The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-09-30

Government-the Suprem
Court, the Senate, the House
land the Presidential chair, an,
when we had, therefore, to as
sault every stronghold and ha,
no allies. We carried the coun
TRY, counting results in tn
Congressional districts, by mor'
than half a million majority.
"Another reason for my opin
ion is that the press, that grea
educator and molder of publ,
sentiment, is with the Democ
racy more solidly than it hai
been in half a century. In al
most every city the majority oil
the great dalies is either Demo
cratic outright or independent
with Democratic ideas of gov
ernment. In many of the States
there is no such thing as a Re.
publican daily paper. To illu.
strate: In New York city it is
estimated that about a million
three hundred thousand copies
of newspapers are issued daily.
Less than four hundred thous-
and of them are Republican.
The others are either Demo-
cratic or Independent, and are
vigorous in their opposition to
force at the polls and the un-
necessary restrictions on com
merce Again, it has been
proved, over and over again
that the educators i'm our COL
leges are with the Democracy
as never before. Therefore it is
not an exaggerated assertion
that,no party can long live when
opposed by the great majority
of these printing and educating
influences.
"But aside from these, the re-
cord of the last Congress is a
dead weight for the Republi-
cans. 1t broke their party last
fall, and will do it again in '92.
That Congress was the most
reckless and prodigal ever seen.
1t spent more than a billion dol
lars-two-thirds Of all the Unit
ed States money IN existence.
1t was not the case of one prod
igal son, but that of a whole
family prodigal. Are you sur
prised at hard times when by
reason of these expenditures
one-third of all the money in
this country, and more than half
that in actual circulation, has
to pass through the hands of a
Federal tax-gatherer every
year! This condition of things
is not consistent with prosperi-
ty. To make the people believe
to the contrary a scheming, un-
scrupulous Secretary of the
treasury is reSorting to the plans
of the fakir, the juggler, the
cheat, and the highwayman,
and by cunning-cooked debt
statements and bulldozing cir
culars to bondholuers is trying
to patch up the great hole in the
armor of Republican integrity.
But the lance OF Democratic
honesty has already pierced
those patches and the public
can see ana is seeing what a
grand old fraud the grand old
party is.
"rhe demand Of the people
for tax reduction was met by
the last Congress in an increase
Of the rate of duty from forty
odd per cent. TO 60 per cent.
The necessaries of like suffered
and the luxuries were lightly
touched. 1t is ominous that
Sherman, the Nestor, and Nc
Kinley, the Ajax of protection,
are now trying to evade the
tariff issue and TO shift the dis
cussion to silver-anything to
escape the issue. Ii is also
ominous that almost the only
part of the Mckinley bill either
lauded or defended without
equivocation is its free trade or
reciprocity feature. If Nc
kinley and Sherman will not
defend the new tariff who will
do so: If they flee what dough.
ty soldier will stand:
Nor is thisall. The effort of
last Congress to take the elec.
tions of Congressman from the
people of the States and deliver
them to the Federal courts and
other Federal poyers-to use
troops and marshals at the polls
for bulldozing purposes-must
damage the Republican party
How, for illustration, can Mai.
Mckinley in his camnaign for
the governorship Of Ohio afford
to tell the people that he favor.
ed taking away from them the
right to control their elections,
and for the governor, one Of
his greatest prerogatives, the
right to certify the result! And
while OH this subject let me say
that the grandest fight for the
right in the history of journal.
ism was that Of the Washing.
ton Post agains the obnoxious
force bill. IL was a fight bril-
liantly conducted on all lines