Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-11-08
GLORIOUS VICTORY !
The Country Sick Of
CIeveIandiSm.
Democracy DOwned Everywhere
Except in N. Y. City.
New Jersey, Kentucky and Mary
land 90 Republican.


Those who had deluded themselves in
to believing that the slight improve
ment in the Business situation which
followed the death of the Democratic
Congress would stay the on rushing tide
of Republican success that was sweep
ing everything before it, were never
more mistaken. The Democrats, it is
true, endeavored to credit the causes of
the improved condition to the Wilson
tariff, but the people have become con
WINGED by cold, hard facts, that the i'm
provements were i'll spite of, not due to-,
that law, and the volume of their cry for
a restoration of protection was crush
ing one for tariff reform and free trade.
New York City, naturally a Tammany
city, owing to local causes, voted against
the Fusion ticket and was carried by
Tammany. In every other city and
State. the Republican vote showed gains
not even dreamed of by the most san
guine partisan. Outside of New York
City it was nothing less than landslide.
The New York State Republican ticket
was retained in Office with substantial
Endorsement in the shape of $1,000 plu-
rality. The Legislature will have a Re-
publican majority of seventy-six on joint
ballot, insuring the defeat of Senator
Hill. Brooklyn undoubtedly went Re-
publican. Tammany alone stands forth
as the surviving remnant of the Democ.
racy, with pluralities in the city ranging
from $1,000 to $4,000.
In New Jersey, Democratic during and
since the War, full returns have in
creased the plurality for Griggs, Repub-
lican, to $4,000, only three counties in
the State remaining in the Democratic
column. The new Legislature will be
overwhelmingly Republican, insuring p
Republican in place of U. S. Senator
Smith. The downfall of the bosses is
complete.
Maryland did as well as New Jersey.
The Gorman-Rasin ring is buried under
Republican majority of over forty on
Joint ballot in the Legislature, insuring
the election of a Republican colleague
for Senator German in the United States
Senate. The plurality of the Republican
candidate for governor, Lloyd LOwndes,
is not less than 10000
Kentucky has joined in the Republi
can movement and elected Colonel Brad
ley as governor by majority variously
estimated at from 5000 to $1,000. The
size of the victory only is in doubt, the
defeat of Hardin being conceded by the
Democrats.
General Asa Bushnell's plurality in
Ohio is now placed at over 100000 The
Legislature, which is to choose sue
cessor to Calvin S. Brice in the United
States Senate, is Republican by an over
whelming majority and will undoubted-
ly name Ex-Governor j. B. Foraker as
Mr.. Sherman's colleague.
The result in Utah is still involved in
some doubt, with the chances in favor
of the Republican candidate for governor
and the Democratic candidate for Con-
gress. The Legislature, however, which
will elect two United States Senators, is
safely Republican.
The completed figures for Massachu.
sets give Governor Greenhalge plural
ity of "a, 400. Woman suffrage was
voted down by still larger majority.
Pennsylvania, where only State officers
were elected, is again this year the ban
ner state so far as the Republican plural
ity is concerned. All the figures are not
yet in. but the latest returns give the
victory to Haywood, candidate for State
Treasurer, by about 10000.
In Nebraska and Kansas only judicial
officers were elected. The Republican
candidates were successful in both
States, by $4,000 plurality in the former
and 10000 in the latter. Iowa elected a
Republican governor by some 10000 plu-
rality. Mississippi and Virginia, as usu-
al, went Democratic.
Municipal elections in Chicago and De.
troit resulted also in Republican sue
cesses.