The Lamar register., 1900-11-14

reSpOndence.) .)-ElectiOn IL over and all
good Americans accept the result as an
expression of the will of the majority,
and are willing to settle down to bust
ness. glad that the struggle Is over. 1t
Ii not without interest, however, to
to frame a fair and just opinion as to
the causes and as to the probable ef-
fects.
The returns from Colorado are very
slow in coming in AT this writing,
five days after the election, detailed re-
turns are In from probably less than
half the counties. We know, however,
that the Legislature is overwhelmingly
anti-Republican, and that the Demo
Gratis, without their Fusion allies. prob
ably have clear majority in both
houses. We know that the Bryan elec-
tors have somewhere between 10000
and 25,OOO plurality, and that Orman
has beaten GOudy by plurality some
where in the teens.
The result in the country at large
was fOrecasted exactly by the Republi-
can national committee before the elec-
ton, except that they did not claim
Utah, which has gone for Mckinley
good and strong With Kentucky con-
ceded to Bryiin by the operations of
the Goebel law, McKinley's electoral
vote Is unprecedented since 1872. Even
Mr.. Bryan knows that he is licked this
time and has said-Or is reported to
have sald-that the result is too big to
be accounted for on the ground that
Chairman Jones took four years ago
the ground OF coercion and intimidn-
ton and colonization by the Republi
cans. Mr.. Bryan sees this time that
1t was no compliment to tell the major
ity of Americans four years ago that
they had been bought or cOerced into
voting for Mckinley. and he owns that
he was fairly beaten.
Is the Democratic party rid of Bry-
an as candidate? That is the ques
ton that IL agitating many n Demo-
cratic breast just now. 1t Ia rumOred
that he himself recognizes that after
being beaten so much worse the second
time than the first 1t is useless for him
to persist in his candidacy, and that he
Will resign, so to speak. In favor OF
some other man. ! do not believe that
this Is Mt all certain, however. The old
leaders of the Democratic party, many
of whom voted for Mckinley this time,
will make u tremendous effort to cap
ture the organization during the next
four years, and they are likely to do 1t.
Carlisle, Whitney, Fairchild, German,
Dickinson, and men of that character,
COubiieu WIFI tHe COHstTNdtiVt hcu VI
the South who see that Bryan's race
is run, will probably get control Of the
Democracy and run 1t back on the old
track, advocating free trade and state
rights, and throwing overheard free
silver and denunciation of the courts
and the Income tax and all the rest of
the Populist planks that got in in 1896.
If this happens, and Mr.. Bryan is
the sincere champion Of free silver that
his friends have claimed him to be,
he will not follow the lead Of the De-
mocracy, but will be more likely to go
with the aggregation Of Populists. Sill
verites, Debsites. Socialists and others
that will surely be formed II the Demo.
cratic party becomes again n conser-
vative party.
Some Of the expressions of opinion
by Democrats on the results are inter-
esting reading. Congressman Catch
ings Of Mississippi leader in the
House Of Representatives, says the
way to succeed next time is to discard
silver, discard resistance to the courts,
discard class hatred and everything
radical, and make the candidates stay
at home during the campaign. Uncle
Horace Boies, Iowa, says: '.Throw
over 10 to l." Croker says that 16 to
1 don't go any more. If these men
who have stayed with the Democratic
party, express such sentiments, 1t is
clear that when Carlisle, Dickinson
and Hill and German and other old
line Democrats come back to the fold,
16 to will get the "cold shake"
The Legislature of Colorado being SO
strongly against the Republicans, the
various Fusion candidates are already
actively at work. As the Democrats
alone have a majority, the Thomas
crowd will no doubt try to run the
Democratic members into caucus.
II they can do it and keep the Teller
ties and Populists out, they can carry
the caucus for Thomas and elect him.
But after Thomas strong expressions
| in favor of Fusion, and with the dis
inclination of the Adams and Patter-
son Democrats to deliver themselves
| up to the Thomas crowd. it does not
| seem possible that the governor will
be able to corral them. If there is no
caucus, and the Legislature tries to
sattle the matter by an open vote,
there is a good chance for Adams, the
man with no violent enemies, to get in
while the Thomas crowd and the Pat
terson crowd are fighting each other.
| The general results Of the election
are so great that it Is hard to compre-
hend them all ut once. The victory
means that there will be four years
more of Mckinley prosperity; it means
that there will soon be an end of the
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