The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-07
4 BLOR At CLEVELANDIsM.
Att1eld attributes His Party's Defeat to
Its RostiIitu to SiIrer.

Au9etd Aftff6hteS HIS Pdrty's Defeat to
Its Hostility to Siirer.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL, Nov. Ex-Governor
Altgeld, when seen to-day and asked his
opinion as to the cause of the Republican
landslide and It's effect on the silver move
ment, said:
ooh, l don't know. While the silver
platform has been roughly treated in the
Eighteenth District in this State, it has
Jared great deal better than the gold
platforms in other States. For example,
Iowa went Democratic several times, but
two years ago it went Republican by 80, 600
majority. This year, when the Democrats
held their State convention, it was packed
by poStmasters and agents of the Federal
administration, and they adopted a plat
form Endorsing Cleveland's policy on the
money question, and as a result the great
Republican majority of two years ago will
be duplicated.
I'm Kentucky, the great stronghold of
Democracy, the Federal administration,
by prostitution of patronage, secured an
Endorsement of Cleveland and Carlisle on
the money question, and as a result the
Democrats are in the woods, looking for
the remains of their once mighty party.
III OD4O OCldlOI anu OdH1DDelI de-
feated the silver plank in the convention
and adopted gold platform, and as re-
suit even the phenomenal Republican ma
lorlty which Mckinley got in the landslide
OF two years ago has been increased. In
Pennsylvania the Democrats adopted a
gold platform, and the result is Repub-
llcan majority of 5000. In New Jersey,
which is really Democratic State, the
Democrats adopted a gold platform, and
the Republicans have carried everything
in sight
I'm Maryland which had been strongly
Democratic for quarter of a century.
there is not enough left to bury the dead.
In New York the Republican majorities.
outside OF the city, have been nearly
doubled. In Massachusetts, the Republi-
can flood is neck deep all over the State"
ITO what, then, do you attribute the
general result, Governor?''
81 have found that everywhere all the
men who toll with their hands for Iivino
feel most intense bitterness against the
Federal administration, and as the Demo-
cratic party is held responsible for il. there
was general disposition to kick it.
Among the Democrats everywhere. the
feeling prevails that that Federal admins.
tration has trampled upon every principle
OF Democracy and has simply done dirty
work for the Republican party"
Governor, do you think it was the ques-
ton of Sunday closing, pure and simple,
that caused Tammany to win in New
York? ''
mo; it was the large allopathic doses of
Roosevelt that destroyed the Republican
party there. AS prominent Republican
said to me: New York can swallow Sun
day closing, but will choke to death over
Teddy posing The fact is, the Republi-
can party in the city of New York is enti-
tied to some sympathy in the manner of
its death. The Philistines were destroyed
by the jawbone of an ass, and no people
nave envied them the manner of their
taking off, but the jawbone of an ass is a
respectable instrument of execution COM
pared with the iawbone of Teddy, which