The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-11-25
A POLITICAL REVIEW
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THE RESULTS SATISFACTORY
TO THE REPUBLICANS

TO THE REPUBLICANS
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New York in Hard Luck, but Ohio and
Maryland stand Well in Line-silver
Being Produced At Low cost-Grewth
Of Internal Revenue Receipts.
E. F. PARSONS, Special Correspondent.
Washington, d. Cor years in
politics, with Republican president in
the White House, do not as rule favor
Republican success, but the Republi-
can party in the great contests which
have been waged in several states have
we'll withstood the reaction which al
ways follows presidential victory at
the polls. The fight has been strong
and bitter, and, while both heavy losses
as we'll as satisfactory gains are seen,
the Republicans here feel in a good
frame of mind over the result. The
general result is looked upon as vim
dication of the cause of sound money
and an upholding of the administration.
New York, where was the most con-
centrated fight, through division in the
Republican ranks has been handed over
to the control of Tammany and the
management of that city will shortly
undergo radical change. Outside OF
New York, where the fighting was bit
ter to an extreme, the state OF OHIO
furnished the most exciting and I'M
portant campaign. In that state the
fight was fierce and the methods dirty.
Every possible abuse was aimed at Sen
ator Hanna, whose confirmation for the,
Republican vote singled him out
as a target for Democratic orators anu
methods. There is no doubt as to how
the state would have voted had the
question been simply vote on Repub-
lican principles and the Mckinley ad-
ministration. But a number OF local
matters came into the fight in whose
interest, national issues were lost to
large extent. The turbulence OF the
coal strike had barely subsidized when
Bryan's fierce speeches arraying class
against class again started it into ac-
ton. The great play OF John Mclean
to become United States senator poured
money into the state. In Cleveland
and Cincinnati there were factional
splits, owing to local matters, all tend
ing to decrease the normal Republican
majority; yet notwithstanding all these
things, Ohio elected Republican gov
ernor and will elect Republican sem
ator, thus giving her solid Republican
representation in the senate for the first
time in many years, prior to Senator
Hanna's appointment by Governor
Bushnell.
In Maryland the fight was only a
little less determined and the interest
but slightly less. German was defeated
in his very stronghold, Baltimore city.
Maryland also will have double Re-
publican representation in the senate
for the first time in history.
On the whole, while the Democrats
profess jubliance and satisfaction at
having carried New York city, they are
really sorely disappointed at their fail
ure to capture the legislatures OF both
Maryland and Ohio. 1t is stated on
good authority that it was the inten-
ton of the Ohio legislature, in case it
had been Democratic, to Immediately
proceed to redistrict the entire state in
such manner as to give to the Demo-
Gratis in the next congress at least eight
or ten members from that state. But
that little patriotic scheme was knocked
in the head by the Republican voters of
the Buckeye state.
Treasury reports show considerable
growth in the internal revenue receipts,
which is due to two cause.-the i'm
provement in business and the increase
in certain taxes. The combined re-
ceipts from the customs and internal
revenue will not probably for some two
or three months equal the expenditures
of the government, but the one is stead
lily climbing up on the other, and that
result will be reached early in the new
year. Long before the law shall have
been in operation one year, it will be
producing surplus instead of deficit.
Democratic editors and others are max
ing their usual bowls about the Dingley
deficit, but the difference between the
Wilson deficit and the Dingley deficit
is that in the present case nobody is at
all alarmed. The shortage is believed
by everybody to be merely temporary
and the gold reserve is meanwhile pill
ing up.
Reports recently receivetd show that
silver in many places, notably New
South Wales, is produced at cost of
20 cents per ounce and less. The
Broken Hill Company of New South
Wales, has for the past five years been
putting silver on the market at cost
Of IL n cents per ounce. This COM
pany operates immense copper and lead
mines, and the silver extracted from
the ore is produced at much less co t
than in most mines which produce sill
yer exclusively. The Anaconda mine
Of Montana, which, by the way, is
owned by British capitalists, is cop
per mine, but the ore contains large
per cent of silver. Last year the mine
paid profitable dividend through. its
copper production and yielded in addi-
ton 6, 900, 900 ounces of silver, which
of course was all net profit.
- Senator Foraker's speech on Cuba is
of service to the country in one respect.
It shows that the real work of paving
the way for mediation has been going
on quietly in the White House and the
state department. and that the people
must rely upon the president and his
cabinet officers and ambassadors.