Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-20
DEMOCRATIC DUTY.
What the Party Must DO to Gain Executive
POsrer.


POsrer.
CONGRESSMAN CARLIsLE's OPINION
Louisville Courier-Journal.
A reporter of the Courier-Jourseal sought
out Hon. John G. Carlisle. He was on the
steamer Guiding Star, on his way down the
Ohio to meet the other members of the
Mississippi river commission on the 18th
inst.
GLOW are you satisfied with the result of
the election, Mr.. Carlisle?" asked the re-
porter.
Il am, of course, very much pleased
with the result, and in this respect, at
least, it seems that I am in accord with a
large majority of the American people. If
the Democratic party acts wisely and pa
triotically in the next congress, as I be-
lieve it will, the country will be, in my
judgment, greatly benefited by its suprem-
acy. But we must be conservative in our
actions and deal justly and fairly with all
the people and all the great industrial,
financial and commercial interests of the
country. If we do not pursue this course
our recent victory will be worth nothing to
US. Judging from present appearances, the
Democratic party never in the days of its
greatest strength had better prospect for
success in presidential contest than it
now has for success in 1884. The people
are tired of Republican misfule, and they
have shown by the late elections that they
| are willing to give the Democracy a fair
| trial. If we meet their just expectations
they will renew their pledge of confidence
| in 1884; if we disappoint them they will re-
pudiate US, as they did in $780,"
do you think that the issue of tariff re-
form will be involved in the next presiden-
tial election:"
Il think it will enter into that contest,
and perhaps be the controlling issue in
volved. 1t is now perfectly evident that
the present Republican congress will
| make no revision of the tariff. It never
| intended to do so, and the passage OF the
! tariff commission bill was virtually a
pledge to all the highly protected interests
in the country that they should not be
disturbed for at least two Or three years
longer. if the Republican party could pre-
| vent it. The Inauguration of measures
for u just and equitable, revision of the
tariff will therefore devolve upon the
| Democratic house, which meets
in December, 1888, and con-
sequently the question can not be kept out
of the presidential campai gn, which will
| almost certainly begin before the first SEES
sion of that congress closes. There will
| of course be other questions presented in
| the campaign as reform in the civil
| service, economy in the administration of
public affairs non-interference by the fed
| eral government with the proper exercise
of state authority, and perhaps many 9th
ers which can not now be foreseen.''
DO you think, Mr.. Carlisle, that the
Republican party will succeed in healing
differences before 1964?"
1T seems from present appearances that
the breach is permanent, and that the
process of disintegration will go steadily
| on from this time forth. / have never be-
lieved that the Republican party could
survive single defeat in national con-
test. and by that I mean a contest inyolv-
ing the possession of the executive power
of the government. It has always seemed
to me that when the war closed, and the
questions growing out of the war had been
settled according to the Republican plan,
the mission of that party as national Or
ganization was practically ended. There
| after it lived only to hold the Offices, and
its life was sustained solely by official
patronage and the improper use of official
authority. There has not been time, i'll
my opinion, since 1876, when full and
fair vote of the people, free from all i'm
proper influences, would not have shown
Democratic majority of at least half
| million i'll this country. The recent cleo
| tions indicate that the people are deter
mined TO resist these improper influences
hereafter, even when attempted to be exer-
| cised by the president himself, and if this
is really their determination. the Republi-
can party is doomed. It will be defeated
in 1884 and disappear forever as a national
political organization"
| sit is said that you will be candidate
for speaker of the next house; is that so?
Il think that will so be-" said the Ken
lucky statesman, and he turned to speak
to friend as the reporter left.
VIEWS OF SENATOR THos. F. BAYARD.
Philadelphia Record.
Senator Bayard, of Delaware, was at
Guys hotel, in this city, for dinner, and
left for New York in the afternoon. He
is naturally pleased at the extraordinary
Democratic majority in his state, and says
that there will be no opposition made by
the party to the reelection of Senator
Salisbury. The senator commented upon
the result in New Castle county as some
what surprising to him, in that the figures
show that the full Republican vote was
cast for Deck Harrington's ticket, whereas
it had been hoped that the large element
of high responsibility in the Republican
party in New Castle county would
repudiate the shameless attempt to
make Harrington the political boss of the
state. On election day in Delaware Sena-
tor Bayard stood at the polls in his ward
| all day long, and worked as hard as the
most enthusiastic ward politicians. In re-
gard to the national aspect of Tuesdays
| election the Delaware senator said that he
did not doubt that the effect will be to
break up the Republican party in the
| United States; in fact, that the election
cleary shows that the Republican party is
in the same position now as the Wing
party was in 1854, when it went to pieces,
with the difference that there is now no
such great questions involved in Ameri-
can politics as that which gave life to the
party which took the place of the routed
Wings.