The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-11-28
The National Verdict.

The People Have Condemned the Policy of
the Ruling Party.
The Bulletin of the American Iron and
Steel Association, of Philadelphia, the organ
of one of the.most important protected in
dustries, tells the truth about the late cleo
ton, as follows:
Now the party which elected General Harrison
and q majority of the lower house of the Fifty
first Congress is condemned by large popular
majority. State after State has been transfer
red from the Republican to the Democratic
column, and the present Republican House of
Representatives will be succeeded by body
which, according to the latest calculations, will
consist of 234 Democrats, 80 Republicans and
adherents Of the Farmers Alliance who will
vote with the Democrats. Several Republican
Senators will also be succeeded after the 4th of
March next by Democrats chosen by State Leg
islatures elected on Tuesday. 1t is very great
victory for our Democratic friends; they may
well rejoice over it. Mr.. Cleveland is delighted,
and well he msy be.
Nothing is to be gained by belttling the real
verdict of last Tuesday. For the time being
the country has said that it is tired of the Repub
lican party-that it specifically doesn't like the
Mckinley bill,- doesn't like the limitations of
the silver bill, doesn't like the pension bill and
doesn't want the Federal elections bill, and that
in general way, 1t Is tired ola party which it
udb CUu6 W U6lict6 ID uOL ouuClCuLlJ bJmpd-
thy with the farmer whose farm is mortgaged,
with the factory hand who has to take the
wages that are given him, and with the un-
skilled laborer whose competition in the labor
market is an imported Hungarian or italian.
In other words, the general drift and the speci-
dc acts Of the Republican party on questions of
a purely political character do not meet with
popular approval.
II protectioniets cannot, in the next two
years, convince the people of this country that
I'D fhn
tariff, is wise measure of American statesman
ship, theu this tariff, to which all protection
lists have given their approval, will have to give
place to a tariff for revenue only. We will not
believe that such craven surrender is possible
until we see 1t.
William E. Chandler, one of the chief
conspirators in defrauding Tilden of the
Presidency in 1876, is at his old tricks, it
seems. At the recent election in New
Governor received the greatest number of
votes, but not majority over all the candi-
dates. Consequently the Legislature must
elect Governor. The new Legislature will
be Democratic, on the face of the returns, and
the Clerk of the old Legislature, who is said
to be an honest man, intended to call the
roll of the persons elected. This would have
given the Democrats the majority in the
body. To circumvent this Chandler has in
duced the Governor of the State to call an
extra session of the old Legislature, which lie
Republican, for the purpose of electing an
other clerk, who will call the roll in such a
way as to give majority to the Republicans,
and thereby enable them to elect their candi-
date for Governor and United States
Senator. This is a desperate scheme
and it may succeed. as Chambers
scheme succeeded in 1875, but it is fraught
with danger to all who connive at the fraud.