| Show ELECTION HE ECHOES mark ham halina ro no bondor creating public with his wad left to themselves the people of con coa new hew england 0 are ara rapidly enlisting in the C cause ase of alleged A anarchy and ana in spite of their anti election as aa arances that mckinleyl McKin leya triumph niran mean the annihilation ol 01 the silver forces elation election echoes are telling a different story etory following is from a goldbug gold bug organ the new york evening I 1 rest post A Br bayanito was wag elected mayor of al lynn mass maes yesterday much to the amazement of the republicans by a majority of ile he ran ort oa the platform of unfulfilled lican promises wages had not gono gone up on tile the contrary cut downs had bad occurred in many of the shoe in manufactories manu ant factories the logic way wag irresistible that called for voting I 1 down a party in power that bad had such a barren idea 0 of f prosperity as that thai this incident ident should serve as a solemn warning to the advance agent of prosperity and hs his party ol of the in i ir possible nature of the contract cor they have on their hands bands they have undertaken to put i everybody at work at good wages it ia i a an old trick of the 1 buethe but the promise was never no ve r on el elicit as this year year it was definite both as to panties and as ans to measures u res have the is made you rich asked mckinley put us in power ald we will do it we will bil make a tariff that fiat will set all the talt tair chimneys s ro oking and give every laborer work at high M wages now that is a dangerous cc contract for any president or party to undertake even if it were reasonably fulfilled there would be tens of thousands of the incurably discontented who would insist that it had not been and who would go in madly for another abar change e prom from the commercial advertiser the official returns of the recent election which are now completed fire are worthy of study mckinleyl McKin leye popular plurality over dryan bryan is out of a total vote of in 1872 nearly a quartet quarter of a century aaa ago grants popular plurality over greeley was oyer out of a total vote of although no such momentous issues were at stake in that contest as in the late struggle 0 leaving out new york and pennsylvania the popular vo vote to for mckinley anti and bryan respectively is substantially a tie when it is remembered that mckinless McKin levs plurality was in illinois in wisconsin WiE consia in massachusetts in new jersey and in iowa this fact be becomes corlies highly f significant it shows how bow i important it is that all the tha sound money mone elements should unite their efforts toward restoring nm 0 business prosperity during the coming four years the election of a free silver mayor of the new england lin gland city of lynn yesterday is proof that there is vitality t it lity still in tho move and nd nothing will serve so ofa eta ul fly ally to prevent it a renewal al of tile hc repudiation cause in 1893 antl anil as the removal of industrial commenting on oil the same matter the he new york journal silver says bays that the tha people of lynn mass a republican stronghold should lave have elected by a great geat majority the democratic candidate for mayor has set the explanation works of the dominant party going the democratic candidate was elected because the republican promises promiE es of an immo immediate diat renewal of prosperity have not been ful filled the election of mckinley ey instead of being succeeded by good times in lynn was followed by the clodin closing of ahoe factories and cuts in wages it is being pointed out to the voters that they are unreasonable in attributing these misfortunes to the tha election of mckinley and that is quite true but il if the shoe factories had been opened instead of closed and wages raised instead of reduced the organs would not have hesitated to claim that the blessings were directly due to election the voters of lynn are plainly of the opinion abr thc t it is a poor rule that wont work both ways the more philosophical of the organs are telling the people of lynn and through 0 h them the people of the united states that it is both foolish and dangerous to rely for pros upon political action rather than upon the private virtues of indu industry olry and thrift that is not good republican doctrine neither is is it good sense it depends altogether on what sort of political action is meant the republican party by its ad option of the ilie protective policy has baa done its best to teach the people to look upon the government Govern mert as a special providence whose most important function is to concern itself with the bur business Aness of the et citizen and insure him profit by bestowing tariff bounties the tha republican theory is that it is the government which regulates jaaes wages by levying duties on i imports ports so eo as to prevent foreign competition with home labor rha ilie republicans of lynn who voted the democratic ticket because their wa wadea 0 ea were ro danced or cut os off altogether were therefore fl lawlessly logical the personal virtues of industry and thrift are always to be encouraged like temperance they are excellent things for the individual but the masses are no more to be r raised opt of poverty by and thrift under present indest industrial r conditions than everybody is to be mado made rich and happy by abstaining b from strong drink it is because the fruits of labor are appropriated by others that the men who do the worlds work remain poor by political action only Is this injustice to tie be cured the workingmen who think their ballots ought to h bip lp them to better wages are right but they are wrong in thinking 0 that taxing taming themselves or others by means of a tariff is going to fill their pockets it would not be honest money either if they could thus vote it to themselves for it would be taken from others to whom it belongs what is wanted are conditions that will en emble ible every man to keep what lie he earns that will prevent anybody from taking away from another anything to which the appropriator ator has no just title not a government that will dip into the common treasury to give plums to favorites not a government that will tax all for the benefit of some but a government Gove rement insuring equal rights and no privileges is wb what at the citizen should vote for and no matter how much the beneficiaries of the present pater paternalism n which his has the afie rich for its wards may cry out against 0 social disturbance unsettling the foundations of society and the rest of it the masses will continue to strive more or less blindly and spasmodically to vote into existence conditions that shall keep the hand of craft away from the products of toil if the citizens of lynn did not aim straight there is no question that the instinct which brought the gun of the ballot to their shoulders was the tha instinct that will ultimately give us a real republic if anything can I 1 the salt lake tribune says says the city of lynn mass lias fas just elected a straight out for mayor by one of the tha largest and most sweeping majorities ever given to a candidate in opposition to the regular republican nominee is the report of the boston herald mckinley some six ago carried lynn by majority tho the springfield republican says that at a recent electa election on in springfield I 1 another straight out came cama within almost votes if f carrying a community that had gone for mckimley McK McKin ialey lev only four wee weeks s before by over majority the republican says no one in this vicinity has ever thought abou ht that this great change in votes rotes represented any revulsion of feeling on the silver question it is a little different fe in lynn the times have not improved at all in that city eity since the election on the contrary there have been repeated cuts in wages wages since november ath and in view of tho the prosperity that was promised by the republican publican party and the disasters said to he be sure in case bryan were elected souse some revulsion the lynn workingmen 0 is perhaps to be ba conceded but the republican thinks this great overturn was waa not primarily due to any revulsion of feeling it says the massachusetts people this year have been showing great I 1 independence in dealing with local affairs we would like like to ask the republican its opinion whether the same vote would be cast for mckinley and bryan that was cast on the aid 3rd of november were the election ele clion to be held in Massachusetts t morrow |
