Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-09-24
THE ELECTION IN MAINE.


Press Opinions ON the AGSI1e on the Con-
test.
Tt seems to be very clear that the result IN
Maine fails TO justify the vehement brag-
ging and buster before eleetion, ant that
1t cannot give the republicans that in
creased hope which their papers claim
Buffalo Times.
The people OF. this country are for fair
play every time In Maine beth the repub-
Icans and democrats had to vote for
gold or not at all As q natural eonse-
quenee many of the silver men OF both
parties stayed away from the polls Wait
until November, when the people viii be
able to vote for Bryan and free silver
Philadelphia Item
Maine gave 20. DO republican plurality.
THE republican campaign IN Maine, says
Chairman Manley, lis the best and most
thorough ever made in the state We are
thoroughly organized. have made a house
toulouse canvass, and have pleaded with
every voter to go to the polls. Under
such circumstances, it Is simply ques-
ton OF the republican majority, and the
only feature of the slightest general in
terest it can determine viii be to settle
how many gold bug democrats there are
in Maine. which may help us TO make an
estimate for the other New England
states.-N. 0. Times-Demoerat-
Maine settles nothing, IS Vernon set
settled nothing. The result of the elections
in those states is trivial and unimportant.
The defeat of the populist-s.lver combina-
ton in two minor commemorative OF the
extreme east was positively assured long
ago. II is not in the nature of news. The
real rebuke to the renegades and Tnutineers
who have Joined hands with the
popuIists will come when the great
states of the middle west are
heard from. Maine and Vermont
will be forgotten when Iliiaois, Iowa, IN
diana, Ohio and Wisconsin place the seal
of condemnation upon treachery, repudta-
ton and dishonor-personaI q nd national
Chicago Chronicle.
The real significance of the result can
not be determined till we shall have OPP
portunity to know how large was the
combined popuIisC and democratic vote.
The democrats and populists had separate
tickets. In the November election IT IS
understood that the two Parties viii be
combined. In the most favorable circum-
stances there can be no hope that the COM
bined democratic and populist votes can
equal the republican vote But definite
figures are needed to determine how great
is the combined anti-republican strength.
Large as is the republican plurality in the
Pine Tree state, it bears no sort of COMPARE
son with the democratic gains in Arkansas.
Grand Rapids Democrat.
While Maine went republican, as every
one expected, she was not equal to take the
pace for republication that Arkansas set
a week ago for democracy. Arkansas DEM
ocrats doubled the plurality which the
present governor secured in 1894. The
Maine republicans did no: begin to do
this. The present republican governor
OF Maine was elected by plurality of 49,
978 The republican estimates of the re-
suit in Maine are that there has been
plurality secured from 1900 to 5000 This
certainly would be very paltry gain after
all the republican efforts and Dragging
Buffalo Times.
Maine has shown what money can do.
But the same methods which prevailed
there cannot be successfully used in the
west and the south which are to decide
the contest. Maine does net realize the
Importance of the free siIyc~ issue; il does
not 50 severely feel the necessity for more
money. Therefore, its vote is without sig
nifcance. Moreover, IL is doubtfuI If the
result in Maine is not more of blow to the
republican party tnan a benefit The Nc
kinney papers of this section fooIishly
started the campaign by arraying the east
against the west. The millionaires have
focked together, and wealth has paraded
I'm the interest of ile single gold standard.
Even the western farmer has been ridt-
culed and derided The results in YER
mont and Maine merely draw the Sec
tional lines closer, and Will add to- rather
than detract from. the free silver vote
In Others sections.-Philadelphi Item.
If the September verdicts of Maine and
Vermont had been delivered fairly and
aquarely upon the controlling issues of the
national campaign they would Indicate
deplorable division upon sectional lines.
The west and south are for the Chicago
ticket end platform without a shadow of
doubt. Increased democratic majorities
in Alabama, Tennessee and Arkansas tell
plainly enough where the south fs That
the far west and the great agricultural
states of the central west ere equally IA
vorable to Bryan Is known by everyone
who has had opportunities for learning
the drift Of sentiment in those states. II
the republican majority in Maine Is a true
index Of political Sentiment in the states
east of the Hudson river, this year sees a
revival of the conditions existing Under
Madison administration, when New lsEg-
land bitterly opposed the rest of the coun-
try in the war with old England, and did
its worst to bring the government at
Washington into disgrace.-- Louis Re-
public.