The Republican journal., 1898-11-24
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The Republican Avalanche.

Not for the past sixty years, except
during the war and reconstruction days
when many States We're unrepresented in
Congress, did the election occurring in
the middle of the Presidential term turn
out so favorably for the party holding the
which has just closed. Ordinarily these
elections go against the Presidents party
The only time since 1870 when they failed
to do this was in 1886, in the middle of
Cleveland's first term, when Cleveland
saved a fragment of the large majority
which he got in the House in the election
in which he was chosen. At that time,
however, the Senate was against him.
The Senate, in fact, was always against
him during his eight years of service, ex-
cept during the first half of his second
term. In the second half of the term he
lost his preponderance in the Senate, and
the House went overwhelmingly against
him. jackson had both branches of Con
gress on his side during the whole Of his
service, but Mckinley is the only Presi-
dent since then who has carried both
branches with him through his term, save
III lUe CIVIL Wal ana reconstruction perl0Q
already mentioned.
In another highly important respect the
situation for the Republicans is even more
gratifying. On the basis of the returns
in the State and Congressional elections
just held the Republicans would have had
a larger majority in the electoral college
than any party has received at any other
time since Grant $ second election in 1872.
Mckinley's majority in tile electoral col
lege in 1896 was ninety-tive. 1t would
have been at least IA if the Presidential
canvass had taken place this year. The
only States which went to the Democrats
i'll 1898 We're Alabama, Arkansas Colora-
do, Florida, Georgia, ldaho Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Mon
tana, Nebraska, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and
Virginia. All the othel States were car
ried by the Republicans, for the Republi-
cans have the entire State ticket in Mime
sofa by good majorities, except the Cover
nor, which was lost on a fractional fight in
the party, and because many Republican
Swedes voted for the Democratic candi-
date, a Swede, who was put up for the
purpose of drawing away votes from the
Republicans on the race issue. In a Pres
ldential contest, of course, Minnesota
would have given in 1898 as big MAORI
ty, %, 600, as it did in 1896 The Repub-
licans have all the States except those
named, and would have had 294 votes in
the electoral college, giving them a ma jor-
ity of 14l
The wreck Of the Democracy is com
plete and disastrous. In every part Of the
country except the South it was over
whelmingly beaten. In fact, of the States
oil al bn 81,
Republicans carried Delaware, Maryland
and West Virginia. Throughout the East
and the Central West, the Republicans
made clean sweep. All the States on
the Pacific slope are securely Republican.
Nebraska and the few States in the Rocky
Mountain group cling to the Democrats.
These ard the far Southern States are all
that are left to the Democrats. To this
pitiful and contemplate measure has the
great party Of Jefferson and Jackson
shrunk in these days. Indeed, its show
ing would have been still worse if there
Lad been a Presidential contest this year,
for in the larger vote which would then
ave been polled and the greater incite-
nlent to effort which would have been
furnished, the Republicans would I'M
doubleday have carried Kentucky, as they
did in 1895 and 1896. and they would prob
ably have won Nebraska. For the De-
mocracy there is no hope in the immedi-
ate future. There is no hope for it in even
the remote future unless it drops its anti
expansion narrowness and it's financial
follies and iniquities, extirpates its Bail
eys, Stones, Altgelds, organs, and the
rest of the blatberskites, antediluyians,
impracticables and implicables, and adopts
modern policy and discovers or creates
modern men Tor leaders. That is too large
task to be accomplished in the next few
years. No other political prophecy is so
safe as that which asserts that the Repub-
llcan victory in 1900 will be of larger di-
mansions than any which it has won in the
past quarter century. For long
time in the future, as the present indica-
tons reveal, the destinies of the country
Will be in the keeping of tie Republican
party. st. Louis Globe Democrat