The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-25
THE ELECTION OUTLOOK.
An Encouraging Prospect for the Re-
publicans-


An Encouraging Prospect for the Rs
pubIicans-
In about one month the important
elections of this year will make record
Of public opinion. 1t will be in some
respects highly important, although
most of the elections will not directly
affect national policies, as the candf-
dates are for local offices. In some
cases, as in New York, the election Of
United States senators may turn upon
the complexion of part of the legisla-
tors chosen this fall, but in the main
local issues predominant in the cleo
tions of this year. Democrats do not
forget, though their opponents often
do, that an important influence will BE-
exercised by these elections, through
their effect upon the confidence of the
two parties. 1t is therefore proper to
impress upon the public mind the fact
that changes in the form of local issues,
and resulting changes in the popular
vote in different states, do not imply
corresponding changes on national
questions. Thus in New Jersey the
democrats have nominated a candidate
for governor who has borne an honora-
BILE name, as Gov. Werts had before he
was elected, and it is claimed that he
will not sink into mere tool of corrup-
rionists and partisans, as Gov. WertS
did. If under such conditions there
should be smaller majorities for repub-
lican candidates than were cast for re-
publican congressman last fall, it would
not be evidence that New Jersey had
changed its mind about the questions
which congressman have power to de-
eide.
For reasons of general application, =
is not improbable that the democratic
party may make a better resistance
this year than it did last fat The
country was then in the depths of in
dustrial and business prOstratiOn, from
which it has partly emerged. 1t had
then barely begun to feel the effects OF
the new tariff, and could not realize
how far the defeat of free traders in
congress on many points had saved IN
dustries from present destruction, nor
how far, on the other hand, the partial
accomplishment of free-trade designs
would harm industries. In place OF
general apprehension as to all branches
we now have certainty of injury as Co
some, certainty as to others that tho
injury is less than was apprehended,
and the natural hope that others still
may in time escape serious harm. These
changes tend not so much to alter tho
Judgment of men about the democrats
policy which was partially thwarted al
to lessen the intensity of their feeling
regarding the new tariff.
The outlook is nevertheless highly
encouraging for republicans. In New
York and New Jersey their good tickets
and strong platforms, and the practical
control of the democratic party by its
worst elements Notwithstanding all
pretenses of reform, have given repub-
licans reason to believe that thorough
work and full vote will insure VIC
tory. In Pennsylvania the democrats
do not imagine that they have chance,
and in Maryland they are filed with
dismay at the prospect. A defeat there
would mean a greater disaster than
they sustained last year. In Kentucky
also the refusal of prominent democrats
to support the free silver candidate and
the unity and zeal of the republicans
give promise of a larger victory than
was achieved last year. In Ohio the
republicans are at work with greater
zeal and more hearty union than for
years past, and though they are as
sailed by combination of millionaires
and skilled manipulators, they are
helped by the revolt of the silver men
against Senator Brice.
1t would be surprising indeed if, with
no congressional elections this gear, the
vote should be as full as it was last fall,
and smaller vote generally involves a
smaller majority, if the divisions Of
opinion remain unchanged. 1t is not
to be expected, either, that as many
democrats will refuse in sheer disgust
to support their party this year in some
of the states as did refuse last fall. But
while diminished majorities may for
obvious reasons be expected where tho
republican success last year was phe-
nomenal. there is ground for belief
that substantial majOrisies will remain
in all the states which repu blicans were
able to carry in 1894, with fair pros
pect that in still other states the power
will be wrested from democratic hands
N. Y. Tribune.