The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-11-16
What Next7

The burden of government will after
March next be transferred from the
shoulders of the Democracy, which
have born it so creditably for the last
four years, TO their Republican oppo.
nents; what will the latter do with iti
The Democracy, in reviewing the
history of their first attempt at govern
ment upon their restoration to power
have this to remember: The affairs of
this nation have never been better ad-
mnistered nor has the government
been 30 respected at home and abroad
for a generation than under the care of
Democracy and It's honored President
Can Republican;sm do better? Ia
there reasonable hope that they will
do 80 welli Let us see.
The Republican nominee for Pres
ident is a man who has much to re-
commend him, ss this paper pointed
out at the time ofhis nomination. He
was soldier in the war for the Union
and did good s,rvice for his country in
the dark days of the Shareholders re-
bellion. His private character and
domestic relations are such that the
public was saved parade of unsavory
scandals during the campaign; but
who will deem him capable for in
stance of the moral courage which die.
tated the veto of the vicious and Who'll
| ly indefenslble dependent pension billf
Who would attribute to him even a
| fair share of the iron will and determi-
nation of Grover Cleveland7
Another and much more serious
question confronts the American
people. however. 1t is not so much
the temporary postponemept OF the re-
form of our tariff, not the fact that
the distinguished and honorable ser
vices of Grover Cleveland TO the Re-
public have been dispensed with, nor
vet the fact that the Democratic party
has had to give way to its opponents.
None of these are 80 vital as the ques.
ton, "What are we to expect from
General Harrison with James G.
Blaine in virtual control and Mathew
S. Quay and w. w. Dudley as his
lieutenants Has not the last cam
paign been a Blaine campaign, aud
were not the infamies of the Republi-
can National Chairman and Treasurer
well known and almost openly prsct-
iced?"
Very few men in history have i'm
proved the full measure of opportuni-
ties suddenly thrust upon them; Gro
yer Cleveland, suddenly confronted
with the great responsibility of the
Presidency, sized up to the emergency
in way such as few men ever did;
will General Harrison do az well :?
Will be resist Blainesm, Dudleyism,
Mathew Stanley Quayism? Let us
sincerely hope, for the sake of our
native land, of public decency and
national honor that he may.
The Eoening Herald Is a Demo.
cratic paper; it does not assume to be
anything else; it does not ask for any
popular approval which it cannot win
by an earre est and conscientious sup
port of what il believed to be real Demo.
cracy. 1t opposed General Harrison
upon these broad grounds; yet this
paper has no wish that he may not
l.have an administration which shall al
least throw no discredit upon hit
country. But it is as sure as fate that
if the gang which ran the campaign
for General Harrison get the reward
which they as politicians expect, pro
fiigacy, shamelessness will be in the as
cendant and falsehood and trickery be
the ruling spirits of the national ad
ministration.--Phila. Evening Her.
ald