Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-07
JIMMY COMES MARCHING HOME.


 The |" uncrowned king" is nearing our shores, and ere twenty four hours shall have passed away the Nestor of republication will be with us once again. Thousands of defeats of his highesta stambitions as repeated invitations for his retirement from the public gaze, will shout huzzas of joy and enthusiasm, and the star of Indiana's fav- orite son will fade before the brightness of the " kings" welcome The most ardent enthusiasts who had hand ill the arrange ments for the reception had not the i'm pudence to write General Harrison to fur nish his presence as tail for the Blaine kite, and the unhappy candidate, who is made at every available opportunity to feel that he must play second fiddle to Blaine, can ponder in his study ''the deep damna ton" of an uncrowned kings" remorse- less selfishness.
 But if General Harrison cannot share Blaine's popularity-we have the assur- ance of that staunch republican organ, the New Haven Palladium, that he " "undoubt- edly stands second only in popularity"-he can share with him the heaping dish of crow that will be set before them both in this campaign. Blaine kin eat crow if he don't banker arter it" and the McKin- ley blunderers at Chicago prepared him an epicurean feast of the unpalatable stuff. When the plumed knight " takes the stump to shout for Harrison and sub sidies, for untaxed luXuries and heavily taxed necessaries, for dear clothing and cheap whiskey, for expensive food and low priced tobacco, the wrath of his for mer views will rise up to bid him curse the fools that brought this great tribula- tion upon him. While he advocates '' the entire repeal of internal taxes" in his loy- alty to the Chicago platform he must ex plain the words he used at Paris when he said that so long as there was whiskey to tax he would tax 1t, and that '' to cheapen the price of whiskey is to increase it's con sumption enormously" Which are We to take in Pickwickian sense-the 'bun- combe'' of the Chicago platform, or the words of this "uncrowned king" and mighty apostle of protection and high taxes And when he breaches his hos tility to the moon-eyed coolie he can ex- plain MT. Harrison's acknowledgment that |" I did vote in common with the great body of republican senators against the Chinese restriction act" And he will have a chance to explain Harrison's love for the workingmen for whom he would provide "a dollar day and SOW belly," and he can tell us about Candidate Morton's way of showing his friendship for labor by the employment of contract labor contrary to the laws of the United States. He can try his hand at opposing the farmers who are viewing with indignation the proposition of the republican platform to ''fry the fat" out of their industry for the benefit of the protected monopolies, and who in their anxiety for their dairy interest are kicking with yigor against the proposed abolition of the oleomargarine tax. And he will be called upon to make the great est effort of his life in explaining to the workingman how protection which puts up the price of consumption, and increases the cost of production without any corre- spending advantage to the wage earner, is going to "make two blades of grass grow where one grew before" in the home of the workingman.
 Blaine, like Janus of old, can look both ways at once, and it is probable that, with his peculiar facility for straddling, he will be able to digest, to his own satisfaction at least, the unpalatable repast that the Chicago platform tinkers have made for him. Certainly there is enough crow awaiting him to whet the most capacious appetite. The appearance of the king who never wore a crown upon the repubh- can stump will be awaited with interest, no less by those who believe in cheaper necessaries and taxed luxuries than by those who shout "We1l all drink free punch when Jimmy comes marching home"