Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-01-24
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state and the country 1t Large do 2.
demand tina, the etstn y y =
divided into $50 .;''.'f
Such is the irriu ri - ..l,- .ii
but the essence Of IL i .hetae. .ae
maintenance in power Of Tie Repp"li-
can party does not demand such divi-
sion. In fact Mr. Saniel admits as
much when he says ''lhe twenty Years
deadlock in the Empire state can not
last much longer, anc the time must
soon come when the crushing Demo
cratic majorities cast Gy the Metropoli,
tan counties will carry the state at
every election He further says,
The Republicans doubtless will
strengthen themselves by the admission
of one state at lest and probably two
states cut out of the Territories, thereby
gaining, from six to ten votes ; bu,
even then with Indiana on the Demo,
cratic side, the vote of New York will
settle the contest. In any way that
We may figure, unless New York be
divided into two states the vote
of New York will certainly
determine our national policy +; and as
that vote is increasingly Democratic
the obvious prospect is a period OF
Democratic administration beginning in
1892, the END of which can only come
through the operation of forces now
unknown and unforeseen.
Mr.. Sanial is a Republican and this
"cbvious prospect is one which lie
obviously does not like. Accordingly
he sets himself about to find preven-
tative and boldly proposes the division
of New York into two states ; one OF
which would comprise Now York City
with few adjoining counties; the
other would include all the remaining
portion of the state. The former por-
ton, lying south of the Winchester
county boundary Is, as Mr.. Sanial says,
persistently and overwhelmingly Dem
ocratic giving pluralities as high as
$4,000; while the latter portion Or
northern New York is as persistently
and overwhelmingly Republican giving
equally large pluralities for the oppo-
site ticket. The menacing danger, from
Mr.. Sanial's standpoint, is that the
former portion or Democratic part of
the state is growing in population much
more rapidly than the latter portion or
the Republican center and north and
maintains its percentage of majority in
proportion to its increase. The result
is apparent that New York must soon
cease to be categorized as doubtful
state ana placed in the list of Demo
cratic states. The effect of the pro
posed division would of course be to
secure to the Republican party the mi
nority vote Of New York-or, in other
words, to divide the electoral vote of
the Empire state in not very unequal
And now let us consider. Whatever
else the Republican party may lack it
certainly is not wanting in cheek. Its
average adherent is capable of enunci-
ating the most astounding proposition
with perfect composure. No scheme
is too novel, no project too rash, no
proposed legislation too manifestly I'M
fair to receive his endorsement it there
by his party can score victory over
the opposition and acquire or continue
to retain governmental control. The
question with the rank and file of Re
publicans is not, how best to promote
the general welfare, nor how best to
direct the policy of the government ac
,ording to the spirit and letter of the
onstitutlon, butts, how can We come to
control or continue to control the pat
ronage of the federal government.
Neither is their object laudable in seek
ng control. They do not desire an ad-
pure, honest and constitu-
:ional. They want party government for
advantage and the furtherance
If their own selfish purposes, whether
hey be corporation privileges, section
i supremacy or something else. They
assume to think too, that they have
,rior and superior night to shape tie
lestiny of the nation, and that the com
ne into power of any party other than
he Republican is an offense against
heaven and all mankind. Strange that
'uch superior beings SO favored by
nature should be SO utterly devoid of
'airness and simple justice. They af-
'ect to believe in majority rule, but if
he majority IS against them either in
state or nation, they at once endeavor
o defeat the will of the masses by spe-
,ious Legislation, strained construction
IF law or cleverly disguised divices
When their exigencies require it, they
heartily approve of measures, which if
ldvocated by Democrats they would de-
as outrageous. Mr. Sanials
scheme affords us a fair example. A
realizing that in the future
New York is sure to be unequivocally
Democratic and that without the EN-
lire state the Republican party can not
cmain iu power, cody proposes to cut
he state in two so that the Republi-
ans may dominate In portion Of the
tate at least, and thus possibly hold
he balance of power. But surprising
his ridiculous scheme should be car
led into execution, what next ? Why |
My temporary relief would be afforded
o an enervated party and soon we
hould be met with the proposition to |
wide some other Democratic state that |
he Republican party might save its
out of it. Why not cut the
tate, of Pennsylvania in two? The
democrats would thus gain another
tate. Pennsylvania aside from Phila-
elphia is as certainly Democratic as