Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-08
NOT SHEDDING TEARS
The Administrators Friends Not La
menting the Result of the Elections
Chief Claude NJ. johnson Not Surpris-
cd ut Kentucky's ActfOn-Mr.
Coffin on German.

Any one who labors under the impression
that the administration is in tears, without
a consoling thought, over the result of the
elections Tuesday would soon abandon
that idea if he could sound the feelings of
a goodly number of democrats who are
holding office at the present time, and who
confess an allegiance to President Cleveland
stronger than party ties.
This condition of the administration dem
ocratic mind may result partially from the
fact that it is always in order to hold post
election autopsy in order to verify the dag
nosis given before the voters of the country
prescribed for the national patient A re-
port Of the real disease affecting the patient
must be made, and in the case of the cleo
tions just over Mr.. Cleveland'S friends are
gladly announcing their belief that the oppo-
sition of party bosses in the states to the
President was the real factor which caused
defeat They say it was simply a case Of a
house divided against ITSELF and the house
has fallen. They do not look upon this fact
as any argument against the feasibility of
reconstructing the house.
Mr.. johnson on Kentucky.
Mr.. Claude NJ. Johnson, chief of the bu-
reau of engraving and printing. was seen
by Star reporter today. Mr.. Johnson has
just returned from the blue grass state,
where he voted. He says the result was
not surprise to him, although it came as
a surprise to Kentucky democrats.
Il talked to great numbers of democrats
in Kentucky" said Mr.. Johnson, land they
all spoke in the most confident manner
about the elections. They fully thought
that Mr.. Blackburn could not be bea aten.
They even believed that Mr.. Hardin would
pull through, but such result as has been
seen was not for a moment suspected by
any democrat l spoke to, If their talk and
actions could be taken as the true index to
their real feelings.
THE election in Kentucky is an example
of the benefit of viewing the affairs of a
state from point without the state. l was
placed so that 1 took such view. and the
result did not surprise me. l think that
many without the state felt as l did, but
to democrats who were on the ground it
was the greatest surprise. There was no
national issue in the Kentucky campaign
except the financial question, and the peo-
pie of that state had no idea of indorsing a
financial policy that was so faulty that it
would have brought the greatest trouble
had 1t been indorsed. The office holders in
Kentucky did not scratch the ticket so far
as could judge. They as rule voted the
straight democratic ticket, the scratching
being done by the business men, who did
not propose to vote for a man who accepted
nomination en- platform of sound
money and then repudiated the platform
before the voters of the state.
How Blackburn Could Have Won.
II think it would have been an easy thing
for Mr.. Blackburn TO have secured enough
delegates to have insured his reelection to
the United States Senate if ne had re-
Trained from heaping personal abuse on
the President and other members of the
administration, had not pressed the silver
issue and lad run on his personal popu-
larity.
But Kentucky is a democratic state and
will give democratic majority when the
Rational ticket is up for election. The re-
suit in Ohio did not surprise me, that
state is normally republican, to be carried
by the democrats only on off years"
The Verdict Against German.
Representative Charles E. Coffin of Mary
land was in the city today, and was feeling
in good spirits over the way his state had
turned it's back on the organized democracy
there. Speaking of the result, Mr.. Coffin
said:
THE result in Maryland was purely a
verdict against Mr.. German. Republicans
and democrats Joined hands to defeat him.
and they have done SO completely. Mr.
German is politically dead, He will not
come back to the Senate after his present
term expires. He is buried His methods
of bossng the party of his state We're not
liked, and the people have simply put him
where he will not be heard of again.
Not only is this the case with reference
to Mr.. German. but Maryland is now plac-
ed in the list of doubtful states, and it will
be doubtful in the presidential election