The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-04
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
Forerunners of the storm.
Boston Journal.


1t is profoundly significant that coincidently
with the reopening OF the tariff debate
in Congress should come another Repub-
lican whirlwind. The sweeping Republican
victories on Monday in municipal elections
in Connecticut, Ohio. Michigan and other
States are without precedent in the
history of the party. Never before has the
Republican cause been so uniformly and over
wheimingly successful. In the Democratic
stronghold of Hartford the Republicans
elected all the city officers but
one; in Stamford the result was "Re-
publican landslide" The entire Republican
ticket was elected in Cincinnati on a heavy
vote. Columbus went Republican by an in
crease of 1000 over McKinley's phenomenal
plurality of last autumn. Cleveland, which
went Democratic by 1000 in 1892, and elected
Democratic mayor last spring now elects
Republican by 5000. so the story goes
throughout the Buckeye State. Hamilton,
the home of Senator Brice and Governor
Campbell, ELECTS a Republican Mayor for the
first time in its history" Wayerly reports.
"The first Republican Mayor ever elected
here" At Fostorla, 'The Republicans sweep
everything" At Mansfield, the home of
Senator sherman, "The Republican elect their
entire ticket for the first time in the history
of the CITY," Canton, the home of Governor
Mckinley, normally Democratic by 500 ma
jority, "redeelns itself from Democratic rule,'l
Toledo chooses an almost solidly Republican
city government
There is altogether too much unanimity
here % permit of attributing the results TO
local causes. And what is true of Ohio is
equally true OF Michigan. OF 55 Michigan
towns reporting ~ went Republican and
only four Democratic. There were sweep
ing Republican victories everywhere"
Alpena and Escanaba, important lake
shipping ports, repudiated the Democracy as
emphatically as classic Ann Arbor. Grand
Rapids elected the entire Republican ticket
the work of the wage earners in that busy
manufacturing community. Manistee city
and county were carried by the Republicans
"for the first time in years.
From other points in the West and North
west comes the news of Republican triumphs
equally decisive. In almost all these cases
NATIONAL party lines were clearly drawn.
National issues everywhere entered into the
contests. That Is undeniable unless il il
maintained that In all these scores
and hundreds of towns and cities the Demo
cratic candidates were invariably weak ana
corrupt and unable TO command the respect
of even their own adherents- The Demo-
cratic party cannot afford TO make this
humiliating acknowledgment, TO accept this
disgraceful alternative. These municipal
elections, sweeping and significant as
they are. are merely the first mutterings OF
the awful storm of indignation which is
destined TO break upon the head OF the Demo-
cracy in November. No national Admin
stratlon since Buchanan's has disappointed
and disgusted the people as this one has done
& has richly earned. and there are accumu-
lating omens that it is sure OF receiving, n
popular rebuke which will far eclipse even
the political revolution of 1869.