The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-09
The Democracy at st. Louis.

The Democracy at st. Louis.
Democracy as focused at st. Louis
is certainly queer compound. First
we have the delegations, clubs and
camp followers shouting themselves
hoarse and stripping the city of ban.
danas to honor one whom Cleveland
four years ago officially turned out
to grass, and whom the Democrats in
his own state have ostracised for de-
nouncing fraud at the ballot-box and
corruption in a Democratic legisla-
ture. Thurman in 1884 was too aged
to aid in instilling the highly moral
| civil service sentiments of the Presi-
dent. but by some special feat of po-
litical legerdemain he is sufficiently
rejuvenated to ruu on the same ticket
with him now that Cleveland has re-
nounced the arduous task of reform
ing the country. Seldom have such
rapid changes been witnessed outside
of a pantomine.
But this is not the only protean
wonder promised the people. The
Mills bill, the Presidents pride. and
but recently the shibboleth of Demo-
cratic faith. upon which the majority
in Congress has spent the whole of
a long session, is as dead as a rat,
The friends of the Presidents late
mouthpieces and tariff-reformer-in
ordinary to the White House, have
appealed in vain for hearing for this
economic prodigy. There are "rone
so poor to do it reverence" 1t has
died in the bOrnin'! There may be
sharp fighting over the resolutions
the composition of the committee, so
far as foreshadowed, promises this
but the Mills bill is beyond resurrec.
ton or redemption, The free-traders
are in force at st. Louis, and their
best men will probably be on the
platform committee-such represen-
tative Democrats as Watterson and
Morrison-but they will be heavily
handicapped. Senator German, how
ever, will be at the head of it, and
can be depended upon to reduce their
fiery and impetuous proposals to
condition of innocuous desuetude.
Constitutional timidity is rapidly
taking the place of the boastful atti-
tude which the party maintained
few days ago, and the threats of up
turning the business enterprises of
the country will be carefully laid
away in the political lumber-closet
until after the election. The platform
of 1884, which disclosed nothing
tangible under the powerful lens of
Mr.. Weller's doubIe-million magni-
flying microscope. is to be trotted out
again, with the solemnity by which
Democrats so we'll manage to shroud
periodical joke, and generaliz "a
tion from Mr.. Cleveland's discredited
message is to be tackled on to supply
standing-room for the bewildered
statesmen who vainly imagined they
were on the eve of a Democratic |
millennium.
But there is one man at the Capt..
tol attending to his congressional
duties, whose bosom must swell with |
pride as he reads the reports of these
versatile prestidigitateurs in St.Louis
who have so recently tried to read |
him out of the party. Mr.. Samuel |
J. Randall's day has probably come
at last. He is the shrewdest old Ro-
man of them all. He knew he had
but to watch and wait, and that his
immature colleagues and their cal
low leader after strange gods would
be sure to come in out of the shower.
Mr., Mills will probably be more re-
spectful in his demeanor to this old.
time War.horse after the convention
adjourns, and the other Democratic
members of Congress who have been
chastened and subdued by their visit
to st. Louis will be glad to shake
him by the hand and acknowledge
their folly. But the surplus remains
and is piling up in the treasury. and
the people are looking askance at this
parody on gOvernment.-Bd
american.
Political Pointers.