The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-07-04

have very exciting, instructive and
agreeable Presidential campaign in
! '92.
We can even now hear the prelim-
mary rumblings, the sonorous and
resonant reverberations of first class
thunder storm which is slowly com
ing this way.
i Everything indicates contest be-
tween the two parties which will be
historic for it's vehemence, for each
party is getting ready to bury the
other under landslide.
/ The Republicans are little over
sanguine in the prophecies which
they make for publication and little
downhearted when they chat conf
dentially beyond the reach of caves
choppers.
The democrats watch the drift of
public opinion, which seems to have
set in their direction with the force
of strong flood tide, and frequently
indulge in an encouraging smile at
what they see.
Both contestants are in training,
and the man who can't see plenty Of
fun ahead was horn without any
sense of humor.
And, by the way, we shall have a
real, live, vital and exhilarating is
sue to fight on. We can dispense
with the eliminating and recrimina-
ting personalities through which we
have heretofore waded waist deep,
and talk about the prosperity of the
country, the wages of the laboring
classes, a world market and the abil-
ity of the Yankee to make a compe-
tency if Congress will cease it's handi-
Gaping humbuggery and give him
fair show. 1t used to be said that an
American could whittle fortune out
of anything if he had a jackknife and
a chance. The Mckinley bill has
robbed him, however, of both the
chance and the jackknife, and we are
curious to know what criticism he
will make at the polls year hence.
1t is pretty clear just now that the
republicans must make campaign
of explanation. They are on the de-
fensive. Their policies have been so
disastrous that it will take good
deal Of oratory to set them right.
They are perfectly aware of that fact,
and are, therefore, studying elocution
with ardent zeal.
There are four million farmers in
this country hard headed a set
of men as ever breathed the breath of
life. For some months past they
have been asking where on earth that
big surplus has gone, and why we
are now brought face to face with a
deficit They see that some men can
make untold millions in few years,
and that favoring, not to say corrupt,
Legislation has helped them to do it,
while the land tiller, with his magnif-
icent crops, his steady toll, his hon
est patriotism, is rocking the cradle
of mortgage and anxiously watch
ing as his hard earnings slip through
his fingers year by year.
He joins an Alliance with the hope
of stopping the mad career of this
money devil and inaugurating an era
of fair play. 1t is easy to see that
he is restless and bound to effect a
change.
The twelve million other wage earn
ers are in the same condition. Are
our laboring classes contented2 Not |
a bit of it. They will engage in no
riots, for that is not their way; it
doesn't run in the blood; but they
want to know why the millennium
which the republicans promised does
MT come along, and they will say so
at the polling booth. That is their
dynamite, and when it explodes it
knocks things into smithereens.
They have got beyond bullets, but
they know how to throw ballots with
deadly aim.
So, then, we are to have the high
tariff for the chief issue. And, oddly
enough, the women will exercise a
great, perhaps controlling, influence
in the campaign. We are not good
enough to allow them to vote, but
they know more about household ex-
penses than the men do. They are
the economical half of creation, are
experts in the methods of saving for
a rainy day. They see that it costs
more to live than formerly, but that
the family income is no larger We
shall therefore hear from them, and
it wouldn't be surprising if the cleo
tion should turn on the opinion of
our wives, mothers and daughters.
1t may be women's campaign after
all, and perhaps they, for the first
time in our history, will elect Pres
ident They want cheap food and
cheap clothing. The party which
will afford them these things is their
party.
So we may look forward to very
lively times in '92, and to great
deal that will be curious and inter
Y. Herald.
The Deficiency. II