Huntsville gazette., 1892-12-10
POLITICAL DRIFT.

Full ICAl DRlf j.
tYM Mr.. Cleveland will humble platf-
tudes about civil service reform. Tam
many and Adlai will do the rest.-Min-
neapolis Tribune.
| Is The democratic leaders are doing
| their best TO convince the country that
they did not mean what they said dur
ing the 'campaign.-St. Louis Globe
| Democrat.
sS-I If the country has to take a ''tar-
iff reform" cold bath it is better to
plunge into the water at once and not
get in by inches and sit in an ague chill
and perhaps be caught by an attack of
political pneumonia. Let the tariff
reform" knife do its work at once. -
Chicago Tribune.
sSThe democratic party has already
developed wings" One wants to fly
into an extra session" and begin
smashing, and the other doesn't. The
big wing" seems to be satisfied to
have the democratic rooster sit on the
top rail and crow and let republican
prosperity 60 on prospcring the people
They are the smart ones Of the party.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The party which made the repub-
lie free, which preserved the union in
tact, which opened the public domain
to honest homes, which restored the
national credit, which reformed the
currency of the world, which recreated
the nation and on its old ashes built
the most wonderful the most powe:-
full and the most prosperous govern
ment on earth, can 10 more die than
principles can die or great deeds per-
ish. h.-Minneapolis Tribune.
Is During the campaign the free
traders shrieked ''The tariff is rob-
bing the people of hundreds of millions
of dollars every year!" Now their real
leaders are insisting that there shall
be no extra session and that no change
shall te made in the tariff for year
and a half; and it will probably be over
two years before any change is made,
as the democratic administration and
congress will desire to postpone all
changes until latter the election" of
1S94-Iowa State Re egister.
70 The republican party will now
become the party of opposition. and OF
very vigorous opposition. 1t is not go
ing to pieces any more than the demo
cratic party went to pieces in the thir~
ty-two years of it's sojourn in the
wilderness. Harrison is not as badly
defeated as Greeley was in 1872. The
democrats recovered from that disas
ter in four years In presidential
term an opposition party can accom-
plish great deal, and there is no rea-
son to believe the republican party
will be unable to appeal to the country
in 1896 with entire confidence. e.-Detroit
Tribune.
When the democrats eight years
ago wanted to get in they howled from
one end of the land TO the other about
1.-The enormous evils from the great
surplus in the treasury" Just now to
excuse themselves from prompt action
to demolish what they declare IAN un-
constitutional measure they assert
that they dare not move because of "a
deficit in the treasury" The real facts
| are asserted by Secretary Foster, who
| says there will be no deficit either this
year or next. The deficit will come in,
if any, when the incoming administra-
ton has unsettled commerce and upset
the nations business. No sane man
will doubt that.-Chlcago Inter Ocean.
g8-l 1t is well that the democrats have
secured the United States senate as
well as the house of representatives
Upon the democrats should fall all re
sponsibility for such legislation as may
now be accomplished. 1t has been
demonstrated repeatedly that where
democrats have things all their own
way they can promote the interests of
the republican party more rapidly than
any action possible by the latter party
itself. In just what manner a demo-
cratic congress will disgust the people
of the country can never be foretold,
| but that it will do the wrong thing can
always be counted upon. With the
senate democratic and full freedom of
action thus assured the Fifty-third con-
gress may be relied upon for undoing
the democracy. Chicago Journal
I Mr. Harrison has not only made
good president. he has conducted him
/ self throughout the memorable contest
! just closed in way to add lusetr to
the honored 1ame he holds. He has
performed his allotted task in the chief
magistracy with painstaking fidelity,
| patriotic discernment and an evident
| desire at all times 10 acquit himself
| justly in the eyes of the whole people.
( His ambition to succeed himself was
| pardonable, even if INDUCED N from
personal motives. He is not the kind
of man to einbarrass his successor bv
any intimation that a mistake has
! been made, and no doubt ere this he
| has manifested his own manly sense of
the fitness of things by congratulatinp
the coming president Benjamin Har.
rison viii not live in history as a great
man. but he Will rank as n preside nj
who in all essential respects met The
requirements OF his time according 20
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