At the same time, Mr. Roosevelt, Governor of New York,
whose vast popularity greatly conduced to Mr. McKinley's success, was elected Vice-President, and the elections for vacant seats in the Senate were filled up so as to give the Republicans a decided majority. The Republicans are also dominant in the House of Representatives, and the three branches of the Government are therefore in accord, rather an unusual circumstance in America. The Opposition, moreover, will be much weaker than before, a defeat so complete taking much heart out of them, while their leader, Mr. Bryan, disappears politically into space. Tammany, too, which rules the left wing of the Democrat party, refuses to be comforted, for the majority for Mr. Bryan in New York City, which was expected to reach eighty thousand, was under thirty thousand. Even the faith- ful South was not " solid " for the Democrats, Maryland, and perhaps Kentucky, voting for Mr. McKinley. The victory, in fact, which seems to have been secured without either bribery or terrorism, was singularly complete.
