Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-09-27
THE POLITICAL POT.

Now that the battle in Maine is ended,
and the efervescing clam-stabber and
the festive cod-puncher have again gone
their ways to beans and pine-top whisky,
Oh-be-joyful Manley, Chairman OF the
Republican State Central Committee Of
that unhappy State, exalts his horn and
makes the air heavy with his jubilation
over the "great victory" The Chicago
NeUs states the need Of the hour in the
following pithy paragraph:
Mr.. Manley, Mr.. Blaine's man Friday, has
formally assured the country that the Re-
publican victory in Maine last week was
really the most remarkable one that was
ever achieved. The country is glad to know
it., Mr.. Manley. Now, suppose you bind
cake of ice ON your heated brow and give
somebody else a chance for day or two.
1t was a victory sure enough, but such
an one, as that two more like it, would
irretrevably ruin the Republican party,
and the signs of the times point TO such
an ending. To cool-headed men the
proposition is something as follows: "If
Mr.. Blaine, the foremost Republican in
the country, aided and abbetted by
grand flop on Prohibition, in notoriously
Republican State, cannot, on Republi-
can platform specially constructed for the
occasion, and expounded by an United
States Senator from that State, keep the
solid Republican vote from falling off
several thousands, what can he and
similar causes hope to do two years
hence, in the doubtful States?" While
Mr.. Manley is undergoing the friendly
ordeal prescribed for him in the
foregoing from the News this lit
tie Joker is commended to his
joyful soul for analyzation. 1t is
also commended to the careful attention
of all Democrats, in the hope that
the lesson involved will encourage them
to take heart and continue their aggres-
sive measures, until no room for doubt
exists, and the blatant cry of o. b. j. Man
ley shall be known to be the death knell
of Republican rule in this fair land. The
hour is ripe for the springing of issues
for the coming campaign, and the Repub-
lican party is doing its level best to follow
the keynote sounded by Blaine to make
protection and the money question the
Republican stock in trade, and prohibi-
ton only an incidental or side issue.
Whatever vagaries may engage the astute
brains OF Republican leaders between
now and the canvass, it is not possible to
tell, but it is more than likely that the
foregoing programme will be the one
selected. The Omaha Herald sizes up
the case so we'll and briefly that we use
its argument as our own
The New York Tribune is laboring with its
best vigor to make Mr.. Blaine and protec-
tion the key notes of the campaign of 1888,
and protection and the currency and money
questions the dividing issues between the
parties in the future. The Tribune argues,
and argues correctly, that the Republican
party, as a party, is for high tariffs for pro-
lection, and that the Democratic party, as
party, is against it. This is true, and if this
issue can be brought squarely before the
people all Democrats will accept it and
abide the consequences. The Democratic
party is for low tariff duties for revenue,
and against protection for the sake of pro-
lection, including Mr.. Randall and his
strong following in the central States.
AS to finance, the Democratic party is the
traditional friend of sound money, honest
dollars, and when the question arising in n
readiustment of national banking and cur.
rency shall come, it will be found as sound
and steady as it was in the days of the
Wings and the rag money ruin Of the war
period.