Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-08
HOW IT HAPPENED
Review of the Results Of the Election
in Gotham.
BRYAN'S DEFEAT DUE TO l6 TO |
Interest Already Turns to the Next
MayoraIty Contest.
THE FIG HIT ON CROk E II
|RYAN'S DEFEAT DUE TO Is TO |
THE FIG HIT ON CROK R

Special Correspondence or Inc Evening Stdr.
NEW YORK, November Z, 1900
The election of 1900 is now history and
the republicans s-e jublant, while the DEM
ocrats correspondingly depressed
Though the Mckinley landslide seems to
have been anticipated to a large extent IN
the stock market and by the newspapers OF
the country, nevertheless there was feel-
ing Of relief among republicans and business
men when it was finally found that by an
overwhelming majority the people OF the
country had Endorsed the Mckinley pom
c;es Eastern democratic newspapers in
discussing the cause for the second de1eat
of Bryan appear to attribute 1t to the un-
nopularity of the free silver idea ana 10
the fact that the so-called Kansas Cl'v
blanks of anti-imperialism and ant-trusts
did not attract voters to the extent ahlici-
pated. Democratic voters profess 10 hilu
some consolation in the fact that whlie NC
Kinley's electoral plurality Is larger tilai
before his popular plurality over Bryan Is
undoubtedly less than four years ago. Inc
Rrvanites appear to have followed the line
of the least resistance. While they maze
gains in cities which four years ago cav
| heavy majorities for Mckinley those gains
| were not of a character likely TO heIp them
! in capturing any electoral votes. FOR IN
stance, they won in cities ike ne" 10TH
| and Boston-cites which TOUR years aso
| were carried by Mckinley, put gains Gl
| this nature did not win for them single
| electoral vote. On the other hand the re-
| publicans gained in the close states ana
| those gains reflected in the electoral
| college. 49,,
| Now that it is all over viewed from the
| Bryante standpoint it is evident that the
| policy of concentrating the hre upon Tue
| east proved disastrous. Bryan campaign
| in the east was made, not with the nope VI
| the expectation of changing New York ana
New Jersey to the democratic column, put
| with the hope of concentrating the hsht
| and the fire of the republicans on me eas.
| and thus giving the democrats OF the west
| a better opportunity of winning their states.
| It was felt that if the republicans could pe
induced to keep money, literature anu
speakers in the east Ohio and Illinois might
go democratic.
Republicans Were Not Fooled.
The republicans appear not to have fallen
into the trap set for them. Instead OF
paving any attention to the Bryanite claims
that New York and New Jersey would go
democratic as a result of Bryans efforts in
those states they have moved on Bryan
own strongholds in the west. The demo-
Gratis have been completely outgeneraleu
Bryan's own state has been invaded. Inc
thing that Is puZZlng the eastern Demo
Gratis is the question of why the west ltseli
went back on Bryan. They can understand
why Ohio, Indiana and Illinois again iahueo
in the republican column, but they cahno;
| understand why Bryans own congressional
. district and his own state did not DO as
. well by him as four years ago Inc Bryan
. men here in the east explain this by saying
. that Bryan's following west of the Missls
. sunni river has been a personal rather thar
I | a political following. The Nebraska farm
: | ers, they claim, admire the man more thar
! they admire mis- policies. Hence. when h'
3 left them and went away campaigning II
! | the east they appear in many cases to hav'
I returned to their old party affiliations.
The keys to the Bryan campaign thu
: year, 1t is explained. was ONO ana limos
+ not New York state and New Jersey. Bry
: an thought that Indiana was surely demo
: cratic He thought that he could carr
Maryland, West Virginia. Kentucky, hol
& his own in the far west, and add Illinois |
| his list of states Then Mckinley would b
Z compelled to carry both Ohio and Illinois
+ Bryan needed only one of the states t
i win. and in this way it was figured tina
BRYAN had two chances to one. But IN
republicans put an end to this by starting
L back fire in Bryan's own country, bac
fire which appears to have done the Brya
people an immense amount OF harm.
Now that it is all over, despite predit
tions to the contrary, 1t appears that Ricf
ard Croker must have done his level be:
for BRYAN. Republicans do not acknow
edge this in view of Cookers wild claim
mat BRYAN would carry the city by 5000
and his inability to make good his pre-ee'
ton promises. But the Chcago platfor
democrats who hate Croker more tina
they hate the republican party, are no
expressing surprise that New York did {
well by Bryan as 1t did when the remaindt
of the country bolted the Nebraska MAJ
1t should be remembered that Greater Ne
York four years ago gave Mckinley Pill
rality Of 10000 To convert this hosu
majority into plurality for Bryan Of al
proximately 10000, and this, too, in the fat
Of the opposition of the commercial int
ests of the city, appears to show that I
matter what may be said about Croker
methods he must have done some han
| work for the democratic national ticket tn
year. 1t should be remembered in this col
nection that Croker does not exercise ar
direct jurisdiction over the borough
Brooklyn and he received little assistant
from Hugh Mclaughlin.
The Kings county democracy has alwaI
| opposed Bryan openly, even when Tan
many Hall has pretended to support hr
This year the opposition was so open ar
pronounced that the Kings county dem
Gratis absolutely refused to distribute Br
ante literature, and Bryan visited Broo
Ign during his campaign here in the ca
in the face of the protests or the KIM
county leader, who was anxious only +
the success of his local candidates, al
who has been repeatedly accused of ira
= ing off Bryan for state senators and a
semblymen.
This trading on the part of the machi
undoubtedly accounts for the fact tn
as John B. Stanchfeld the democratic cane
date for governor, carried Kings coun
I'M by 1000 while Bryan gained In Kings ov
1896 but the gains were not proportiona
with the gains in other sections of the cit
le- AS repeatedly indicated In this correspon
Dr. ence the lower half of Manhattan Isla
an was thoroughly Bryanized and it was frc
this section of the city that Mr. Bry
made his chief gains. This remarkat
IRE showing of the democrats south Of 2
IN street accounts for the failure of the
rs: publicans to elect as many Representative
at in the lower House of Congress as h
been anticipated.
nts Hill and Croker influence COntraste
nd A study of the returns from New Yo
mn state counties. far as received, sho
nu that while the Croker counties" so-call'
made remarkable gains for Bryan on
ne, 1896, the Hill counties were as p
'st- nounced for Mckinley four years al
in This has caused Mr.. Bryans friends h
Iell to start an investigation and the ex-sena
lis is again being accused Of treachery.
re- seems to be Mr. Hills fortune or mist
aid tune to be repeatedly accused of being
as traitor. The fact that he was elected q
Of ernor while Cleveland was defeated
the 1888, has never been forgotten by
Cleveland men. And the Bryan men, eN
when he appeared on the stump this We
repeatedly accused him of treachery fl