The Portland daily press., 1890-11-26
GHOST DANCE OF THE DEMOCRATS.
Senator Hoar Addresses Republicans
on the Recent Elections.
Some American History and the
Lessons Ii Teachers.
II Contains Little Comfort for Demo-
Gratis and Mugwumps.

BOSTON, Mass, November 25.-The Boston
Journal tomorrow morning will publish the
following address to Massachusetts Repub-
licans by Senator Hoar:
To the Republicans of Massachusetts:
We have reiOiced together after so ma
victories that we are not easily TO be cast
down by repulse. l feel In regard to Re-
publican defeats the incredulity Of the man
too DO many Of 'e@.S f6e American n"G people ssSe
are as steadfast a people as exists. they
have made "a constant and as rapid progress
In constitutional liberty and wise govern
ment as any people on earth. The great
things they have gained they have held. 1t
is curious to note how, after every advance,
o wave OF reaction has swept over the coun-
try, and yet how impOtent and temporary
that reaction has been. For GA years, with
few exceptions. the party that has chosen
the President has been defeated, two years
after, in the election Of Representatives
Look back only at the period covered by the
life of the Republican party, and OF the Free
Soil movement from which 1t sprang. The
great uprising OF 184S, whose flame spread
through Europe, was followed by the degra-
dation of 1850. out Of which came the COM
promise measures. including the infamous
Fugitive Slave law. franklin Pierce, rep
resentative and embodiment Of complete and
abjeet surrender to the slave power, was
chosen President by vote in the Electoral
pettor, received the vote of but two North
ern States, Massachusetts and Vermont,
and was In large minority OF the popular
vote In Massachusetts. In the winter OF 1852
the Free Soil Leaders met at the house of Dr
Bailey in Washington and proposed TO
abandon their organization. The plan was
defeated, chiefly by the courage and wisdom
of Charles Allen. Three years after, In 1855,
freedom won its first great national tri-
umph In the elec.ion of Speaker Banks. In
lS1R Mr.. Ruphanan rapQivad q la mo ainritu
In the Electoral College. But, in 1858, the
pendulum again swung the other way, and
the Republicans chose their Speaker once
more.
In which the will of the people of all the
states found constitutional expression in the
electoral vote for President, or In the choice
OF the House of Representatives. That was
the election of 1872. From 1860 to 1872 some
OF the states took no part, by reason of the
Rebellion. Since 1872 there have been many
states and many districts in which the will
of the majority has been defeated by the
criminal practices Of the Democratic party.
fhe Republican party has been handicapped
by these processes so that 1t is powerless un-
less 1t could get majority In the Northern
states large enough to overcome the nearly
solid vote of the South, although In every
election from 1872 to 1888 there would have
been an overwhelming Republican majority
for President and in the House, If the will Of
tained and declared. But, even at the
North, the great victory of 1872 was followed
by the reaction Of 1874 Then, as
now, Massachusetts chose Democratic
governor, and majority of Demo-
cratic Congressman. The Democrats gained
nine national Senators, and changed a
Republican majority of 100 in the House to
Democratic majority of more than 70-a
much larger gain than they have made this
year. In 1876 the Republicans again elected
their President. with a small majority
against them in the House. In 1873, the
Democrats acquired control of the House
and Senate both. But in 1880 the Rep. bli-
cans elected President and House. and, with
the aid of Mr. David Davis, organized the
Senate. In 'S2 the Democrats chose a
majority of the House, and in 1884 came so
near popular majority in New York as to
render practicable and successful the fraud
ulent processes by which the electoral vote
OF that state and Of the country was given TO
Grover Cleveland. In Cleveland's second
Congress there was large Republican
majority of Representatives frsm the dis
tricts where elections are free and fair, al
though the suppression of the Southern vote
enabled their antagonists to hold their power.
have recalled this familiar history only to
show how barren in the past have been the
victories which seemed at the time to afford
our opponents quite as much cause for exul-
tation as they have now. What reason have
they to exult? The solid South, their strong
noid ana fortress, WHICH In 1874 numbered 16
states to 81, now are 10 to 2S. There are %
states, including, with three exceptions, all
the states between the Mississippi and the
Pacific, in which the spirit of slavery and its
lnseparable companion, free trade, never
bore sway. The Pacific coast, the seat Of
empire In the future, remains true to Repub-
ilcan principles. Ohio has been regained.
For thirty years the great doctrines of the
Republican party have been advancing In
popular FAVOR, and one after another have
oeen stereotyped in constitution and statute.
what reason have they to exults Is there
a. Democratic Congressman-elect from
Massachusetts who would dare, TODAY.
to address his constituents in Behalf
Of anything for which his party
stands in any other part of the country?
Dare one of them avow himself in favor Of
any measure which the larger majority of
his party will inevitably support la the Con-
gress to which he has been elected? VIII
any of them speak out for debased curren-
cy, or for the free coinage Of silver? Win
one OF them tell us whether he Is glad or
sorry for the Democratic triumph in New
York, by which the lineal successors of
Tweed Democracy are intrenched again, as
in Tweed's day, In their despotic. power in
does or does not hope that the contemplated
bargain between Hill and Cleveland will be
carried out? Will he tell us what he thinks
of the result in Wisconsin, where the Re-
publican party, under the lead of their gal
idub anu uODl6 DpOOutT, SLOOu bravery IOf
the teaching of the English language in the
public schools, and took their fate? Win
any one of them frankly tell us what he
thinks of southern election processes, those
lsthmian games of murder and fraud, OF
which his chief errand tu Washington next
winter will be to award the prizes?
Will any of them frankly tell us, unless In
a few generallties-a few generallties which
do not gltter-what he proposes to do with
the tariff? Will he vote for Mr.. Mills, If he
shall be the party's candidate for speaker,
who says that his platform will be free
trade? viii he vote for the Mills bill, which
his party made part of their platform in
1884? Will he dare to say now that be will
put back upon the American people tax of
sixty million year upon sugar? Will he
venture to strike down the new industries
which the recent tariff will have established
and set on their feet, which will give en-
ployment TO a million American workmeD,
and give support to five million American
people? VIII he dare repeal the law To sub
init the prima facie title to seats in the
Ii use of Representatives to the peaceful de-
cison of the courts Of the United States, II
we pass it this winter, and bring back again
| the reign Of the shotgun and the tissue bal
| lot?
There was never bill framed with more
| anxious, careful and conscientious study
than the tariff Of 1890. 1t is framed upon a
principle which has been discussed from a
| time long before the foundation of the
| government Of the United States: This
| principle has gained steadily in public con-
| tidence with every discussion. The men VINO
| deny it, with few exceptions, have been
| compelled, even In the recent campaign TO
| throw a veil over their real opinions. The
| principle has been applied with the most
| scruplilous desire tr take the burdens off the
| poor, TO diminish the superhuity OF revenue,
| and to stimulate American industry; IL any
/ campaign orators who have said that in all
/ this the interest of Massachusetts has been
| NEGLECTED will repeat their story elsewhere,
| their Democratic brethren will laugh in
/ their faces 1t is true that, In few In
| stance., in measure affecting many thou
/ sands of TENS. the r, lltions between indus
| tr,es, wnere the finished product of one Is
/ the material Of another, was hard TO ADJUST.
Exnsrience may perhaps show this adjust
| ment was in some particulars unwise. But
| it was made under the Recommendation OF
| an able, wise and faithful conn ittee, VINO
had nothing but the general interest," at ~ art:
| The three weeks discussion OF this great
/ statute was insufficient 10 convey 10 tne
| American people an adequate UNDERSTANDING
| of its benefcent provisions. Inere were
| many men of small incomes ana nxsu sara
! ries VIII, were deceived into the belief that
| there was 10 be a large increase In the cost OF
the necessaries Of life. They trusted TOO
| credulously to the lie as to wnat mas Deen
mt on. rather than to the truth as 10 what
has been taken off. The election came at
time when cOmmunistic notions wnlcn can
not long bear the light OF reason, Were pre-
vsiline in the South and West Inc kepu0'
lican party had in some cases MADE grave