The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
oEMocRAcY IN POWER.

OeMOChSSv IN V0W6h'
Ie Had q Fair Trial and the People
Found It Corrupt and inefficient.
The New York World gives the UNI
usual emphasis of double-leaded
leader to an effort toward explaining
that the Democratic party has not
been given a fair trial in office. 1t
may be well to let the World speak
for itself, and consider the value Of its
plea after hearing it:
1t was not fer trial
Because the Democratic party neither con-
trolled nor lays claim to having controlled the
administration of President Cleveland.
Therefore, it can not be held responsible for
the results of that adm inistratiSn, neither for
the injury lis vacillat.ng course has done to
the cause of Cvil-Service reform, nor for doing
"the right taing At the wrong TINT" In pre-
cipitatlng the tariff issue on the perilous edge
of Presidential campaign, nor for the other
multiplied mistakes Of the President, nor Tor
his obnoxious personal acts or characteristics.
And again:
The Democratic party. as Is now well estab-
lished, really carried the States which will cast
a majority Of the electoral votes for General
Harrison, and so the candidate, and not the
party, were defeated in the recent election.
Neither of these conclusions Of fact
are we'll founded. New York went
for Hill, indeed, but it does not follow
that it went Democratic; the local ques-
ton of license carried Hill, the purely
National questions of tariff and South
ern suppression of the ballot carried
Harrison through New York. And it is
fair to suppose that they would have
carried any Republican candidate.
The test of party strength in New
York was on the Presidential vote.
MIR. Cleveland lost in 1888 most of the
few Republican votes that went to him
in 1884. and gained few OF the votes
that had come into existence since
that year. Besides which at least
four States in the Southern tier were
not really carried" but only really
counted by .the Democratic party"
Nor is it fair on the part of the
World to charge that MIR. Cleveland
did not surround himself with Demo-
cratic counsellors. 1t Is true that he
called no one to his Cabinet from New
York City, but New York City had no
i. Democrat whom any man Of any pre-
tension to prudence would have called
to it. New York was carried for
Cleveland by the Mugwumps, not by
the Democrats, and Mr.. Cleveland
knew this. He also knew that it was
the working of the leaven of Tilden-
ism which made it possible for the
Mugwumps to temporarily affiliate
with the Democrats; he, therefore,
chose one of Tilden's favorite lieu.
tenants to be his Secretary OF the
Treasury; and in Daniel Manning he
found the most able and careful finan.
cier of the Democracy. He rewarded
the Mugwumps with the post-office
of the chief city of the land. And the
New York post-office and the National
Treasury under Manning's administers
ton have been the best managed de-
partments Of the public service. Mr.
Cleveland was not defeated because he
nominated Manning and retained Pear
son.
He was defeated because he and hi
Administration did fully and fairl!
represent the Democratic party, which
is the solid South. Bayard. Garland
Lamar, this trinity of Southerners il
the Cabinet. was eternal proclamation
of the supremacy of Democracy of tn
old-fashioned stripe. In the Senate
Vance and Vest and Beck; in tn
} House. Reagan and Mills and Brock
inridge were the authoritative expo
nents of the Presidential desires AM
policies; Northern members of eithe
house were in few of his councils
even Voorhees, was not in high favo
at the White House. The South CAV
the votes; it was the Democracy, and
.. therefore, was a controlling inhuenc
upon the Administration. The tari1
policy was championed and suggeste
by the South. 1t was a fair trial; b
an accident Mr.. Cleveland was electe
to the Presidency; of set purpose h
placed himself and his Administrator
under Democratic control. He debase
, the civil service, he increased publ
expenditures, he favored direct taxa
ton. he was opposed to protective tar
ifs. ALI these are manifestations G
Democracy; the country endured ther
, for four years, and then by its vote re
strained their further display. 1t wa
a fair trial.-Chicago Inter Ocean.