Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1898 — Democratic Gains Since 1896. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Gains Since 1896.

The political column in an eastern paper has this “note.’’ "New York city, Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, and Troy have democratic mayors; the state of New York has a republican governor. Newark and Jersey City have democratic mayors; New Jersey has a republican governor. Boston, the chief city of Massachusetts has a republican governor. Chicago as a democratic mayor; Illinois has a republican governor. Cincinnati has a democratic mayor; Ohio has a republican governor. Indianapolis lias a democratic mayor; Indiana has a republican governor. Louisville has a deuioi crntic mayor; Kentucky has a republican governor.” To these cities might have been addetl Milwaukee, which has a democratic mayor, while Wisconsin has a republican governor, and Detroit, which has a democratic mayor, while Michigan has a republican governor. The reason for this state of affairs why there arc* democratic mayors in all the large cities of the leading states which have republican governors-is very plain, iffonjtb? surface. The republican governors were elected in the landslide year 1896, when the democratic party was unfortunelv divided. The democratic mayors of the great cities of the country were elected since 1896 by a united democracy. It state elections had been held in the meantime there would have been a notable increase, in the number of democratic governors. All, or nearly all, of the cities having democrat ic mayor now had republican mayors two years ago. And the auspicious change is still in progress. Local elections occurring in New York, Indiana and other states show that the democratic war spirit has prevailed at the polls. The capital which the republican politicians expected to make by the late appearance of | the administration in favor of war ito vindicate national rights and honor has not accumulated. The voters appear to have remembered that the democrats constitute the war party: that they were far ahead of the administration in responding to the war sentiment of the country and were entitled to v * the meed which patriotism earns. This explains in part the democratic gains, which will become greater as we approach the election |of 1900, and then the democratic | victory will be complete in its na- | tional proportions.—ChicagoChro- , nicle.