The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-11-15
The Result of the Elections.

No Republican can reasonably COM
plain of any result in Tuesdays cleo
ton in its bearing upon the policy of
the national administration. Not only
can every good Republican, but every
loyal American also, of whatever polit-
icsl faith, rejoice in the emphatic ap-
proval of the administration wherever
it's course was distinctively on trial.
This was the case in Ohio. 1t had been
proclaimed far and wide that the result
of the election in the State was in
doubt; that at the best the majority
for the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor could be very small, and there
were confident prophecies of Demo
cratic Victory.
What is the result in this State, in
VIII oh the President was placed on
trial by the opponents of his policy in
the East, aud from which they propos-
ed, and confidently expected, to obtain
on Tuesday his indictment? The cleo
ton of the man who, in an off year in
politics, was the representative of the
national policy, by plurality nearly
double that of the last off-year election,
and exceeding even the figures OF
the last national election. That is a
sufficient answer to the anti-imperialist
indictment. 1t needs no enlargement,
words cannot add to its emphasis, and
nothing is needed to explain its signif
canoe, present and prospective. 1t is
the most emphatic and satisfying en-
dorsement President Mckinley could
have, it puts an end to political specu-
lation and partisan machination, and it
points conclusively to his denomination
by the next Republican national con-
vention.
IL other States, in Massachusetts
Iowa, New York and New Jersey, Re-
publican success is of decisive char
&C err. There the element of State
pride was lacking, and the canvass rest.
ed on it's native merits, but the Repub-
licans have nevertheless been victori
Gus, and the size of their victory has
the adequately vindicating weight Of
numbers. The majority in Massachu'
sets shows that the heart of the people
is all right. The people have given
emphasis and color to the mild an6
colorless declarations of the conven
ton of their delegates. The pestifer
GUS body of anti-imperlialists that in
tests the old commonwealth has beer
rebuked, not the administration agains
which it had invoked the popular judg
ment. In none of these States wert
personal issues involved. In none wal
there active, organized partisan work
In all were the conditions most favor
able for calm deliberation, for actor
on the merits of the issues involved il
the election, and in the answer thes
States, together with Ohio, have mad
to the national questions just submltte,
to their consideration, must be sough
an authorluVely expressed judgment
Only persons in the desperate strait
in which the elections have left tn
anti-imperalists of whatever stripe wi
find in the result in Nebraska NOR
than the personal triumph of MI
Bryan. 1t is idle to try to connect th
fusion majority for supreme coul
judge with an expression of the opir
ion OF that State on a national ISSUE
Th3 sunshine the enemy can extraC
from the Nebraska cucumber will nc
gid with radiance entirely cheerfl
the prospects of Democracy and ant
imperialism in 1900. Looking at tt
Nebraska result from an exclusivel
partisan point of view, it should /
reassuring to Republicans. To the
any event that will contribute t IL