The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
DEMOCRATIC POLICY.
The Causes OF the Democratic Success
and What Should be the
Future Policy.
New York SUM-

state board of canvaSSers hardly con-
firms their declaration. Mr.. Cleveland
got 530,3lS votes; Secretary Folger
received 342, 464. and all others obtain
ed 1872. This large scattering vote
is remarkable. Hopkins, the prohibit
ton candidate, obtained %, 1873 votes,
nearly five times more than that ticket
received at the last election. The
highest Republican vote was cast for
Judge Andrews for the court of APP
peals. He received 4O9,421, or 66,9oS
more votes than were cast for FOlger.
These figures show how many Repub-
Iicans who voted on election day did
not cast their ballots for the Republic
can candidate for governor. But they
do not show how many Republicans
voted for Cleveland.
The vote for Gen. Slocum for con-
greSsman-at-large was 503,9o4, or 169,-
I22 more than was given to Howard
Carroll. 1t is quite possible that Re
publicanS voted for Gen. Slocum on
account of his noble war record; still
there is no good reason for thinking
that many Republicans voted for him.
CarrolPS vote rises 81, 76S above Fol-
gers; Gen. Slocum's vote falls only
81 ,374 below that of Cleveland. This
difference may fairly indicate the
number of Republicans who voted for
Cleveland, which, in a total vote of
927 ,94l, is certainly very small defec-
ton. Probably some Republicans will
insist that this is hardly fair cOmpu-
tation. Allowing that some Republic
cans voted for Slocum, no one pre-
tends that any Republican voted for
Kruger. Striking the mean difference
between the votes of both Slocum and
Kruger, and subtracting that sum from
Cleveland's vote, we get 4l,930. This
would seem to he the highest number
of Republican votes which any one
can possibly claim as having been cast
for Cleveland. F..
1t must be borne in mind that Mr..
Cleveland'S vote is only SO7 more than
that cast for Gen. Hancock in 1880.
On the other hand, FOlger's vote drops
23l ,OoO below that given to Garfield.
But the total vote of the state this
fall was 1S6, 332 less than in 1881. The
general report from all parts of the
state is that there was an unusually
full Democratic vote for an off year
The Democrats were united and inter
eSted. They wanted to elect their
candidates. They meant to roll up as
large majority as possible. On the
other hand, tine Republicans were
divided and dispirited. Thousands of
them would not vote for FOlger,
though they did vote for Andrews
and even tor Carroll. But IA much
larger number showed their dis
approval of the policy adopted
by the Republican managers of
this state and at Washington by stay
ing at home. The falling off in the
total vote was largely in consequence
OF Republican anger and apathy.
Considering these 1acts, and the fact
that the prohibition vote was uneX-
pectedly swelled vastly beyond its
normal size, it is not probable that
over 25,UOO Republicans voted for
Cleveland. Experience has shown
that the unreasoning prejudice OF Re
puDlicans against Democrats is so
deeply imbedded that it is almost in
eradlcable. Most Republicans would
sooner vote for the worst man in their
own party than for the best Demo-
crat in the country. Their hatred
of Democracy has been burned in and
is likely to remain. 1t is as much as
most Republicans can possibly do, by
way of reDuking their own party mis-
managers, to stay from the polls and
let the election go by default. The
few Republicans who voted for Cleve-
land showed moral courage far SUI
perior to that of the mass OF the party
are equal to, even in an emergency.
This fact should have an important
bearing ON the attitude and policy OF
the Democratic dealers. 1t is folly to
hope to secure any considerable Access
sions from the regular Republican
ranks. The most that can be expected
from that quarter is that the increaS-
ing number of selni-attached Repub-
icans who are controlled more by
reason and conscience than by preju-
dice and passion, will be drawn more
and more to the Democratic standard.
The Democratic party must look for
its growth to the natural increase
from Democratic stock, to the educat-
ed and intelligent young men who
have grown up since the war and are
free from the prejudices and passions
it engendered, and to the increasing
strength and influence of the natural
lied Germans and other citi
zens of foreign birth who have come
here to escape from tyranny and OPP
preston, and naturally grayitate to
the party which most fully repre-
SentS personal freedom and individual
rights. And the policy of the party
should be directed not so much to
catch chance Republican support us
to develop Democratic principles and
ideas and apply them to public affairs
in measures so practical and cOnserVa-
tive and fitted to promote the general
welfare that the people will see that
Democracy and the progress of the
country are synonymous. 1t is be-
cause we believe that Democratic
principles are safer and more adj
Vantageous to the country as
a whole, and to every legiti-
mate interest in it, that we
firmly believe that when they are eff
GENTLY and honestly carried out in the
governments of the city, the state, and
the nation, thousands if not millions,
who are now suspicious if not hostile
to them, will see their mistake and
unite with the Democracy in support
ing them. The duty OF Democrats,
now more than ever, is to be true to
their principles, and apply them hon
eStly and theoretically, to promote the
public welfare.
There are but few Democrats in
New York state so pulled up with
the pride of victory as to deny that
the marvellous upheaval of the peo-
pie in favor of the Democratic party
was largely due to the unequivocal
position of the party upon monopoly
legislation, free canals, and the conse-
quent endorsement and support of the
Farmers Alliance of that state. The
time was fitting, the occasion auspi-
cious for the revulsion. Garfield had
been slain; a rioting, careless
administration held federal pow
er by accident; Republicans
who formed the conscience OF
their party remained away from the
polls, and Democrats who were the
conscience of their party enthusiastic
cally came forward to the support OF
a ticket and platform which had
both head and heart in them. The re-
suit, as it will always be when Demo
erats base their hopes upon the people,
was an unprecedented overwhelming
stampede of radicalism with all the
infamies for which the word now
stands as synonym.
In and Out of Wall Street.
New York SUM-
Yet there is at least one man who
ALWAYS makes money in the street;