New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-06
MAKE CONGRESS- REPUBLICAN.

III Il
Democratic chickens are usually counted
before they are Matched, with good reason.
They count better then. But the satisfaction
of the Democratic party at the prospect ID
few of the States, it may be rs well to observe,
is mainly based upon Republican discord OF
dissatisfaction in respect to the state ucKets'
A close observer will fail to discover any such
discord IN regard to Congressional nominations
In the main, the Republicans III the different
districts have selected candidates for Congress
without Federal dictatiOn or interference, ana
tbo;r selections have generally been satisfac-
tory IN the voters of the party. Indeed, Ill
opite n number of instances this year men
have been selected who have strength not only
with the regular and answering partlsanS'
but also with many Democratic or independent
voters. Republican. nominations for Congress,
even in the Eastern States where there mas
been most difficulty, are probably stronger by
many thousand votes in the aggregate than
the State tickets in the same States. In not
few districts, too, Republican success is ex-
nected because the Democrats have nominated
most unwsely.
This state of facts is especially gratifying
because the control of the next House of
know how that body is used by the Democrats,
when they have control of it, during the session
preceding Presidential election. The
country has had experience in that matter, and
wants no more. Nothing need be said OF
the scavenger work upon which the Democrats
on such occasions mainly rely They proceed
at once to organize what are theoretically
smelling committees, but are really campaign
lie factories, and these committees spend the
session in fishing from the gutter of political
infamy all the perured evidence that red
headed and other liars can give against
prominent Republicans. Experience has
taught that this sort of thing, though it may
be annoying, does not injure the Republican
party in the least. The Democratic campaign
SANDER. in about nine cases out of ten, is
gun that kicks harder than it shoots. The
Republican party will live and conquer forever,
If it is never beaten until the Democrats can
defeat it by the volleys of mud which their en-
eiues discharge in political contest.
Not on account OF the Republican party, but
ON account OF the country its industries and
its business, the control of the next House by
the Democrats is to be peculiarly deprecated.
The Republican party would profit by Dem
ocratc mistakes, and it is not in the nature of
that party to have even taste of power with
ont making itself indescribatly disgusting. 1t
would happen, too, if the Democrats should
gain control in Congress, that the Republicans
would be relieved from inconvenleDt respon
sibilities in regard to several matters. Party
wise. it would perhaps be fortunate thing for
kepubljcans to be rid of all legislative respon-
sibility before the next election, and to be able
TO reap harvest from Democratic misdeeds.
Rut it would not be good thing tor the
country.
From the beginning of Democratic session
to the end, every great industry and every i'm
portant branch of business would be exposed
TO peril. The committees would be so organ
lied as to give encouragement to the widest
and most destructive schemes. The mere dread
of such legislation as everybody has learned
by experience, would go far to produce stagna-
ton of all business. Capital would seek its
hiding places, lest it should be caught by
revolutionary measures industrial establish
ments would be stopped for lack of adequate
capital Immediately available labor would be
disorganized and deprived Of employment;
foreign trade would be checked by the
prospect of a radical change in duties secur-
tues would Dc subjected to great depression
by threats Of communistic action against
railroads by Democratic demagogucs all this
we have seen more than once as the conseouence
of Democratic control in Congress OH the eve of
Presidential election, and must expect IN
see again if that party gets power for harm.
1t is the duty as well as the public interest
of Republican voters, whether laborers.
capitalists or business men, to make eyery
honorable effort to prevent these disasters.
There is not the slightest reason for electino
Democrats to Congress because Republican
State ticket is deemed unsatisfactory. In the
States where the greatest objection is made to
the State tickets, there ought to be all the
more earnest and determined effort to elect
members of Congress who will not expose all
industry and business to peril by their very
first vote, in the choice OF Democratic Speaker.
| 1t makes little difference whether Dem