The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-07
STAGGERED BY THE SLUMP.
DEMOCRATS AT WASHINGTON A
BADLY PUZZLED LOT.

The Landslide in states Supposed to
! BE Safely Democratic a Surprise TO
Them-senatOr German Takes a
Philosophical View of the situa-
| tiOn-Candidates for the Maryland
scnatOrShip Already BObbing Up.
Great Rejoicing Among the Repub-
Iicans.
Washington. Nov. sit is difficult for
| democrats in this vicinity TO realize that
| Maryland and Kentucky have deserted the
! democratic party and enlisted in the army
/ of the republicans. The result in New
/ York and New Jersey was not entirely
/ unexpected, nor was the defeat Of ex-
/ Gov. Campbell, in Ohio, a surprise, for IL
| is generally conceded that Ohio is a re-
| publican state under ordinary conditions.
! The elections of yesterday seemed to be
| a very disagreeable topic of conversation
| at the white house, and in administration
/ circles generally, for it was impossible
/ to get even a secOnd-handed expression
| of opinion from the President, or any OF
the members of the cabinet on the sub
! ject.
The President arrived at the executive
mansion from his country home at Wood
! ley about 10 o'clock, but denied himself
to all visitors except the members of his
cabinet and few official callers. Pri-
vate Secretary Thurber tried to be cheer
| ful over the gloomy outlook for the dem
ocrauc party in 1886, for he is on record as
having predicted that the successor Of
! President Cleveland will be a democrat.
In the departments the prominent Off
GERS OF the government find it difficult
to explain the great republican landslide
in states supposed to be safely demo-
cratic
The friends Of Senator German of Mary
land and Senator Blackburn of Ken
lucky are still wondering how it hap
pened.
Senator German takes a philosophical
| view of the situation. and was appar-
rently unconscious OF the fact that his
enemies in Maryland are blaming him
for the overwhelming success of the re-
| publican ticket in his native state When
the Morning News correspondent visited
| him to-day Senator German, with his
characteristic calmness. of manner chat
| ted pleasantly about the result, and ex-
| pressed considerable surprise that the
republican ticket in Maryland rolled up
| such large majority, considering the
| apparent carefulness with. which the
! democratic managers canvassed the
| state. Said he: 'lhere is no use to try
| to tnd excuses now. We had a hard
|
/ it is no use 10 attempt to cry fraud or
| resort to any of the usual excuses which
| the defeated party sometimes employs
/ after an election is over
| He regrets that Maryland. after fight
| ing under the democratic standard for the
| past twenty-nine years, should finally
| surrender to the enemy, on the eve of
| presidential election. 1T appears that
| the republicans were encouraged by their
| success in the last congressional election
| to get out their full vote, and with the
| aid of several thousand reformers, cap
| tured the state and municipal Offices.
Already the Maryland republicans are
| getting in line for the distribution of the
spoils of their victory, and the men who
were conspicuous in the management of
Lowndes are being besieged with
petitions from Office seekers
The contest over the senatorship, now
held by Senator Gibson, whose term ex-
pires in 1897, promises to be exciting
Among the aspirants for republican SEN
atorial honors from Maryland for the first
editor of the Baltimore American; George
l.. Wellington, who was chairman of the
LIoMndes campaign committee; Judge
Louis McCOmaS, Charlie Boneparte and
long list OF gentlemen who can hardly
realize that United States senatorship
is one of the prizes taken from the polit-
ical grab-bag yesterday.
1t is understood that the republicans in
tend to exclude the mugwumps from the
competition for the senatorial prize. There
is an unwritten law in Maryland made
with the expectation that the state would
always remain democratic, hence il has
been the rule to take one senator from
I the eastern shore of the state and one
from the western shore. Senator Gibson
comes from the eastern shore, and SEN
ator German from the western shore
/ The republicans, not expecting to
have senatorship to dispose
OF have never taken any interest in the
senatorial division Of the state, so in
the selection of Senator Gibson's success
sOr they propose TO Ignore the democratic
practice of taking one senator from each
f'hpCanpalKR ms
who can command the requisite number of
votes in the next legislature, be he east
ern or western shoreman, will take Sena-
tor Gibson's place in the United States
Senate
Kentucky republicans are predicting
that if Bradley is elected governor he win
be sent to the Senate in place of the pop
ular Joe Blackburn, and that the lieu
tenant governor will take the governors
chair. Democratic defeat in the Blue
Grass state would remove Secretary Car
Isle from the list of presidential possi-
bilities in fact, nearly all of the aspirants
for first place on the democratic ticket,
including Senators Hill, German, Brice,
Gov. Boise of Iowa, Vice President Stew
enson, Don Dickinson, Oncle Bill Morri-
son, and even William c. Whitney ap-
pear to be eliminated from the presiden-
tial race by the result of yesterday
Some of the admirers. of President
Cleveland still contend that he has the
power and the magnetism to attract q
majority of the votes in the electoral
college, and they are insisting that he
1896
Among the republicans there is great
rejoicing, and the friends of the various
presidential aspirants declare that NOM
ination on the republican ticket means
election next year The friends of Tom
Reed and Gov. Morton contend that the
first place on the ticket viii go to an
eastern man, and the sentiment in favor
of those two men is about equally divided.
In spite of the big majority rolled up
by the Ohio republicans, GOV. McKinley's
prospects do not appear to have been
materially benefited by yesterdays cleo
ton
The friends of Senator Allison are very
cheerful for they claim he is the second
choice Of nearly all Of the conspicuous
candidates, excepting the Harrison con-
tiugent, which appears to be growing
beautifully less daily.
OF course, speculation as to the Dresi-
dency is q little premature at such an
early date, but the hotel Hobbies and
the meeting places Of politicians fairly
TEEN with political gossip of that char
acter
KILLED IN A RUNAWAY.