Daily Republican., 1883-03-13
what Will the Democratic Party
DO?

TUESDAY. MAkOH H. 1883.
what Will the Democratic Party
do
It is q question whether the Demo.
next Presidential campaign than they
were at the commencement of the last.
The Washington correspondent Of tie
Baltimore sun in yesterdays issue OF
that paper alludes to the subject ten
derby, evidently desiring to extract
some comfort from the situation for the
Democratic party, but winds up with
the significant declaration that while
Democratic prospects are brilliant, they
are really not more so than they were
four years ago. With the Republicans
the case is far different. The passage
of the tariff bill in the closing hours
of Congress by that party makes il
stand well with the people, though it is
not certain what effect the passage OF
the bill may yet have upon the bust.
ness of the country. Indeed we are not
sure thatit would not have been better fOr
the Republican, party, in Il political
sense, 10 have done Lothing and have
left the Democrats in the incoming
Congress, which meets in December,
blunder into unpopularity. Neverthe,
less there is no doubt that the Republi
can party stands better with the peopl,
for having the courage to grapplt
with the tariff and revenue bills and
in spite OF opposition push them through
TO become laws. The people as a gen
eral thing, like straightforward, manly
dealing in parties as in individuals. =
The people know that the Republican,
are responsible for the change in the
tariff and internal revenue bills tha
cuts down the taxation Of the country
seventy-tive millions Of dollars. Tn,
Republicans pass out Of Congress will
a record of which they need not fee
ashamed. Their majority was small
80 small that their course was nlsil
obstructed by a large minority, and yet
they find to their credit passed and
enacted into law the bill to suppress
polygalny, the civil service reform bill
and the reduction OF taxation through
Il remOdrling of the revenues and al
euualiZing Of tariff rates Letter post
age has been reduced to Two cents I,
take effect July hr~t, the obnoxious
Government stamp has been remove,
from checks, negotiable and bu,inr>,
papers the tax on the manufacture o
tobacco has been reduced one half, and
the obnoxious and insulting tax %
matches has been entirely removed.
These reforms We're accomplished ii
the face Of the opposition "t tht
Democrats in Congress. In no one i'll
stance did IA majority of them vote fol
the bills which passed, ana in most IN
stances where the reforms wrr' most
advantageous t" the people, they voted
almost sUiidly against thrH-nOtab.y It
when the bill 10 reduce the taxes W.T.
placed ON its final passage in tn,
closing hour, Of Con- gres>.
By the obstinan,y Of the Democrats
in Congress they have l"tt no ln"ritOr
iOus actions upon record 10 recommend
them to the favorable consideration .
the people. II is hard to ace upon
what plea they can makea stand. Tire
months ago when Congress met, tin
great tidal wave Of Democracy that la,
lust swept thcm high and dry into pow
er in the great NOrthe States Of til
Union, and had given them an over
whtlniug majority in the next Con
gres,, had not subsidized. intoxicated
with success, they neglected the neces
sary prudence Ia make them de,crvln.
of success. AT the end Of those three
months ihry have been out worked AM
vutaitt"i by Il feeble Republican ma
.jority, and they have Gruppcd from
the high pinnacle upon which the tida
wave swept them duWn INFO tine yalIr
OF dcSDOudcncy.
What they wiD, do Tor the iu'ur
remains 10 be seer, bat til" pOlI1ica