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The Elections

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
November
Year
1891
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Public Domain
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'XHspeople have again spoken. ïheir verdict, so far asnational issues are conlerned, is full of encouragement to Kepublicans. There is greater reason than ever to expect a victory nextyear. Major McKinley, the able champion of protection and honest money, wins Ohio by a majority of 22,000, despite the fact that the Democrats, aided by the People's party, have made the etrongest campaign they have made lor years. The legislature is Republican, and the re-election of Senator John Sherman ia thus. made certain. The contest in Ohio was waged with reference to national issues solely. Free trade and free eoinage were ably advocated by the Democrats and still more ably opposed by the Republicana. It is evident that the people of Ohio are not affected by thedreamy vagariesand delusive promises of theorlsts and demagogues. It is evident also, that with protection, reciprocity and sound money for watchwords, the Republican party will have no difficulty in carrying the state of Ohio, as well as the nation, next fall. Xew York ives Roswell P. Flower a majority of 50,000 over J. Sloat Fassett. Upon Flower the Hill and Cleveland wings of the Democracy united, and a powerful machine, oiled with liberal suppües of money, brougut about Democratie success. Tammany Hall now has control of the State Hou.se at Albany and is ready to take possession of the White House iteelf. The Republican party should put forth every effort t redeem the great Empire state, for upon ita success depends the cause of honest government. Iowa was won by the Democrats on local iesueB. Governor Boies securing a plurality of 8,000. National issues were little discussed during the campaign and all possible stress was laid on the Prohibition question. Saloonkeepers and brewers united. Thousands of dollars were poured into the state, in order that Democratie ascendency, and and with it the ascendency of the saloon, might again be imposed upon IowaPennsylvania goes Republican by 55,000, while Governor Russell carries Massachusetts by 5,000. A very significant victory was that of Charles E. Belknap in the fifth district of the state. The Democratie majority of a few years ago has been rcersed. It is evident that Michigan has no love for "squawbuck" methods, or for Demcratic doctrines. Detroit has again cast ita vote for Pingree. Most of the boodle aldermen were defeated. William G. Thompson, of unsavory reputation, and John Miner, author of the iniquitous gerrymander, have both been rebuked. The result of the Detroit election is a source of joy not only to the citizens of the metropolis but to every honest man in Michigan. The lesson to be learned from the elections of 1891 is this: the Republican party is sure to win when national issues are brought to the front. Now for 1892. Iqnatiüs Donnelly, the wouid-be leader of the farmers' alliance, is in a bad way. Some time ago the St. Paul Pioneer Press launched against him a tirade of abuse and accusation, charging him .imong other things with bribery. A libel suit followed and Mr. Donnelly received $1 damages. Many of the Minnesota newspapers consider this proof that the charges were true and that the great reformer is himself in need of reform. Mr. Donnelly is certainly placed in a very bad light. Tiieke should be no further delay about submitting the sewerage question to a vote of the people. Near'y every one, whether favoring or opposing the proposed improvement, is anxious to eee something done - and no valid ar gument, either in the council or in the press, has jet been advanced, why a special election should notbe held immediately. Only three inteipretations can be placed upon the action of the council; eilher a majority are opposed to sewerage per sí, or they wish to bond the city, instead of levying a special tax, or they are swayed by their prejudicee. Ai.i)KRMAt Winks opportunely called the attention of the council, Monday night, to the reckless methods of financiering pursued by the conncil durinj; the past few years. It may not be known generally that Ann Arbor has a slowly increasing debt, in the form of overdrafts, which bids fair to exceed 820,000 by February lst. Tbis debt should either be bonded or paid by a special tax, so that the city may commence the fiscal year even with the world. The charter expressly says thatthe expenditures in any year are not to exceed the aggregate taxes. Is it not more than likely ,as Alderman Wines hinted, that the aldermen are legally Hable if they viólate this clause ? Chicago, rivalling New York in all other things, now proposes to have a Tammany hall thatwill cast the Gotham orjjanization quite in the shade. The idea, as gleaned from Chicago papers, is the solidification of the Demócrata in Cook county in such a way that their organization can never be broken up or defeated. The plan will be carried out by the election of five committeemen in each precinct, such committeemen to elect two central committeemen in each ward, who shall have the management1 of party affairs within the county of Cook. With Tammany halls in every large city - all working together, under the guise of democracy, for the control of offices and the spoils of corruption, the United States would be in a very dangerous plight. Slavery itself in its day was not more of a curse than is the growing power of saloon politicians and corruptionists. Wadk Hampton, the celebrated South Carolina Democrat, has remarked that the Farmers' Alliance is going to pieces and that it will assuredly not last more than four years longer. He asserts that the uprising was founded on demagogy and fanaticism and 'charaeterizes the sub-treaaury plan, advocated by them, as so absurd on its face as to make argument unnecessary. Mr. Hampton is far too harsh. The men who founded the alliance, most of them, at any rate, honestly believed that they had grievances and that they knew ju9t what remedies shouldbeapplied. They were, however, mistaken in severing all relations with existing partiep, and in favoring impracticable schemes. Thanks to the Republican policy, which strengthens the home market and at the same time extendí the foreign when it can be done advantageously, farmers are prospering, despile the evident decline of the organization which claims to represent them.

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