Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-12-02
THE g. q. P. VICTORY.
WRECK OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY IS COMPLETE.
No Hope for Democracy in Even the
Remote Future Unless It Drops Its
Anti-Expansion Narrowness and Its
Financial Follies and 1niquities.

Not for the past sixty years, except
during the war. and reconstruction
days, when many States were unrepre-
sented in Congress, did the elections DC
curing in the middle of the Presiden-
tial term turn out so favorably for the
party holding the Presidency as they
have in the canvass which has just
closed. Ordinarily those 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 cleo
ton 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, except 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 wen
overwhelmingly against him. Jackson
had both branches of Congress on his
side during the whole of his service,
but Mckinley Is the only President
since then who has carried both
branches with him through his term,
save in the civil war and reconstruc-
ton period 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 Congress
sional elections just held the Republi-
cans would have q larger majority in
the electoral college than any party has
received at any other time since
Grants second election in 1872. Nc
Kinley's majority in the electoral col
lege in 1896 was n%inety-five. 1t would
have been at least 141 if the Presiden-
fal canvass had taken place this year.
The only States which went to the
Democrats in 1893 were Alabama, Ar
kansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia,
Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missis-
sippL Missouri, Montana, Nebraska,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Ten
aessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia. All
The other States We're carried by the
Republicans, for the Republicans have
The entire State ticket in Minnesota by
good majorities except the Governor,
which vas lost on a fractional fight in
the party, and because many Repub-
lican Swedes voted for the Democratic
candidate, q Swede, who was put up for
the purpose of drawing away votes
from the Republicans on the race issue.
In a Presidential contest, Of course,
Minnesota would have given in 1923 as
big u majority, $1,000, as it did in 1896.
The Republicans have all the States ex-
cept those named, and would have had
294 votes in the electoral college, Civ
ing them a majority of 141.
The wreck of the Democracy is CON-
plete and disastrous. In every part of
the country except the South it was
overwhelmingly beaten. In fact, of the
States conventionally classed as the
South, the Republicans carried Della
ware. Maryland and West Virginia.
Throughout the East and the Central
West the Republicans made a clean
sweep. All the States on the Pacific
slope are securely Republican. Nebras-
ka and the few States in the Rocky
Mountain group cling to the Democrats.
These and 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 showing would have been still worse
If there had been a Presidential con-
test this year, for in the larger vote
which would then have been polled,
and the greater Indictment to effort,
which would have been furnished. the
Republicans would undoubtedly have
carried Kentucky, as they did in 1895
and 1896, and they would probably
have won Nebraska. For the Democ-
racy there is no hope in the immediate
future. There is nc hope for it in even
the remote future unless it drops its
anti-expansion narrowness and it's
financial follies and iniQuities. eStir-
pates it's Baileys, Stones. Altgelds,
Bryans and the rest of the blather-
sixties, antediluvians, impracticables
and ~implacables, and adopts a modern
policy and discovers or creates modern
men for leaders. That is too large q
task to be accomplished in the next few
years. No other political prophecy is so
safe as that which asserts that the Re-
publican victory in 1900 will be of
larger dimensions than any which 1t
has won in the past quarter of a CEN
fury. For a long time in the future, as
the present indications reveal, the des-
TIMES of the country will be in the keep
ing Of the Republican party.-St. Louis
GlObe-D Democrat.
Concerning Wool and woolens.
The truth is that foreign imports of
wooden goods have moi to any appreci-
able extent affected the industry this
year, and the home market has been
depressed almost exclusively by two
mistakes Of domestic origin. The first
was the crazy speculation in wool
which was based on the notion that,
with about two years. supply in sight,
wool could be probably raised last
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