Arizona republican., 1897-11-10
REGENT ELECTIONS.


 late election and have heralded the same as a great democratic vic tory Particularly hare in the west, it has been pointed to as a distinct triumph for the cause of free silver" A careful analysis of Ehe result, how ever, will show that these caims are not well founded
 It is usual for the elections imtmedi ately following a presidential contest to go against the party in power This was so in the elections of 1881 and 1889 following the elections of Gar field and Harrison. It was also in the elections of 1895 and 1893 follow ing the election of Cleveland. While there has been a falling off in the ma jorities with which some of the states were carried for Mckinley last year it cannot be said that the results of the elections show any material and substantial gain for the democracy and particularly not for the cause of free silver.
 Elections were held in the states of Massachusetts, New York, New ter sey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Vir- ginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Colo rado. In all but the states of New Jersey, South Dakota and Kansas one or more state officers were elected and in these three either district offic ITS or members of the legislature were elected making the contests virtually state contests.
 In Massachus afts, the very high priest of free silverism of that state, MT George Fred Williams, was the - democratic nominee for governGr.
 
 Williams was 6S,00O while the repub- Ican majority for governor two years ago, a tidal wave year, was but 67 900. Certainly not a very great triumph for either democracy or free silver.
 In New York tihe democratic can didate for chief judge of the court of appeals was elected by a majority of 56,000s over Wallace, his republican opponent This was by no means a victory for free silver for the reason that it is a we'll known fact that the New York democracy is unu herabIy opposed to the free coinage of silver. The democratic state committee which placed Parker ini nomination abSo- lutely refused to endorse the Oh cagO platform and Tammany took like ac- tion The victory of Van Wyck for mayor Of New York was due to di- vision of the republican forces and this also contributed to the election Of Pakker Van Wyck's plurality for mayor was S6,500 and yet he re- eeiv5d Ness votes than were cast fer Bryan in the same distric. lat fall. Van Wyok's percentage of the tCtal vota was but 44.25 while Bryan's was 45.2l. Had the republican and anti Tammany forces been united as they were last fall, or, as they ware In the municipal election of 1891, Van Wyck woEld have been beaten by more than 50,000. The Citizens Union ticket for which 147, 300 votes were cast did not carry the name of any candidate for chief judge of the court Of appeals so that Judge Wallace lost at least 1G0,- coo votss through this defect.
 Tn New Jersey members Of the as ssrnbly and one-half of the senate were voted for This s.a hal baen democratic by large majo11ias fo- years rnfil 1893. It again went re- publican last Tuesday, rile depubH- cans carrying both branch1s of tLe legisl ature and having a majority of twenky-one cn joint ballot.
 Pennsylvania and Virginia are So solidly republican and dencc attic re-
 
 haken Of the result in either, ei3ch re turning its normal majority fir t-e respective dominant party.
 In the state of Maryland the re- pubMeans carried the legislature as well as thein state ticket and will elec5 a successor Ito United States Senatoc Arthur Pue German. Maryland had never elected a republican governor in all her history until 1895, when Lloyd Lowndes, the present governor, was chosen by majority of 14,O00. Only three minor state officers were voted for this year, the contest being for the legislature which wll chooS: Senator Germans successor. MT German is acknowledgediy the shrewd- est political manager ii the Unite1 States and all his genius was calico into play this year to try to carry the stateL- He failed, however, as the olt method of counting majorities in Bal timore, regardless of how the vote were cast, no longer prevails. Tht republican, state ticket was elected and the republicans control the legis IatuIre by majority of seventeen Cl jcint ballot.
 Chio witnessed tha hottest campaigr of all the states, not only the stat ticket being at stake, but the e1ectio of United States senator. The dem ocratic hosts were marshaled and la by John R. Mclean, the millionai gas man of Washington, the most un scrupulous political manipula or i all the country. He is the same Mo Lean who was behind the electic forgeries and ballot box stuff g C 1885 when he was then a candidate fo the senate It was the dirty work ( his healeirs in that ysar which brough abou. the passage of the stringent reg istratiOn and election laws now in fore in the state. Senator Hanna va endorsed by the republicans for hi own successor and Governor Bushne renOminated