The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-09

'i BATTLE JUST BEGUN.
The average Republican speIIbinder or
newspaper gets to lying with such reg
ularity and enthusiasm before election
mat he goes on reckoning without his
almanac after the contest is over. Hence
after Tuesdays little brush in q dozen
states, nearly all of which are Republican
as regularly as the rising and setting Of
the sun, we note in Republican paners
great Republican victories" and tire
mendous Republican gains" But what
Is the use of all this tommyrot? The
student of figures is not fooled bv if and
there IS mighty little use of telling the
man who doesn't study elemental arith-
metic such stuff
Now let's get down to official calcuIa-
lions and see just what happened Tues
day. In Nebraska the Republicans. know
Ing the state to be the home of the lead
ing Democratic candidate, made a night
and-day canvass to beat that gentleman
and take him out of the race before tho
democratic national convention. What
happened? Nebraska, which gave a fusion
plurality of 2,721 in 1885, gave a fusion
plurality of $4,000. In Maryland there
was a straight party fight between .
democratic and a Republican candidate
Tor governor and the Democrat won bv
majority of over 1900, and vet al +he
election of 1888 the Republicans won bv
T1O9. In Kentucky late returns indicato
that Goebel, Democrat, is defeated bv q
lew thousand votes, but no one is fool
hardy enough to claim that as Repub-
hcan victory. The Democrats were fight
ing among themselves and had two can
oldates in the field, the Republican can
oldate merely slipping in between them
With a candidate of average popularity
IN the Held against a straight Republican
does anybody doubt that Kentucky wouId
nave gone Democratic, and by a ma jorit1,
Of at least 10000 votes? It is wholly un-
necessary to mention Mississippi and Viz
GINA They We're expected to go Dem
ocrauc and they did so with proper en-
phasis
Here and there We hear a little crowino,
- those who are not well Informed about
The great Republican victory in Massa-
chusetts and the noble stand the et,+a
look against Hoar and Atkinson and anti
expansion. What nonsense again! The
Democrats expected nothing in Massa-
chuse.ts and made no fight there outside
Of Boston, where g decided anti-exnar-
sion stand was taken. Boston, which
gave Wolcott (Rep) a majority IN 1898
Went more than 5000 for Robert Treat
Paine, the Democratic candidate for gov
ernor. The state of Massachusetts,. 20 con
Republican in 1895, drops to 5000 this
year. Ye gods, how Hoar and Atkinson
must lie awake nights regretting the re-
buff they have received. In the Rer1Ib-
Hcan Gibraltar. Pennsylvania. which gava
Mckinley nearly 100000 plurality in 1896.
the grand old party lost votes by tens of
thousands, and, though leading at the
finish, looks like a hen which had bean
trying unsUccessfully for four DAVIS IN
follow duck across n lake. And what
Of Ohio, which we have discussed at
length elsewhere? The Republican can
didate is elected by some $4,000, 16, 900 less
than the plurality of 1898, and more than
$4,000 less than majority of the votes Of
the state. This looks like an Endorsement
of Mckinley, Hanna, the trusts and ex-
pansion done in oil with the left hand. In
Iowa the Republicans actually nearly
held their own and in South Dakota
where the farmers are utilizing this beau
tiful November weather to the utmost in
doing their fall blowing and thrashing
their grain, the Republicans made a gain.
There were no state tickets in either New
York or New Jersey and therefore no
state contest in any fair sense. On a
very light vote both New York and
Brooklyn gave great Democratic major
tiles, giving plenty of evidence of a suf-
ficient reserve force to make the plural
ity for any popular Democratic national
candidate more than 100000 in that terri
tory known as Greater New York. 1t