The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-03-09
FOUR YEARS HENOE.
Keep up Tariff Agitation and vic-
tory Will be ours Ina 1899.
From the Boston Globe

From the Boston Globe.f
Those democrats who are not cast
down by temporary defeat are com
ing to understand that the" educational
campaign which ended in the defeat
OF President Cleveland was great sue
cess, regaI ded merely as an educational
campsi2B. The republican candidate
was elected, but that was mere legal
technically. The voleS-a plurality OF
them-were cast for Grover Cleveland
and tariff reform; and in every state in
the union larger democratic vote was
polled than was ever before required
TO insure democratic success. Besides
this, the masses of the people were edu-
Gated in economic questions more in
few months of President Cleveland's
great campaign than they could have
been by ten years of discussion in any
other way. That education, il it 10
continued, wi bear fruit In demo-
cratic and tariff reform victory in"four
year more" The only trouble with the
last campaign was that it began too
late. President Cbauncey f. Black, OF
the democratic society OF Pennsylvania,
truly says that chad the national asso-
citation of democratic clubs been even
one year old instead of four months,
New York and Indiana and the whole
agricultural west would have been for
democratic revenue reform instead of
republican or federalist monopoly"
The recent address of the executive
committee of the national association OF
democratic clubs lakes the same
ground. and urges that there be no
cessation of the work of enforcing and
explaining the democratic position on
the tariff question. sThe association
was formed and its members organized
too late for the most effective campaign
work during the past presidential con-
test" says the address; ''it failed TO
stem the tide of republican misrepres
sentation aud the effect of enormout
sums OF money handled by the mos
corrupt and efficient pertisan organiza-
tions ever known in this country, but
with all our disadvantages success was
barely missed The great manufacture
ing states of New Jersey and Connec-
ticut were carried. In New York and
Indiana, in Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, the working men stood firmly
by the democracy, as may be seen by. u
careful examination OF the returns from
manufacturing centers. When the pe0-
pie understood the real difference be-
tween republican plutocracy and demo-
cratic equality their verdict was true.
Had the active club organization OF the
democracy permeated the agricultural
districts as well, Cleveland aud Thur
man would have had an electoral as
well as popular majority. The honest
aud intelligent farmers who suffer tho
most and gam the least from the pre-
sent excess of taxation would have
come forward in blocks OF fifty TO meet
the mercenary and unpatriolic hoaters
in their blocks of five.
But the democrats of the country are
warned that success in 1892 will be no
easy mitter, and that the work of OPP
posing truth to error must be begun at
once and kept up nureinittingiy TOR
four years. 1--WE can safely rely for
victory in the next presidential election
upon the twenty states which elected
Tilden in 1876, and which elected Gro
yer Cleveland in 1884. The admission
OF the territories, 10 which each of the
great parties has solemnly pledged it
self ,and the Heterogeneous consequent
upon the next census in the represen-
tatiOn of the present states, will change
the relative power OF each single state
and group of states, and will broaden
IUe udtiOtlai CODteSt. 10 win we VIII
have to fight the whole field, from
Maine to California, as hotly as New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut and
, Indiana were fought this year."
The address concludes with the state
ment that 1.-THE democratic party pro-
poses to fight this entire field and upon
the same issues as in the past cam
paign. They are the principles of
Thomas Jefferson, the great and first
; preceptor OF the principles of democra-
cy in this country, as well as of every
true and enlightened democrat who
has lived since our birth as a nation"
Aud it urges the speedy formation cf
at least one democratic club in every
county of the United States, for the
purpose of distributing tariff reform
literature and sending out speakers.
If even small part of the work con-
templated by the national association
. of democratic clubs is performed, the
addition OF new republican states like
Dakota will have no terrors for the
democratic party. AS this able demo-
cratic document says, the party which
has truth upon its side never fails Of
victory when the truth is once made
known.