The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-12

Blackburn to succeed Lindsay is assured.
No one who has watched the contest VIII
doubt that the Democracy. united cn ma
tional issues. Kentucky can be relied upon
for a majority of 5000 or $1,000" Ohio is
summed up as follows:
What consolation can Republicans draw
from the Ohio election? Mr.. Hanna secured
the nomination of his candidate for Cover
nor upon a platform indorsing the Repub-
lican administration. And while the returns
indicate that Nash has plurality of about
fifty thousand over Mclean, Mclean and
Jones together have a majority OF some
thing like nifty thousand over the Republic
an candidate. Mclean ran upon platform
emphatically indorsng the Chicago pat
FORM condemning the trusts. miiitarism and
Imperialism, and he made a gallant nght
against great oods. Ohio is the home OF the
President the home of Mr.. Hanna. Post
masters all over the United States were
urged to contribute money to save ONO.
MIR. Hanna took the stump and called on
Republicans to support the ticket and IN
dorse the administration. And in spite OF
all this Mr.. Hanna's own county was car
ried by Mr.. Jones' and the Republican par
ty, which had a majority OF nearly hfty
thousand in 1885, is now overwhelmed by
majority approximating fifty thousand. Inc
Jones vote is anti-Republican. Mr.. Jones
himself has made an open tight against MI
Hanna and his methods, and the Repuphcah
party has turned its batteries against Mr..
Jones and his followers.
Iowa, South Dakota and Kansas results
are passed over with but brief paragraphs
as not of leading Importance. On Nebraska
he says: THE Nebraska campaign was
fought on national issues and the tuslon
candidate for judge received about li'vov
this year, as against 5000 last year Tor the
fusion candidate for Governor, and lS,NO
for the fusion electors in 1886 and the fusion
| candidate for judge in 1881. Assistant sec
retary of War Meiklejohn came from Wash
| ington to plead with the voters TO upnoio
| the Presidents policies Senator Thurston
| and Senator Hayward were on the stump
| warning the people not to repudlate the
| President. Senator Fairbanks and other
Republicans from outside the State lent
| their influence, but, Notwithstanding the Ell
| forts put forth by the Republicans, the
| fusion forces gained a signal victory. Their
| candidate, Judge Holcomb, carried five OF
| the congressional districts out of the six
| and lost the remaining district (the First
| by only thousand. The fusionists made a
net gain of three district judges and large
| gain Of county officers"
| Mr.. Bryan continues: Taken as whole
| the election returns from all the States
! give encouragement to those who hope fol
the overthrow of the Republican party ir
| 1S00 1t is evident that those who believed
in the Chicago platform in 1896 still believe
| in it. If the rebuke administered TO the
Republicans at the polls had been more Sc
we're the prospect Of remedial legislation al
the hands Of the Republicans would bs
brighter. While 1t was sufficient to indi.
cate that the people are not satisfied with
the Republican policies, 1t may have beer
sufficient to stay the course of the Re.
publican party toward plutocracy and
toward the European idea of a government
| built upon force rather than upon the con-
sent of the governed, government relying
for its safety upon a large standing army
rather than upon citizen soldiery.'