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THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF LINCOLN COUNTY.
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The Chandler News
FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN LINCOLN COUNTY. H. B. GILSiR*P hlHIUK AND PUBLISHER.
VOL. 13—NO. 7.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA. NOVEMBER 5, 1903.
$1.00 A VEAR.
POLITICAL OUTLOOK FOR 1904.
EVERAL things are made pretty
v—' clear by the elections this week.
The republicans are holdng their own
in the north and west. Kentucky,
which the republicans never ex-
pected to carry in 1904 in any case,
will be held by the democrats in
that year. Maryland is doubtful,
with the chances in favor of the
democrats. There will be no elec-
toral votes for the republicans in the
south except in Delaware and West
Virginia, both of which are sure tor
the party. There will be no doubt
ful states in the north or west, save
possibly New York. The democratic
diversion in Rhode Island on local
issues will not count in apresidential
canvass. Indiana's position next
year is shown plainly by the vote in
Ohio. That tremendous majority
for Herrick and Hanna in the vote
for governor and for the legislature
removes all possible uncertainty as
to the alignment of the Hoosier state
in 1904. Of course, there is now
not the slightest doubt as to the posi-
tion which Illinois w:ll take. Mc-
Clellan's long lead in New York city
does not mean that that state will be
democratic in 1904. It does not
even mean that the republican lead
in it will be short. It does not mean, however,
that the republicans cannot count on carrying
that state by any such majority as they had in
1900, to say nothing about that of 1896. O;
course, no republican expected any such prepond-
erence in 1904 as they had in 1900. The money
issue has dropped out of politics, unless the demo-
crats should commit the blunder of putting up
sOme pronounced Bryanite next year. This they
\frill probably not do. But even in case a Cleve-
land man is nominated New York cannot be
counted for the democrats with any confidence.
The candidate for judge of the court of appeals
who was elected was supported by the republi-
cans as well as the democrats. The vote in the
city does not commit the city to the democrats.
The vote in New Jersey, which was a democratic
state when New York was swinging from the
democrats to the republicans, in alternate elec-
tions, is a pretty good index of the relative
strength of the two parties in that part of the
Atlantic seaboard, the republicans sweeping the
state. The situation on the eve of the great
national campaign shapes itself favorably for the
republicans. Ohio voices the sentiment^ of the
middle west. Iowa, Colorado and Nebraska, all
republican, reflect the standing of the two parties
west of the Mississippi. New Jersey may fairly
be ti ken as an evidence of the relative strength
of the two parties in the region 6f the Atlantic
A government fcr 3(11.
IF I COULD be absolutely assured of my election
as President by turning my back on the princi-
ples of human liberty as enunciated by Abraham
Lincoln, I would be incapable of doing it, and unfit
to be President if I could be capable of it. I do
not expect to be elected President by the trust
promoters who are now fighting for special priv-
ileges, nor by the radical labor union men who
would shut out all other men from an opportunity
to work, nor by those who would close the door
of hope against the negro as a citizen. They
are all demanding special privileges which cannot
be recognized by the President, whose oath of
office binds him to execute the laws for all alike
and recognizes none as above the law. If I am
elected to this high office it must be on my record
as the executor of the law without favor or dis-
crimination.—Theodore Roosevelt.
REPUBLICAN TIDE STILL HIGH.
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week which would have drawn out the whole vote
of the state of New York the republicans would
have carried that commonwealth. There can
be no doubt at all that all the Rocky moun-
tain and Pacific coast states will be with the re-
publicans next year. Even Nevada is likely to
be won back to the party,'in the absence of the
silver issue. There is no doubt about Montana,
Colorado or Idaho, the other three Western states
which went to Bryan in 1890. The outlook for
for 1904 is exceedingly favorable for the republi-
cans, but they must rely on having to do
hard, persistent and intelligent campaign work
in order to render victory certain. Some
of the democrats are boasting that Tammany
carried New York city with "all the influ-
ential newspapers and practically all of the clergy
against it." Is this intended as a reflection on
the clergy and the newspapers, or is it meant for
a tribute to Tammany? The democratic papers
which are wise will not shout over the Tammany
triumph. If the people of the country are led to
believe that the national democracy is Tammany
spread out over the entire United States the dem-
ocrats will get as bad a beating in 1904 as they
got in 1864. New York city's sweeping victory
for Tammany shows that New York may have to
be classed among the doubtful states in 1904.
Coler, of course, carried the city by a much
bigger majority than McClellan has just rolled
up, but the republican plurality in the state was a
coast which was formerly supposed to be either
hostile to the republicans or only lukewarm in little less than 9,000. 1 hat is a perilously nar-
their favor. If any contest had taken place this row margin on a 1,400,000 vote. Globe Democrat.
HE tremendous republican lead
in Ohio was the most striking
feature of the voting in the states
which had elections Tuesday. John
Brough's 101,000 majority in the
election of 1863, which was the broad-
est margin that any gubernatorial
candidate in any contested election
had ever gained anywhere in the
United States along to that time, has
been exceeded by Herrick. The re-
publican majority on the joint ballot
in the legislature is also much larger
than even the most sanguine republi-
can looked for. The victory, both
for governor and for senator, is a
marked tribute for Hanna s ability as
a party leader, as well as a striking
evidence of the potency of the repub-
lican party in the nation at large on
the general issues of the time. Iowa
has given a greater majority for
Cummings than he or his friends had
been claiming. Despite the apathy
of the republicans and the activity of
the democrats in Massachusetts, the
republicans have held the state by a
large majority. New Jersey is re-
publican on the legislative ticket,
which was all that was elected.
PennsjUvania did not succeed in get-
ting up any interest, either in or out
of the state, in its contest for minor state officers,
but the republicans won by 217,000 votes. But
Kentucky has been held by the democrats, as was
expected would be the case. Nebraska and Colo-
rado have gone repubiican by safe majorities.
The general result is favorable to the republicans.
Of course, the Tammany victory in New York
city is not a democratic triumph. That town is
overwhelmingly democratic on a straight party
vote. Coler led Odell in it by 122,000 last No-
vember. The fusion side refrained from all parti-
san talk in its campaign. The republicans did
not claim Low's election in 1901 as a party vic-
tory. They would not have claimed it if he had
won yesterday. Ohio affords the fairest te, t of
! the relative strength of the parties of any of the
states which voted in 1903. National issues were
1 at the front from the beginning to the end of the
campaign. Senator Hanna's candidacy for re-
election would have insured a division on national
lines if there had been no other incentive in that
direction. But every gubernatorial campaign in
Ohio, even when a senatorship is not dependent
on the result, turns on national questions. Iowa
is also a good test of the direction and strength of
the partisan currents throughout the nation. The
tide of republican potency is still at the flood.
New Jersey was one of the states which gave its
electoral vote to the George B. McClellan of 1864.
Tuesday's poll shows that it will not have any
favors for the George B. McClellan of 1904, if
that should be the ticket for that year.—-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 5, 1903, newspaper, November 5, 1903; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117724/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.