The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-11-05

The crowd. before the Pcst-fn,ellisencer
Office yesterday were not half as large as
those % the day previous. one element %
the community being satisfied OF the eiec-
ton OF Mckinley and also that the fusion
ticket had succeeded in carrying the state
There were fair crowds before the buiie-
tin boards all day. however. watching
NcKinley's vote from real returns. and
Tot estimates. go higher and higher.
There was another element. however.
who had been deluded into belief that
Bryan had received 4 majority OF the esec-
torai votes. and In the evening this crowd
was so demonstraiively noisy on Cherry
street that the respectable people who
were quietly interested in the returns.
went 20 their homes.
Tho general result having been decided.
the talk on the streets yesterday was all
in regard 10 the state. and Republicans
wondered, as the returns came in, how
such result could have been brought
about. Upon this point everybody VIII be
interested in an explanation made by Gov.
McGraw AT the request of the Spokane
Review. /, is as follows:
Seattle. Nov. 4. 1896.
ITO the Spokesman-Review: The result
IN this state. as shown by the returns 50
far received. Is due TO the completeness OF
Democratic and Populist fusion These
two parties combined have had majority
vote since statehood. Republican state or
ganization In this campaign was complies
ard satisfactory and candidates admirable.
With the detection OF free silver Repub-
leans added to the fusion, we stlll have
kept the three parties vote be-
low what Democra;-Popuiist fusion
aione would have been In 1894.
The vote appears TO be straight
fusion and anti-fusion. We have polled
an unusually heavy straight Republican
vote. while the state has gained no popu-
lation since 1854. II Is not improbable that
We shall control the senate. and thus be
able 10 prevent the vicious Popuiis,ic ieg-
!slatioa that injured other states.
THE chief reasons why fusion was so
complete are. ! believe, that the general
depression existing in this state since
lsa2-more severe here than in almost any
other state, owing to our lack of pro-
ductive industries and TO our over-conh-
dent speculatioa--has been so severe as TO
lead many to be willing TO turn hopefully
to any suggested remedy, no matter how
hopeless It might really be- The free sill
Yer propaganda so actively carried on
here during the last two years by the BIZ
metallic League and other influences. sup
ported by foods of literature and hosts of
specious advocates, while the Republi-
cans. oyer-confident, rested on their oars
until during the last four months, has led
50 many Of the good citizens Of our COM
monweafth astray after the will-o' the
w.sp of cheap money that they have won.
with the revival of business due to the
wise government that President McKin-
ley will surely give US / confidently be-
leve that the blight of Populism will be
disslpated like miasma under the sun
Eght.
With thorough organization and solid
front on the part of the friends of good
government. l cannot even think that we
will see our noble young state he'd per-
manently by Populism: but that twenty
four short months VIII put - where VI
belong, among the true supporters of the
principles of American Federal Republi-
canism. and not among the devotees Of
the fetch of state socialism.
y. II. MGRAW"