Show COMMENT ON THE ELECTION After reading the election figures no I mlnguldcd frcu trader can lonrror delude himself with the belief that t the people East or West wnnt another exhibition of democratic Incapacity no antllmporlril Isl can hope to align time sontlmonl of the country with tho uehominp purposes of brigand Filipinos Nyw York Mail ami ixpreas Up e The result of the recent election In every Slate In the Union where olectloiiH reflect the popular sentiment ban demonstrated dem-onstrated that ho pooplo of the United States arc satisfied with conditions as they arc and have no doolro to oce them llsliirbcd by any radical change In lime legislative policy I of tho country Seattle PostIntclllgenccr Rep c Jut the Democrats havo < hown that they nro In boiler position for I the real measure of forces two years hence than their opponents and thev themselves In ho main mispoctod Except In n few ocalltlin hey I have proved that they iiive como together again that they have abandoned the rubbish of the past which hey once magnified Into dlyscnslonbrocd ng Issues I and have united asraln in the common cause of practical Democracy J3ven time losing light which Tom John Bon gamely made In Ohio has Its vnluo ns showing thai Democrats muot turn heir backs upon tho Kansas City plat form Louisvlllo l CourierJournal DemIt Dem-It may be believed the Democrats arc not sorry at not minding themselves with a L small majority In time HOULO to telil wits with a largo Republican majorltj in the Senate With no posslblllly of positive l posi-tive leglalatlon at maRL all time Democrats could do would be to contribute to the record with a view to moral e < tot In 1001 And there would be numorouu opportunities opportuni-ties for complications in making the contribution con-tribution Sioux City Journal Rep t > The movement In Iowa with the om phallc support of nome of the coolest of r the party manapors musl bo taken ns having loosened the force of time I reaction toward Ill Democratic opposition It Is a fair Inference that had Il not been for this movement and tho effect It had upon public opinion all over time countrv the slight majority which the Ropubllcany nt the present writing seem to have re lalned would have entirely disappeared Now Yorlc Times Ind Rep 0 0 For once time predictions of both par lies In this State as to the outcome of an election have been fulfilled Each foresaw fore-saw I a landslide In Its favor and each got It vTho Republicans found theirs in the returns from the State outside tills oltv rind time Democrats louud theirs In the I citys returns It is a truthful assertion that I each Is I today considerably aston ished both by the dimensions of its own landslide and by those of Its opponent Nothing of the kind IIOB over happened btforc In this State or in any other for that matter New York Commercial Ad vertiser Rep If Color could do so well the Democrats Demo-crats of Now York now aok thcmficlvos what might not Hill have done If IIIII could concehablv carry Now York Slato whnt other candidate could present such claims for consideration when ho came before a Democratic national convention Chicago Newa hut One of the most gratifying features of the result of time recent election Is the fact that knowing the Republican legis lative l candidates were pledged almost to a man to aid 1mm the reelection of John C Spoonor to the United Stnteu Senate ho voters of Wisconsin Indorsed that p > lcOc by olacllng an overwhelming ma orlty J of Republicans to Die Legislature Of the 105 members of both houses who arc known to have been elected eighty elghl are openly pledged to vote for Iho reelection of Senator Snootier and seven others have made similar promises to their I constituents waukeo Sentinel Rep o 0 Democratic gains would have been much larger lm l but for an Inevitable handicap Im posed m by i the conservatism of business J interest They desired no succplnp Democratic victory though they knew tm that It could Involve no chunpo of nation al administration or policy limey arc In tho t midst of a financial boom and fear the effeet of any marked change For tluil reason thousands of them voted to retain ito I status quo Thoy wished no evidence of popular discontent But time people Imvo hlntid lo Congress that a hit ijo t more Roosevelt activity and a little loss l W nil street activity la I desirable Detroit Free Preps fDom 0 S There will be os now a Republican administration a Republican Senate and a I Republlein House I Kujj roffoonsiblllty i will rest with the Republican party and llmuld ho country think It ncceesirv to change the responsibility In 1Q1 > I It will bo solely owing to failure of the party now In i power to make atlrtfaetorv use of Its opirortunlilea Cleveland Plain Dealer 0 a It Is not simply lint t the I West Is RooBOvolts country that 1m line hunted i over It and barinrruod It till ho haM i become an lib own faorlto hon The Vobicrn ma HOs have rloen to him bc cause they flaw In him a desire to do equal I jusllco an between man and man whether ono man were a farmer and the other wore a millionaire or not to punish all violator of lime law high or low and to attack In a direct and manlv way the ovlln of corporate power Now York Evening Post l Intl L U V The country has refused to listen to Democratic advice to change time policies thnt havo dlHtlngufaked imo t McKLnley RooHevell administration of Its atTains Anillmpiriallsm tariff revision trust de struction lovernmont ownership I of mines they arc all rejected I even at a line when the political almanacs said to look out for reaction against the party In office Now York Sun Ind Rep Both pnrtlis can now confront 1W wtlh time assurance of almost an equal oppor lunlt > for each Bryan ITIll and John lon are out of the Domocralle wav Re publicanism lines to Roosovolllsin Tho Republican tendency toward tariff mo nopoly and Democratic disrepute Involved In time revived strength ot Tammany car ry daiiKor III them for each political organization or-ganization Neither Mr Cleveland nof Mr I Shipard has increased his newer to do good In general politics by I Identify ing bls lnlueiue whim Niw York condi tions which ere dcvlhcd by Hill 1 and Tammany and which coulrl not have sue toodcd without the acuulil I and the t ra lamliy of their success Neither of 1 thot statesmen will fall to realize hal there In l somothln not entirely disagreeable to him In time misfortune of his friends Brooklyn Ivaslo find Dom 0 < > a It IH I fllpnlllcam that t In time Middle l Vest where the sentiment for anti revision WitH considered a noralblo danger thu Ropubllcuns lost but oho Representative and that In Iowa where thu party TOS most outspoken In Its platform Pitts burr Dljputcli S 9 3 Till election bus IKud the policy of time i Democrats for tin Presidential campaign Tluy will eontlnuo their nssuull upon tho I Iriists with an uypronch to free trade tig the object to tie < iTKlnod and we are to havo IL battlu with the tariff at the main Issue I The Democratic party Is the same old part of free trade Philadelphia Inquirer In-quirer Rep Count up the roll of Democratic States In the North It will not lake long The rare r-are as scarce In fact as snakes In Ire land And Missouri will Join as soon n It gets air Hectlon IW8St Loula 3 GlobcDemocru1 Rep |