People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — A SPLENDID VICTORY. [ARTICLE]

A SPLENDID VICTORY.

The Populists Gain Fifty Per Cent Outside of Six Counties in Ohio. TOTAL, GAIA'OF 10,000 VOTES. Observations Of A Lifelong Democrat o*n the Inconsistency of his Party. A Grasping Monopoly of Chicago Drag a Tardy Collector from His Meting Wife. “the silverites in the party stood nobly by the ticket,” said Democratic State Chairman An derson on Wednesday. Or voted with the republicans to defeat Brice, he ought to have added. With a total vote of 853,159, the largest but on'e in the history of the state, and with a pronounced feeling among independent voters of all parties that a further disgrace of the state by the reelection of Brice should be prevented at all hazards, and a further story that found credence in many circles that the election of a republican 'legislature that would send Foraker to the United States senate would mean an opposition to Sherman’s financial views; all of these things and more served to bring out the overwhelming vote of xvhich the majority was cast for Asa Bushnell the republican nominee for governor. It may toein the onslaught made on the populists from all sides that their vote will fall be low that of last .year. We have in this office the full report of 67 counties which cast last year 40,112 votes and this year cast 44,898 votes. These counties include Cuyahoga, Summit, Stark, Franklin, Muskingum and Hamilton which counties show a falling off of the vote of more than 10,000 when compared with the vote of last year. If the same increase holds good in the other counties the populistvote will show an increase of 50 per cent over the vote of last year in all counties outside of the ones above mentioned. This will give Mr. Uoxey about; 55,000 votes in the state. We are not disposed to change these figures until we have fuller returns. No <one outside of the centre of attraction can ever know what the party owes to Mr. Coxey mi this campaign. Iff we had made the fight on purely free silver linos, -with the action of Allen W. Thurman as a criterion—it is doubtful if we would have had sufficient votes on election day t© entitle us to a pdaee on the ticket in 1896. We have been harassed more or less by men who pretended to be pofxulists but who werereally extreme socialists and east their votes for Watkins, buUtheir work was not as serious as was anticipated. Although we.must congratulate the populists of Ohio for itfoeir splendid victory. Fighting a battle under the most adverse circumstances, confronted with boodle without limit, and campaign lies without number, we can feel that every man who voted the populist ticket this year did so from principle, and will be a valant worker in the fight of Money.