Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31

IT is not singular, but characteristic,
that the Free Trade organs never allude
to the fact that already Germany and
France discriminate against American
pork, Great Britain discriminates against
American cattle and in favor of Canada,
and Spain discriminates against Ameri-
can flour. And still we manage to get
along and grow and prosper.
DEMOCRATIC MEXICANISM.
Murat Hastead, in Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The Democratic party is after the
manner of the Mexicans. 1t is in a
state of threatening civil war. In 1860,
Republican President being elected on
the ground that there should be no more
slave States-that the powers of the
National Government should not be
used in the manufacture of slave States
out of free territory-the leading Demo-
Gratis got up war. In 1876 when the
Election Boards in three Southern States
saved the election of Hayes, there was
another opportunity for rebellion rather
more favorable than the first, which
offered the chance of civil war rather
than war by States, and the Democratic
party was eager for it; but the fact that
Z. s. Grant was President made differ
ence, and big one. 1t will be remem-
bered that the reason why there were
Electoral Boards was to guard against
the Democratic party gaining the
usufruct of bloodshed. 1t was known
there was a Democratic propensity for
political assassination, and it was dis
couraged by Boards authorized to throw
out returns that had the stain of murder
on them. That is the whole story of
the Hayes election. Democrats have
been in mourning now for nearly four
teen years that they neglected such
fine chance for q second war as they had
in 1876. In 1880 the use of forgery
failed to give the election to the Demo-
cratic candidate, and the Democracy
sought for months to work up the
election tables so as to show that
Garfield was defeated on the Electoral
vote, and they never stopped until
Garfield was dead. The motive was the
Mexican one of impairing the public
confidence in the title of the President
to his office. In 1884, as soon as it was
discovered that the result of the Presi-
dental election depended upon New
York alone, there was Democratic
howl that it was impossible the Repub-
licans could have carried the State, and
intolerable to have the Democrats count
ed out again. They never, no, never
again, could submit as they did in 1876.
The counting was done, therefore, under
a Democratic threat of civil war if they
were not themselves counted in. Before,
according to the final official returns, it
was possible to be sure how the election
gone, war was declared by the Demo-
cratic party if it did not go their way;
and they seemed quite in earnest about
it. In 1888 the Republicans clearly
carried majority of the Electoral votes,
and then the Democrats pointed with
pride to their 250,000 fraudulent, uncon-
stitutional majority in five Southern
States, and having disfranehised a
million citizens, beloved about their |
popular majority. They are at it yet.
The great reply to McKinley's tariff
speech, next to the celebrated use of the |
refined epithet cabbage head" was that
the voice of the people did not declare
in the late Presidential election what |
was expressed in the Electoral Colleges,
because, by the Southern process of caste
voting and the disfranchisement of the |
masses, the tables in the almanacs show
Democratic majorities of quarter of
million in five Southern States and
there was moral grandeur in that. This
is modified Mexican way of maintain |
ing that Grover Cleveland is of right
the President, and that is the reason
he is so persistently called "Mr. Presi-
dent" by his friends, to whom he is still
the great and only and the only truly
great. The weltering waste of animal
animosity displayed by the Democratic
party touching the proposed National
election bill is quite Mexican. The
shrieks about the Speaker as ''the moon
faced tyrant," and the roaring gable
that the Lodge bill is force bill, and
means the bayonet, the drum and the
man on horseback, and all the horrors of
GENERALIZATION, are Mexican manifeStoes.
They do not belong in our political zone,
save to illustrate the inherent deviltry of
the Democracy. We have testified sew
eral times recently that the Democracy
were not BourbOns, inasmuch as they
must have learned something within
thirty years, and our favorite specilica-
tion showing this has been that whereas
from thirty to forty years ago there
never was debate in Congress, in which
there was excitement growing out of
slavery and its position as the boss of
the Democratic party, without series
of threatenings from the Democratic
Representatives that the UTion should
be smashed in certain contingencies,
coupled with interpretations to suit the
slave power of that holy instrument, the
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