Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-31
FOUR YEARS HENCE.

Keep Up T0r.2 Agitation ana V1StGHy
WIN Be Ours in .1093. s .ssss
Those Democrats who are not cast
down by temporary defeat are
coming to understand that the s'educa-
tional campaign" which ended in the
defeat of President Cleveland was q
great success. regarded merely. as an
educational campaign The Repub-
hcan candidate was elected, but that
was mere legal technicality. The
votes-a plurality of them-were cast
for Grover Cleveland and tariff reform;
and in every State in the Union 8
larger Dem ocratlc vote was polled than
was ever before required to insure
Democratic success. Besides this, the
masses of the people were educated in
economic questions more in a few
months of President Cleveland's great
campaign than they could have been
by ten years of discussion in any other
way. That education. if it is con-
tinued, will bear fruit in a Democratic
and tariff-reform victory in .'four years
more" The only trouble with the
last campaign was that it began too
late. President. Chauncey F. Black,
of the Democratic Society of Penn
sylvania. truly says that chad the
National Association of Democratic
Clubs been even one year old instead
of four months, New York and In
diana and the whole agricultural West
would have been for Democratic reve-
nue. reform instead of Republican or
Federalist monopoly
The recent address of the Executive
Committee of the National Associa-
ton of Democratic Clubs takes the
same ground, and urges that there be
no cessation of the work of enforcing
and explaining the Democratic POI
sition on the tariff question. ''The
association was formed and its men,
bers organized too late for the most
effective campaign work during the
past Presidential contest" says the
address; $ it failed to stem the tide of
Republican misrepresentation and
the effect of enormous sums of money
handled by the most corrupt and
efficient partisan organizations ever
known in this country, but with all
our disadvantages success was barely
missed. The great manufacturing
States of New Jersey and Connecticut
were carried. In New York and In
diana, in Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, the working men stood firmly
by the Democracy, as may be seen by
careful examination of the returns
from manufacturing centers. Where
the people understood the real differ
cree between Republican plutocracy
and Democratic equality their verdict
was true. Had the active club organ
ization of the Democracy permeated
the agricultural districts as we'll,
Cleveland and Thurman would have
had an electoral as we'll as a popular
majority. The honest and intelligent
farmers who suffer the most and gain
the least from the present excess of
taxation would have come forward in
blocks of fifty to meet the mercenary
and unpatriotic floaters in their blocks
of five"
But the Democrats of the country
are warned that success in 1892 will be
opposing truth to error must be be-
gun at once and kept up unremitting-
1y for four years. Eve can not safely
rely for victory in the next Presiden-
tial election upon the twenty States
which elected Tilden in 1876, and
which elected Grover Cleveland in
1884. The admission of the Terrific
ries, to which each of the great par
ties has solemnly pledged itself, and
the arrangements consequent upon
the next census in the representation
of the present States, will change the
relative power of each single State
the National contest. To win we will
have to fight the whole field, from
Maine to California, as holly as New
York, New Jersey. Connecticut and
Indiana were fought this year.
The address concludes with the
statement that ''the Democratic party
proposes to fight this entire field and
upon the same issues as in the past
campaign. They are the principles of
Thomas Jefferson, the great and first
preceptor of the principles of Democ-
facy in this country, as we'll as of
every true and enlightened Democrat
who has lived since our birth as d
Nation" And it urges the speedy
formation of at least one Democratic
club in every county of the United
States, for the purpose of distributing
tariff-reform literature and sending out
speakers. II,
If even a 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 Dem
ocratic document says. the party which
has truth upon its side never fails of
victory when the truth is once made
| known. Globe.