The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-07
A CRUsRING DEFEAT.
Democrats Have XiOtcn No Recorerl
From Last Years Landslide.


From Last Years Landslide.
NEW YORK, n. Y, Nov. 6.-The morn
ing papers comment editorialy upon the
result of yesterdays election as follows:
The Times CD says: 1t would be
foolish to base on these elections any
definite predictions as to the direction or
force OF the current of popular sentiment
next year, but it is plain that there is no
evidence of the recovery from the tidal
wave of 1894 for which the more sanguine
Democrats had hoped.
More powerful, SO far as National ques-
tons were considered than all other infiu-
ences was the melancholy and disgraceful
breakdown of the party in the United
States Senate through the treason of Cor
man and Brice and their immediate fol-
lowers. Notwithstanding this misfortune,
the principles of the party remain.
The Tribune (R.) says: 1t is a great
victory, although another like that of 1894
was not to be expected. The Republicans
hold the battlefield and if pushed for some
points have gained Others of larger impor-
lance. The general results of the elections
are so strongly favorable that the Repub-
licans have reason to look forward with
the utmost hope.
The Recorder says: Modern Democracy
as represented by Grover Cleveland re-
ceived a knockout blow in the tremendous
Republican victories of Tuesday.
First-The Democracy in every State
where elections were held Endorsed the
economic policy of the administration. 1t
commended the deficit-producing tariff
and the sale of bonds to plug up the hole
in the treasury, thereby increasing the
National debt in time of peace That was
voted down.
Second-It Endorsed the "policy OF in
fanny" in Hawaii, the surrender at Samoa;
the cowardice at Corinto; the poltroonery
in Venezuela, and the trucking in Spain in
the case of Cuba. No Jingoism' was the
tail-end Of plank in Syracuse platform.
All that was voted down.
Third-Not a single Democratic State
convention had the courage to mark its
disapproval of the intrigue and conspiracy
for third term for the Presidency for the
sage of BuZzards Bay and the squirrel
shooter in the Woodley woods. That alb
ject submission of the Democratic leaders
to the inordinate ambition OF the "stuffed
prophet" was voted down.
Fourth-No Democratic State Conven-
ton had the courage to reaffirm the Mon
roe doctrine of america for Americans. !"
That base was the abandonment of what
may be called of unwritten articles of the
constitution was voted down.
Fifth-In a word, all that Cleveland
stands for was stamped out at the polls on
Tuesday. stalwart Americanism is on
top.
The Sun says: 1.-THE outcome of the
State elections IS to point and emphasize
the memorable lesson administered to
Clevelandism in 1894. Then the American
people rebuked the Presidents disobedi-
ence of their wishes in the Hawaiian bust
ness, and the matter of the protective tariff
and the income tax, not only by returning
an overwhelming majority of Republicans
to the House of Representatives, but by
sending for the first time from the former
slave States to the popular branch of the
Federal legislature more than twice as
many Republicans as there were Demo-
Gratis elected from the former States. In
the ordinary course of things one such
lesson would have sufficed and the
people, taking it for granted that their
fiat would be needed and receiv-
ing also in the interval some proofs
OF difference, would have instinctively in
clined to place the two great political par
ties more nearly in equilibrium. That is
what observers of our history mean when
they say that in the United States the DO
litical pendulum is apt to swing forward
and backward from year to year.
Under normal circumstances we might
have witnessed an oscillation of that.kind
But Mr.. Cleveland is incorrigible. He has
learned nothing and unlearned nothing
He has remained as un-American
as ever, though events have taken such
turn in Venezuela and Cuba as to
render the firm maintenance of our Ma
tlonal principles and interests the para
mount and urgent duty of the chief magis-
trate. Mr.. Cleveland has shown no per-
ception of those principles and no deter
mlQatlon to unhold thosa iptoractu