Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-08
RESULT IN ARKANSAS
As Viewed by Some of the Democratic
Leaders Here.
THOUGHT TO BALANCE VERMONT
Chairman Faulkner Says He Expects
the Republicans viii Garry Maine.
A Z O p Z l. / S I VIEW

Hereafter when republican saws any,
thing about Vermont, a democrat will bring
| up Arkansas, and the two will get all the
consolation they want out of the argument
from their respective standpoipts
That tEe democrats are pleased with the
| result In Arkansas goes without saying.
They wanted something to rut on the track
ID collide with tfat terrible Vermont mon
sier, and they think they have IT, They
tailed that way this morning anyway,
and they vowed that the republicans would
not have much more to say about the
q cen mountain state hereafter.
Chairman Jones of the democratic ma
tional committee as not i'll the city but Il
is said that he will be mighty well pleased
with Arkansas, his own state. IL he and
Chairman Hanna should meet, and any,
thing should he sad about Vermont, the
democratic chailmans first word would
probably commence with A. and each would
smile in his own peculiar political way.
The republicans. from the way they talk
ed today, Won't acknowledge that the
Arkansf result means half as much as
Vermont. They throw to the democrats
that little story about a democratic ma
Jcrity in some OF the southern states beng
| regulated by the number of votes the aa-
thorit:cs want
Chairman FauIkner's Views.
THE result of the election In Arkansas
was not surprise" said Chairman Faux
ner, nor Will 1 claim. as my republican
friends did of Vermont, that the election
! had great significance on the presidential
contest The significance of the result in
Arkansas consists in this: 1t is demon-
stration TO the country that the candidates
and principles nominated and promulgated
at Chicago meet the full and enthusiastic
Endorsement of the great masses of the
democratic party. This is shown by the
large increase of our vote In state that
was as certainly democratic as Vermont
was aepublican. 1t is demonstrated that
the large amount of literature sent into
Arkansas by the republican committee has
had no effect, nor have the former demo-
Gratis who have bolted given any evidence
OF strength.
He Gives ID Maine.
we expect our republican friends 10
carry Maine next Monday and would not
| be surprised at all to see an increased re-
publican majority, the republicans having
plastered the state with literature and en-
ployed large number OF able speakers to
Increase the republican vote, whereas our
party, recognizing the state as clearly
Wlthin the republican column, have made
no special effort whatever as a national
organization, but left the contest almost
MIR. HO~eIFs Views.
THE result in Arkansas is a gratifying
surprise" said Clark Howell, democratic
national committeeman, in charge of lit
erary work here. I'VE had no idea that
the majority would even approximate the
figure it has reached. We counted on an
increase over the last democratic majority,
but would have been perfectly satisfied
had this years majority reached Joooo,
ard would have felt that even that in
crease was Indicative of the growing silver
sentiment in the ans-Mississippi states
The fact that the ma iority will reach 5000
emphasizes more than ever the ealnestncss
OF the masses of the people in favor of
the restoration of silver to its former COIN
age conditions. Arkansas is a typical
agricultural state, and the same causes
tEat led to such overwhelming increase in
the democratic majority there will con-
tribute in like degree to this years DEM
ocratic majorities in nearly every southern
and far western state. and in the states of
the middle west The same conditions
which have Impoverished the people. or
Arkansas prevail everywhere else. and they
will be condemned in Indiana, Illinois and
Michigan, just as they have already been
condemned In Arkansas, Alabama and
Tennessee.
THE democratic majority in the recent
state election in Tennessee was more than
1000 over that of two years ago In
Arkansas the same increase is shown ana
at the August election in Alabama the in
crease In the democratic majority was
nearly 10000 Here, in three states We
have an aggregate increase of about Co.
oOo over the vote of the same states two
years ago-a significant contrast to the
meager increase which the republicans
nave obtained in Vermont, which was at
tributatle entirely to the fact that the
democratic platform in that state did not
diner from that OF the republican platform
on the money question.
The returns from Arkansas are the
| most significant development OF the CAM
palgn, and they point the way to an over
wnelmlng Silver landslide in all of the far
western states and to tremendous in.
crease IN the democratic majorities in the
southern ar midGle western states"
The PopuIists Pleased.
Secretary Edgerton of the populist ma
uonal committee was almost as well
pleased with the Arkansas result as If the
populist candidate for governor had been
elected. He said: THE issue was squarely
drawn in Arkansas between the democratic
party and silver and the republican party
and gold. In Vermont both of the candi-
dates for governor were gold standard ad-
vocates, and the issue was not clearly
drawn there. In Arkansas the republicans
tried to make a showing. Literature was
sent them and help was given them. No ef-
fort was made by the silver men in Yer.
mont. The populists held their own in Ar
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