The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-08


sult-He Went Fishing Instead of
Going to the Polls and Voting.
Special to the News and Observer.
WASHINGTON, D. O., Nov. 7.
The whirligig of time brings many
changes Twenty years or so ago, Boss
Shepherd was the most detested man of
all the bosses who manipulated cities for
personal or political gain. He was al
most driven out of Office in disgrace.
This week he has been given reception
that could not have been more royal and
hearty il he had always been the popu
lar idol. When he ran Washington he
did so on lavish scale, and men who
denounced him for what they then called
corruption, are now honoring him for
his 'progressiveness and foresight" ("
There is no room to doubt that his ex
tensiye and expensive schemes have done
more to beautify this city than anything
else, and it is now believed that hostility
to higher taxes for Improvements were
at the bottom of charges of crookedness
At any rate Boss Shepherd is the guest
of honor to day in the Federal capital.
why Di0Q' uTOV6E Otc
There has been much comment here
over the failure of the President to reg
lister and vote. One Democrat said:
ssHow can you expect a party to win
when its chosen leader goes squirrel
hunting on election day, and is supposed
to desire the defeat of his party in two
Democratic States in order to punish
leaders VINO would not adopt his polic.s"
That is sentiment to which expires
sion is often given, even among
the office-holders who are supposed
to be in harmony with tine President
AS a matter of fact there are many men
in office here who, while having great
respect for the President, of course,
grateful appreciation of his confidence
in them, do not endorse the policy of
the administration in trying TO make
everything bend to the financial policy
promulgated. They see in it much of
the hostility to the party manifested Oh
Tuesday.
silver and the Elections.
To-day's Washington Post says: The
opponents of the free coinage Of silver
are taking great deal of qualification
in the result of the election. In Ken
tucky the Democratic candidate for
Governor, rampant free silver adgo-
cate, has been defeated, and so has Sen
ator Blackburn, who made his campaign
solely upon the silver issue Another
incident of equal note is the defeat of
Edward Lane by Mr.. Hadley in the 18th
Congressional district of Illinois. Mr..
Lane is a silver man, pure and simple,
and his election was advocated by such
we'll known opponents of the white metal
cause as Mr. Bland, of Missouri, and
Mr. Bryan, Of Nebraska. ''Buck Helm
richsen, who was responsible for the sill
yer convention in Illinois, also espouged
Mr.. Lanes cause quite vigor-
Ously. Notwithstanding This, and de-
spite the fact that the Republican nomi-
nee was only named couple of weeks
before election day, Mr.. Lane has been
defeated in district which was usually
safely Democratic.
The Illinois sound money men were
yesterday very happy over this outcome.
Comptroller Eckels, who had been
watching the fight with extreme interest,
expressed his pleasure at the blow which
had been given to free coinage, and As
sistant Secretary Scott Wike said that
his only regret was that the majority for
Hadley was not larger.
Silver was not an issue in the elec-
tions except in the two instances named,
and in both of these the sentiment
seems to have been decidedly against it.
REORGANIZATION of the Senate.
There seems to be quite misunder-
standing about the re organic alton of the
Senate, SO far as it has been affected by
the results of last Tuesday. Mr.. Brice.
of Ohio; Mr.. Gibson, of Maryland, and
Mr.. Blackburn, of Kentucky, all viii re
main in the Senate until March A, 1897,
so that they will participate in the two
full sessions of the Congress which be-
gins on the first Monday Of next Decem
Der. The personnel of the present Sen
ate has not been changed by the elections
at all.
The only immediate effect of these Re.
publican victories upon the Senate will
be to make it absolutely certain that the
Republicans will NOT enter into any com
bination with the Populists, directly OF
indirectly, to secure the organization OF
the senate az the approaching session.
They have simply to wait few months,
and then take control with sufficient
votes of their own party members. In
the mean time, with Democratic Exec
utiye in the White House, nothing could
be accomplished in the way Of legisla
tion, even if the Republicans secured the
organization of the Senate, and they are
not looking now for empty honors.
1t is interesting to note that before
March 4, 1897, the successors TO othel
Democratic Senators may DC chosen. A
Republican may come from New York il
place of David Hill, from Illinois il
place of John M. Palmer, and from Wis
consin in place of William T. Villas. /
Indiana and Missouri should go Repub
lican next year Mr.. Voorhees, and Mr.
Vest would step aside, and their place