The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-11-28
|UST HOW It ALL HAPPENED
ME GENERAL RESULT OF THE
RECENT VARIOUS STATE
ELECTIONS.
EXPLANATIONS OF THE SNOW STORM
The Republicans Captured the Earth, and
" Now the Various Papers Are Elk
planning Exactly How it all
Happened.

> LIGIuDllCuu tlut. uc GltCtlOuS ldSI week
resulted in remarkable Republican vic
tories, in a clean sweep from East to
lWest Overwhelming majorities was the
rule in the States that went Republican
last year, while substantial gains were
made in States long deemed safely and
soiidly Democratic. The greatest signi-
fcance attaches to the result in Maryland,
Kentucky and New Jersey, which have
passed into Republican control, for the
first time since the birth of the party.
Twelve States and one Territory, Utah,
which voted on the question of Statehood,
held elections, and of these only Missis-
sippi and Virginia went Democratic The
latter elected State legislature by the
usual Democratic majority, and the for
x mer q Democratic governor on a free-sil-
LIVER Platform, the only rival candidate be-
ing a Populist. New York, Massachu-
Setts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, Ne
braska, Kansas, New Jersey Kentucky,
Maryland and Utah all went Republican,
and among the results will be a Republi-
can majority in the National senate after
March, 1897, as New York, Kentucky,
Maryland and Utah will elect senator's.
In commenting on the meaning of the
OUTGOING, the Republican papers assert
that the country has Enthusiastically de-
clared for protection, Americanism at
homeand abroad, and Republican hnan-
cial policy The Democratic and indie
pendent journals offer different explana-
tons. They see in the verdict a cOndem-
nation of bossism and individual treach-
cry rather than of Democracy. In Mary
land, there was n Democratic revolt
against Senator German and the candi-
dates nominated through his influence,
AI.sap 1,a1,
by Democratic newspapers like the Balti-
more Sun. In Kentucky, silver was the
CHIEF ISSUE and General Hardin, who re-
pudlated the platform and ayowed himself
a believer in free silver, was opposed by
anti-silyer Democrats. In New Jersey
political corruption was charged against
the Democrats, and the Democratic news
papers claim that the Republican victory
was not partizan one. In Ohio New
York, Massachusetts, and Iowa National
issues were prominent.
We devote considerable space to COM
ment from the press of the States fgur-
ing In the elections:
The Democratic Conservative Tried in
Turn-"The blow of last years election
was aimed straight at the free trade ex-
tremists of the Democratic party. This
years elections wipe out the Democratic
conservatives. With the overthrow of
both, the party is doomed till the era of
new questions and fresh organization.
~ The Democratic conservatives who
stripped the Wilson bill of some of it's
extreme features were German of Mary
land, Brice of Ohio, Hill and Murphy of
New York, and Smith of New Jersey.
HIt is suggestive and significant that the
elections leave these conservatives strand
ed. Brice is overwhelmingly beaten i'll
Ohio and will get out of the senate. Hill
susfains another crushing defeat in New
loon Sc, npy
man remains in the senate for longer
time, but his wings are clipped and his in
thence diminished. Smith of New Jer-
Sey was not directly on trial but his
State spews out his party and reduces
his power. The success of the conserva-
tiyes in modifying the Wilson bill did
not stay the popular execution or save
degree and the people are against the
Whole kind. THE Press (Rep), Philadel-
phia.
Clevelandism Chiefly Responsible
The emphatic reprimand repeated on
( Fuesday was not solely due to a continu-
ance of the obliquity and pigheadedness
Which caused the National rebuke of Mr..
cleveland in 1894, a rebuke equivalent to
u declaration that, if under the constitu-
lion the people possessed the power, they
would that moment lave elected him from
the post in which lie had ceased to be
their representative. A reassertion of
their inflexible purpose to be rid of him at
the earliest possible hours was rendered
necessary by his folly in permitting a
knot of parasites and cuckoos to propose
third term for the man whose second
term even his countrymen were hungerlng
to shorten. From the instant that crazy
scheme was mooted, it became impossible
for the Democracy to poll its full party
vote, not merely in the North, but in such
Southern States as Maryland and Ken
lucky. From that instant it was certain
that 1895. like 1894, would utter the blast
q of warning and of doom. What! A third
& term for the twice convicted Jonah of the
n Democracy! In the blaze of Tuesdays
y indignant protest, the third-term project
National convention. The Sun (Dem.),
. New York.
Condemnation of the Administration
"A and Congress-"So far as the elections GO
VI there can not be the slightest question
y that the policies of the Cleveland admin
s. istration and the record of the Democrat
n ic congress have received this week a
n condemnation even more deliberate and
overwhelming than that which was pass
"a ed upon them in the combined State and
a congressional contests of 1874.
"That is the hard, cold truth of the sit
uation which the Democratic leaders in
# this Nation must face. Ihelr party
"A steadily. swiftly downward ever since
"a the present Democratic administration
& came in. Month by month and year by
n year their hold on the people has been
a Weakening Mr.. Cleveland has proven in
his second term the weakest and most
81 obnoxious president in the later history
& of the American Republic. His firm
x stand for sound money, which was WISE
n courageous, and effectiye-the one bright
b spot in his career-is almost entirely for
gotten in the distrust and indignation
q which his tariff notions and his policy OF
infamy' have aroused among the most IN
a teligent and conservative of his fellow
countrymen. Unless something now I'M
foreseen intervenes before next autumn
it is almost certain that the Democratic
presidential candidate will receive even
p fewer electoral votes than were won for
4 Greeley in 1S72."-The Journal CRep),
Boston.
National Significance of New Jerseys
\ Vote-"The might of the people asserted
itself finally in the election that has, by
great 1najorities, given to New Jersey a
4 Republican governor and legislature. 1t
struck the first blow at Democratic mis-
y rule in 1893, it repeated the blow with
4 greater force in 1894, and now, by third
opd fnol blow If has 1nnihilatpd all that