Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-04


anca," (the name is suggestive of the
White House, wanted to know if that in
tractable boy was going to be foolhardy
enough to insist on standing ION the
burning deck?' 1t was rough on the
President and other headstrong Repub-
icans, but the message of yesterday and
the Senate caucus of last night show
that it was deserved. We cannot think
of anything to fit their case better than
the old Latin aphorism: "Quos Deus
vult perdere prius dementat" If an in
ability to comprehend that to push force
bill legislation is to sign the death war
rant of the Republican party be not
conclusive proof Of political ihsan-
ity, then there was no reyolu-
ton at the polls in November.
These are not the days Of reconstruction
/ and the southern states are no longer in
the status Of quasi conquered provinces.
Neither can desperate party, repudi-
ated at the polls, hope to climb back
into power through force and fraud;
through military elections and partisan
returning boards. By change of
$4,000 votes the American people have
just given notice that they will not sub
nit to placing the control of federal
elections in the hands of such corrup-
tionists as Quay and Fosterand Dudley;
that they will not back up higher taxa
ton for the benefit of fat-fryers; that
they condemn the distribution of offices
as spoils; that they are not in love with
the extravaganza which has converted
surplus into deficiency; that they do
not mean to permit party to entrench
itself in power by stolen seats and by
changing sparsely settled territories into
states. "This is country where the
will of the people is the law Of the
land" said President Grant. Are
President Harrison and the would-he
bosses of the Senate mad enough to inn
agine that they can thwart that will?
Wild as it is, that is the impression
the Presidents message and the caucus
seem to convey. A cartoon in the Balti.
more Herald represents the President in
the act of writing his message boiled
down" and what he has put on the
paper before him runs as follows:
The force bill should be passed without
delay. We are. in a hole and that's the
only way to pull ont of it. You can lust
bet your last dollar I'm right on that
proposition. Push the force bill through
and then if I'm lucky enough to get on to
another nomination I'll capture at least
half of the southern states There are a
few other subjects such as foreign affairs
and the like which will incidentally refer
to in this message but really the force bill
is the milk in our cocoanut.
The President wears 'grandpa's hat,
in the cartoon, but, as the Herald re
marks, "it doesn't cover grandpa's
brains" The elder Harrison would have
known when to take IN sail.
One of the Doodle aldermen Of New
York, after the inadequacy of the law
or the evidence, or both, had enabled
him to return from his Canadian exile,
had the unblushing impudence to at
tempt to institute suit for the recovery
of his share of the Doodle. The Presi-
dents argument in palliation of the
force bill is very much in the
same vein. He pleads that ii
is merely an enlargement of fed
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