him hope
of an Office within a few years, . Ger
tain number of people are bound to find
him out. 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 q
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 Steenerson
case, the rates charged on grain by the
Great Northern from points in North
western Minnesota to Duluth and Min
neapois were declaaed unreasonably
high, and a schedule of reduced
rates was announced by the commits
sion. In the second case, the pitition OF
citizens Of Moorhead for q reduction Of
the rates charged for shipping coal from
Duluth is granted, and the rate BY the
Northern Pacific is ordered to be rot at
$2.25 instead Of 8. These two decisions
will be Of vast benefit to the people OF
the Northern part Of the state. They
are the evidence Of q 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, in
their turn will remember when they are
asked to pass judgment on that admin
istration at the polls. ;.
The Destruction of Reciprocity.