The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-11-08
The Campaign OF 1890.

Under the above head the Chicago
ton had the following editorial on the
political situation. Certainly the In
| ter Ocean could not have arrived at
better conclusions or stated the facts
III clearer language had it waited un.
til the returns We're all in. We are
glad this article appeared before the
results were known, for it viii have
greater weight thln it would coming
after party defeat. 1t meets our views
Of the situation exactly, and we shall
not try To add to or take from it, but
give it just as we find it, As follows:
The campaign CT 1890, now await
ing burial, was one long to be remem-
bered, irrespective of bow it may re-
suit 1t differed fundamentally from
1888 IN this, the latter had in it an ele-
ment or iinaiity notably lacking in
this. Had the Democrats elected
their candidate for president then and
gained control OF congress, there is
every reason to believe that before
1892 a readj ustment OF the tariff ON
ree-traGe principles would have been
effected, the supreme court, our third
estate, would have been rendered
Democratic, and some way devised for
annuling the fifteenth amendment.
and thus overthrowing the main edi-
fees OF reconstruction. Nothing an
alDgOues could be said to be involved
III The congressional elections which
were htli yesterday. About the
= Il
the next two Years would be to act
the gadiiy.
The first election Of the year to at
tract much attention was Oregon.
That was held while congress was III
the midst of its work. 1t Was neces-
Sarily without much significance. The
first week III September Vermont sur
priscd the country by largely reducing
the Republican majority. AS Il mat
Ter of fact 4 very weak candidate for
governor lad been nominated and
that was the real explanation, but for
few days the Democrats enjoyed the
luxury OF growing Justify, ana indulg-
ING the hope that Maine would also
show large Republican losses But
presently the Pine Tree State shatter
ed all these hopes. and sent Il thrill of
from one end of the Land to the other
The Republican cause everywhere WAS
given all impetus by the splendid vic
tory won by Speaker Reed ana his col
leagues.
The campaign Of 1883 was one of
education, the c!mpaign Of 1890 was,
practically toe snort TO be at all salts
factory from thaI standpoint. The
popular mind was filed in advance
with miSinf0rmatlon, as never before
i'll the history OF politics. This was
especially true i'll Chicago. The policy
Of the Democracy was TO misrepresent
the Mex inley bal ana in this its main
campaign work the party had not only
the united partisan press, but the
active cooperation, until Late Ill the
campaign, Of two or three prominent
newspapers which pretend to be Re
publican, one OF which is published in
Chicago, Those newspapers are the
organs of Democratic principles, their
Repuilicanism beng merely matter
Of rrsdjudi@e and political spleen. In
this city there are six daily papers
which Systematically miSrepreScnted
The central Issue of this campaign,
and the time between the passage of
this bill and the election WAS too short
to admit OF til" eradication of these
false conceptions. Had those lies been
dol Id out by ayowed enemies of the
Republican party only they would
have been nearly harmless 1t was
the stealing of the livery of Republi
canism to serve free trade in that
made that service mischlevouS. The
ship that flies Il false flag is more dan
gerouS than II Whcle fleet of men-of-
war flying their true colurs.
The education of the people between
this and 1892 viii be affected mainl,
by actual events. An ert of prosper
ity began With the passage of the Me
kinl-y bill, and can not fail to diSpel
the mists and clouds OF the free-trad
living of iS9l