Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-04
A DEMOCRATIC UPHEAVAL AHEAD.


as groundswells, tidal waves, earth
quakes and certain electrical manifesto
tions. We do not know to which of
these forces the Democratic sentiment
which is gathering head all over the
United States can be tittingly compared,
but we are inclined to think that it par
takes of them all. 1t has been evident
for long time past that there is tre-
mendous revulsion of disgust at Mr..
Harrison's administration. This senti
ment is referable to number of causes,
some of which we will particularize.
Amongst the rest, there are great
many Republicans not content with the
methods by which Mr.. Harrison was
elected. The real managers of the cam
paign were Wanamaker and Quay. The
former was never seriously smirched
until his connection with the Republican
corruption fund OF 1888. That he was
the agent in the collection of the largest
amount of bribe money ever employed to
buy American voters is an unquestioned
fact, and he was rewarded by Cabinet
position. No amount of formal piety can
protect man from public reprobation
for such acts, and Mr.. Harrison himself
shares the general disesteem which fol-
lowed the employment of these methods.
The New York World has brought
charges against Quay which that
astute but unprincipled politician
has failed to answer. 1t has
accused him of enormous defalcations
while State Treasurer Of Pennsylvania,
which were only made good by the
efforts of his friends, of drunken orgies
while in public station that disgraced
his party and State, and of being vul-
gar bribe-giver. These are all grave
ofenses and two OF them are crimes.
They are known to his political asso-
ciates in the Senate and elsewhere, and
yet so potent is his influence that none
of them dare to cut his acquaintance.
He stands we'll with Harrison, and is
the acting president of the United
States in all that relates to Pennsyl-
vania, taking considerable hand in the
distribution of the party honors through
out the nation at large. The public dis
gust which attaches to the peculiar pol
itical methods of such men as Wana-
maker and Quay also clings like shirt
of Nessus to Mr.. Harrison.
The whole people of the United States
have been amused at the Pan-American
fiasco. The fanfare which attended the
great exemplar of how much ado can be
made about nothing, under the hands of
Mr.. Blaine, resembles good deal the
sham splendors of Opera Bouffe. There
was a terrible amount of fustian got off
in connection with this performance,
great many good and expensive dinners
were eaten, an extensive junketing ex-
pedition throughout the country was
planned and carried out, and Uncle
Sam will have to foot the bills. Not
even the most enthusiastic Republican
can pass to the credit of the administra-
ton any achievement in practical states
manship, although our involved rela-
tions with the Dominion govern
ment in connection with the fish
cries and controverted questions with
Great Britain in regard to the Behring
Sea and the Seal Fisheries could very
well have claimed the attention of the
State Department. 1t may be that Mr.
Blaine, whose peculiar jingo record was
of so much moment some years ago,
may have passed into his second child
hood, and that he has again reached the
stage where he can be pleased with a
rattle and tickled with a straw, but the
masses of the United States are not in
that mood just now. They want results
and practical politics.
But undoubtedly the leading reason
for Republican decadence, which is
alarming enough to make many of the
more sagacious leaders of that party
fear for it's dissolution, is the pitiable
state of the cattle trade, the depression
in the agricultural regions, the un-
checked growth of overshadowing cor
porations and trusts and the impudent
defiance Of the popular expectations by
Mckinley and his crowd. To these, the
cardinal causes of dissatisfaction, may be
added, through the west, northwest,
southwest and south, the failure to af-
ford the people substantial relief
on the silver question. Mr.. Har-
rison and his Secretary of the
Treasury showed early a disposition
to palter with that issue. Mr.. Window
has resorted to his most finished Jug
Cling to defeat the aspirations of the
friends of silver, and the miners of the
Pacific Coast, and of the Rocky Noun
tain States in particular, "have it in"
for the administration and for the whole
Republican party unless Congress shall
cut loose from the Executive Depart
ment of the government on that ques-
tion.
All the signs point to much such a
year as in 1S74-the famous "tidal
wave" year-and to the election of a
House of Representative overwhelm-
ingly Democratic, to be followed by
decisive Democratic victory in the Pres
idential election of 1892.
WHAT between the striking operatives,
with great alliances behind them, and