The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-11-09
BIG REPUBLICAN, SWEEP.
HILLS DEFEAT TERRIFIC AND
THE TAMMANY TIGER SLAIN.
Republicans Sweep The Horth, East and
West and the Democratic Majorities
Reduced in the South.

Tuesday was democratic Waterloo.
There never was before such an abso-
ute crash. The gallant Hill goes down
inder majority of more than hun
red thousand, and the Tammany
ger in New York city is slain out
ght. Ohio il lost by majority of
$1,000, and the democrats lose every
congressman. VIM. l.. Wilson, the
author Of the tariff bill, aud the DEM
ocrasic leader Of tile house, goes down
in the general wreck and carnage. Al
democratic plurality of ninety in the
house is changed to q republican plu-
raiity Of sixty.
The populists suffer even worse than
the democrats. Waite is defeated in
Colorado and Watson faces majority
Of 5000 against him in Georgia.
Cooper in this district has an easy
walk over, though the vote through
out the district is light.
Springer and Holman, and Tom
Johnson, the great democratic leaders,
are engulfed in the mighty tidal wave,
and except in the south, the whole
democratic outfit is swept away.
But the surprises did not end here.
The democratic wall that has hitherto
enclosed the southern states and stood
like adamant against the vicious
theories and false teachings OF the re-
publican party, has been broken in
places and the boosted solidarity Of
the south is no more. Louisiana,
which has already been corrupted by the
Lottery, and having taste Of practical
politics in reaping the benefits of the
sugar bounty at the expense of the
whole body of the people, elects two
or three republican congressman.
And SO, also, kentucky so long wor-
shipping at the shrine of The "iStar-
Eyed-G Goddess, = has been tempted by
the Baal of Protection, and L ses two
or three democratic congressman,
Owens, of the Ashland district, who
madesuch a hard fightagainst Breckin-
ridge, beingamong the slain. But more
surprising than all, Tennessee loses her
democratic governor, North Carolina
sends two or three populists 10 con-
gress and the democrats lose two or
three congressman in Missouri. Till
man continues master Of the situation
in the Palmetto state and will be But
ler's successor in the United States
Senate.
VI course varlouscauses are assigned
for the sweeping democratic defeat.
The disagreemenls of the democrats
among themselves on the tariff and
on silver, produced confusion and
apathy in the ranks and were the
prominent factors that brought about
the general wreckage. In New York
the fight Of Parkhurst, the principal
New York dailies and the disclosures
of the Lexow committee against Tam
many, and the nugwumps against
Hill, finally eliminating in the noni-
nation Of an opposition ticket headed
by Peckham Wheeler, contributed to
the Waterloo Of the democracy III the
Empire State.
In all the newspapers Of the coun-
try not single democratic rooster APP
pears and the election tidings are as
mournfully quiet as the burial of Sir
John More.
The republican eaglesare flying high
and the republican press predict u
sweeping republican victory in 1896
But time is a piIil.ss ami impartial
avenger, SO we are not disinayed.
Truth crushed to earth will rise again,
The eternal years of God are hers.
But error, wounded, writhers inpain,
And dies among his worshippers'