22nd Nov.
Tue recent Presidential election in the United States shows that the reversal of feeling as to the tariff in that country is greater than even the most san-guide free-trader thought possible, and Mr. Cleveland has well vindicated his right to be considered a statesman, almost alone among the politicians in his party, rightly diagnosed five years go the trend of the popular thought.
is friends pitied him and his enemies laughed at him, and when his political enemies had passed the McKinley tariff and, as they thought, proved that the country was still ound om the Proteor tion question, he waited quietly for the reaction. 'I'he Republicans soon shook off the effects of the blow that was given them by the election of a largely Democratic House of Representatives, which they affected to treat as an accident, and they were quite re-assured when Major McKinley, who had been rejected for Congress, was elected Governor of Ohio. The Presidential Election, they affected to feel sure—for they were not a little alarmed by the desertion of Mr. Blaine,—would re-seat that most respectable of Presidents, General Harrison, and the tariff with a Republican Senate would be safe for another four years. But the tariff reformers have not been working in vain, Ever since the United States' debt was brought within a manageable compass, they have been teaching the undesirability of a protective tariff, especially when that tariff was raised for the personal enrichment of Republican manufacturers who supplied the funds for campaign purposes. 'Their' work seemed to be having little or no result, but it was undermining the party of Protection far more than anyone believed, and the collapse came on the 8th of this mouth. According to a telegram received by Messrs. Shewan Go., of Hongkong, the following was the result of the election Candidate. Rlectoral Votes, Cleveland (Democratic)
Harrison (Republican)
Weaver (People's Party)
Doubtful 444
The telegram adds that both branches of Congress will have a Democratic majority. The Democrats, in fact, under the lead of Mr. Cleveland, sweep the board. wed
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