Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-30

one of profound astonishment In the
Southern part Of the country the fact that
Indiana was carried and counted for Har-
rison by small plurality was regarded as
a disastrous failure to apply the well
known methods in the management OF
elections in the interest OF the Democratic
party What was the use Of $4,000 extra
majority for the SOLID Southern ticket In
the Gulf States! What can the Democracy
Of Indiana have been abouta were tho
mournful inquiries of some Of the people
who regarded Mr.. Cleveland's New York
plurality of 1,047 over Mr.. Blaine IN 1884 as
an expression Of Divine will, and who
looked upon General Harrison's plurality Of
IA s72 in the same State-13 40 times that
of Cleveland-as quite Insignificant. Mr..
Cleyelan6's L047 was an expression OF
Divine favor, but General Harrison's 4, S72
was something that should have been over
come in handling the ballot-boxes and pass
ing the papersi
And the fact that Governor Hill was re-
elected, while Cleveland was not, deeply
disturbed the Democratic understanding
and riled the river of their emotions. Mr..
Cleyeland's first utterances, after the ca
tastrophe reached his inner consciousness,
charging that the use Of money had carried
the election against him, was quite charac
terisac- Still, says the Cincinnati CONNER
cial-Gazette, II was not true and was not
decent to say it. After he had dumped in
his ten thousand dollars as an example that
all the Office holders, whose aggregate OF
salaries exceeded forty millions Of dollars,
should follow his example and subscribe
twenty per cent upon the cost Of the civn
service Of the country for 800, 600, backed
up with the ''truss" funds, and the sub
scriptions Of milhonaires-with a million
aire at the head of the committee for the
diffusion of the pools Of golden fabrication
in the contested States-it was, we say,
quite refined that the President should,
under these circumstances, when the
people had declared against him, set up tho
lamentation about the employment OF pc
cuniary facilities by the Republicans It
was quite pleasing example for Mr.. Cleve-
lands delicately-hmbed and learned reform
associates.
Nothing more edifying in the way of tell
ing the truth by example has happened IN
the course of his administration, which was
decorated with Mr.. Whitney and Mr. Gar
land, and Illuminated with the real estate
Red Top syndicate speculation, and the ex-
tention of Massachusetts, avenue, and its
DETECTION to support the syndicate plans at
the cost of millions Of dollars of public
money. Then followed the Presidents
communistc or rather anarchial message.
full of groanlngs and gruntings and grum-
blings, the most doleful utterances thus
far of retiring Chief Magistrate. Why,
the poor man must have thought not only
that he was consecrated by his salary Of
fifty thousand dollars per annum, but that
he was commissioned to hold the country up
by the tail and was actually doing it, and
that when he had to relax his grasp, the
mighty Republic going its own way, re-
leased from his protecting hand, would Ger
tainly tumble into irretrievabie ruins. So
far as has appeared, the Democratic states
men gathered in Washington upon the re-
assemblage Of Congress, have shown about
the same amount Of statesmanhke capacity
and mental and moral ability as that ex-
hibited by the Chief Magistrate. This citi-
zen, who Is neither as consecrated nor as
conspicuous as he was, says IN letter to
friend in Bufalo-the city where he pre-
sided as mayor with SO much grace, and is
sued such reformatory messages, and
where his executive ability as a sheriff was
so distin guished-this elevated but disap-
pointed fellow-being, writes to his cher
ished old home, where his distinction began
so auspiciously, and was so various, that he
is eagerly counting the days until the 4th
Of March.
So re we all. We could tell every morn
ing, if it pleased you, and without an eff
fort, just how many days will pass before
the Cleveland episode shall close. But
what OF the future of the Democratic party?
What policy has been formulated in Wash
ington by the President and-shall we say
his compatriotsf We are not of those who
presume that the Democratic party is about
to perish. 1t Will be with US 10 these many
years. The processes of education are
slow. The character of great neople can
be changed only by gradual stages
through the pressure of long-continued in
fuences; and those masses of our fellow
citizens who make up the Democratic party
will not pass away promptly. They and
their children, and their children's children
will bear evidence IN very much the same
old style. Parties are divided In France to-
day with a strange likeness, and into strik-
ing similar proportions, to those Of one
hundred years ago, when the revolution
that was to do so much for the world and so
little for France began. We do not
prophesy that the Democratic party is
about to leave US. 1t is, we fear, far from
the graveyard.
If we hoped at any time many years: ago
TO see that party dead and buried, and took
action beginning WITH That Wild nope, pardon
it as one Of the illusions of youth. We
have been disenchanted. Long ago the
delusion vanished. Nothing of the kind
;-pa Rr,S hot ha
party going to dol 1t did not live within
Cleveland's waistband, and will not die
when he goes. What is it trying to dol In
what has it declared itselfi There are three
things to note in answering these questions
First, the madness of the insistance by the
Democratic party upon an resignation into
the use of Doodle. Very well, when it
comes to investigation we are all for that.
But it is. an awful imposture and impru-
dence for the Democrats to start it. They
are the partisans whose limbs are glass
Second, the determined opposition to the
tariff reform that is proposed in the Sen
ate bill, the resolution TO fight against the
tariff revision that the Republicans pro-
pose, to continue the struggle 50 they can
still, through the months of summer, nurse
the surplus" that they so fondly cherished
and falsify its conditions before the people,
Or force the Republican administration into
an extra session of Congress.
Third and most important, they are strug.
cling every day and hour to get possession,
by the most unscrupulous and dishonest
means, Of the next House of Representa-
ives, and their purpose in doing so is to re-
'ist the Republican tariff reform, and.
above all, TO prevent the admission of new
States that are the crystalline stars of the
Union in the Northwest The Republicans
'ould not ask the great political orgsniza-