The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-02-16
KEEP A STIFF UPPER LIP.

The republican party will come into
power nationally i'm sixteen days from
now in full feather and with high
hopes.
And they have cause.
They went before the country on as
bad a platform as it is possible to con-
ceive. They advocated further ex-
tortion. and greater robbery, on the
part of the manufacturing lords of the
country. They defended high taxes as
being right. They promised liberality,
or rather extravaganza in expendi-
lures, and they Haunted the bloody
shirt. -.
If all this is true, the republican will
ask, how is 1t that the people rejected
MIR. Cleveland and selected Mr..
Harrison?
The answer is readily found. %
The people did not reject Mr.. Cleveland
or select MIR. Harrison. On the con-
trary Mr.. Cleveland received more
votes than Mr.. Harrison, counting all
the votes cast for both of the gentle
men, and at least a million more of the
white votes of the country. And (2)
the. electoral vote was not honestly
secured for MI. Harrison, but was
bought with money, like a bale OF
merchandise-the very money that
had been wrung from the people by an
organized band of robbers, tor no
value to the leeced purchasers, was
used to purchase further power to
bleed the people. There was no
principle about it. Doodle and the
bloody shirt won the election, and no
republican must be allowed uncon-
tradicted to say that the people in the
last election Endorsed the policy of the
republican party because the statement
is false. The trouble is, that a lie we'll
stuck to is often made to do as useful
service as the truth. AS to this
particular lie nail it whenev er it ap
pears.
Still the republicans are in high
feather. and they have reason. Their
party appeared TO be passing away
and it has been given a new lease of
lie. 1t will have after March 4th, in
the senate SO to 81; in the house, 166
to 159. These are not large majorities,
but it hopes, by admitting Washington,
Montana and the two Dakotas to
increase these to 45 to SO In the senate,
and III to 160 in the house. With
these majorities it thinks 1t can do as
it pleases-pass a high tariff bill that
will justify the manufacturers in being
fried out of 800, 900 900 in a canvass
and then make big money by it; spread
$lOO, OO0, 900 per annum for pensions if
pretexts enough can be scared up to
pass bills on; spend other millions in
that favored republican word "sub-
to ocean steam ships, to star
to heaven knows what; in
words TO empty the treasury of
the money saved by democratic thrift.
They come in bouyant, feeling az if
they were riding upon. the very crest
of the wave, and so they are, but 1t is
never far from the crest to the trough.
Even with the new states the majorities
will be nothing to compare to those
they used to have. They may, aud
they can, bride their way for a while
with the public treasure. There are
tens of thousands of voters that like
extravaganza of public expenditure,
they pay little, and they enjoy seeing
others pay, just as it is human nature
for the LATEST of men to enjoy standing
around and seeing others work. But
the mass OF our people are taxpayers,
the great majority are workers, they
know how hardly the dollars come,
they are not fools, they appreciate that
every dollar of lorgess given by the
munifcence of politicians is first paid
iuto the treasury by the consumer OF
some taxed article.
Pretty soon when the radical be-
m rampant he will make taxes so
high on necessaries of life that a man
can taste greenbacks in his victuals
and have a constant scent of them
from his clothes and tools. Then there
will come a reaction. Then such
patriotic men as Cleveland and Mills
will be heard. Then another tidal
wave will come, and reform in the
tariff, lower taxes, and more economi-
cal expenditures of the peoples
money will once more call back to
power the democratic party.
There is no cause for alarm. Let the
republicans call their extra session of
congress. The fur will begin to fly
before it has been in session a month.
Democrats are like Mark Tapley, who
always came out strong under adj
versity. The Blaineiacs and the anti.
Blaineiacs will soon be at it tooth and
nail. The Flannigans and the Swifts
will want to know whose policy is to
prevail. The one who gets in cannot
bless Mr.. Harrison with the vigor that
will accompany the curses OF the one
hundred who are left out. 1t is a hunrgy
horde, an organized appetite, which
thinks it has the world to feed on. Mr..
Harrison said the other day that he
had never seen such a rush for office.
Poor fellow! He hasn't even got to
Washington. Whst'll he say then,
poor thing. O, they are an interesting
tea party. Give them all they want,
Imperial, Loochong, Hongkong and
Gunpowder. And when Mr.. Quilp
drops in on his own If there is MT a
nice little family row, then all the
signs of the times must prove of no
avail.
Geo. William Curtis I'm forecast
ing the probable course of Gen.
Harrison. 1t is to be remembered that
for twenty five years or more he has
been an active party politician in
Indiana, where politics have not been