Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-11-13
WASHINGTON LETTER 4

~ WASHINGTON LETTER :: s. I.
Nov. 10 The election il over and
the democracy has mu> b to- oongratu-
This IL tho time for ID emocratic iu-
bilation and citation. In every state
where the democrats made an attempt
they either defeated the republicans
or cut down the majority in such q
manner az to. give encouragement to
every democrat In the land. Only IL
the single state Of Ohio were we de-
feated worse than expected. No
democrat In the country expected to
see Tom l.. johnson be elected govern
or. He did not expect 1t himself. He
was fighting for the legislature to de-
feat Mark Hanna for the United
States Senate. He made q gallent
fight and with the right principle.
He preached the gospel of humanity
to the people of the state, the gospel
of the peoples right against the
rights Of the corporation, and it is
gospel that must in the end pre-
vail or the people, not alone of this
state but Of the entire nation, will
have sacrificed their birthright on the
altar Of corporate greed. His defeat
and the defeat of the ticket and the
principles he represented must be at
tributed to the detection in the rank
OF the democratic party in Ohio a,.t.
to the lavish use Of money at the pcll,
and before the election. Some da,
those people in the state of Ohio vi !
see and know....the truth and it will Z
q democratic state. In the meantiui r
the only thing ttose patriots In Ohio
can do is to pick their 6ints and keep
their powder dry. There will be an
other battle next year and the indica-
lions from the battle of the Sd of this
month presage a glorious victory.
IL 1s the consensus Of democratic
opinion here among the clans Of gath
ering democrats who come to the as
sembling Of the Fifty eighth Congress,
that the democrats have much in the
election at which to rejoice. We more
than held our own in the state of
Massachusetts,, we kept our own in
the little state Of Rhode Island by re-
elect1ng our governor we carried the
state of Maryland not only for the
state ticket but for United States SEN
ator; We carried Kentucky BY an in
creased majority which eternally puts
the kibosh on republican assassination
in that state, we reduced the majori-
ty In the rockribbed republican state
Of Iowa by at least 20, 600, and we
made clean sweep of the great CITY
of New York. The latter was q great
victory for more than one reason. It
was victory. for the great common
people, for home rule, for democratic
methods, and q defeat for hypocrisy,
false pretense. the rule of the corpora.
ton and the aristocrat, q cold bath for
the bootlicks and sycophsnts who
whine about the knees of the preda-
tory wealth.
To witness an election in the great
est city in the nation and especially
when the people have won a great vic.
tory, is sight never to be forgotten.
l was in New York and saw the thing.
Imagine $50, 900 people packed in the
space covered by twenty acres all gaz-
ing intently at the bulletin board, and
when the news comes they have been
hoping for and waiting for, there is
an explosion and panlemonium breaks
loose and reigns supreme from that
time on until tired nature refuses
longer submit. The people forming
the crowds had been to the ballot box
earlier In the day, and they were re-
joicing over the work they had accom-
plished. They had q good right to
howl. They had that day stamped
their feet on the necks Of the rankest
gang Of rotten republicans posing as
reformers who ever worked up the
"con game on the honest people Of
any city in the country. Those
people have themsels es and Their own
ballots to thank for this escape from
the rags Of towards bringing to coin,
but they have some agencies to thank
for making them "wlse'' to tho sltua-
ton. It Is the universal opinion in
New York and In political circles here
that had 1t not been for the papers
controlled by that good democrat and
peoples friend, William Randolph
Hearst, the people would never have
taken the interest in the election that
they did and great democratic city
would still have been under the con-
troll Tom Plat and his republican CO.
co-laborers and co-partners in political
crime.
This election teaches q lesson and it
may be summed up briefly. It. has
made some men and put others very
much on the "blink" so to speak. The
result in Massachusetts teaches us
that the so-oalled re-orgsnized demo-
cracy which controlled things in that
state cannot win without the rank and
file Of the party that stood Loyalty to
the ticket in the year of 1895 AM
1900. and it is believed that q good
MANY of them went fishino m election
day. There will, it is confidently be-
lieve6 by many leaders of the party
here, be repetition of this piscator-
ial energy on the part of thousands of
democrats all over the East next year
should the democracy nominate such a
man for the presidency. The result
in the city of New York means many
things for many people.
It means that Mr.. Charles F. MUIR
ply, the new leader Of Tammany
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