The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-24
B0lES NOT LONESOME.

The st. Louis Globe Democrat says "there
was time when Governor Bo1Es would
nave scorned the idea of running for vice
president on the Democratic ticket. That
was about ten years ago, when he was a
stalwart and Jealous Republican"
There was time, too, when it would not
have been supposed that PLUMB and PAD
DOCK and PETTIGREw would have voted in
the United States Senate against a caucus
measure of their own party and assisted
the Democrats. There was a time when
CAMERON and Quay and men of their kin d
would not have voted against such me as
ure as the LODGE election bill, commonly
called the bayonet act. There was a time
when western representatives, in caucus
or convention, fancied it their duty to
DO the behests of the northeastern manu-
featuring protectionists, saddling their
constituents with a policy which means
death TO agricultural interests and COM
plete sueordination to the money lending
gold barons of Wall street; the steel and
iron founders OF Pennsylvania; the boot
and shoe and the cloth making factors of
Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode
Island; the lumbermen of Maine and the
lake regions; and the various trusts and
combines of the glass, cordage, cracker,
wood7screw, oil, white lead, paper bag,
thread and other monopolies.
The course of the Republican party is
strewn all along with memorials marking
the spots where the best leaders and ad-
vocates dropped out, their consciences per-
Nothing in its history is more
remarkable than the Individual
revolts and rebellions against
its policy, by former leaders, unless it be
the ruthlessness of the rank and file in
retiring those pretended representatives
who have consistently furthered the ag-
gressive and grasping designs of the chief
managers. Recollection readily goes back
to the names of SUMNER. TRUMBULL, BUCK
ALEw, ScHURz, CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS,
STALLo, CURTIS, GREELEY, DooLITTLE,
EWING, GRAFT BROWN, the BLAIRs, JU-
LIAM, Ross and numerous others of more
or less prominence in this connection.
The symptoms of moribund condition in
the Republican party are multiplying so
fast, and becoming so pronounced and
alarming, that the patients best friends
are losing hope. Last year the uprising
drove INGALLS, of Kansas, EyARTs of New
York, SPooSER of Wisconsin and FARwELL
of Illinois into retirement at the same
time reVolutionizing the House and filing
its benches with a two-thirds Democratic
majority. The example followed by BoIEs
and CAMPBELL is being initiated by promi-
nent Republicans every year.
Besides the revolt against the MCKINLEY
tariff act which, owing to political condi-
lions fixed before that piece of legislation
came up, was carried through in the most
arbitrary manner, the force bill, known as an
administration measure, developed further
dissatisfaction. The Senate revealed seven
Republican NOTWITHSTANDING them CAME
RON, of Pennsylvania who were willing
TO place themselves in the category of
TRAITORS" and with their votes a pet
scheme of the administration was con-
signed to the Congressional morgue.
Governor BoIEs is in good company.
There is not an issue now before the people
of the United States which ten years age
was among the cardinal doctrines of the
Republican party. Coercive tee-totalisnI
and prohibitive protection, upon the mega
tive side Of which BoIEs has won his
two battles, have never, before the last pres
idential election, found place in their plat,
form. The increased plurality the gov
ernor received at the hands of the Iowa
voters, three weeks ago, shows how
state which has given $4,000 majority re-.
pudiates the subservience of the Repub.
lican party to northeastern political ideas.