New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-25
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IL our Democratic friends have really m adh
up their M nds that " the Republicans must go,
why, that OF course makes an end OF II, and
there is no use ia wasting arguments or words
over the fored Doncd conclusion. Nothing can
alter their purpose of driving the Republicans
out except perhaps the counting Of the election
retarbs.' And now il does occur to us that we
have seen and heard them going on in pretty
much the same way several times before.
They may not have been using the same war
cry-Mr. Denis kcarney had not then in
vented the slogan they have borrowed frum
him for campaign uses-but the business was
the same, the intent identical, to drive the Re-
publcans out OF Office and install themselves
in their places. For almost twenty-five years
they have been at work ut it, and always in
the same eager and confident way, as though
when they had made mp their minds there was
an end of argument about 1t. And yet so far
as we can discover the Republicans have not
been driven out at all. SO though there can
be no hope of turning the Democrats from their
purpose, il is we'll enough for the Republicans
not to begin packing up simply because their
opponents have given them notice to quit. Ii
Will perhaps be remembered that notice 10
quit has been served a great many times, and
for great variety of reasons; always, how
ever in newspapers and on the stump, never
BY the people at the polls. Twenty years ago
the Republicans were warned out because they
were waglng an unconstitutional war a little
later because they were not prosecuting it
with vigor; later because the was fail
ure; then because they had issued an irredrem
able currency ; then because they wouldn't pay
the National debt with it then because they
were postponing specie resumption by their
financial policy then because they were en-
dangering business interests by Fastening re-
sumption; and so on and on until now 1T is
simply because they are @rascals." But some
how they don't agon; the people dvn't q turn
them out"
We observe that some Of our Democratic
contemporaries have become so excited since
the issue Of the new war-cIy kindly loaned
them by Mr.. Denis Kearney that they are
un willing to wait for the election returns for
the Republican hegira. In the words of the
late Mr.. Backus, minstrel, they swami their
doughnut now" We have not witnessed such
impatitnce in long time. Here is our vol
canic contemporary, The World, insisting, il
we rightly understand its utterances, that the
Republicans must go" now, right of, because
Presidency in 1876" and because athey pur-
chased the Presidency in 1880" ado the
apeople rule" it frantically inquiries, or are we
aliving under an oligarchy which, laying claim
to prescriptive right through the enjoyment
"of twenty-tbree years OF power, refuses to
ayield up the offices and submit to the popular
2" We judge from the manner in which
this startling interrogatory is hurled at the
reader that in the opinion Of the Editor it is
the immediate duty of the Republicans to
ayeld up the Offices and submit to the pop
ular will" Otherwise the people do not rule
and We are @living under an Oligarchy."
Now we dislike to disturb the flow of anybody's
discourse when he is saying anything that
sounds really eloquent like the above, but If
We might be permitted to put in IL simple
practical question here we wOuld DO glad If
The World would tell us what Offices have not
been yielded up In accordance with the popular
will as expressed Attic polls.
1t is to be feared that the effect of the new
slogan has been to confuse our contemporaries
reasoning powers. Because few Democratic
editors have started the cry, sThe Republicans
must CO." and are keeping 1t mp with good
deal of vigor considering the weather, 1t by no
means follows that that Is the popular will.
The popular will is expressed in this country at
the polls, and the men who get the most votes
I'LL the Offices. They cannot refuse to yield them
up when the popular will demands. it. We
might as well deal in facts even If the conse-
quence II the loss Of some fine rhetoric. The
reasoning of The World Ia that because athere
aarc Democratic Governors in twenty five States
of the Union, representing voting popula-
1tion In the elections Of 1882 of 5,f53, 1867
while sthers are Republican Governors In
3twelve States of the Union, only representing |
In last years elections voting population Of |
1906, 974." and because scn the comparative