Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-08
OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

Coney island next summer he'll have to i
swim or take ferryboa The United |
States navy will not be at his disposal |
st Louis Globe-Democrat frep.).
In estimating and cataloguing |
the causes of republican defeat the |
triding circumstance of lack of re- |
publican votes ought not to be over |
looled.-St. Loais Globe-Democrat
(rep.).
The republicans cannot become
reconciled to their defeat, and they are
still trying to convict the people of
ignorance and stupidity in failing to
give them further lease of power
y. Y. Post
Mckinley claims that protection
is just dear to republicans as ever.
It is because his bill was considerably
dearer to democrats than any previous
tariff legislation that his party was
showed under.-Kansas City Times.
"A new republican reason for the
landslide has been brought out 1.-THE
social unrest of the country was
against us, % it is said. Well, when six
or seven millions of voters get uneasy
there is very apt to be an overturn.-N.
Y. World.
The election of Mr.. Cleveland
shows that popular opinion. however
slow it may be in forming, is when
once formed almost Inevitably right,
and that the will of the people when
clearly expressed is irresistible.-Bal-
timore News.
In the next house the democratic
ma jority is about ninety over all This
is large enough for all the practical
purposes of legislation, and will prove
less unwieldy than the majority of one
hundred and ifty-siX in the present
house.-St. Louis Republic.
The republican party has tried to
purchase the soldier vote by pledging
the nation to a payroll that has grown
from S27, 200. 900 in 1878 to S1S6, 900, OO0
in 1892, much the greater part of
which is squandered on camp followers
and treasury hooters. Cou-
rier-J Journal.
The campaign of education on the
tariff began with Cleveland's great
tariff message of 1882. That coura-
geous document helped to defeat the
democratic leader in 1888, but it was
lamp unto the feet of the nation. and it
prepared all the conditions that led to
the overwhelming victory at the polls.
Newark journal.
Mr.. Depew says that the people
of the United States are tired of GER
| tainty and want to speculate. Chaun-
cey is partly right. The people are
tired of the certainty of being squeezed
in the interests of monopoly. But they
| have now invested in another certainty
lower taxes, pure government and
equal rights.-Chicago Herald.
| Whatever else may have contrib
uted to his success, demagogism cannot
be charged against Mr.. Cleveland. He
has adhered to his principles, whe1
such adherence, from a political point
of view. was ilnpolitic, and this leads
| to the belief that he will be able to
| hold in check the radical element OF
his party and give the country a con-
sentative Administrations sburgh
! Chronicle.
! And this prophet is stuffed. He
| is stuffed with the virtue that accepts
public Office only as a public trust
stuffed with the honor which refuses TIC
'spalter in double sense with words
or even to keep silent when-as at the
time of the silver craze-franlA utter
| ance seems to promise only destruction
for his own and his party's am bitions
| stuffed with sturdy common SenSe--N.
Y. World.
| We do not think it would be wise
| for the party of revision to undertake
the great work of substituting an hon
est tariff for the Mckinley act at q
| called session of the new congress. i
| the republicans are really anXiouS--as
| they say they are-that a test of the
new policy shall be made at once, lei
them pass the bills which the present
house has sent to the senate. That
| would be beginning and would per
ceptibly decrease the labor to be done
in the subsequent general revisicn.--N
| Y. Times.
! --One of the surprises of election
DAY was the revelation which the re-
turns make that Cleveland is stronger
| than Tammany in New York city,
| where he ran ahead of Gilroy, the
| Tammany candidate for mayor, and
was as strong in Illinois as Atgeld, who
| was expected to run from II. 600 to 20,
600 ahead of the national ticket. These
facts show that the democratic party
won its victory on the square issue OF
principle, and that the personality OF
candidates played but small part in
it.-St. Louis Republic
For five years, or since that
|
Cleveland to congress IN 1887, the conn
try has been celebrating the tariff
question to the exclusion of almost
every other public issue. For two
years, or since the election of 1896
: tariff reform has been the avowed de-
sire of the country. That desire has
Just received another and even more in
sistent expression at the polls, and
further delay would be not only need
less, but a positive disregard of the
popular demand.-St. Paul Globe
1t recalls to our mind the famous
saying of Abraham Lincoln that yoU
can fool some Of the people all the time
and all of the people some of the time
but you cannot fool all of the people ID
of the time. The people have at last
seen through the stupidity of the reck
less protection logic and are ready to
try that which promises to limit taxa
| ton to the revenue needs of the gov
eminent. They have concluded Il
abandon the policy OF taxing nine
tenths for the benefit of one tenth anl
! give the former few OF the advau