Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-10
LAST TUESDAYS ELECTIONS As Viewed From the Nations
 Capital. THE SMOKE OF THE BATTLE Cleared Away-Tte Dun and Roar Ceases and
 Quiet Regns' THE WASHINGTON POST HAS ITS SAY Gold Men North of the Tennessee River Are Likely to Vote Solidly for the
 Republican Ticket-Silver
 Is Coming.
HE WASHINGTON POST HAS ITS SAY

Washington, D. C., Nov. 9.-(Special Correspondence.)-T smoke of battle has cleared away; the din and roar has ceased, and where all was tumult on Tuesday last now quiet reigns; the dead have been consigned to the dust from whence they came and the maimed and dying have been removed from the field; from the triumphant hosts ascends the peans of victory and in the ranks of the defeated a sulen silence stands ready to break out in gloomy mutterings at any moment.
 New Jersey, Maryland and Kentucky have left the moorings that have held them for over quarter of century, and swung into line with Pennsylvania and New England. The solid south has been invaded by the enemy and nothing but miracle can keep them from mak- ing further inroads.
 The results of last Tuesdays election must bring conclusively to the mind Of every thinking man that not until time has worked change in existing circum- stances can democracy hope to once more gain ascendancy in the control of the affairs of the nation; surely not in 1896. But the. time will come, when sell fish greed has given way to lofty patriot ism and fealty, when the scales have fall en from the eyes and the shackleS loosed from the limbs of the people, when party honor and party principles are held above temporary eXpedients, that will see the followers of Jefferson and Jackson exalted; but so long as internecine strife an internal dissensions continue just so long will the enemies of democracy tri- umph.
 The Washington Post has this to say of the meaning of the elections The Post is an Independent democratic paper:
 Since 1t came into power, nearly three years ago, the democratic party has done nothing to commend itself to the admi- ration and confidence of the people, and there was no reason why the people should at this stage of affairs, withhold the expression of their dstrust and dis content. They have had the spectacle of democratic administration antagoniz- ing and discrediting democratic leaders in different states, interfering in local poll- tics everywhere, prescribing and perse- cutting party men of honorable service and established fealty, and in various other ways encouraging and aiding the democracy's hereditary enemy. How could it be hoped, much less expected, that an organization thus rent asunder by dissension and enfeebled by the delib- crate acts of its appointed chiefs should prevail against a compact, harmonious and enthusiastic foe? It was not expect ed though loyal democrats may have hoped against hope, and the result is that the party has sustained defeat far more significant and momentus than even the popular and passionate rebuke of 1894
 As to Silver.
 That in the event the national dem ocratic convention next year adopts platform favorable to silver every gold bug democrat north of the Tennessee river will vote for the nominee of the re- lin.sa a0rfxy ic C1Irn nxrfd hU a result in Kentucky and the defeat of Ed ward Lane in Illinois for congress from the Eighteenth district. James H. Eckles of Illinois, comptroller of the treasury, appointed as a democrat, expressed his great pleasure at Lanes defeat, and MT. Scott Wike, also of Illinois, assistant sec retary of the treasury, appointed as democrat, said his only regret was that the majority for Hadley, the republican candidate. was not larger. Nobody but he himself knows. but the impression in Washington is that Secretary Carlisle scratched the name of Watt Hardin from the ticket he voted in Kentucky.
 Let us see how those states came up on election day who, when the conventions adopted resolutions inimicable to silver and indorsed the financial views of the administration, there was great rejoic- ing among the goldite press Of the democ- racy In New York the democrats adopt ed gold platform; the state went over whelmingly republican. In New Jersey MT. Ceveland's financial policy received the unqualified indorsement of the de- mocracy, and for the first time in twen- ty-nine years a republican governor will sit in the executive chair. Tn Nary land veritable stronghold of democ- racy. a gold platform was adopted; the governor and entire legislature went re- publican. In Pennsylvania and Iowa gold platform was adopted by the democ- racy and the republicans won by 150,000 in one and an increased majority in the other. And Ohio. which, when Larry Neal was defeated, it was claimed that defeat was had on account of the free