Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-01-27


real object is to fight for silver mono.
metallisn,, in the interest at once of the
mining monopolists, who command
their army, and of tho "party of public
| plumber" who compose the rank and
file. They will renew the battle in the
autumn, and, in our CORES pondont'a
opinion, they have good prospect NJ
electing majority in the Gext House Of
Representatives.
EXTRACTS FROM MR.. sMALLEY's LETTERS.
New Yurx, Nov. 81 am well
pleased, said President Mckinley as
no paused through pittshurg the day
| after tho eectiona, with the result OF
the election, as it indicates that fealty
to tho Republican party and the prin-
| ciples it represents is as strong as
| ever.
Tho Presidunt ia easily pleased. He
| is speaking, OF course, as Republican
las the chief OF grnat marty, not as
tho Chief Magistrate OF the Republic.
iie had been to Canton, his home in
Ohm, TO vote, and was on his return
to Washington whom he announced his
satisfaction with the result of the
elections. At the time he spoke ii was
not known whether Republican or
nemncratic Legislature had hesn
chosen 10 Ohio. 1t was not known,
therefore, whether his bosom friend,
Mr.. llama, would or would not be
elected United States Senator. 1t was
known that a Republican Governor Of
Ohio had been elected by largely.
reduced majority. Ii WAS known that
in every sitate where an eaction had
been held on this Hateful Tuesday there
mad been heavy Republican lossss In
the State Of Now York, Mr.. Mcliinley's
magnificent majority Of 1858, coo had
vanished, and Democratic Judge Of
the Court of Appeals been elected Ivy
"a, 6GS, and the Republicans who had n
majority of IS in the last Legislature
han seen it dwinde to something like
hali'a dozen, with probability that
the Independents and Democrats to
gethor will be allie to control the
organization of tha Assembly. Mas
sachusetts. which gave Mr.. Mckinley
lhet year majority Of l73, 263 has cut
it down to 30, 600 for the Republican
Governor. In Iowa the Republican ma.
jority al last year was 65, 552; it has
now fallen to 10, 00O, Kentucky, which
last year voted for Mr.. Mckinley by a
narrow majority, has gone clean over
TO this Silverites by more than Is, coo
majority.
Ii should be understood that this il
in most States though not in Ohio fpr
example, which elected Governor ADD
Legislature what is called an off year.
In Now York City, OF course, IL is
anything but an Off year for muniiipal
purposes. 1t may be understood further,
with view to avoid over estimating the
Significance of the present elections,
that reaction Is common after Pres,
idential contest. The reaction is apt TO
ba even more marked in the second year
than in the frat, so much 80 that it is
almost an axiom IN American politics
that an administration must expect to
confront during tho second and last two
years OF it's tenure hostile House Of
Representatives. The whole House ia
elected anew. ! am afraid figures are
tiresome, but | give the votes cast in
New York State in 1896 for President
and in 1897 for judge OF the Court Of
Appeals, as showing clearly the falling
oil in popoular interest:
Vote of New York State for Presi
dent, 96-McKinley, $40, S3S; Bryan,
sol, 3G9; total, l,3Tl, 207.
Vote OF New York State for Chief
Judge, Court OF Appeals, 1897 Parker
Dbl, 652; Wallace, 46s, oi3; total
l,004, Cos: excess 1896 over 1897, 366. SIP.
rha difference between 1896 and 1887
is much less in the municipality than
in the State. the election for mayor
bringing almost as many voters TO the
polls as thu electiun for President. New
York and Brouklyn-then separate, now
united together polled for President,
in 1896, i7i, 753 votes, and for Judge OF
Appeals. in 1897, ABB, li9, decrease of
only 40, 604 votes.
All the States have named as show
ing heavy Democratic gains are great
States, and of great political import
ance. They represent the East, the
Northwest, the South. 1hers are
others, like South Dakota-nn insig-
niiicant commonwealth where the Re
publicans have done better, and in
Maryland they defeat Senator German;
but there is nothing to balance these
tremendous Republican losses in States
which may be taken to indicate fairly
the movement of opiniun throughout
the country. Yet Mr.. Mckinley is
pleased.
Mr.. Bryan also is pleased. He de.
clared on the day after the elections
that the sentiment in favor of the
Chicago platform shows a healthy
growth throughout the county,
Healthy or not, it ia hard to deny that
there is growth. Mr.. Bryan adds:
Perhaps our opponents will now adj
nit that silver ia not dead. The at
tempt to secure international bimetal
ism has proved failure, and ii ia
uJ hu hnA H.
people of the United States must
legislate for themselves gu the financial
question. Free and unlimited coinage
at III to ia nearer now than il was u
year ago.
am sorry to say think MIR. Bryan's
estimate Of the result and probable in
fluence of these elections nearer right
than Mr. Mcliiniey's
1T was thought possible, and perhaps
it is still possible, that the Democracy
might reunite in opposition to the
Dinghy tariff, and SO, sinking tho
Silverite ISSUE at least for tho time,
appeal to the country to rslease itaelf
from the bonds and burdens of
spurioua protection, and get hack to
rational tariff, If not to tariff for
revenue only. But tariff ia. after all,
10 the presence of Socialism and Silver.
ism, minor issue. 1t does not belong
to caucuses or conventions to determine
tho asues on which an election shall
he held. If the people are thinking
about oliver, thsy will vote about silver
and not about the tariff. Still more
REALLY will they put the tariff aside il
great MASSES are so dsiudcd, by de-
signing lenders and by a propaganda
which never rests rs to bellows that
reconstruction of society or relis.
tribuiion OF wealth in the interests of