The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-08
The Election Results.

IN succession, Is simple ana tnc sam
as last year and tho year before. TIL
"hard tines have done ii and til
business recovery of the past fey
months, considerable as it has been
is yet too incomplete and hating ant
still has too many threatening factor
in IT, to permit the dissatisfied voter
to return to the Democratic ranks
1t is useless to argue with these voters
who number hundreds OF Thousand
the country through, that Democratic
rule is not responsible for the times
The considera tions involved are to-
complicated and the causes too Difficult
of understanding by even the wises
men, for such voter to bother with.
He knows that the hard times have
been upon the country and that they
are not gone entirely yet and he
knows that they were somewhere neal
coincident with the return of the
Democratic party to power, and that
is as far as he will look for the time
being, especially when he cannot find
a candid and intelligent Democrat
who will fully approve the German
Brice tariff. The pervading potency
of this kind of vote has been illustrat-
ed in Ohio, where Campbell's brilliant
campaign aroused enthusiasm and OK
pectations equal to those of any year,
and where the Republicans themselves
felt in the last few days of the canvass
that they would be lucky to come out
with quarter of the majority they
have scored. But there were thousands
of these dissatisfied voters who didn't
talk or turn out in professions and
who couldn't be counted except as
Democrats, as they have been until
lately, but who quietly walked up and
voted the Republican ticket. The
clearer and fuller knowledge of later
years will show them the error of their
views. But that doesn't do any good
now, and it remains to be seen whether
it will next year.
Added to this one great factor of
was Democratic disadvantage
every where from local issues, from
Apaism in Massachusetts at both !
ends, from long continued rascally ring
rule in Maryland, eliminating lin the
great bolt that has overthrow Cor
man, from the scoundrelism of the old
gamblers and bribe- takers gangs in
New Jersey that have set the Democ
'acy into temporary eclipse there.
rom the shameful subserviences to
Cammany of the state convention in
New York, FROM the fractional fight
md reputation of the platform by the
in Kentucky. Even
t it had been a Democratic year,
here was enough of these local
roubles to turn the scale. s
In year of misfortunes it is the
worst misfortune of all to the Democ-
attic party that Tammany, unreformed
nd unrepentant gets on top in New
'ork city where it will again feel in
hape to take the national organiza-
ion by the throat to have its will !
'orked or. betray the party, as it
ought to betray Tilden and Cleveland.
nd as it did,betray Hancock, secretly
nd Robinson, openly Moreover, it is
ne of the most discouraging things
recent history that after all the rev.
ations of Tammany villainy clear up
} the day of election, a majority of o
he people should be capable of sus- II
lining it. 1t was done largely by the V
Sunday beer" issue, which proved
controlling one with the German u
mericans and it is deplorable indeed n
at such an issue should have over u
adowed every consideration of honest IL
en- of decent government. But an o.
her large element of this change tt
rs the treacnery of Plat and his p
ngs to the fusion ticket: they simply te
rev all their power to the Tammany oil
lie in order to share in the thievery. pl
was of course known that they
,uld, but well wishers of our insti- I'll
tons may well have doubted that w
cir power for such purpose was so ca
Eat. The city gave a Republican m
.e on the state ticket of OF ooo of
the fusian vote on city ticket was ca
out l02, 000 This would leave only CT
", Democrats to vote against the Tam
ny ticket. while everybody knows
At the number was many times as tn
ge. The difference was made up by DR.
publicans who betrayed their own of
ry made nominations to assistTam- pr,
ny. More than half the men caught pc;
and bribe-taking by the lea
sow investigation were Republicans civ
ding positions under Tammany by thu
dickers with Plat & Co. And the
tt " Co., have simply operated to ant
back to the old IDEALS ne,
he only ''silver lining to Tues the
IS clouds is found in the fact that are
ators German and Brice, and to a owe
extent Hill, the very men who ha'
e responsible for the long hold up of cri
tariff bill last year, and for such ito
honest and disgraceful features as pie
e forced upon it, have been effec- it
lly done for by this election. cou
new
and
he export statistics for September rur
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