The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-30
HARRISON'S CHANGES
For denomination Are in the
Ascendant.
SOME POLITICAL FORECASTS
By ex-senator Ingalls-Ex-P President Hayes
is Suffering From the Effects of the Grip
His Loss of Memory.
Especial to THE misunderstanding Dispatch

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. ]
New YORK, May 80. - Close upon
the publication of the letter from
ex-senator j. j. ingalls,, read to the
Republican editors of the Seventh con-
gressional district of Kansas, another arti-
Gle on the same lines from the political
writer is made public. Here are some of
the points. ''When the Fifty-frst Congress
adjourned the President was at his apogee.
He had reached, in his orbit, the farthest
possible point from denomination. He was
chosen by the convention in 1888 as the
least obnoxious among his rivals because
conscience had made towards Of the friends
OF Blaine. The campaign that ended with
his election was cold and torpid. Cleve-
lands vacant steeled egotism, his elaborate
economic vagaries, his insolent Indifference
to the leaders of his own party, made Dem
| ocratic success impossible and the election
OF any Republican candidate inevitable
The Blaine myth has been revived with
great energy and the horizon of many fav-
orite sons and village idols has grown
rudy with anticipations of 1892, though
the great secretary of state is no more pos
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the same reason. Popular governments
do not reserve their supreme honors for
their greatest civic leaders. Since
jefferson we have had no civilian
President Of the first order, and it is
not probable there will be another tend
ency. Mediocrity and pusillanimity
! accelerate and will eventually become ir-
resistable. The presidential transconti-
mental tour just finished, was a distinct
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sooth-sayers and augurs announce with
gravity that it has been one of the most
important POLITICAL pilgrlmages Of the
generation. Evidently it was not senti-
mental journey. Geographically it was
well laid out on the map. It touched
strategic points. No student of political
dynamlcs has ever seriously doubted Har-
risons denomination and from this time
forward there will be less soothing Any
thing else would be illogical. Itwould be a
confession that the work of the Republican
Congress was a failure; that protection
was a fake, and that the accusations of
| parliamentary tyranny and legislative
| extravaganza were true. The issues are
made up already; the battle has begun.
The contest of 1888 will be repeated upon
! the same field and under the same com.
manders. The Democrats must nominate
| Cleveland regardless of his opinions about
silver or tariff, and the Republicans will
triumph or else they will finally disappear
as an organization from the arena of
national politics.
IF the admonitions of the reverses in
1890 are needed, then success is possible
though the battle will be desperate, bu,
unless there is a radical adjustment pro
nounced concession, a sharp departure
from venerable methods and precedents, it
will not be worth while to go through with
the IOrmalltV of POnVpntiOD. Hide hound
intolerance, messy prescriptions of AGA
demic and parochlal policies have had their
day. The antics, the heresies, the false
doctrines, the preposterous prescriptions
of Anarchists and Socialists are amusing
rather than alarming. No one seriously
anticipates the success of third party
based upon the fatuous delusions of fiat
money and sub-treasury warehouse. The
peril is that unless Republican defections
are arrested and wanderers reclaimed, the
losses will be enough to ensure the success
of the democracy