Show NO APATHY The New York Post in speaking of the recent election returns and the claims of certain politicians that apathy was the cause of the Republican defeat prints the official figures of the vote of Iowa a state hitherto regarded as a stronghold of the Republican party If apathy were the cause what ten 1 and L why were the Democrats not affected in L the same way In short what can rouse these apathetic Republicans if more protection pro-tection as beautifully embodied in the MtKiXLEV bill does not What can I awaken the party of centralization if the prospect of the passage of the most centralizing cen-tralizing measure proposed in recent times cannot Xever before were the respective respec-tive historic issues of the two parties presented pre-sented mora clearly ih direct contrast than before the last election To say that Republicans Re-publicans were apathetic and Democrats enthusiastic is mere confession of weak iicss but the fact is that many Republicans went over to the Democratic ranks The official canvass of the Iowa vote which has just been completed brings outer out-er clearly what is really the most striking feature of all the recent elections This is the fact that the political revolution which pave the Democrats six instead of one o I the eleven Congressmen was the result o f a remarkably fIll vote Ordinarily the election for Congressman two years after aPresident was chosen shows a heavy falling L fall-ing off in tho poll but this year the total 1 vote for Congressmen 33910 fell onl y about 13000 short of the unprecedented total of 402020 and ISSS There was only one district the Eleventh in which the Farmers Alliance ran a candidate and the 4G5S rotes which he received were obvi i aasljr drawn chiefly from the aide a-ide Excluding these from consideration I the totals of the two parties in ISSS and 1590 stand Jleji Dtm 1855 u 2I20S4 IS43TS ISM 18 > 7Sl 194831 In other words almost as many men having gone to the polls in 1890 as in ISSS the Democrats poll above 10000 votes more lOW than then Still further there were two districts in which the vote for Congressmen Con-gressmen this year was actually larger than two years ago and two others in which it was but a trifle short and in these districts the Republican loss was most pronounced pro-nounced as tho following figures show 1c icnn v Jlep Dent Jtp Dem Thlrdu 21457 10672 19CS9 19491 Fifth 19447 16937 17SGO 13153 Republican editors who have been claiming claim-ing that their partys defeat was due to alight a-light vote and that McKinle ism would have won if people had gone to the polls as in a Presidential year will find food for reflection re-flection in these Iowa figures |