The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12
DAzED.
Two Defeats in Succession More Than
They Can Stand-Cause of Republic
can Success Last Tuesday.
[Cor. of the Richmond Start

tan success Last 4uSSuSys
IGOR. of the Richmond Start
WASHINGTON, Nov. kentucky,
n~arylaud, New Jersey, New York,
OnlO-every doubtful State-all Re-
publican-that is the story which Dem
ocrats and Republicans In this city are
Today trying to explain. Az a rule ex-
Planatlons amount to nothing, for the
o~iIIerences of opinion as to what brings
ABOUT such a great political revolution
are so varied that its moral effect Is
ioSG. In this instance, however, it Is
uiIeFenG. Democrats may try to eX-
pain n result in Maryland, the result
IA New York, the result in kentucky
anu so on down the list by saying it is
1ue 20 local causes, but that falls far
snort. TO one who has observed the
IEend OF political affairs since the in
coming OF the present administration,
nearly three years ago, it is clear that
Cuere Is some more far reaching cause
10 account for such an OutpOuring of
"raGn upon the heads of Democratic
candidates than mere local dissatisfac
t1on. In most instances the candidates
nominated by the Democracy in the
various States were as honest men. as
Tree from all faint of political cOrruD-
CIoh as GneIr successful Republican ad-
Versarles; so lt becomes at once evident
q a the voters in rebuking the DemOc
racy were not aiming their blow at the
nominees IN particular, but had some
thing else in mind.
Democrats in this city, or rather a
few of the members of the roured party,
are asking themselves in privaGe-not
for publication-what other result
could be expected when the administra-
ton has been eve since its Inaugural
ton Q~uarrelling with every Democratic
leader of prominence who Is bold
enough to question it's Instability.
There is not a silver Senator in the
United States Senate to day whom the
President and his advisors, elected as
he was by their support, has not failed
to attempt to whip into line for a hnan-
ciaL policy to which they and their con
stituents r not opposed. Where that
has failed these Senators, and others,
have been obliged to encounter the
most violent opposition from the adj
minlstratlOn and members OF the Cab
met. This is notable in the cases of
Senators Vest, of Missouri, who incur
red the enmity of the administration
during the fight for the repeal IF the
Sherman make-shift, Blackburn, of
kentucky, whom the administration
has used every endeavor to defeat even
to the extent of turning the State Gov
eminent, ineludingt the legislature, yer
into the Republican hands. Such
treachery on the part of those in con
troll of public affairs in Washington is
| current history, and is it any wonder
that the Democratic voters in their
turn vOte-not to rebuke these leaders
but to rebuke the administration it
self?
The free silver Senators and Repre-
s~entatives are but vOicing the honest
convictions of their constituents, and
these men cannot be swerved from
their right path or be browbeaten into
line by such daspicable methods as
have been INDUCED in on the part of
the administration leaders during the
present campaign. It Is believed by
many honest Democrats that another
such campaign as the just brought
to a close and the SO called Democracy
| would be utterly annihilated, and it is
safe to say there would not be any
| great amount Of tears shed.
The elections held Tuesday will
doubtless play an important part in
the course to be followed by the Re-
! publicans during the next Congress. It
Is known that many of the Republican
leaders would have been much better
satisfied if the result this year., and
| even the election before this, had been
a little less pronounced. for in the flush
of an overwhelming Republican ma
iOritY in the lower house of Congress
1t will become a very hard task to
keep the members down, and they will
be apt to take matters into their own
hands, and regardless of advice and
the consequences rush through the
next House on the crest of a presiden-
tial campaign many matters of legisla-
tion. such as the bill for the funding of
the Union Pacific Railroad debt, a high
Mckinley tariff and some radical bond
measure. The Democrats for the time
being Ear well afford to lay very low,
for they have lost about everything
worth losing, and next year they will
have everything to gain. Another
danger, too, which will confront the
Republicans, especially in New York
State next year, is over confidence.
The State has now been carried by the
dominant party three times in success
sion, and in the face OF the general
opinion that a fourth time they are
certain to carry it, it is not at all I'm
likely that a slump may occur which
will upset all calculations. The gen
eral opinion here is that the Republican
party for the next year will have a de-
cidedly rocky road to travel.
Much interest is felt in the complex
ion of the United States Senate, and it
is not at all unlikely that the Republi
cans will conclude to re organize the
| Senate during the coming winter. The
present Senate is composed of eighty
| seven members, divided; Republicans,
40; Democrats, 80; Populists, 6, and
vacant (Delaware), 1. If the Republl-
cans carry the legislature in Utah they
will have a total of A members out of
a total of 80 members, which is still