The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-11-10
THE LESSON OF THE ELECTIONS,

We had something to say yesterday OF
Tuesdays elections. but we think the
subject is far from being exhausted.
The elections I'm every State, where Sc
rious contests were made. except Ohio,
may fairly be said TO have turned upon
local considerations. The vote. indeed in
such states as Iowa and Massachusetts
shows. Of course, that the normal Repub-
Iican vote of the North and Northwest Is
entirely unbroken. 1t stands as steady
and firm as "a granite wall at the Repub-
lcan party's back. with whose manage
ment of the affairs Of the country this
vote shows that the people of those states
are entirely satisfied. But the vote IN
Nebraska. for instance. has no significance
whatever for national matters. A ST.
preme Court judge was to be elected
On that state. and an election Of that sort
brings out. of course. a very small part
Of the normal vote. Nebraska may ne.
and probably is. a safe Republican state
ln a Presidential election. and there Vas
nothing whatever in Tuesdays vote to
Indirate that % will not be so. The vote
I'm Kentucky. though the state has gone
Republican. most probably, is no lndica-
ton of how the state will vote 10 The
Presidential election The rebellion
against machine politics and the attempt
TO fasten fraudulent elections upon Ken
tuckv. is responsible for the actual condi-
tions which Tuesday brought about there.
| So the election I'm Maryland was a COM
lest wholly disconnected from national
politics. The Republicans made q des-
perate effort to make the voters believe
that national politics were involved in It,
but they could not blind them. They saw
that it was only the ordinary question of
whether the Republicans or the Democrats
should rule the State of Maryland. and
as Maryland is nominally a Democratic
state. she naturally went Democratic.
Many Of the most pronounced gold Demo
Gratis of the state. men who had had the
most prominent and leading part In the
effort TO defeat Bryan in 1896, were lead
ers I'm the movement TO elect the Demo-
cratic ticket last Tuesday. Notwith-
standing last Tuesdays election. it is as
safe 10 say that Maryland Will go for
the sound money ticket i'm 1900 as that
New York will.
The significant contest last Tuesday,
so far as national politics are concerned,
was I'M Ohio. There the issue was square
Iy and fairly drawn between gold n sill
yer, between Bryan and Mckinley, and
the result shows that the majority of the
people of Ohio are more earnest for the
gold standard to-day han they were in
1896 They have tasted of the sweets Of
% stable currency with which men can
trade with the confidence that each under
stands exactly what he is undertaking TO
DO. and what he may expect TO receive,
and where those joys are once tasted by
an appreciatiye mind, that mind is forever
thereafter deaf TO all appeals in favor
OF a debased money.
Ohio's vote shows that the gold stand
ard is now adopted by the American peo-
pie. N imbedded forever in our civil
polity. and that all attempts to impair it
or to grub it up out Of our institutions
are as vain as efforts to burn up or ex-
haust the atmosphere. This is the les
son Of Tuesdays election.