The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-11-14

THE LATE
LANDSLIDE.
Democrats Repudiated Every.
where. The People Think
Anything Else Better.
Some Of the Results and Soae Probabilities d the Up
heavaI-Bsssisn Is ResshIy Resri.asled- -SsrsAdIe
asd Broken Premises are No Lssser Tolerated.
Special Washington Correspondence
WAsHINGToN. Nov. The over
whelming defeat Of the Democratic
party in Tuesday's elections is only
significant Of the drift against false
leadership and general Democratic
mismanagement. National issue,
were discussed only in Ohio, where
the Democratic tariff cost the party
nearly 10000 votes. The adoption
Of a gold PLATFORM, At Brice's dicta
ton, by the Democratic State con
vention swelled the Republican ma
jority to 1l5,0O0. The Democratic
campaign was pitched on the low
plans of demaeogery and defama
ton. The Republican majority is
unprecedented. The Immediate ma
tlonal result is the election of Re
publican Senator.
Corrupt ring rule has at last com
PEELED a Democratic revolution il
rock-ribbed, Democratic New Jersey
The election Of a Republican Gov
ernOr and Legislature in that Stat.
is a great moral triumph. 1t is ir
no sense a Republican triumph, and
no claim is made that it possesse.
any party significance.
In Maryland the issue wa.
Gormanism. Driven to the poin,
of federation self-respectin 6
Democrats revolted and will
the aid of the Republican
party revolutionized the State. Al
overwhelming victory resulted. L
is not party triumph. The elec
tion of a Republican legislator,
means the election of a Republican
Senator, but that alternative wa.
not considered in the desper-
ate purpose to smash tht
"Gorman machine" So Gorma1
follows Ransom. His Leadership
has been repudiated and his seat il
the Senate will soon follow. With
out Democratic alliance, strong
enough to overcome Democrat,
election methods, such a result wa:
impossible. Republican Governor
elect Lowndes comedies this, ant
says the victory will be treated as {
non-partlsan triumph.
Credit for Dem ocratic defea'
in Kentucky is due entirely
to administration influences
The gold Democrat-Re-publi
can Alliance elected Repub
lican Governor and probably a Re
publican legislature. This combina
ton, aided by government Office.
holders and unstinted administra
ton patronage defeated the hybrid
silver ticket. HarGin's course dis
gusted and alienated honest silve'
men and enraged the administra
ton followers in the State There
was enough of subterfuge and by
pocrisy in his advocacy of silver te
make his candidacy obnoxious te
the silver people and his election q
matter of Indifference. Notwith
standing this apparant weakness il
the Democratic ticket its defeat
was accomplished only through the
most desperate efforts of the admin
istration.
Successive Republican victories in
New York unmistakably indicate
the permanent loss of Dem
ocratic prestige in thai
State. The Legislature elected
his week is so largely Republi
can that nothing short Of .
political revolution in 1896 can pre-
vent Hills defeat fol- reelection t.
the Senate. There was nothing il
the issues presented that gives thu
election any national significance
apart from the speculative retire
mont of Senator Hill.
With tho exception of tho 18th III
Cong. district the silver question va
not made a square issue. The fre'
coinage candidate was defeated BY
the same combination of gold Demo
Gratis, administration patronage ant
Republicans that defeated Hardin il
Kentucky. The loss of nearly 10t
per cont in tho Iowa Democratic
vote is traceable directly and indis
putably to the adoption Of the M
tional Democratic gold platform, a,
tho dictation of the administration
So, on the whole, Tuesdays worl
shows that the people are tired O.
bossism's, machines, politics and id
ministration dictation and mean
another important step in the revo
luton that promises to convulse tn
country in 1896. There need be n,
fear as to the result. It's the peo
ple's movement, and it means disas
ter and annihilation only to faithles
and corrupt leaderships. From tn
politisian's view point there is tn
widest speculation. After the dis
astrous election in 1894 Democratic
politicians said that Democratic re
action would Immediately follow bus
iness revival, which they predicted
was inevitable. Every reputabl
Democratic leader WAS repudiated il
that election. and now the elimatio1
of Gorman, Brice and Hill commit
the party to the leadership and con
troll of Grover Cleveland. Its maste
and inspiration, now and henceforth
is the man who hunted squirrels o.
election day.
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