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A GREAT REVOLUTION. The Republicans Capture the Entire Country. Czar Reed Will be Speaker of the House. The Senate Lost to the Democ racy. - ? A Tidal Wave of Defeat Everywhere. The Solid South Has Been Broken. Tammany Goes Down With Ignominy. THE AVORST ON RECORD. The Result in tho East Shown a E'er* 1'eet si a mprdc to Republicanism. New York, November 7.?Not since war times havo the Ropublicuns swept the Eastern States ns thoy did yestor day. Tho size of the victory grows as fuller returns oomo in. In no Stuto and in no city havo the Democrats boon ablo to check tho stampede of tho voters to tho Repub lican standard-benrors. In rock-ribbed Republican States liko Pennsylvania enormous pluralities huvo boon piled up, and in Statos liko New Y rk aud Now Jersey, which are usually classed in tho Democratic column, tho Repub licans have mado a clean swoop. Tho lotest estimates from Pennsyl vania indicate that tho plurality of General Hastings will excocd 210,000. Levl I*. Morton has curried New York S*:vto by close 10160,000, defeat ing David B. Hill aftor a uhonoruonal campaig n. Tho Congressional delega tion which stood 10 Democrats to 15 Republicans in tho Fifty-Third Con gress, will bo 29 Ropublicans and 5 Democrats in tho Fifty-Fourth Con gress. The State Assembly will Btaud 104.Ropublicans to 24 Democrats. The constitutional amendment pro posed by tho lato constitutional con vention have boon carried by big ma jorities. In the middle and Eastern States Democratic Congressmen seem to havo almost ontirely disappeared. In tho six Now England Statos thoro is ap parently only ono Democrat elected to Congress, Fitzgerald, of Boston. Now York has livo and Pennsylvania two?a total of eight Democrats out of ono hundred members. In Connecticut aud Delaware bigRo publieun gains huvo boon made. In West Virginia William L. Wilson, chairman of tho ways and means com mittoe, has boon defeated. Fvon Tennessee has gono Republican and Governor Turnoy is dofoutod by H. Clary Evans. In New Jersey tho State Legislature, with the exception of four Democrats, appears to havo been captured by tho Republicans, and John R. McPherson will be succeeded by a Republican in tho United States Senate. Senator Canidcn, Democrat, of West Virginiu, will also have a Republican successor. Tho next Seuato will bo Republican. NO LIGHT IN THE WEST. The Story oft ho Democratic Waterloo ia Concisely Toltl. Chicago, November 7.?In tho west, tho northwest and on the Paci?c coast, tho Republican landsido seems to bo overwhelming, ano in tho southwest Republican gains are reported of such magnitude* as to suggest almost a rev olution. Tho only exceptions to the rulo ap pear to be in California and Nevada, in tho former, tho Democratio can didate for Governor, (Budd) is ap parently in advuncc of Estee. Republi can, although tho rest of the Republi can ticket seoius to be cortaiu of elec tion. In Nevada, tho silver party, which exists as a party in that State only, has to all appearances beaten the Republican, Democrats and Populists, electing its State ticket and Congress men. Ohio has given the largest Republi can majority in its history, wiping out not only McKinloy's plurality of 85, 000, but going above tho high wator mark set by John Brough In 1803 of 101,000. It is thought that otllcial re turns will show a Republican plurality of 140.1K 10 to 150,000. Colorado has repudiated Populist doctriii' 9 and swung back into the Re publican column, electing tho full Ro Eublicau ticket and both Congressmen, [ansas. too, has returned to tho Re publican faith und Jerry Simpson is buried in tho landslido along with tho other Populist candidates. Wiscon sin* has reversed her verdict of two years ago and has elected a Republi can Stato, government and nine out of ten Congressmen of tho samo political faith. In Illinois tho Democrats have mot u crushing dofoat. Not only has tho State shown a proforonco for Republi can candidates, as exprossod by somo 40,000 or 50,000 plurality, but tho Congressional delegation has boon turn ed over almost bodily to tho Ropubli cans, William M. Springer going down with his party in tho seventeenth dis trict. The city of Chicago, too, has cast 25,000 plurality against tho Demo crats. Tho Legislature is Republican on a joint ballot and tho result is a com filete reversal of the political situat ion. Indiana is in tho full fashion, too. Tho roturns are incoraploto, but there sooms little reason to doubt that tho Republican State ticket will huvo from 20,000 to 25,000 plurality and tho victors will gain four Congressmen. It is significant of the general unset that tho election of lion. Wm, lloll man in tho fourth district is more than doubtful aud the Ropublicans claim that the olllcial count will rctlro tho groat objector from tho national legislature. Minnesota is Republican by 30,000 to 40,000 plurality. Michigan gives a Republican plurall ity of 40.000 and unloes tho olllcial count changos tho outlook groatly, tho entire Congressional delegation will be Republican. Practically the same may do said of Iowa, although the Domocrats of the Hawkeyo State havo aprospect of saving ono Congress man, Hayes. The State of Washington is Republi can by 9.000 to 10,000 plurality includ ing the Congressmen. lOaWs contribution to tho landslido 1? 2,500 plurality and tho Congress man from that Slate. North Dakota has endorsed tho He* . publican ticket by 1,000 to 3,000 piuctltty, und in tho territory of Okla* the Ropublloans h*y? elGOted a delegate to Congress by a plurality of 2,500. So much for the States with Republi can pluralities. Turn Lug to those which retain their allegiance to Demo cracy, there are still ovldonces of the prevailing trend of political opinion. Arkansas returns a solid Domoorat'c delegation, but by reduced plurality. In Kontuoky it is possible and even probable that Ashlund dlstriot, here tofore the bulwark of Democracy, will bo represented in tho 25th Congress by Mr. Donny, Republican. This will, howovor, be due moro to tho disaffec tion of Brecklnrldge Democrats than to any growth of Republican sentiment. In Louisiana the Democratic plura lities have been out down to such an oxtent that the Republicans claim two Congressmen, wbetner upon good grounds or not the official count will determine, Tonnessoe is all mixed up. There are connecting claims as to Congress men and even tho result of the guber natorial contest appoars to be involved In sorao doubt owing to serious de tections in middli Tennebseo. It can hardly bo doubtoi, however." that the returns will show the election of Turney, Democrat, by a safe plurality. In Texas the Republicans for tho first timo have mado a light with tho hope of winning, and as a result two Cungrcssionul districts aro in doubt. In Missouri the prevailing "drift" is manifest in reduced Democratic pluralities for tho State ticket, and the claims of Republicans that they will gain ono or two Congressmen. Mississippi appoars to havo a lone some distinction of standing Qrm in Democratic faith. She will oloct all tho candidates of that party by practi cally normal majorities. Montana has not boon hoard from other thun in a vague and indoQnite way. THE SENATE AND HOUSE. Estimate" asto Republican Majorities in Congress. Washington, November 7.?This morning's returns indicate that the Republicans will gain six United States Senators over tho number now sitting in that body. Throe of them will como from States which havo now but one Senator apiece owing to the failuro of Legislatures chosen two years ago to elect, Montana, Washington aud Wyoming. Tho other throo will suc ceed tho Democrats now representing In par* thoir respeetlvo States, Martin in Kansas, McPliorson in New Jcrsoy and Camdon in West Virginia. Tho Senato ut present consist of eighty-live members divided : Demo crats 44, Ropublicans 30, Populists 3, Sliver 2. With changes now apparent tho division among tho parties will bo ? Democrats 41, Republicans 42, Popu lists 3, Silver 2. Chulrman Babcock, of tho Republi can campaign committee, has given out tho following statement. : "Returns received up to this hour show that wo havo elected over 250 mombors, with several othor States to hear from. Wo havo carried tho solid Congressional delegations of twenty-three States. Wo huvo car ried tho mjority of the delegations In thirty Statos, theroby enabling us to elect a President In caso tho olectlon should be thrown into tho Bouse. Tho returns Indicate that wo havo secured control of tho noxt Senuto >>y a majority of ono to throo, without counting the vote of North Carolina, which has undoubtedly elected a Ro publicun Legislature." Chairman Babcock's figures show that tho Republicans havo carried tho following States by solid Congressional delegations : Connecticut, Colorado, ; Deliiwaro, Idaho, Indiana, Kuusas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, j Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota. Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Wushington, Wyoming, West Virginia and Wisconsin. The number of districts he claims tho Republicans carried in the other States uro : Alubutnu 2, Arkansas 2, California 0, Illinois 21, Iowa 10, Ken tuck 5, Marylund 4, Missouri 7, Now York 2!l, North Carolina 3, Ohio 10, Pennsylvania 27, South Carolina 1, Tennesseo 4, Toxus 3, Virginia 2. Chairman Faulkner received u dis patch tonigiit from R. E. Folk, clerk of tho Tennesseo Houso of Representa tive, stating thut the Legislature is Democrutic by 20 majority uud will elect a Domocratic successor to Hurris. IT GROAVS NO BRIGHTER. The Republicans Seem to be Sure of the Senate ami to Capture North Carolina. Hpi oisl >o the Atl mta Journal. Washington D. C, Novombor 8.? Every indication is that tho Republi cans will organizo tho noxt United States Senate. Tho capture of two Domocratic scats from North Caro lina, ono from Kansas and West Vir ginia, ono from Now Jersey and tho holding of thoir doubtful seats, will give them exactly 44 goats. With all tho Populists and all the Democrats combined, only 44 vote s can be counted; but as Peffor has always allied himsolf with tho Republicans und Jones and Stowurt are Republicans on tho tariff and othor questions as woll as that of finance, thorc doos not soora to bo the slightest doubt that the Ropublicans will succood in effecting theorganiza tlon Immediately upon the assembling of the 25th Congross. Sanator Faul kuor does not concede tho Sonato to the Ropublicans, but admits that tho Populists will havo tho balance of power. So far as tho Houso is concerned, the representation up to this hour sooms to be as follows: Republicans, 238 ; Democrats, 105; Populists, 0?a Republican majority of 127. In the present House thoro aro 210 districts now represented. Tho noxt House will oontatn only 73 of tho De mocratic mombors who aro now serv ing, not less than 14(1 of tho prosont membership having been rotnrned to private life. Sixty-one failed to ro nomination or woro not. candidates for various reasons, but all tho rest went down in tho general Domocratlo de struction which has mado tho eleutlon of 1804 a memorable ono. Tho terrific slump In froo pilver Southern states has been tremendous. A Repnblloan Governor In Tennessee, the defeat of Unule Buok Bland, the very fathers of tho silver dollar, and many of his Congrosssonal colleagues, and the certuin olectlon of two Re publican Senators from North Caroliua, are examples. Tho Republican successors of Domo oratlo Congressmen throughout the West aro solidly opposed to free and unlimited colnago of silver, andconser vatlve political loaders of both partlos admit that they havo paid too much heed to the Populists tumbling throughout the country. Free sllvorism has been repudiated by tho people whoso Congressmen declared thoy woro clamoring for It. The greatest danger which threatens tho Southern nomocracy is tho num ber of contests for seats which aro sure ' tobo filed by l 'opullstoand Ropubl ; nut conservative polltloans bcllevo aiae of the Republican jority insures the fair treatment of Southern Douioerata. A big majority ! has its disadvantage and the man who is sure to be Speaker, Tom Reed, they say. is too wise a politican to allow that majority to be swelled by any unfair means. Particularly will this be f -1 od to be true in tho case of contest ing Populists. The news that Watson was to con tost Major Black's seat has already reached Washington, but it is the general concensus of opinion of both lemoorats and Ropublicans is thut, uuless ho makes an unmistak tble caso he caunpt bo seated. Watson made himself particularly objeotlonable to both parties while here. West Virginia Democrats say that there ha) never been such dobauohory at the polls as was soon Tuesday. It develops that the Republican cam Bdgn in that State was managed by att Quay, and $50,000 of protected manufacturer's money was spent in William L. Wlllson's district. All ovor the country coincs tho in formation that the Republican vote lias not been incroased and in most casos, where tho majority is largor, tho veto is smaller. Tho stay-at-homo Democrats evidently were largely superior in number to those that voted in Now York and tho Southwestern States. Tho solid A. P. A. voto was cast against tho Democrats, while, through tho advico of Archbishop Iroland aud othor Catholic prelates, tho vote of tho members of that church was divided botweou tho two parties. ? Everything conspired against tho Democratic party, but tho leaders aro not cast down. William C. Whitney aud tho great independent dalies of New York say the Stato will bo re claimed with a good President al can didate in 1890. Washington, ?. C, November 9.? As stated in theso dispatches yester day, tho Republicans will undoubted ly organizo the noxt United states Sonate. The certainty that tho fusionists in North Carolina will olectsuccessors to Ransom and Jarvls, and the further in telligence this morning that the Stato of Wushinytou has olocted u Republi can Legislature, makes it probablo that the Republicans will have enough votes of their own with which to or ganizo, and it is certain that thoy can do so with the vote of either PofTor, Jones or Stewart, all three of whom are sure to a Hi i ate with them. Tho Republican majority in tho House coutinues to increase with tho later returns from different sections of tho country. Thoir voto is now placed at 259 with tho Democratic vote at 87 and tho Populist at 10. Tho Democrats to duy aro disturbed over tho distressing news from Texas, where it is now positively asserted that several Republican and Populist Congressmen havo boon elected and tho probability is that tho Democratic candidate for Governor has gone down in tho horrible slump. Tho candidate, Mr. Culborson, was nominated on a sound mouoy plat form, which ho repudiated soon after tho eon vent-ion, announcing himself in favor of the free and unlimited colnago of silver at tho ratio of 10 to 1. A most slguiticant feature of tho slump is the fa. t that every free silver Democrat on tho colnago committee, from Bland down, has bee", turned down either by iho nominating con vention or the peoplo. Tho olection of a Democratic candi date for Governor in California saves tho party from being swopt into tho Pacific ocean. , Tho only grain of comfort that can be extracted is tho fact that non-voters in the Democratic ranks did the work, showing that if Democrats will only pull together tho party's lost prcstigo and power can be regained. A telegruin has been rocoived at Re publican headquarters stating that Renten McMillan, of Tennessee, has been defeated for Congress. Tho Demo crats here disbelieve It, but if it should turnout tobe true, Henry G. Turner is the only ono of tho famous Demo crats who framed tho Wilson bill left to battle for his party. DETAILS, OF THE BATTLE. The News Gets More Do idol us tho Facts Are Brought Out. Washington, Nov. 8.?Chairman Babcock, of tho Republican Congres sional committee received a letter this morning from A. E. Holden, chair man of tho Republican State commit too of North Carolina, claiming that tho Republicans have curried thut Stute. Chairman Bnbcock's estimate of 222 Republicans in tho noxt Houso bus boon ohungod to-day to 225. Chuuncoy I. FUey telegraphs from St. Louis that Champ Clark is dofoat ed for Congress in tho ninth district and that the Democratic Stato com mittee concodes that tho Republicans havo carried the State. Other telogrums recolved this morn ing say that the Republicans havo six mombors in Minnesota and probably seven. Congressman Aldrich, of Illinois, telegraphs that all tho Republican Congressmen in Chloago aro elected and that the Republicans will havo 20 altogether in tho State. Aldrioh's plurality will be more than 20,000. It was 1.800 two years ago. Secretary Ferris, of tho Republican State committeo of Louisiane, tolo grupliB from New Orleans that ho is gathering proofs of fraud, which aro overwholmlug, and that the Republi cans will contest each district and seat thoir mombors sure. Mr. Vandorvontor notiflos tho com mittee in a dispatch from Cheyonno this morning that tho Ropubllcan can didate for Congross In Wyoming is elected by It.000 majority and that tho Republicans huvo elected 44 out of 55 members to tho Legislature. a ole am of hope. New York, Nov. 8.?-Roports ro coived from the State of Washington say that tho Ropublicans have prob ably lost tho Legislature in that State. If this proyos true tho Ropublioans will lose ono Senator on which they were counting. Unless tho Democrats loso North Carolina, they will retain control of tho United Statos Sonate. both cl?um tennessee. m kmi'iiis. 'iVnn., Nov. 8.- -Chairman Carroll, of tho Domocrutio committeo, claims tho olectlon of Peter Turqoy for Qovcrnor of Tonncssoo by 4,000 plurality, while at tho Republic uu In adipiai on a it Is clai lie d tont II. Clay Evans has boon eleoted by 7,000. The latest returns aro favorablo for Tur noy. * Chattanooga, Tonn., Novombor 8. ?Official and r loffiolal returns up to 1 o'clock from 04 out of 94 counties, gives Turney 04,340, and Wvuns 04,827. Tho State is claimed at Demoeratlo hoadquartors by 7,200; whilo Chair man Sanders, of tho Republican execu tive committee, soys Evans has won by 12,00? votes. NASHVIL1J9. Tonn., Nov. 8.--Re ' turnt ft on Tuesday's .election are ,'ing to Doraooraoy and I now it looks as If Governor Turney i will be re-oleeted by a small plurality. Official and unofficial returns from 54 counties out of 96 give him a plurali ty of about 9,000. This will bo mate rially reduced, however, as a large number of Republican counties are among those not heard from. CnATTANoooA, Tenn., Nov. 8.?Ten* nessee cannot be counted In the Re publican column yot. H. Clay Evans doubts bis election and left for Nash villo this morning. Private telegrams from Chairman Carroll to prominent Democrats state that Governor Turney Is re-olceted by not less than six thous and majority. The solid South will not be broken by Tennessee. The News prints Governor Turney's picture this afternoon and olalms his election by 5,000. Nashville, Tonn., November 0.? That h. Clay Evans, the Republican nominee, has been eleoted Governor of Tennessee is mado mere apparent as fuller returns are received. A care ful estimate of the 81 counties gives him a majority of 3,100. These figures, it Is thought, will be further increased to 9,000 when the full returns aro in. The roport that McMillin had been defeated for Congross in the fourth district by Benton, Populist, is un founded. The llguros aro not obtaina ble at present, but MoMiliin is return ed by a majority of at loast 200. Tho next general assembly of Ten nesseo will stand: Sonate?Democrats, 2; Republicans, 9 ; Populists, 3. One district missing will cortalnly return a Republican. House?Democrats, 57 ; Republicans. 34; Populists, 7. There Is a district missing which is expected to return a Democrat. missouri makes a break. St. Louis, November 7.?It scorns likely that Missouri has joined tho Republican ranks Govornor Stono concodos that the noxt Legislature will be Republican. Everything indicates that the Republicans havo eloctod eight Congressmen, and that Hatch, Bland and Dockory are among the de feated. Van Hori.e, Ropublloan, at Kansas City, admits that ho Is beaten by Tarsnoy on the face of tho returns, but says ho will contest In tho House. Three counties which had boon De ?oeratie for twonty years elected the ll Republican ticket by indisputable pluralities. Congressman Dockory acknowledged hie dofeat on the face of tho unofficial returns. , Hatch is defeated by C. M. Clark, Republieuu, but Chairmun Cook does not concede Hatoh's dofeat. St. L?uis, November 8.?Returns being received at Democratic head quarters show that tho Republican vic tory In Missouri is oven greater than last night's roport indicated. Chairman Cook of tho Democratic committee, gives tho following list as tho latest returns on the Congressional delegation : First district, C. M. Clark, Republican; second, C. H. LoomiB, Republican ; third, A. M. Dockory, Do mocrat; fourth, G. C. Crowthor, Re publican ; fifth, J. C. Tarsney. Demo crat; sixth, D. A. Darmand, Democrat; soyonth, J. P. Tracey, Republican; eighth, R. P. Bland, Democrat; ninth, W. M. M. IVoloar, Republican ; tenth, R. Burtholdt, Republican ; eleventh, Charles F. Joy, Ropubllcan; twolfth, S. W. Cobb, Democrat; thirteenth, J. H. Ranoy, Republican; fourteenth, N. A. Moseley, Republican ; fifteenth, C. G. Burton, Republican. This gives tho Ropublicans 10 repre sentatives in Congress from Missouri, and as Bland, Democrat, is only nine teen votes ahead with several unfavor able precincts to hear from, his dofoat is almost certain. louisana solidly democratic. New Orleans, November 8.?Full returns confirm previous dispatchos of the election of ail tho Democratic can didates for Congress in Louisiana. Tho Republicans announce that thoy will make a contest, when tho Fifty-Fourth Congross meets. Attorneys have boon cnguged to handle tho cuses and tho ovldence. Tho sugar planters aro un derstood to have spotters In all tho su gar districts. Tho Republicans a?*o hopeful of getting Beatty, Coloman and Kernochan seated. texas goes populistic. New Orleans, Nov. 8.? Tho Times Democrat's special from Abllono, Tex., says: Texas, too, was caught In tho slido of Republican victory, but by Populists Instead of Republicans. Tho timo worn plurality of ono hundred and eighty thou&aud for Domocrucy Is a thing of tho post. Today's returns very materially change tho situation from that of yostorday, when tho Democrats wore confident of a plurali ty of eighty thousund, whilo tonight they will bo satisfied if barely ahead. Every return throughout the Stato to day shows phonomonal Populist gains and may possibly indicate tho oloction of Nugent, tho Populist nominee ior Govornor. Tho Stato tonight Is claim ed by both parties. The Populists claim a plurality of 80,000 for Nugont, while the Demoorats only claim tho Stato for CulborBon by 30,000. Tho Democratic strongholds havo been hoard from, while tho Populists aro yet to rooolve returns from tho coun try districts. Dallas, Tox., Nov. 8.?The iudges aro still counting tho ballots. Mayor Kearby, (Pop.) so far as roturni aro in from Dallas County, loads Abbott, (Dom.) by about 000. If Koarby counts | out as strongly in thooity as his friends expect ho will, tho raco In the Sixth I distrlot will bo an exceedingly oloae 1 ono. Dospito dlspatohos, tho election < of Gllland (Pop.) over Boll (Dom.) In tho Thirteenth district is assurod. Even tho rock-ribbed Democratic Stato of Texas has partod from the faith and gone partially ovor to tho enoniy. The Democrats certainly lost two and possibly four Congressmen. Nugont (Pop.) for Govornor, is running liko a scared hound. Tho Populists hem aro actually claiming his elec tion. Whilo many loading Democrats are dumbfounded nt the oyolono which has woll-nlgh swept the party out of exist onoe, others aro not at ail astonished ; they say that Clovoland and Congress havo utterly failed to carry out the wishes of t lie people and have betrayed .every trust and all confidence put in them. There is loud talk of forming a now National party with a now natno upon tho best, planks of the Demo* cratic-populistlo parties and old-line Whig platforms, Austin, Tox., Novombor 9.- Official returns will be necessary to dooldo whether tho Domoeratio or Populist tlckot has won In tho Stato. This morn ing tho cbanoos appear to favor the Populists by a small plurality. Tho same may bo said of tho second, third, fourth, seventh and ninth Congrosslop al districts, in all of which the result will bo oloae with tho outlook favoring I the third party. The Populists havo unquestionably elected Congressmen in the sixth, eighth, elovonth and thirteenth dis tricts ; while tho Republicans have carriod the twelfth. Thus far, tho Democrats huvo a oortainty of only two districts?tho first and fifth?out of I thirteen. STIIjIj GETTING WORSE. The batest Estimate of the Political j Composition of the Next House. New York. Nov. 9.?Official figures , from several of the doubtful districts and the unexpected reports from Texus compel a recanting of tho Congression al table to-day. in the Eighth Penn sylvaniu district. Hart (Dom.) is eluot od over Ktrkpatriok (Rep.) giving the Democrats two Representatives from tho Ktystono State. Illinois reports a solid Republican delegation of twenty two members. Downing (Dem.) in the Sixteenth distriot, tho singlo Repre sentative of the Domoeraoy from that State, claimed yesterday, having dis appeared undor the lator returns. Reports this morning aro to the ef fect that tho Tenth and Fourth Ten nessee distriots, heretofore orodltetl to the Democrats, are in doubt and that tho official figures will be necessary to settle the contests. Accordiug to ad vices recoived this morning, the Demo crats aro certain of but two Congress men from Toxas?Hutoheson of tho First distriot, and Bailey of tho Fifth. The Republicans havo one, Noonan of the Twolfth ; The Populists four, Mo William of the Sixth, Penkins of tho Eighth, Weldon of the Eleventh, and Glllott of the Thirteenth. The other districts aro hi doubt, with Indications favoring the election of tho Populist candidates. This result would mean tho retirement of Judge D. B. Culber son of the Fourth distriot after twenty years* continuous service and ex-Gover nor Sayers, at present chairman of tho committoo on appropriations, who has boon in Congress ton years. On the basis of those roturns. tho House of Representatives in tho Fifty Fourth Congress will consist of 245 Republicans, 91 Democrats and 20 Populists. New Mexico has apparent ly joined tho Republican procession and oleoted Thomas B. Catron dele gate to Congross, making tho Territo rial delegation In tho next House solid ly Republican. THE CAUSES OP DEFEAT. Tho Administration View of the Dis aster?Delay ill Tariff Keinem ami the Free Biver Agitation Are Hehl Responsible. Special to tho Atlanta Journal. Washington, D. C, Nov. 7.?From tho latost and most authentic informa tion, the Republicans have made a cloun sweep of tho Congressional dis tricts of the country. Later returns may reduce some of their claims, but tho indications unmistakably point to a Bttfe majority of 50 over both Demo crats and Populists. The indications at this writing aro that tho Republicans may organizo tho Senate. Tho latost advices aro that they have gained three Democratic seats sure from Kansas, West Virginia and New Jersey, and havo held all of their doubtful seats. With Jones, Stewart, and Peffer, who loan to Re publicanism, they will probably con trol 40 votes. Tho sovereign American has made it necossary for a new word to be coin ed. Landslide, typhoon, tornado, cy clone all seem insufficient'to describe tho result of this election from a Demo cratic standpoint. All provious records aro smashed. So compioto a reversal is unprece dented in tho political history of this country. Evou tho oldest Democratic inhabit ant does not remember so cold a day. Every Democrat has his own pot theory as to what did it. In Now York city it was a contest of dry goods vs. green goods, with tho former very properly the winnor. The Tammany millstone of blackmail, bribery and corruption put a yoke around the neck of Hill, which mudo his Waterloo almost as compioto us that of Folger. Whilo local causes may havo had their effoct hero and there, tho general story of unprecedented disaster which ilowed in from ovory section of tho , country left no doubt in tho minds of t hose who are able to interpot politi cal figures that the selling against tho I dominant party was deep-seated, reso- j lute and doterminod. Hindsight is hotter than foresight, and many Democrats admit today that yostorday's catachysm was tho logical result of tho dilly-dallying, hesitating courso of Congress on the great vital issuo upon which Mr. Cleveland and tho party wore swopt to victory two years ugo. Disgust and shamo wero engendered all over tho country by the mannor In which tho causo of tariff re form was blocked, embarrassed and emasculated In thehousoof its friends. The traitors In tho Senate who cram- . mod tho Gorman bill down tho throat I of tho Houso aga'nst tho noble protest J of Mr. Cleveland and all truo friends j of tariff reform, discouraged and dis hoartoned those who had hoped for the legitimate fruits of Democratic I victory. Tho senseless Democratic truckling j to Populism and its insano theorios of j linance, allocked and frightened busi- j noss men everywhere and dostroyod : tho good effects of tho ropoal of tho Sherman law to which tho President dlroctod tho efforts of his party upon his accession to power. Tho continued agitation to this silver question un doubtedly contributed to tho over whelming dofeat, and aggravated tho disquietudo of business Interosts which rosultod from tho long wranglo ovor tho tariff. This was manifest from tho result in Ohio, whoro tho bllver question was pushed to the front by tho chairman of tho Democratic party with the conso* quonco of the loss of tho entire Con gressional delegation and tho dofoat of tho Democratic State ticket by 125,000, a greater majority than was givon against Olomont D. Vallundingham when ho was an oxilo from the State and tho Ropubl leans votod 200,000 Union soldlors In the flold. Tho less of Populism also in ovory Stato whero it has shewn its head can also bo attributed to tins samo general 1 react ion against false and nornioious theorios of finance. Thoy only secured a fow mombors of Congress, and two of tho present Popullstlc Governors, Walte, of Colorado, and Llowelling, of Kansas, went down before tho wrath of tho Indignant people. Besides, an Important factor in tho result was the persistent attack upon tho administration by a crowd of Phil listings in tho Democratic party who plucod pelf above principles and offices above party. This hordo of disap pointed office-seekers and ox-protec tionlsts fought those In powor with more violence than thoy did tho Ro publloans. Their hands wore always on their daggers, and liko tho con spirators of anotent Rome, thoy were determined to stab Coisar to death though tho ropublic. fell. All these things havo played their {?art, and the Democracy has learned ts i" son. If It would rogaln Its pros tlge with the people, it must shako off tho trappings of Populism, bo truo to its principles and Its ohoaen loaders. Not a Democrat in tho North of na tional prominence except Win, L. Hol? man has boon returned. Wilson, Sprln 8er, Bynura, Oummings, Tom Johnson, mtbwalte, Tracoy, SlcklbB, Slbley, I Plgott and Sperry have gone down. I Reed will be the next Speaker of the House. The defeated Populists in aho South will probably coutost the seats of the Democrats, and the Republic! m will probably drive tbo Iron even fur ther into the soul of Southern Demo crats by seating some of the most off.jn slve of them. It Is a bitter record, lon^ and lojd, of Democratic disaster for whichyblv Do moerats are respo n s l b I e. CLEVELAND TO BLAME). Govern6r-Elect Evans Mays Grover cieveiaml Caused. Democratic De feat. Senator John Gary Evans, the noxt Governor of South Carolina, was asked by the representative of v Northern paper to give his views un tho cause of the tidal wave against tho Democratic party. What he said will uot amuso Grovor Cleveland. He said : "(.'rover Clovelandis alone responsi ble for the deal h of tho Democratic party. His odious vanity and his belief that ho Is greater than his party ; his finanoial policy, which has bankrupted the farmers and the merchants do pendent upon thorn, has brought dis trust, humiliation und dufcut upon honest Democrats, who have been Gghtlng under a lcador who bus in trigued with tho onomy. Tho Demo cratic party was pledged to frco silver and a tariff for revenue only. Wo were given instead of protective tariff and a Binglo gold standard, forced through Congress by tho corrupt In terference of tho President. Our party has been placed before tho oyes of the nation as Incompetent to deul with tho great political questions of tho day and as unworthy of tho con ?donco of an honest, tax-ridden con stituency. This should not be at tributed to tho party, but Is siniply tho naturul result of plucing a wolf to guard tho sheepfold. Tho Democratic party will yet be victorious and this lesson will not soon bo forgotten. I trust tho prophetic words of South Carolina will bo remembered and in future none but truo and tried Demo crats will bo trusted with leadership." ADLAI EXPLAINS IT. Financial Depression ami Congres sional Apathy Killed Cock Robin. Bloomington, 111., Nov. 7.?Hon. Adlal E. Stovonsoi.:, Vico President, spent the duy quietly, in tho seclusion of the borne of his brother John, meditating upon the political events of yesterday and preparing to attend tho wedding of his nephew which takes place to-night. It was a dreary day with leaden skies and a cold drizzling rain. Mr. Stevonson when asked to state his opinion as to the causes leading up to the DcmocraMc defeat of yesterday said: "My opinioi can be briefly stated. The result is duo in part to the 1'maneial depression which came upon tho country soon after the inauguration of Mr. Clove land. While tho Democrats were in no way responsible for this, they were made the scapegoats. It was also in part duo to the delay of Congress in the tariff bill. Had tbo bill became a law ninety days earlier than It did, it is quite probable that tho business conditions ot the country would have so adjusted themselves that the politi cal result would have been different." Mr. Stevenson will depart from Bloom ington tliis week for Asheville, N. C, where ho will join his family, who are sojourning there. Ho will remain in the South three weeks, going thence to Washington. WHAT KEN THINKS OP IT. Ex- President Harrison's Views on the Groat Tidal wave. Ex-President Harrison bus given ex pression to his views regarding tho recent election, in whieli he says : " It is the most extraordinary politi cal revolution the country has ever witnessed. Wherever there was a free ballot tho vote of confidence given in 181)2 to the Democratic party (if one was given J has been recalled and a vote of liual repudiation substituted. Tho incoherence of the Democratic party was revealed tho moment power was given to it to deal with national affairs. The insincerity of its plat form makers was expressed when 'Bo it enacted' took place of 1 Bo it re solved.' "For thirty years party expediency has been substituted by its leaders for party principles, and expediency had as many faces as there were Congres sional ilistricts. Every eccentric cross current of popular prejudice was fol lowed as if it were the gulf streum. No position was too wild or violent for a Democrat to mount. Classes wero created and Inflamed to outbreak and disorder. In one State a debauched currency und another a socialism that was near to unurchy were given ? bed. Property, especiully mills and facto ries, was invested und assaulted in one section, und in another trusts were secretly coddled. ''Tue old Democratic doctrine favor ing tho levying of c.istom duties to tho limit of an adequate revenue wus aban doned. A deficiency to bo mude good by bonds issues or by internal taxes was preferred to tho i neidental pro tection i bat adequate customs duties would givo. Tho silver question wus deult with in the most vueei I luting und irresponsible manner. Mr. Cleve lund described the situation perfectly when ho suid to Mr. Wilson: 'They (the Domocrucy ) aro downeust under tho assertion that their party fails in ability to manage the government." "A vast majdrlty of our people bo liovo in a protective tariff?never so many and never so strong us now. They differ us to rates and schedules, but not us to tho principle. They be lieve in reciprocity as the tirst method of getting foreign markets. Thoy be lieve in u progressive und American foreign poliey. The working men voted their prejudices in 181)1 ; this your thoy voted their patriotism und their love of home. Tho enormous fulling off in the Democratic vote every whore is no less emphatic in its mean* ing t ban the majorities. "Tho lesson is, 'Trust tho people.' Tho duty, Exercise the ollleos they have conlldod to us with tiio highest iidotitynnd patriotism. About Indiana"; Weil, ianguugc fails me. 1 am proud of her." A GHEA1 CBY OF FRAUD. Dr. Pope Declare* He Will Protest a .'..in, a the Eltctlon in UiIh State*? Til I man and Evunn are Serene. Special to News mid Oou ler. columbia, November 7.?It Is quite tho thing after un olection to write of tho "calm aftor tho storm.'1 If any thing, If promises hold out, it will bo the storm after tho battle. Tho oloc t ion has been held and all ought to be. well, but It Is not. Such is very do oldodly tho K;jo. The cry of fraud is still being/ ?card from all over tho State and, If anything, is getting to dc louder as tbo timo passes. Responsi ble men havo stated. and at ill insist, Iba' there has boon ilagrnnt fruud pructioed throughout the State. That foot stands out in bold relief and it has not boon denied by anyone at ail. Tho question is, what is going to be done about it, and, to carry it a step fur-. ther, where will it all end? If there have been any countercharges of fraud they have not yet been recorded. The Issue now is whether HUoh proceedings will be allowed to stand without pro test, not so much for this individual caso, but for the sake of future elec tions. Some suy thut no one would ufter this dare to have anything but a free and fuir btllot. It la indeed a se rious condition of affairs. Dr. Pope, who has manured his tight almost single handed, wus up and at work early this morning. Was he beat en or " hacked V Not a hit of It, so far as appourunces go. Ho was as bright and cheerful as over, but he was mad?vory mad. Ho soys that the more telegrams and letters he gets the more he Is convinced of a most out rageous and systematic schemo to de ieuthim uud to curry the constitutional convention. It is, to his mind, tho most astounding piece of political trick ery over heard of. Ho did not have muoh to say for publication, but what ho did say was deoidcdlj- to the point. In tho first place, he said that even if the returns showed upon their face a majority for Evans that ho Intended to push his contest in the courts, as ho was convinced that ho could convlnco any court thut he had been dofrauded out of more than sufficient ballots thut were cost for him und not counted. Ho suid thut he was thoroughly satisfied that at least 30,000 mon who wunted to vote for him wore never given tho op portunity of ousting their ballots. What was ho going to do about it? Why he says that ho is going to fight to the bitter end ; in tho llrst place to get his rights, and in tho second placo to expose tho " rottennoss " of tho ring. Iu nil cuses whoro ho know of fraud, or where ho would hereafter hear of it. he would ask his friends to prepare all of tho evidence in the case and present it to the county board of canvassers that meets next Tuesday, and if they failed to pay any attention to it it would bo presented to tho State board of canvassers, und from there would bo tuken to the Supreme court of the State if satisfaction is not secured. It is un derstood that ho has o.iguged Gen. Leroy P. Youmuns to look ufter tho legal side of the fight. The question bus been raised wheth or the Stute board of canvassers bus tho right to examine into tho vote for Governor, and Dr. Popo cited tho fol lowing extract from the revised law on election* : "Section 131. (127.) Tite Secretary of State shall appoint a meeting of the board of State canvassers, to bo held at his office, or some convenient plaee, within ten days next after such general election for the purpose of cauvussing tho votes for uii officers vo*ed for at such election." This, ho insists, clearly shows,that the board has to act upon the vote '? for all officers voted tor at such election." The Reformerj are having a good time ut tho expense of Dr. Pope und those whom they have defeated. They seem to make light, of the charges of fraud, und Chairman hby says that so far as lie knows it bus been as fair an election us bus ever been held in the State. He says that the estimates ho gave out )a<t night arc about correct, and that Evans will he oleoted by a majority ranging from 20.0(10 to 30,000. Governor Till man, what does ho think about tho matti"? fit! has not. taken any special interest in the re turns, us ho has been satisfied about the result. This morning he left the city for his homo in Kdgcticld to attend to a little business. .lust as ho was getting into his carriage I asked him what ho thought about the election. '' Oh," said ho, " the barkeepers poured some whiskey on the old Haskell tiros, and The News and Courier, the State and the Greenville News have stirred them into a name, hut wo put them out. It is the lust expiring gasp of Ilaskollism in the State, as well as of the whiskey ring." When I asked him about tho constitutional convention ho said that ho was satisfied that the con vention would bo carried, us it ought tobe. Ho was ovidontly very well sat isfied with tho way things had gone, and he went on to say that he had never expected a largo majority for tho convention. Mr. Evans spent the'day in the city. He took tilings vory quietly and easily. He said that it was all poppyeock to talk about fraud at the elections. Ho suid in responso to u request for an in terview that he did not caro to have anything to suy ut this time, but chat ted pleasantly about the vote in Char leston and other features of tho elec tion. EVANS AND CONVENTION. The Regular Ticket is Eloeted by a Ijnrfte Majority and t bo Constitu tional Convention Has Been Or dered. Columbia Register, flth Imt. Evans' majority over Pope and tho result on tho constitutional convention question are still in some doubt, us the correct figures from tho various coun ties could not bo secured yesterday. The estimate of The Register, however, that the convention will win by a ma jority of between 2,01X1 and 3,000 ts ac cepted by nearly all tho politicians as correct. Senator Irby himself says thut it is correct. Even the opponents of tho convention are getting shaky. Those who hud bets on the defeat of tho convention are now trying to bodge. All the indications point to a majority of at least 2,IH)() for the con vention. The official count of tho Stato Board of Managers may be re quired to decide to tho satisfaction of the opponents of the convention. The Western Union Telegraph Com pany, which has been getting and sending out bulletins of the olOOtlon, lastuight issued n bulletin Stating thut tho total vote up to that time, with u number of precincts to hear from, stood 21,034 for the convention and 21. 518against. This loaves a majority of less than 500 to overcome and nearly all the. nissing precincts will favor the convention. The Wctitorn Union puts the vote for Governor up to dato ut 31,100 for Evuns und Hi.184 for Pope, a majorit y for Kvans of about lf>,000 T lie missing precincts will send that I jority to 20,000. A telegram received by Tho R0| tor from Spartanburg stated tbatt:.e majority in thut county for Evans was l,2i>0 and against the con vent ion 1,000. The State Board of Canvassers will meet about tho 19th of November to tabulato tho vote. All the county boards meet on Tuesday of next w.ek. Democratic hcudtuinr'.ct?, were broken up yesterday looming, Chair man (rby and Meorotary Gray leaving on tho morning train for their respec tive homos. They did not rocoivo any tolograms during tho day. Chalrmun Irby stated boforo loavlng that the con vention had pulled through, although It had had a tight squeeze Dr. Pope also loft tho oity yesterday morning for his homo in Nowborry. Ilia last words as thotraln pulled out wore something about fraud. H Is said that ho dreams of thUand talks in his sloop on it. His irlonda aro beginning to acknowledge that if all the mon who wanted to vote for Popo had dono so ho could not havo been oleoted. Dr. Popo said tlu? ho Is going to begin a . -^T! frauds. Uo Is first going to Ail. >n. A funny thing is tbat on election day one of Ins managers in Aikeu tolograi.hM him that the box in that town h?? go in" for him by a majority of three U one. After the polls closed the samt man sent him word that no carried tho poll by three to ono. When the count was made it was found that Pope had boon boat- n three to one. Senator Kvans bus told nobody what he Intends, tc do about the appointment of Auditors, Treasurers und Trial Jus- ' vies in i ho counties where the Censor tatives have disregarded their oat hs in tlio primary and voted for Popo, but mauy of his strongest and warmest friends will adviso him, it is said, that ho has nothing to bind bim to puy at tention to tho primary nominees for those positions. v TRAGEDY IN KENTUCKY. An Election Kow in Lexington?The Rreckeiiri?jco and Owens Feud. Lexington. Ky., November 8.?A bloody political trugedy occurred In Lexington this ufternoon ut 5 o'clock when John Traynor, marshal of Athen? Ky., cut Low Strarpo, probably fatally, and shot Ike Davidson to death. Sharpe and Traynor woro both Dem crats, Shurpc being an Owens man and Traynor a Breckinridgo supporter. They met in front of tho Lolund hotel, sharpe. uccused Traynor of having voted for Donuy, tho Republican. Traynor denied It, when Sharpe culled him u dumned liur. Traynor struck Sbarpo, who Is badly crippled, as tho result of having bc#u shot in tho knoo duriug tho war. Tho blow knocked Sbarpo to tho sidewalk, und boforo ho could get up Traynor drew a knife und begun cutting the old soldier. Put Tooiney, a young! friend of Shurpo's, rushed to his us-j sistunco und knocked Traynor down/ ' Ike Davidson rushed in und tried Iii separate tho men. Traynor scrambled to his feet and. apparently trying t' get awuy, went eV- ?? the street wit two pistolsHrn ...o nuru , but ho turn und fired, the bullet striking David* in the stomach. Ho died in un-bi Sharpe svas taken to the hosp-... where ho is suffering groutly und It moro than likely ho will die. Trayni: was locked up. Davidson was a well-known distilh Tho origin of the bad feeling betwe the men dates buck some time. ( election day John Green, who Marshal Traynor'a deputy, shot a fatally wounded George Tooiney, brother of tho muu who took part to-duy's uffruy. Put Tooiney, Shurpo and David came to town this ufternoon to b Traynor arrested as nn accessory the shooting of Tooiney, us the lu is likely to die before morning. Tiiy nor hud been arrested und roleuseifon bond when Shurpc met him in front of the hotel. ' Thero is ulreudy a greut deal oft ho bad blood between tho Owens/and Brooktnrldge men here, unit it is Marod thut this will not bo the lust qf the trouble. Green, who shot Toomey, was u Brook in ridge mau und Toomey un Ow? ns follower. LiixiNtiTON. Ky., November 0. Marshal John Trayuor, of At hens. Ky., who shot anil killed Isaac Davidson, u prominent distiller, and probably fatally cut Lew Sharp, a country poli tloian, will have his trial here this afternoon. The body of Davidson bus been sent to bis fumily at Athens, und Sharpe is in u serious condition ut tho hospital hero. Tho killing grew out of an old feud between the Shurpes, Traynors und Toomey. Sharp came into possession of a lino farm near Athens through an old doctor whom he hud lit his com mand. The doctor hud mo child, a girl, und the was the heir to the estate through her mother. She would not sign papers conveying the property to her father, und being u liquor (lend ho died suddenly after drirking whisky brought from Lexington byr Sharp and his old friend, the doctor. There nUs always been a mystery about tho mut ter which bus been whispered from mouth to mouth. It was not long after this when the Traynors und Sharpe fell out. Judge Toomey, being u neighbor, waited on the girl und was impressed by the peculiar circumstances attending her lather's death. A luv suit afterwards made them bitter enemies und tho bitterness of the political onmpaign here served to widen the breach, und trouble between their boys led to n crisis. There is to be more trouble since George Toomey, who was shot by Traynor's deputy. Green, has several brothers und Shutfnc has some who will doubtless tukolheonntter up - A Ca iii n kt \'i'.'ixev.?Attorney General Olney. iq /onvorsution with friends during tha/past few months, bus expressed lllnjfolf as anxious to re turn to private V'm stating that tho drudgery und rtfponsihilities of the position are wefc'ing him out. His private, law prucaco it is said, is even now worth froijF $30,000 to * 10,0011 a year, und won hfl >o largely inereused if be were free loin official trammels. It is also asJrted that Mr. Olney, when he aCCOKCd the office of At torney-Gonerui whioh he did with re luotance, muff a condition that ho might resignf/ofore the oxpiration of his term if blpund the duties distaste ful. That tlio, it is suid, is near ut. hand. Mr. y'ney's relations with the President ayfof the closest churucter, and his intJuito friends believe that he bus romined in the cabinet thus far ut the ijhsident's solicitation. In theevjftof Attorney-General Ol ney tonderljg his resignation, the pos sthlllty is nggestod that William f VVilson miWit be tendered a seat in the cabin* This, however, is A mat ter upon Jiich no intimation bus been, hud dlrolly or Indlrootly from tho President FarmiIs Coming south.?-All tho indloutiiis point to a largo Immigra tion be inning this winter from the West t# the South, the farmer-.* in some scftions of the West having bc como thoroughly discouraged from their experience In tho past and hope less of lie future, A double cause bus operatid to bring them to this condi tion, prat, there bus boon in some scptiols repeated and disastrous OVOp fuiluns resulting from oxcosslvo rata? or o>oossivt>. drought, especially the Inttc, which are becoming more pre - valent than in former years. Those droughts exter.d eve- largo arous and! tho .'armer wLo lOW plant-, scarcely evor count* wl?h certainty eu reaping. It Usald thata number of counties in western Kansas havo been almost de? populated, Mu farms being abandenod, somo Of t bom having upon them houses and'barns that cost several thousand dollars. Thoy were aban lone 1 bean - ? thero woro no purciiasers wiio would buy and rua the rhk* <>f raising cropn upon them. ?