The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18

the course of the wave, and that
which was running with such force
in favor of the democratic nominee,
and swept with irresistible
force into the presidency the republic
can candidate. The other day this
canvass began with every prospect
for Mr.. Blaine's success; it was well
known that the machinery of govern
ment was in the line of his success.
He took the bulge and had launched
at the democratic nominee slanderous
reports, which staggered and
drove back from Cleveland in dis
gust his best friends and warmest
supporters. These reports were COM
petently proven to be false, and at the
same time the infamous record of Mr..
Blaine has been so undeniably pre-
sented and proven, that the current
which seemed triumphantly bearing
Blaine upon its crest has subsidized, and
now political pillows are rolling in
one after another, swelling the tide
that sweeps onward with irresistible
force in favor of Grover Cleveland.
The republican nominee has enjoyed
his flood tide; now he is in on the ebb,
while the flood bears aloft the demo-
cratic nominee. The inevitable change
has come. Western states hear the pleas
ing sound of this popular wave, and
even Wisconsin is now fierce battle
ground between the two opposing
parties. 1t was never so before, and
if this wave take in Ohio Mr.. Blaine
may as well strand his craft and re-
pair to the bleak shores of his ice
bound state. AS cotemporary says,
even the most conservative of the sup
porters of the democratic cause were
weakening in their hope, appre-
hensive that the party which had pre-
vailed so long by the force of audacity
might crown its audacious career by
elevating to the chief magistracy a
public man who had more openly used
his places of trust to swell his purse
than any other whom even phenom-
email times had lifted into power. But
the days of audacity as factor in
current politics seem to be numbered
The people have reasoned and reflect
ed, have resolved to spare the govern
ment this crown of modification. The
lawless crusade of the knight of the
sciled plume has spent its force, and
organized purpose to repulse it is hav-
ing it's marked effect. The tireless
sinews of American industry will
no longer endure the load which
mountebankism has misnamed duty
and placed upon its shoulders;
the plunderer will no longer be toll
Grated. The people are poor and
needy; they have been made hewers
of wood and drawers of water for
classes, made masters by republican
ism, until the yoke of oppression
weighs too heavily to be longer borne.
The republican revel has been kept up
for twenty years, and the masses
want to know why these debauchers
shall longer insult public decency and
propriety. The tramp of a mighty
army, marching in search of bread, is
heard from one end of the land to the
other. This monster protection has
had taken from its horrible visage
the veil that it was said hid benii-
cence beneath it, and the deadly tank
is at hand, as it stood beside the
Yelled Prophet, in which shall us
appear the last vestige of its horrid
carcass. The wave that carried
Blaineism upon its horrid crest has
broken upon the breakers of out
ragged popular will, and it recedes as
surely as the ide5 of November come
Certainly the people of these United
States are preparing to avenge the
cruel misdeeds of party that has
gloated for over two decades upoI
popular oppression. Puplic confidence
has been outraged, and this receding
wave may be taken as indicating
that at the approaching election al
indignant protest against the oft-re
peated outrages of republicanism will
be recorded.