Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-07
e,yE THE PEOPLE THE FACTS

that there is no excess OF enthusiasm IN
the Republican party over its nominees.
Well, what of it, Perhaps that is an
advantage after all. 1t means that we
are not to have a campaign Of personal
enthusiasts, but one Of ideas.
1t is a political calamity when ques-
tions Of national policy are settled by an
appeal to passion and prejudice, not by
an appeal to common sense. If in the
coming contest, therefore, we get rid Of
personal admirations and hatreds, invec-
tives, ordinations and the bitterness and
i'll temper which only serves to draw us
from the main issue, we shall be all the
more likely to reach a satisfactory result.
What is specially needed just now is
a systematic array of statistics and argu-
ments which affect the subject in hand.
Torchlight professions and the buncombe
and fol.de-rol Of political craftsmanship
are well enough, but above all give us
facts. Show the people how a high tariff
and a low tariff will work practically,
and after hat you needn't worry about
the enthusiasm. 1t won't have to be
pumped up; it will come OF itself.
Democratic leaders will kindly take
notice that Republican leaders propose
to flood the continent with all sorts Of
documents relating to the theory of pro-
lection. That is a wise move or their
part. They have a great deal at stake.
They know that a long period Of retire
ment is staring them in the face; they
will make a desperate effort to recover
the ground lost in 1884, and in order to
do that they must check this great tide
Of popular opinion which is flowing in
the direction Of tariff reform. If they
succeed, her monopolies and combines
will have another whack at the CONNER.
cial interests OF the country, and make
more millions by laying the whole popu-
lation under tribute. II they fail, mo-
nopolies are gone, bob, hook and sinker,
for the chances are that a Democratic adj
ministration will make it very difficult
for them to squeeze the people as they
have been doing for the last ten or fifteen
years. A fair allow for everybody, and
~favoritism for nobody, is its motto.
The Republicans have a perfect right,
however, if they can do it, to persuade a
majority Of the ten million of voters to
lend them a helping hand. This is a free
country and every man takes his stand
on this side or on that Size of the fence,
Just as he chooses. He makes his own
laws and conditions of life, and if they
don't suit him he must be patient until
he can change them. If he demands
cheap clothing, cheap timber; cheap tools
and cheaper houses, or if he demands
chep whisky and a big surplus, part Of it
taken out Of his own pocket, why, that
is his business, and all he has to do is to
say so at the polls. He is on top and
what he tells the government to do will
be done.
Before he decides, though, he wants
ali the facts. He is no fool and don't
propose to get trapped or to make a losing
trade or to knock himself down with his
own vote if be can help it. Ii the Re-
publicans give him the arguments on one
side, let the Democrats give him the ar
guments on the other side. From now
until November he will do a power Of
reading and thinking. This is to be a
campaign Of brains. No vile, %malodorous,
rocking barn yard personalities will have
a place in the canvass-the Chicago Con
v~ention settled that-but we are to have
a square, candid, good.natured discussion
as to the best means of increasing bust
ness, starting up new mills, giving labor
steadier work and fair wages, and making
money in all the markets of the world.
That kind of discussion will do us all
good.
Democrats, therefore, should follow
the Republican example and scatter all
over the country facts, statistics, argu.
ments, the strong speeches that have
been delivered in Congress, on platforms,
in churches, and do it by the ton, SO that
an intelligent people may get an intelli-
gent idea Of the situation and cast an in.
telligent ballot.
This is a very important work, and the
sooner it is begun the more decided will