Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-11-10
TuE END OF THE GREAT BAT.
TEE.

gone. It resulted in the complete tn
umph Of the Republican party through
out the country. General Harrison Is
elected President. OF the doubtful
States, both New York and Indiana went
for him, the former by 10000 and the
latter by about 5000. New Jersey and
Connecticut, according to advices to
hand, stood by the Democracy. The
electoral vote of New York turned the
scale; il was the pivotal and decisive vote
OF the contest, as all well informed peo-
plc had known from the outset OF the
canvass. 1t seems probable that there
was treachery in the Democratic camp In
the Empire State. Hill is reported to
have been elected Governor by 1900 to
10000, while Tammany got the Mayor
by a round majority. 1t looks like the
National ticket may have been sacrificed
to secure these results. But we must
await fuller details before forming a per-
feet judgment regarding the immediate
cause of the disaster. Primarily the
tariff issue had something to do, though
not all, with the overthrow OF the Demo-
cratic ticket. The tariff question was
better understood west Of the Mississippi
than on the Pacific Coast and cut both
ways in the Eastern half Of the Union.
The issue Of free trade so.cslled was false
and fraudulent from the beginning. There
was no such issue involved In the cam.
paign.
A political mistake has been character.
lied as worse than q crime. The Demo-
cratic mistake was in raising the tariff
issue in any form so near to the Presi-
Dental election. The Presidents mes
sage was a mistake, as was also the Mills
bill, in the matter Of time. The Democ'
racy could have had a walk over by ieav'
Ing these matters alone. In the begin
ming of q new administration was the
time to have revised the tariff, as the Re-
publicans will now do, and substantially
on the lines Of the Mills bill. Mr.. Sam
Randall should not be held entirely
blameless for the defeat Of the Demo.
cratic party. II he had permitted the
consideration of the Morrison tariff bill
four years ago, the revenue question
would have been out of the way OF the
late election and the country would have
known that the Democratic policy was
not inimical to its best interests. As 1t
was, we made gains steadily in the dis
cussion of the question up to election
day. The Democratic party had gone
literally to pieces when the issue was
first made last Spring. 1t was finally
brought we'll into line before the close OF
the contest. Any losses from stragglers
was substantially made up by recruits
from the Republican ranks, until 1t Is
quite probable that a majority OF the
popular vote of the Union will be found
with the Democratic party.
President Cleveland is a better and
more earnest man for good government
and correct methods in politics than the
Republican press of the country has given
him credit for. He may have been mis-
taken in lines of public policy. but he is
nevertheless a sterling, honest man. Dur
ing all Of his i~ncumbency Of the Presi-
Dental Office, he has rigidly ignored any
thing like machine politics. As a matter
of fact, he has generally ignored the
claims of the hardest workers in the
Democratic party. The rank and file OF
no political party can be expected to
stand by their guns when their Generals
and Captains are spurned. Every sue
oessful General of which history gives an
account invariably promoted for gal
lantry on the field Of battle. II the PEG.
pie who 60 to the front and do the tight
ing In political warfare are not recog'
nized for their services they are very apt
to quit going. 1t was in this way that
President Cleveland has lacked the fac
ulty Of getting warmly into the affections
Of the people. Without doubt q great
man in many directions, especially for In
tegrity and firmness, yet the Democratic
masses never glowed with enthusiasm for
him: They believed that his Admins
tration was clean and conservative and
good. but for some inexplicable reason he
never quite completely struck the popu'
lar heart, aver Of his own party. But he
was growing in that direction and with
another term, we believe he would have
been very generally idolized as one OF the
very best ef all Of u long line of Presi.
dents.
But the battle is over and there is lit.
tie use in moralizing. Certain 1t Is
that hopes have been inspired OF great
good to flow from a change of Admins
tration which can never be realized. We
wish they could. The folly Of ~insincere
defamation will yet com home to plague
those who INDUCED in it, if the popular
mind be not wholly stepped in creduiity.
As a leverage through which Republi.
can strikers throughout the State could