The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-11-19
Not at all discouraged.


From The Cnicago lnlef-oceAn'
With .he single exception Of President
Harrison no prominent Republican has
refused to be interviewed on the result oi
the election, and every one ofthem sho"s
the coursgs Of his political convictions.
Thus Ear no, a single man Of them all
has betrayed tbs leAs. disposition TO
weaken upon any principle Of Repnoh-
can:sn, either on general principles OF
in m 4. yr,,ic4l application Of these pr'n
cipIes through legislation by Congre s.
Some Democrats have expressed the
o,in,cn that the Republicans oil the Seh-
ATE NAV weaken and draw back IN ine
face Of the returns from the election OF
Tuesday. but nothing has come 10 light
10 warrant that surmise. Nery'eyident-
lv the wish is father of the thought.
The most important of these views
comes from John sherman, the Nestor OF
the party. de has had many years oil
experience. More than thirty years ago
his name was familiar and endeared to
the Republicans OF the whole country.
His range Of experience is vide. And he
Is not carried away by the Impulse OF
the hour. His head is cool and his judg-
ment excellent. He holds that there is
nothing to be cast down about in the
failure Of the Mckinley bill TO receive
popular support at this particular time.
lie SAYS
u have seen such convulsions dozen
times or more, but they have bad no per-
manens effect. In 1873, when was Sec
retarv of the Treasury, We lost the House
and senate both but two years later, IN
1880. we rallied and recovered all that
we had lost and elected Republican
President. Besides, do not regard the
present situation with apprehension.
The country will be wiser by next year,
and better able to pass upon the issues.
Chauncey NJ. Depew isanother Nation
al leader. His name is familiar to the
public all over the country. he Is FAR
from gloomy. His cheerfulness is not Of
the Mark Tapley order. He recognizes
the defeat as in a sense overwhelmingly
great. but be is confident that it does not
amount 10 a rebuke of what Congress
actually did, only Of what 1t has been
falsely accused Of doing, and enoneously
supposed TO have done. His words have
in them the cordial Of a CHEEKY common
sense. He says:
The farmers have been heard from.
They come into their country towns to
buy something, and are told by the store
keeper that tie Mckinley tariff is raising
the price Of everything, and they had
better buy at once, and, it is needless to
saw they dent like il. These are the ille-
gitimate results of the Mckinley tariff.
lt has hardly gone into operation yet,
and its good effects cannot be felt for
some time to come. do not believe it
will raise prices, as people are now pre-
tending it will, and / think it will slim
ulate industry, and two years hence will
reverse the decision of yesterday, for II Is
clear that the idea of protection is deep
ly rooted and growing fast in this great
country"
Nowhere does there seem TO be any
reactionary dispositi N. If the Senate
had followed the example OF the House
in the prompt passage of the tarii bill
and Congress had then adjourned, and
thus given the several members chance
10 20 before their constituents and ex'
plain matters, there would have been 8
different result, probably. As it was, the
people were left in the dark, TO grea
extent. Many Republicans, uncertain
what to do, husked corn at home insteaC
OF saving wood at the polls. But it is use
lass 10 repine or to dwell upon defeat anc
its causes. The Republican party is no
dependent for the breath of life upon tn
tickle winds which blow from one poin
of the compass to-day, and from anothe
Tomorrow.