Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-18
THE ELECTIONS,
A Glance Mt the Results in the Diff
ferent States.

Viewed together, the result of the
elections afford great encoura cement 10
the reunited democracy. There are
some disappointments, but in no case
was the outcome wholly unexpected.
Greater New York has reversed the
verdict of last year by choosing Rob
ert Van Wyck as mayor and putting to
rout both the gang republicans, led
by Tracy, and the Pecksniffian brigade
OF sham reformers who mustered under
the banner of Seth Low. The result
is all the more acceptable because the
republicans had staked the popularity
of the national administration and the
future of their party upon the issue.
''If you do not elect Gen. Tracy" de-
clared the presidents personal repre-
sentative, 1--WE shall have no more re-
publican presidents" And Gen. Tracy
was not elected.
Kentucky, too. has been redeemed,
and once more takes her place in the
democratic column, and the result in
the Blue Grass state is even more sig
nifcant than that il New York. 1t
was in Kentucky that the differences
in the democratic party were most pro-
ShackeIford shows that these differ
ences no longer exist and that the
| democracy of the state is once more
united.
Even more emphatic in its rebuke of
the Mckinley regime is the presidents
own state of Ohio, which, while there
seems to be some doubt regarding the
state ticket, has defeated Mark Hanna,
the chief magistrates personal repre-
sentative and the greatest of the repub-
lican bosses, as a candidate for election
to the United States senate. in which he
is now serving a short term by appoint
ment. This triumph over the Doodle
and bludgeons of the most impudent
political bully of the age will be re-
ceived with genuine rejoicing by dem
| ucrats in every state of the union. 1t is
an emphatic, though a tardy, rebuke to
methods and pretensions that the great
er mass of the people abhor, and it car
ries with it an impressive warning that
should not be lost upon republicans
who have been quick to initiate the prac-
tees of the man who now suffers the
humiliation of a merited defeat.
Mr.. Shaw's victory in Iowa at the
same time renecIS great cTeuII upon ING
democracy by reason of its splendid
fight. Mr.. Shaw employed in his cam
paign the methods pursued in his pri-
yate business, and is bound hand and
foot to the interests of the great rail-
way corporations. He, too, has stirred
up internecine strife in his own party
and may count upon the hostility of the
Gear faction from this time forward.
Virginia, of course, remained true to
democracy, and, equally of course,
Pennsylvania Endorsed Quay and the
two Martins, the malodorous Dave and
the murderous sheriff. In Maryland,
Massachusetts and Nebraska the re-
suits had been discounted and will occa-
sion no surprise. New Jersey re-
sumes its honored place in demOcracy's
column.
Therefore, as whole, the elections
augur well for democracy's success in
the congressional contests next fall
and in the presidential battle of 1890.
New York and Kentucky stand out like
mountain peaks against the sky, giving
assurance of a reunited party and of
democratic triumph.-Chicago Chron-