Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-31
A B.rds-Eye view of the Situation

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The New York Herald. the really only
thoroughly Independent paper of Eorld wide
reputation, takes the following view OF the
sitaation. tbs comes with % the more
force, since the Herdld has supported more
Republican, State and Nstionsl, than il has
Democratic administrations. The Herald
says:
The HsraId's attitude toward each in
coming standardization, . the whole world
knows. is one Of entire fhendliaess.
"The reason is that We are not partisan
but American. We have more and more
faith In the people, and constantly increas-
ing suspicion Of party leaders.
Nobody can grind his AZ with our help,
and We have no axes of our own which are
in special need of sharp edge. We there
fore say whal We please. and cay Il frankly.
I'VE eritieised Mr.. Cleveland With all the
freedom which occasion required, but sup
ported him for a second term because we
believed that on the whole he represented
the principles ON which the national pros
perity is based.
''We submitted With what We trust was
becoming grace to defeat and welcomed Mr..
Harrison in the hope that we had been mis-
taken in our opinions, and that his policy
might gives new impetus to business and
enlarge the markets for our products.
"The great bulk of our citizens care very
little about politics. They ara hunting for
opportunities 10 support their families and
to layup.a penny for rainy day. II the
Republicans can give MS these opportunities
then by ali means let Us have Republican
President; or il the Democrats can afford
them then let rs vote the Democratic ticket.
Send your party strifes and chickering's to the
pit; we want good wages. plenty to do and a
clear, bright prospect ahead.
eff we are good Judge of the situation,
however. we are not getting these things.
THERE'S good deal of solicitude among the
people, and they are wrapped in dismal
thinkings." The iron men-they control an
immense interest-are very restless and un-
easy. The wooden manufacturers-anoth
large interest-are bewsiling their lot and
predicting something like disaster. Our
tfarmers--we have more than four million
farm owners in this country-are slipping
behind hand aud find it necessary to plaster
their property with mortgage.
snow. what is the matter? Well, suppose
You ask Mr.. Blaine. He ought to know
something about the Republicans; having
been the most sinewy swordsman Of the
party for many years.
''He is as fat footed as we have ever been
in his denunciation Of the Mckinley bill.
As good party man he ought to support it,
but he is bold enough to say that it will ruin
the Republican party, because it will make
it harder for poor man to live.
"But, permit us to add, it will make the
rich man richer, though it makes the wage
Garner poorer. The rich men support the
party-Quay has just boasted that he had
three hundred thousand dollars to buy votes
with in Pennsylvania and can have as much
more for the asking 1t is a rich
mans party; the aristocratic, not the peo
ple's party. It favors the classes and damns
the masses.
'In all matters of finance the present Re-
publican leaders present a ridiculous spec
tacle. They are not business men, bat
reckless spendthrifts. II they were to con.
duct their private affairs as they do those of
the public, they wouldn't have money enough
left at the end of the session to buy q ticket
home. Their own cash they handle shrewd-.
ly; the money Of the people they spend like
water.
"They found a handsome surplus in the
treasury. The country was enjoying an en-
of riches. Mr.. Cleveland was
to call for general reduction of
taxes because the government had more
money than it could proftably spend. But
those days are gone. Our Washington cor
nov says that Mr. Harrison may
veto the river and harbor bill, not because it
is swindle, butbecause be fears deficit.
A wild craze for expenditure has seized our
and they are likely to leave as
with hole = the ground to be filed by
further taxation.
"Then We have the Federal elections bill,
which would surround the polling booths of
New York with soldiers on the ground that
we are thieves and scoundrels. II will send
troops to South Carolina in the hope of
forcing that State to 60 Republican. It will
enable the Republican heelers and bosses to
do all the counting on the plea that i'll wants
an honest vote. The truth is, it wants Re-
publican vote, and doesn't care picayune
whether it is honest or not.
"Itis slightly incongruous to allow Colonel
Dudley, his pockets stuffed with greenbacks,
to purchase Ohio in the interest of the Repub-
licans and to grow pale with horror because
Georgia is perhaps doing the same thing in
the interest of the Democrats. .
$50 far as principle, moral or political, is
concerned, it is all 5osh. The sole object is
to keep the party in power. That is the
plain and unvanished truth.
"The Mckinley bill is an unmixed evil;
the thrust of sword into the vitals of the
country. & 4
''The Federal elections bill is infamy in its
most insolent shape, an insult to the COM
mon sense and honor of every loyal and
right minded citizen.
However, we possess our souls with pa
thence. The people are waking up"
"Interlinerp squeals over, the. sting of
the truth we have heen oivinp the people