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Show What the Ballots Tell. ELECTIONS which occurred in forty-two states of the union on Tuesday again give a solid south to the Democrats and victories generally gener-ally to the Republicans of the north. Again they have demonstrated the unreliability un-reliability of ante-election forecasts in the close states. The great surprise took place in New York state, where Governor Odell's Republican majority of 110,000 two years ago was reduced to something like 10,000. If the counties of Erie, Monroe and Albany had verified veri-fied ante-election forecasts, Coler, Democrat, would have been elected governor of the state and a legislature which would name a senator to succeed suc-ceed Boss Piatt. The Democrats have gained, surely three congressmen in California, one in Delaware, one in Iowa, one in . Indiana, In-diana, one in Kentucky, two in Maryland, Mary-land, one in Massachusetts, two in Missouri, one in Nebraska, two in New York, one in New Jersey, one in Rhode Island, three in Texas, one in West Virginia, two in Wisconsin. This gain is considerable, but not enough to disturb dis-turb the working Republican majority, not enough to initiate any attack upon the tariff or trusts with any hope of successful issue. "" Democrats have become familiar with defeat, and few were sanguine of a result other than the one turned out. Indeed, the result is not without hope, the future may change. In those states where Republicans were divided in their tariff convictions, many of them rank heretics in the camp of Protection, Protec-tion, the ballots have shown gains for the Democrats. Although the result does not indicate that there will be any change in the attitude of the Republican Republi-can party toward the trusts, the ballots show an underlying sentiment against them except in Pennsylvania, where it should have shown the most. No matter mat-ter how meritorious the issue which the opposition . presents, Pennsylvania will vote against it, and for Quay and big Republican majorities. In New York state it is different. There the Democratic platform contained con-tained the most radical utterances against trusts and urged the most radical rad-ical means for their correction, one plank advocating the government ownership own-ership of anthracite coal mines.' It must have received the support of many thousands of Republicans, else how explain the demoralization' in the president's own state? It needs no soothsayer to convince the onlooker in Venice that had the roal strike lasted to this time, the republican party would have been swept away as If by a cyclone. President Roosevelt and J. P. Morgan together saved it from annihilation. anni-hilation. Colorado disappoints us. Idaho disappoints dis-appoints us.' Montana can never surprise sur-prise us. . As for Utah there is no need of politics or political parties here. |