The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-09
WHAT 1T ALL MEANS.
People Are In Favor of Nation
al Expansion.
Thinks Nebraska Fusion Vic
tory Due to Local Causes.

Governor Stanley, today discussing
the result of Tuesdays elections, said
to a Journal reporter:
The results of the election, generally,
are encouraging to Republicans and
presage a sure Republican victory next
year. In the east, where it was claim
ed by the anti-expansionists the policy
of President Mckinley would not be
sustained, the result is unusually graft
flying
The victory in Ohio has exceeded the
expectations of the most sauguine Re
publicans and is a stunning blow to
Democratic prospects Massachusetts,
the hot-bed of the anti-eGpansionlsts
and the center OF antl-eXpanS1On inter-
allure, sustains the administration by
an unusual Off-year majority. The
gain in New York is equally significant
Pennsylvania was expected to go Ike
publican as Mississippi was expected to
so Democratic, but the majority IN
Pennsylvania, which is several times
the entire Mississippi vote, is some in
dicatiOn of the overwhelming defeat
that VIII meet the opposition when an
ti-eXpausiOn is made a national issue
Iowa was expected to go Republican,
but it was hardly expected that it
would give the largest Republican ma
jOrity in its history in an Off-year. This
great Republican tidal wave has swept
over Mason and DiNon's line into Ken
lucky, and the Repu blcau majority IN
this former rOck-ribbed Democratic
state is so pronounced and emphatic
that even the bulIdOzing and question
able methods Of the GOebelItes can not
over come it.
The only comfort that the opposf-
ton can get out OF the state elections,
is in Nebraska, which has reaffirmed
its devotion to Mr.. Bryan. This is more
than Offset by the Republican gains in
the adjoining state of South Dakota.
The result in Nebraska is not, as
Mr.. Bryan says, a, rebuke to the ma
fsst hars
continued protest against the last Re
publican state administration, two OF
the officers of which We're guilty of de-
falcatiOnS.
The result in Kansas is very salts
factory to the Republicans. In very
many of the counties the result is
somewhat indefinite, candidates from
both parties being elected. From the
reports published in the papers, how
ever, only three counties show marked
gains for the opposition, over the cleo
ton Of TWO years ago when the same
offices We're filed. These are very much
more than offset by the Republican
gains in almost all of the other counties
in the state. The Republican gains in
central southern Kansas are very pro-
nOunced. Out of the cluster of large
counties in that portion of the state,
only one, Sumner, shows Republican
loss The KepublcanS nave made de
cided gains in Reno, Mcpherson, Har-
Vey, SedgWick, Butler COWley and Elk.
Mcpherson, Reno and Harvey We're Re
y
largely increased Republican MAORI
ties. Sedgwick county has held its own
and made a change in two of the county
offices in favor of the Republicans. But
Ter county had but one Republican Off
GER but now gains several COWley
county shows an increase of several
hundred votes over the Republican vote
of two years ago. Elk county elects the
Republican ticket. The same result
has attended the local election in many
other counties in Kansas.
The average Republican majority in
the state Will be several thousand, and
If the reports are correct viii result in
the election of more Republican officers
than two years ago The Republicans
thave now held Kansas for three success
sive elections, which means that KAN
sas is safely back in the Republican
ranks. The result of the local elections
throughout the state show very clearly
that Kansas can be safely counted on
to sustain the national administration
by considerably larger vote than was
given to the Republican state ticket
last year.
1T is safe to say that the elections of
last Tuesday indicate that on the ma
tiOnal issue Mr.. Mckinley viii not lost
single eastern state. while upon the
other hand he would gain several west
ern states; and that as between Mr..
Mckinley and Mr.. Bryan, Mr. McKin-
ley's majority, both of the popular vote
and in the electoral college will be
larger than it was at the last election"