Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-08
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CRUSHED.

tions of yesterday. Its inherent energies
will be taxed to the utmost to recover
sufficient footing to wage war for vic
tory in 1900. It was immolated upon the
altar Of a%ssininity. and went down to
defeat under the weight of the new para
mount issues Through which it assailed
the honor, ting integrity and the patriot
ism of our splendid republic. RELOCATING
the free coinage issue to the rear.sin
every state in which a campaign Vas
fought and an election held, the denloc-
racy sought Victory on the plea that
hydra-headed "'imperialism'' was threat
eiling the very life of the nation. This
odoriferous issue, pregnant with the logic
of Stockings and the wisdom of babes,
disguised a long suffering public which
registered it's emphatic d%isapproval at
the polls.
In Ohio, the principal battlefield of the
day, the administration of President Nc
Kinley was most enthusiastically en-
dorsed. The multi millionaire candidate
for governor on the democratics ticket
squandered his cash with an unsparing
hand. All that money could do to cor
rupt the corruptible was done, and vet
with all the lavish expenditure which Nc
Lean was capable of making, the Buck
eye state refused to surrender it's birth
right for a mess of pottage. Democracy
never made a more determined fight tina
in Ohio and itS dofaat &c q ,5icoppoi,+
ment from which it cannot rally. The
result takes Mclean out of the list of
eligibles for the doubtful honor of a
democratic presidential nomination next
year.
In Kentucky, the democrats were over
taken by another crushing defeat, and
the man who raped a state convention,
and stole a gubernatorial nomination,
has been retired to the shades of OBJ
security. Though Colonel Bryan fastened
to the Blue Grass state, and wasted his
eloquence upon the desert air. in an
effort to save Goebel from defeat, the
hem of his garments were less potential
than in the rustic retreats of old Mis-
souri,. The magnetic influence of the
Nebraska orator had no effect upon the
situation, and Goebel went to his politi-
cal death under an avalanche of votes.
Notwithstanding the Palmer uckner
break IN 1896, Kentucky is normally a
democratic state, and had the bourbon
leaders in that commonwealth respected
the dictates of common political honesty
they would nave scored a victory in
yesterdays contest. AS conditions nov
are, that state may he safely registered
in the republican column next year.
Outside the stenca-pots of Tammany,
the republicans of New York scored a
victory of far-reaching Importance. The
big metropolis, with it's compact demo
cratic organization of public freebootars
was conceded to Tammany. Its perpet-
ual political mortgage OIL that corrupt
municipality stands practically undis.
puted. But in the state at large, where
Tammany methods do not prevail, the
republicans won an cas- victory, anC
VII toiliOi lHE general dSSenlDly OF tina
commonwealth.
In Iowa, in New Jersey, and elsewhere
there is an uninterrupted line of reDub.
lean successes. In two states alone car
the democracy discover a CLEAN of hope
and even the political victories Their
achieved bear no white-winged messan.
gers of political comfort to the bourbon
soul.
The fusion forces in Nebraska score
victory, but it is not a democratic vic
tory. The republicans were beaten il
Bryan's state only by carrying out 70
the nonce the ignored policy of co-opera
ton Of 1896. It has been officially give,
out hat the democracy will refuse t,
cooperate with other political partie
in 1900, and the fusion effected in Ne
braska was merely a temporary expe
dient, growing out of state pride, to pre-
serve the political prestige of Mr.. Bryan
Democrats who repudiated the policy O
cooperation in 1898. and who have Sc
their faces against sucn a policy in 1900
can find little political comfort in the vic
tory which fusion alone made possible
In Nebraska.
In Maryland the democratic party wa