Evening journal., 1891-09-24
WATTERSON'S S0LILOQUY.
THE POLITICAL SITUATION AND
THE TWO PARTIES.

Out 20 the Eye, whilst the mailed
Hand OF Bigotry and Hate is Held Be
hind.
With the opening Of the fall cam paign,
whose lines Of battle are completed by
the work OF the New York Democrats
and the Massachusetts Republicans, 1t is
/ obvious that the Democrats can take
nothing for granted The extraordinary
victory of last year gives us no warrant
to relax our grasp Of the situation, or to
rest Hpon our laurels and our arms. The
enemy is in the field, more active and
confident than ever, and tine fight Is on
in deadly earnest If we are to hold our
own, and retain the vantage ground won
twelve months ago, not by the genius
and valor Of our leaders, but by a spon-
taneous AID unexpected rally of the
rank'and file Of the people, we shall have
to contest every inch of the way between
now and November; aud. to say the
truth. Jordan is going to be, must in the
nature Of the Gaze be, an exceeding hard
road to travel
If the Republican party had not been
born with golden spoon ia It's mouth, IL
would have gone TO the dogs long ago.
Never did a political organization sur
viya such extravagances. A Spectator
in finance, fraud in economies, hum
bug In morals, all things by turn and
nothing long except in faithlessness to
public obligations and in sectional and
partisan intolerance, IL has survived a
hglf-dozen WaterloOs, and to-day comes
up snug and smiling, just as IL nothing
had happened. We are bound to admire
its effrontery. We must respect it's
hardihood. Truly, it carries its nerve
with it; but, back Of all. it has had, and
| IL has, amazing good fortune
It's utter shortening, aud the we'll.
nigh universal realization Of this, drove
1t ignomlniously from it's entrenched po-
sitions in 1890. From that day to this.
events have conspired to heal its wounds,
TO lift IL out Of its quagmire, and to put
it on its feet The personal popularity
of the Secretary OF State, who more than
| any American statesman, living or dead.
understands the art of making some
thing out OF nOthing-even to the point
of turning disaster to his own and his
party s advantage-has magnetized and
vitalized the Republican masses every.
where. The reciprocity subterfuge
broke the force of the reaction against
the Mckinley abominRtion The Italian
incident was sheer luck-"free Niger
luck. at that Nor must the
President be denied bis share Of
credit for the rehabilitation of
Republlcanism Very foolishly, very
mi stakenly too much has been said and
too great stress has been laid in Demo
cratic circles upon My Grandfathers
Hat, and the like trumpery People
had got to thinking there was some
thing in the talk of Mr. Harrisons in
feriority This gave him the oppor-
tunity TO make tour OF the country
and, to deliver series of speeches, ex-
cellent In themselves and gratifying to
patriotic feeling, regardless Of party. To
crown the whole, America has long crops
and Europe has short crops, and, by con.
sequence, big prices rule for farm prod
ucts, with enough over to make up, or to
seem to make NJ, the difference wrought
| by the Mckinley bill, all of which tie
Republican orators and newspapers, al
lowing nothing to God, ascIibe TO the
| glory Of reciprocity and protection,
terms as antagonistic and irreconcilable
as North and South
In the meantime, everything remains
as 1t was before and as bad as before
There Is the war tariff standing, like
wolf, at the door of every consumer Ia
the land. There is the specious hand of
promise, flied with trinkets and baubles,
held out to the eye, whilst the mailed
hand OF bigotry and hate is held behind,
clutch.ng the Force bill in its iron grasp
There is the Billion. dollar Congress
crouching In the shadow of Mr. Blaine 5
massive figure There is the mammoth
pension budget, Ire roaring lion seek.
ing whom to devour, roaming up and
down the country as ravenous and pro-
scriptive as ever. No demand has been
abated; no flag has been lowered.
Except for the spssm of prosperity,
brought to us by the sun and shower,
and by our own undaunted energies, "a
fitful CLEAN in the midnight Of classism
and bossism into which under Republi-
can influences the Government of the
people Is folding It's arms aud going to
sleep-the same fixed conditions remain.
The over burdened toiler, the mortgage
laden farm the tax-ridden farmer; the
rich man richer aud the poor man poorer.
Truly but for the vast extent of our
domestic free trade and a mercantile
marine, carrying only foreign Il igs, one
might, not inaptly, quote the melancholy
plant OF the Irish poet 0ngarchs
fatten where honest men starve. Empty
the mart and shipless the bay" For this
stars aad stripes have been driven from
the ports OF the world and from the high
seas, whilst cormorants aud cormorant
ism rule the home market under tbs
operation Of laws made by the Republi
cans for the benefit OF the few at tbs
cost Of the many.
Such is the situation as we enter this
fall campaign. In Ohio, the illness o.
Governor Campbell greatly discouragel
Democrats and encourages Republicans
la New York, the Republicans are united
for the 6rst time in fifteen years, with
popular candidate and a leader whosl
abilities have been wholly moderated
All along the line, EAST and West, thu
Republican party is making life anC
death struggle, so that we do net over
! state the case when we say that
Democrats need to get up very early II
the morning and to 90 to bed very late q
night, resting only upon their arms anc
keeping one eye open all the time
The fight in New York, in particular
is a pivotal fight. II the outward haT
mony that prevails there is sincere, al
| will be we'll, for we have a most excel
lent ticket. The notion that Mr. Flowe
/ is merely a rich man, who owes his prom
inense to his money, does great injustice
} to that gentleman. He Is a self-msd
man, a man Of the people, with rar
I virtues both of the head and the heart
He Is a sound Democrat, q man Of strons
sense and sterling worth, and will prov
J In himself, a most popular candidate. !
the factions close up and do their duty
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