The evening times., 1899-11-08
The Logical Result.

In the light OF the returns IL Is not haru
to see that the results of yesterdays elec-
tions are almost exactly as they might
portant factor in the different States it's
fair value. In more exact sense than the
term is customarily used, the campaign just
ended has been one of education and if its
alumni do not take to heart the lessons
it has taught, then the destroyers of the
alieHIted should be mobilized without the
least delay.
The State of Ohio is brilliant illus
trauon of a great Democratic oppo-tu-
nifty lost through inability % ascertain
and recognize the faith AMI viii of Ii.
people as TO the paramount issue OF the
day. The Democratic leaders in the State
ought 10 have had ample evidence that tho
mass of Americans without distinction Of
party are straight-out, fervid, patriotic ex-
pansicGists, just as Thomas .lfersou, An
d-ew Jackson, and James Kno; Polk We're
before them. Yet, with every opportunity
t. recognize the fact, they Illowcl .he
nou,hIngs of Most, Hoar, Atkinson. ard
the Hessian Schurz to scare them into
denouncing the one thing opposition to
which notoriously involves political sui
eide to any man or party in these
days of the new and greater America.
And so the Ohio blunderers made unto
themselves a platform with rotten planks
of savage assault upon Anglo-Saxo broth
erhood, and OF "anti-imperiaIism." 1t
might have been an acceptable thing to
constituency of wild, middle of the road
Populists with stripes down tffeir backs;
but it certainly was not one calculated to
please intelligent and educated Democrats
in the great Buckeye Commonwealth. In
ordinary circumstances it would have
driven thousands of voters into the camp
of the party supporting the patriotic ma
tional policy. This year it did not have |
that effect, merely because Democrats |
could not stomach the Republican devil of |
Hannaism. and Mr.. McKinley's smirches /
of Algerism, Eaganism. Sampsonism, and /
Otisism. So the men who were not over |
ruled by heredity and habit and voted for I
men representing platform principles they |
contemned. east their ballots for Jones, the
providential prophet of the golden rule.
But for the Grass idiocy of the Ohio plat
form trainers, instead of having to an
nounce Democratic defeat in that State
today. it would have been our privilege TO
speak of Republican rout Nothing could
have been easier of achievement Hanna,
and the sins, hypocrisies, and corruptions
of his Administration; the carrion crimes
in the war; the reasonable trade in arms
and ammunition with the Luzon rebels;
the inexplicable support of Otis and Dem
by; the abiect servitude of the party and
Administration TO the trusts; their fragrant
and defiant destruction of the merit sys-
tenn; their complacency toward public loot,
and the violation of the nations political
blackmail laval these things should
have furnished issues strong enough to
drive the Hanna organization out of the
Commonwealth forever. But it was en-
Irenched behind its one redeeming princi-
pie Democratic insanity caused it alone
TO appear as the defender of American hon.
or and the integrity of national soil, made
so by the guns of Dewey. and become more
sacredly ours by reason of its drenching
with the blood of our soldiers in the Phil
ippines! 1t is severe lesson to the men
who have been dancing to the music of the
Rogue's March, played by the Filipino Jun
ia in Boston.
In a more limited sense the same thing
may be said of the result in Kentucky. The
factional fight in that State may have been s
the proximate cause of much Democratic | I
desertion to the Republican ranks; but it
is undoubtedly true that this detection was :
rendered much easier by the obnoxious ,
of The local party attack upon t
The JefferSonian doctrine OF national expan- l
sion. If this mistake had been avoided. Il
would have been nearly impossible for hon.
Est and patriotic Democrats to desert their !,
coiors, no matter how exasperated they d