The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-12-06


The Lawrence, Masssah aAesiss SsAiaael
runs q parallel between shspelisieal events
|0f 1887 and lhoss cf Tho current year Of
ISIS. ID Is gsmarkabIe how striking the
parallel Is made to appear
1887 AND 1873 -FIauREs REyERsEp.
The result Of the State elections in 1879
may be set down as a crushing defeat Of
the Republican or Administration party,
and as an ever memorable victory Of the
Democracy. There is much ia ii that
reminds US Of the history Of the past. 1t
seems as IL 1887 was come again, and BY
an extraordinary coincidence the same
figures denote it, with the exception that
the fourth has become the third IN the row.
In 1887 the downfall Of the Democracy,
who had been in possession Of power for
eight years, was simultaneous with finan.
cial panic that oserspread the country,
depressing business aud throwing hundreds
Of thousands OF people out af employment.
For it the Administration was held respon-
sible. States which had been the most
reliable for General jackson, and for his
then just inaugurated successor Martin
Van Buren,, were carried by the Wings by
large majorities. New York, which had
given Van Buren, in the preceding fall
$4,000 majority, elected one hundred
Wings to the House of Assembly to
twenty-eight Democrats. The reaction
was complete. But the Democrats en-
deayored to console themselves by the
reflection that the vote was light, aud that
thousands Of Democrats stayed at home
from dissatisfaction, who, when President
or Governor was chosen, would again come
out and vote the ticket. The result proved
the vanity Of the delusion. 1t was the
"of-year," just after presidential contest
Three years passed away, and the presi-
Dental election took place. The opposi-
ton TO the Democratic administration Of
Martin Van Buren, consisted Of several
organizations, north and south, but BY far
the most important of them was known
as Wings. Under that name every thing
rallied in 1910, and, although the vote was
half million larger than ever before
known, Mr.. Van Buren, was voted out by
an unprecedented majority, receiving but
sixty electoral votes out of two hundred
aud ninety-four, and carrying seven States
out of the twenty-six which then composed
the Union. Then the Democracy, for the
first time, perceived that the results Of
1887 were not momentary, but they
expressed the full and deep-settled convic-
tons Of the people.
In 1873, thirty-six years thereafter,
without the change Of figure, we find a
similar state Ct things. 4 national ad-
ministration, elected year before by an
enormous majority, is everywhere con
demncd With this change comes a
financial panic almost exactly like 1897.
Strike out the name Of Grant and insert
Martin Van Buren,, and il is history re-
peating itself By the defeated party the
same ideas are advanced, that the reverses
are but temporary. What delusion they
are laboring under the course Of events
will tell The people are going to combine
iu lou, just Us tuc1 uiu III 1otut W vote
out the administration. Now, as then,
they viii seize hold of that organization
which is the most conspicuous, and could
do the most in effecting the great purposes
Of the opposition. 1t was then the Wing
party. Now it is the Democratic party.
Hundreds Of thousands who had never
been Wings, who had ranked themselves
as States Rights Democrats, supported the
Wing nominee in the Presidential election
of 1910. There is supreme absurdity in
the idea that people are willing to vote
with men who are and have been Demo-
Gratis for years, but will not do so if they
call themselves Democrats. There is no
such prejudice existing against names.
People look to things rather than to names.
They are down upon the existing admins
tration, and viii favor that party which
gives them the best opportunity of rectify-
ing it.