Wichita eagle., 1888-09-22

bar of public opinion and demand tina
they shall answer the charges made
against them.
The title Of the cause is, 'sThe people
of the United States VS.. the Democratic
party" 1t is true there are other party
organizations, but the contest is between
these two parties-the plaintiff and the
defendant. All other organizations vii
either help the Republican or the Demo
cratic party: either Benjamin
Harrison, the candidate of The
people of the United States o.
America, will be the next president, o.
it will be Grover Cleveland, the candidate
of England and of the Democratic party
In this contest let us lay aside all un
reasonable anticipations, and judge Of
the future by the logic of the facts of the
past. Where is the reasonable individ
ual that believes that Clinton B. Fiske
the candidate of the Prohibitionists, vii
be elected president of the United States
in November next? Where is the reason
able individual that believes that Mr.
Cowdry, the candidate of the Unior
Labor party, will be elected president OF
the United States in November next
What reasonable, well posted man ever
suspects that either or all of these party
organizations combined will carry sin.
gle state of the United States at the
coming election?
a FEW ILLUSTRATIONS
drawn from the political history of the
will illustrate the drift and tendency OF
all third party organizations and all third
party political champions.
! Tan,oc u yNnor-a, now, n ,,,o,,,I or "A
the F'iftieth congress from the Sixth dis
trict of Iowa, was the Greenback candi-
date for president in 1890 Priof to this
the Forty-sixth congress. He was again
elected to congress as the Greenback-
Labor candidate in 1894. In 1886 ne was
Observation-Disclosures candidate.
He is now a full-hedged Democrat, and
in this congress he has acted with the
Democratic party, attended the caucuses
of that party, recognizing Democratic
authority, and as Democrat, sitting on
the Democratic side, was appointed
chairman of one of the Democratic COM
mittees. When he was first elected TO
congress in 1878, as a Greenbacker, it
was claimed as a Greenback victory.
When he was again elected in 1882 as
the Greenback-Labor candidate 1t was
claimed as Greenback-Labor victory,
and he was so classed in the political
classification Of the members of the
house. But when he was elected as the
Democratic Greenback-L Labor candidate
in 1886, it was classed as Democratic
victory and he has ever since been
cIassed in the political classification of
the house as a Democrat. Do you ever
hear his election now quoted as Green
back victory, or as a Labor victory?
Another instance. Ben jamin T. Shive-
ley, the representative from the Thir-
teenth district of Indiana in the Fiftieth
congress. He was elected to fill va
cancy in the Forty-eighth congress in
the year 1884, when he ran and was
successful IS Greenbacker. When he
took his seat he was classified i'll the
political classification as Greenbacker
in the Forty-eighth congress. In 1886
he ran as Democrat. and was elected
from the same district to the present
congress. He has acted with the Demo-
cratic party in that body, attended their
caucuses, obeyed Democratic commands,
and is so classified in the political his
tory Of the house. His election to the
Forty-eighth congress was heralded as
Greenback victory. His election to the
Fiftieth congress was heralded and clas-
sified asia Democratic victory.
Another instance is that of J. r. Whit
ing, representing the Seventh Michigan
district in the present congress. He was
Greenbacker, and was nominated as
the fusion candidate of the Democratic,
Greenback, and Labor parties. He is
large manufacturer, but this makes no
difference to either of these organiza-
tons. When he took his seat in the
Fiftieth congress he chose it on the
Democratic side, has attended the eau
cuses of that party, steadily voted with
that party, and has been classified
as Democrat in the political classical
ton of the present house.
The so-called Prohibition party never
has elected a candidate, and hence we
cannot say what position a candidate
elected by the party would assume in
the house, or upon which side he would
take his seat. Wherever it has succeeded
at all, it has succeeded in electing a
Democrat.
l will take time to give but
ONE ILLUSTRATION,
as that will illustrate all cases of a SINH
lar kind.
In 1886, in the Eighth district of Mich
lgan, the Democratic, Greenback and
Labor parties fused and nominated
Democratic, Hon. Timothy E. Tarsney.
He was lawyer Of consider
able ability, and one of the best story
tellers in the house. He was opposed to
all temperance legislation, and, like a
large number OF the members of his
party, contributed his share in the con-
sumption of Democratic fire-water. His
consumption of this article was incessant.
and as result it was nothing unusual
to see him under the influence of this
stimulant. The Republican candidate
who ran against him in 1886 was Hon.
r. G. Horn, who had been one of the
leading members on the Repub-
lican side in the Forty-seventh
and Forty-eighth congresses, and had
achieved considerable notoriety, not only
as q strong debater, but as a legislator.
He was strictly a temperate man, in
favor of practical temperance legislation,
and alwas spoke in the interests of the
temperance people. At that election
Mr.. Tarsney received S,301 votes. Mr..
Hoar received 1915 votes. Mr.. Abbey,
the candidate Of the Prohibition party
in that district, received 1880. This
vote elected a whisky man over a tenn
perance man just as etfectually as if it
had been cast for Mr.. Tarsney. If this
vote had been cast for Mr.. Hoar, the
Republican candidate and temperance
man. it would have elected over Mr..
Tarsney by majority of 1,244. True,
they did not vote for Mr.. Tarsney, but
they did act so as to give him the benefit