Telegram-herald., 1890-10-21


lse>A party eaDkTups. iaaehtsd. cree 3
less sa4 n4upered sila . eoasat4a aea
s.klllgliy dsglssd - ho.8 Ghe Demo-
eE2ssc party Ia ehsck EseFy ahase. q
sn-ea tas people aaTs easnp.aiDs4 "a
the elxte, has lad is oFig.n - the ol1
Democrats f0un1zGons aaa "a systems
q isg.zlaE.o1 1eS sed xss.naily b. thas
party. Where szs 8iazas d4r.ak tee
~arf Synlp4thinng deeply s.ta thzt
oFaaeh 81 his party, Wash made ha-
man slavery tas corner stoae Of their
eoufsdsraey snd fEee trade the Key
stone or is sFch-tso systems thst
have done more - degrade labor thaa
81 the other syil influences ~ tie
world What wss labor IN the slave
ho.dlng SOUTH What Is labor in Tree
trade EBglNnds What hope las the
lAborlng m4n Of Michigan troln such =
reiormer God save the mark as Ed
win &. Wnsnss
Dorsn would reform the Legislature,
- practice. is sessions. Is legislation.
Wei. what are ais qualifications FOR his
great work. lie is a lawyeF-so rsputed
80 b. Bat there have been lawyers IA
the Legislature before. 50 that alone
is no novel qualification. is DO 50 much
greater lawyer than any olheg who
hss graced the State senate, that, IN
that respect, he s qualified to upheave
and relay things, His neighbogs never
heard OF il, II he's Does he knoN any
thing in particular about legislative
practice, pzecedeIts and procedure,
Has be made any special study OF the
legislative department OF state, in its
parliamentary aud constitutional as
poets, 50 rs TO fam.tarize himself
thoroughly with tho big machine,
winch he advertises himself As 50 well
qualified to run? If not, has he any
greater receptive powers, or Inspiration
which VIII make him greater legisla-
tor in shorter time than any of his
predecessors Ii not. what is he howl
ing about One would imagine, by his
campaign harangues, that he could 90
70 Lansing. organize the Legislature,
clean out the Capitol. reduce taxation,
cut down salaries, exempt mortgages
from taxation, etc, ETC., etc, and ad-
journ the Legislature in ninety days,
without once running afoul Of the
Michigan constitution or disarrangng
any of the many complicated interests
of the state. II all looks very easy for
Democratic reformer on the stump,
but Peter Doran at Lansing would be a
very different man from Peter Dorsn
on the stump. If he gets there, he will
not be the first Democratic reformer
that has learned something TO his IN
finite surprise.
But the biggest job of the whole is
Mel Ford's. He IS going to knock out
the Infamous Mckinley tariff; stop the
reckless. extravagaut waste of money
in the attempt to make tin plates; fire
Tom Reed out of the back door; REIN
state the Democratic fihbusterlng tao
tics; squelch the "force bill" and make
a glorious country out of this tax-bur-
dened, monopoly-ground, trust-infest-
ed Nation. He is going to stop the
country from going to ruin and disaster
just Is soon as he can get his font in
side of the capitol. Business is going
to smash and the laboring man is stary-
ing TO death. Ford has ground million
aires out of one end OF his mouth and
tramps out of the other, until he really
thinks his presence in the House will
reverse the process and turn the mil
lionaires into tramps and the tramps
into millionaires. Ford's Imagination
IS cdualed only by his idea of his capa-
bilities and indispensibllity to the coun.
try.
IL these Dem ocratic candidates dc
not ike these delineatons of them
selves, the TELEGRAM-HERALD has only
this to say, that they are merely the
pictures which they have made OF
themselves. The TELEGRAM-H HERALD
has simply taken snapshots" at them
as they appear on the stump. They
have howled early and late ABOUT the
deplorable state Of affairs in the coun
try, and have asked the people to elect
them. What for2 TO cure all these
great evils, of course. The people have
been thinking. They have "szed up
these candidates side 10y side with the
work which they promise to do. They
/ do nOtfind the compsrison.satlsfactory
/ And more than that, the people have
failed to find so many evils impending
a. these candidates howl about, so that
there is IN reality no need Of their serv
ices They have Overshot the mark
\
/ Here Is Speaker Reeds idea Of a poo
/ ple's governments 1T Is a great spec
I tacle, that OF s government Of $4,000,
600 people, and the spectacle IS th'
more wonderful when the government
j. carried on by themselves. Did yol
ever think what i meant by govern
ment OF the people by the people2 I
doesn't mean government the rich
for thSt was disapproved when th'
property qualification vas abolished
+ It does not mean government by I'll.