Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-04
TUESDAYS roNs.


There Is nothing in the results of
Tuesdays elections to discourage re-
publcans or to dishearten the friends
OF sound money. The verdict in the
states OF greatest political influence,
where national issues werc paramount
in the campaigns, are favorable to re-
publican policy and principles. There
has been the usual experience in an
Off year of considerable falling Off In
the vote. from which the republican
party was the greater sufferer, but there
has been no reaction such rs has been
experienced in the past In the year fol
lowing presidential election. The year
after the Harrison administration came
in witnessed general democratic sue
cesses, Just as four years ago there was
n reaction in favor of the republicans.
In Ohio, whore the free silver issue
was paramount. the republicans have
elected their state ticket and will prob
ably have n majority in the legislature.
That republican control of the legisla-
ture is not assured does not evidence
any decrease If honest money senti-
mcnt but is explained by the fact that
Senator Hanna had good deal of oppo-
sition in his own party. 1t is not to be
doubted that great many republicans
who voted for the state ticket did not
vote for legislative candidates who were
known to be favorable to Mr.. Hanna.
While, therefore, the republican victory
in Ohio is not so decisive as could be de-
sired, 1t is sufficient to show that the
sentiment of that state is still for sound
money and republican principles.
The republican victory in Iowa is
hardly less important than that in Ohio,
being also n popular verdict against
free silver. The republicans of the
Hawkeye state did relatively much bet
ter than those of the Buckeye state and
for the manifestation of their devotion
to the cause of sound money Will re-
ceive the hearty commentator of repub-
licans everywhere. In Massachusetts
the democratic candidate for governor is
a prominent free silver leader and he
suffered an overwhelming defeat In
Kentucky the silver question was the is
sue in the campaign and it appears that
the state has been carried by the can
didate of the free silver party for clerk
of the court of appeals, but there Is no
very great encouragement in this for the
friends of free silver. The results in
Maryland. Pennsylvania and New York
can hardly be regarded as having any
great significance from national point
of view, since they We're not largely in
fluenced by national questions The
election of democrat as judge of the
court of appeals in New York by large
plurality and the results of number of
municipal campaigns show. however,
reaction in that state that is quite sur
prisng. if not ineXplicable. Doubtless
they will be hailed by the Bryanites as
victories for their doctrines, but no such
claim can fairly be made.
The triumph of Tammany in Greater
New York is a sore disappointment to
the friends of good government and the
enemies of machine rule. The restOra
ton of that political organization to
power, with greatly enlarged oppor-
tunties for the exercise of its unscrupu-
lous political methods and its corrupt
practices, is a matter of serious con-
Germ to the whole American people. 1t
places in control of the worst political
machine this or any other country has
known the second city in the world and
that machine is virtually controlled by
one man whose political record is as
ment of Greater New York will be
really administered by .tichard Croker.
as bold and INSCRIPTIONS boss as
Tammany has ever produced 1t is use
less now to point out how this misfor-
tune might have been averted. That a
grave political mistake has been made
is obvious. but its consequences must
be endured by the people of the great
metropolis for at least four years.