The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-02-06
FOUR YEARS MORE.
Keep Up Tar # Agitation and Victory
Will lla Ours in 12l2.


Will BE Ours in 1892.
Those Democrats who are not cast |
down by temporary defeat are
coming to understand that the ''educa-
tional campaign" which ended in the
defeat of President Cleveland was a
great success, regarded merely as an
educational campaign. The Repub-
llcan candidate was elected, but that
was a mere legal technically. The
votes-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 educated 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, if it is con-
tinued, will bear fruit in a Democratic
and taritf-reform victory in 'four years
more" The only trouble with the
last campaign was that it began too
late. President Chauncey +. Black,
of the Dem ocratic 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 po-
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; 1T 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 well
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 gai1
the least from the present excess o
taxation would have come forward If
blocks of fifty to meet the mercenary
and unpatriotic Aoaters in their block:
of five"
But tue Democrats of the country
are warned that success in 1892 will b.
no easy matter, and that the work 0
opposing truth to error must be be
gun at once and kept up unremitting
ly for four years. eve can not safely
rely for victory in the next Presiden
tial election upon the twenty State
which elected Tilden in 1876, an'
which elected Grover Cleveland il
1884. The admission of the Terrific
ries, to which each of the great par
ties has solemnly pledged itself, AM
the rearrangements consequent upo1
the next census in the representation
of the present States, will change tn
relative power of each single Stat
ana group OF States, and will broader
! the National contest. To win we will
j. have to fight the whole field, fror
) Maine to California, as hotly as NeS
Z. York, New Jersey, Connecticut an
Indiana were fought this year"
}. The address concludes with tn
:: statement that 'the Democratic part
+; proposes to fight this entire field an
upon the same issues as in the pas
: campaign. They are the principles G
Thomas Jefferson, the great and frs
preceptor of the principles of DEMO-
racy in this country, as we'll as {
t every true and enlightened Democrs
:, who has lived since our birth as
?, Nation" And it urges the speed
Y formation of at least one Democrat
club in every county Of the Unite
4 States, for the purpose of distributin
e tariff-reform literature and sending OF
g speakers.
: If eva a small part of the work COZ
y templated by the National Associatio
of Democratic Clubs is performed, tt
t addition of new Republican States lih
0 Dakota will have no terrors for tt
Democratic party. AS this able Den
ocratic document says. the party whic
a has truth upon its side never fails
victory when the truth is once maj
known. Boston Globe.
HARRiSON'S MENTORS.