Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-05
TUESDAY EVENING. NOV. 5. 1895
THE ELEcr1oNs held to-day we're yer,

important. Those in New York, Ohio,
MARYLAND and Kentucky have excited
special interest, although the results in
New Jersey, Iowa and Nebraska may
also have bearing on the great strug-
gle of next year. In the last named
State the administration element has,
in the name of Mr.. Cleveland and with
thu direct support of his Secretary OF
Agriculture, bolted the ticket of the
regular organization of the democratic
party and set up side show of its
own, its motto being "rule or ruip."
In Virginia and all through the South
we we'll know what boiling from the
democratic party means. 1t means a
short cut to the republican party by a
very dirty road. In New York and
Ohio the great aim of the republicans Is
TO maintain as far as possible their
ascendency so as to be fortified for next
years fight. They are aiming to get
full possession of the national govern
ment by 1897. Ohio is a republican
State and the only question usually is
the size of the republican majority.
NV York, however, is generally dem
ocratic. 1t is above all pivotal State.
There would be an excellent prospect
of the State going democratic this year
but for the treachery of Mr.. Cleveland's
special friends, headed by Fairchild and
Others. They are in open revolt TO the
State ticket and in the legislative dis
tricts in New York city, which ought TO
be solidly democratic in order to give q
hope of our party securing the State
legislature and, above all, the Senators
who are to participate in the choice Of
a successor to Senator Hill. If the leg
islature is lost it will be by the
aid thus given by these Cleveland
democrats to the republican party.
The city of New York is normally dem
ocratiiee-- 5sy by sixty or seventy Thousand
majority. Owing TO the fragrant trea-
son OF this gang of boilers, most of
whom are directly cooperating with
the Platt, Roosevelt and Strong repub-
licans, the party majority in New York
will probably be reduced fully one half
thus disposing of any rational hope
of success in the State at large. A
more Infamous and fragrant case of
party treachery can rarely be found.
1t will be said by some that President
Cleveland is not responsible for this
state of things because he lately wrote
a letter to one of his friends which was
made public, avowing his sympathy with
the democraticState ticket, and also com.
mending the platform. But the letter
came too late to repair the mischief al
ready done. The time for Mr.. Cleve-
land to speak out was at the beginning,
when his friends and henchmen were
taking the initial steps to sap the cit
sdel of the democratic strength. Had
it been understood then that he would
make the support of the regular party
ticket test of friendship to his admin
istration, these acts of boiling and party
dishonor would not have been begun.
and still less adhered to. 1t deserves
10 be noted, too, as respects New York
titv, where these acts of disaffection are
most conspicuous aud dangerous, Mr..
Cleveland has not word to say. The
natural influence of most persons
is that he is in sympathy
with the boilers there who are aiding
Roosevelt, Strong, Platt, Cnoate and
the other inveterate enemies of the
democracy in their war against Tam
many. 1t would have been a small
matter for Mr.. Cleveland to have said
- word for the democratic ticket in the
leading city of the Union and his own
home, where every political scoundrel
and hypocrite is arrayed against the
democracy. He could atleast go home
to vote; but this he does not do. But
perhaps Mr.. Pierpont Morgan and the
syndicate would object to his going
home to vote against them. In Ken
lucky the democratic party is hard
pressed by coalition composed of the
republicans, the negroes, the federal
office-holders and others speaking in
the name of Mr.. Cleveland. He does
not repu late them or disavow them.
1t is the general belief in these parts
that Mr.. Cleveland would be very we'll
satisfied to have the democratic candi-
date for governor in Kentucky defeat
cd and Mr.. Blackburn beaten for re-
election. He has not written line or
Ryii one word for the democracy in
the whole-fght. None of his Cabinet
has spokea. His organs have preach
ed open revolt to the ticket. In spite
of all this, our advices are that the
democratic party will triumph. To
appreciate the situation in KENTUCKY
it must be remembered that the issne
is a square fight between the democrat
ic party and the republicans who fol-
low Reed, Harrison and Mckinley and
all the nersecutors of tbe Sonth