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Show THE ELECTION. While the returns this morning are yet too meager for any positive statements state-ments of the results in the various states, they are still full of encouragement encourage-ment for the republicans. In Ohio McKixley is elected governor by about 20.000 majority. Better than this, the republicans have a good working majority in the legislature. This makes sure the setting aside of the shameless gerrymander by which the last democratic legislature tried to hand over the state to the Bourbon hords, and will make as naught the carefulhy planned scheme of the democratic demo-cratic leaders to "Miehiganize" the state. Ohio was the important point in the election: Here the democracy made its supreme effort. By the defeat of McKixley they hoped to discredit the cardinal republican doctrine of protec: tion and reciprocity. Their failure is complete. The big majority given McKixley Mc-Kixley is the most emphatic endorsement endorse-ment of the new tarilT law, of which he j stands as the champion. A little comparison com-parison will indicate how great this yic-j yic-j tory is. In the past eighteen years : Ohio has elected five republican govern-j govern-j ors. Their average majorities were j l.,.70. If McKinley's majority even equals this, in the face of the odds against him, it is a most significant and sweeping victory. The returns from New York, Iowa and Massachusetts indicate that democratic demo-cratic governors have been elected in those states. In New York this is credited to a considerable falling off in the vote over the state and the desperate desper-ate struggle of Tammany for a new lease of life in the city of New York. In Massachusetts the legislature is still safely republican and there ' is still hope for the legislature in the Empire state. Regarding the result in these states the New York Tribune says: "The peculiar circumstances circum-stances of this state and Massachusetts made local issues predominant, but it will not be, in the end, helpful to the democratic party that it has gained a success yesterday. With the worst foremost and triumphant in New York, the democratic party in fact is not as strong, nor has as good reason to hop'e for success hereafter, as if it had been purged and purified by defeat. With the general result the republicans have no reason to be disheartened." In Iowa the defeat of the republican candidate was due to the liquor question. ques-tion. In all the cities, where the anti-prohibition anti-prohibition sentiment is particularly strong, democratic gains are reported. Added to this was the people's party vote, which to a very considera- republkV-vctfJ-cgislative returns bave not yet been received, but there is little doubt i that the republicans will have control of both houses. This will place the llawkeye state in line for '92. From most of the minor elections the news is of the best. The republicans have reasserted themselves in Kansas. A republican congressman is gained in Michigan. South Dakota elected a republican re-publican congressman by a decided majority. ma-jority. Pennsylvania rolled up the old time republican majority. There was a quiet republican triumph in Colorado. Nebraska is republican by a large majority. ma-jority. In Chicago the republicans carried everything before them. On the whole, yesterday was a good day for republicans. |