Evening star., 1898-06-08
0REG0N'S ELECTION
What is Said in Congress About the
Result.
ENDORSEMENT OF qHE ADMINISTRATION
The Silver Question Not Nov an
Issue in Politics.
EXPRESSIONS OF OPINION

! Intense interest is manifested by senators
and representatives in the elections for
| Congress in Oregon, resulting in the suc-
] cess of the republican ticket. Before tive
polls opened there was considerable anxiety
| as to the outcome, and the uneasiness felt
| by the republicans and the fusionists was
| reflected by the party leaders at Wash
| ington who were in touch with the situa-
| ton in the state.
The way republicans construe the result
| Of the balloting is shown in the interviews
| which follow:
Endorsement of the President.
Chairman Babcock of the republican con-
gressional committee said: 1.-The repub-
| lican victory in Oregon was to be expected.
Still, We hardly locked for SO pronounced
and decisive a majority l regard it, first
as an Endorsement Of President Mckinley
and his administration, and believe that his
war policy and the efforts that he made to
avert war have endeared him more than
ever to the hearts of the people.
Next in order 1 should say that the
wisdom of the financial policy of the repub-
| llcan party has been proven by the logic
| of events. This the voters of Oregon ap-
preciate, ard many who were deceived into
have returned to the republican fold.
THE tariff has also been important
factor. A prominent member of the House
from California said short time since,
| The Dingley tariff bill fits the Pacific coast
as a knit shirt does the human body and
the people of Oregon realize that repub-
ieanism and prosperity go hand in hand.
THE result shows the trend of public
sentiment. This has been the first oppor-
tunity to test the political pulse since Presi-
dent Mckinley was elected and cannot
help but be very gratifying to republicans
and sound money democrats, showing as it
does that the ratio, if continued,
would give the Fifty-sixth Congress to the
republicans by more than 100 majority"
Something Besides Silver.
1.-The result in Oregon" said Chairman
Walker of the House banking and currency
committee, shows that first of all other
issues nave supplanted the silver issue.
The people are thinking and talking about
something else which to them is of more
Importance. 1t shows that the admnistra-
tiCn has fully met the views and wishes of
the people, particularly in its policy.
Furthermore, there is evidenced a very
great Indifference of the citizens of Oregon
to the silver question and probably
change of views by great many of them.
That election confirms in a striking way
the general opinion of politicians on both
sides, namely that the silver issue is rapid
" passing, and that other issues will surely
take it's place in the approaching presiden-
tial election.
Stand by the Administration.
Ser ator Clark of Wyoming rep.) said that
he thought things not talked of in the cam
paign had most influence upon the vote.
He said he thought the people believed it
to be their duty to stain the administra-
ton at this time and that they relegated
the money question to the rear. Though
ha faf no aynT aiCpy1 on
the stump, it was not really the issue. He
did not believe there had been such
change of opinion to silver as the vote
VIC uld indicate if that were the real issue.
Rather. he thought. the people had laid aside
that question in order to stand by the adj
riiniStration at this time.
Senator Penrose said that he thought all
issues had Teen lost sight of in a deternina-
ton to support the administration and to
give expression of approval of the war
and the course of the adminstra ton. A
few months ago, he said, it seemed as if the
dc mocrats were very apt to be successful
at the congressional elections this fall. He
thought this election showed that the re-
publcans could count safely on carrying
the next House. The people were going to
sustain the republican party.
Glorious for the Republican Party.
Senator Pritchard said: 'It is glorious
news for the republican party, most per-
feet Endorsement of the administration. If
| SUcn Il Victory uHQer unldVOraDle surround
ings is to be taken as an indication, it
me a glorious victory this fall. The
same ratio of republican gains in quarters
where the situation is more favorable will
not leave grease spot of the democratic
party"
Representative I4oudenslager said that
the result was much better than he had ex-
pected. 1t meant, he said, that the people
We're settling down against silver, and GO
ing to sustain sound money. All the side
issues. he said, counted nothing as
against sound money.
Representative Butler of Pennsylvania
said that it showed that the people were
getting over the silver craze and that it
promised sweeping republican success.
Representative Warner Of Illinois said:
"A little while ago the democrats were
talking a great deal about carrying the
next House. You will not hear SO much Of
that now. l think the silver question is
Dead and that We need not fear about the
next House."
Represe entative Northway of Ohio said
that he thought the result in Oregon in
dicated that the silver craze was on the
decline Money was the issue, as he un-
derstoOd it, as the verdict was clear and
decisive. The people were bound to stand
by the administration and the silver hum
bug had given way before high prices for
farm products and general prosperity.
MIR. Hopkins View.
Representative Hopkins of Illinois, said
carry the next House. He said that he
had recently been through Illinois, Nebras-
ka Iowa and Wisconsin, and had found
the situation as bright as possible for the
republicans. The patriotic feeling was
greater than he bad ever seen it before
He saw more flags than he had ever in his
life before seen ard the manifestations of
patriotism were universal. In Illinois,
where the republicans had thought they
might lose at the next election from five
to seven of the members Of the House. the
sentiment mad so changed that they ex-
pected to carry the elections in every dis
trict now held by republican. They did
not expect to lose a seat.
He said that he thought the money ques-
ton was lost sight of in the intensity of
the patriotic feeling and that the people
were intent upoc sus staining the adminis-
tration and not running the risk of putting
in position during this war men of an op-
posite PARTY, WHO might hamper the ad-
mlnistration in scme way in the prosecu-
ton of the war policy.