Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1892-11-18
EMM0NS COUNTY RECORD.
By D. sR. sTREETER.
WILLIAMSBURG, NORTH DAKOTA.
Pioneer journal of the County.

IAouecEeJOurnal OF tne county.
The RECORD Is entered at the Wilsiamsport
PoaoGes as sscond-csass matter.
THE Overwhelming defeat Of the repub.
lican ticketat the recent election Is being
explained BY the party politicians and
newspapersof high and low degree. In
some instances there is disposition to
censure President Harrison as the cause
Of the party's overthrow, and the claim
is made that it would have been different
had Blame been nominated. This way
of accounting for the phenominal defeat
of the partYis upgenerous in the extreme.
The RECORD would have been pleased
had Blaine been nominated at Minneap-
oils, but III was simply a choice as be.
tween the personality Of the two men.
1t cannot b denied that Gen. Harrison
has made = good president. He has
caused the name of American to be re-
spected among the nations of the earth.
He will 60 out of Office with the respect
of the people-democrats as well as re-
publicans.
One popularity OF the election was that
in number pf states the electoral vote
was given to cleveland by the votes of the
great cities, Where the workingmen en-
ployed in the protected industries it was
thought would vote for sustaining the
system which raised their wagesst over
those paid toworkmen in the same lines
across the wafer. But such was not the
case, for the chief cities of the country,
almost without exception, cast heavy ma.
jorities against the republicans. In one
instance, an eastern pearlbutton manu-
facturer states that he is certain that ev.
cry one of his more than a hundred em-
ployees voted the democratic ticket. And
yet the manufacture of pearl buttons is o
young industry that without the tariff,
could not compete at all with the i'm.
portatious of Germany and France.
What was the reason for this detection
of the workingmen of the cities? The
RECORD believes it was chiefly due to the
placing of Whltelaw Reid upon the
ticket. For twenty years the nominee for
vice president had been bitter and un.
relenting foe OF trade.unionlsm and kin.
dred forms Of organized labor. Not until
political ambition made it necessary did
he seek to compromise the matter with
the great and powerful union whose
members had so long been excluded from
u NJ;
It was . deat6.bed repentance. and II
came to late. The writer was member
Of a trade'unlon for twenty years and the
knights of labor for eight years, and he
knows that the members of labor societies
have at last reached point where they
will oppose the elevating to office of an
enemy of their class, regardless of parti-
san prejudice. The RECORD believes that
the overwhelming democratic vote in the
large cities was a protest against the
placing of Whltelaw Reid upon the re-
publican ticket.
And what will be the outcome7 The
democratic party, for the first time since
1860, has president, senate and house.
To keep faith with the people, it Is
bound to carry out the provisions of its
platform. The tariff on wool will be re.
duced greatly or taken off entirely. The
problem as to whether American manu-.
facturers can compete with those of
Europe without reducing the wages of
Americas workingmen to the European
basis will now have a chance of demon
stration. The republicans have claimed
that lowering of the tariff meant de.
structlon of the farmers home market,
through the inability of the reduced
wages Of the workingman to purchase
more than the bare necessaries of life;
and that cheaper suit Of clothes or an
imported self-binder costing a few dol
lars less is no compensation for cur
tailed market at home. The democrats
have asserted that, with their party in
power, there would be no injdxy to home
industry, and that an application of their
principles would immeasurably benefit
the agricultural class. The next four
years will show which was right.
The RECORD has NO patience with those
people who see in each change of admin.
istration an overthrow of their liberties
and the failure of popular government.
As long as the people have the power to
use tho ballot for change of rulers,
there is no danger. We must all-repub-
licans as we'll as democrats suffer or re-
ceive beueflts through the policy of the
party in power. The republican organi-
zation has successfully steered the ship of
state through a long period, and has
left its impress On some of the brightest
pages of the nations history, A MAJOR
ity of the people have set the seal of their
condemnation on some Of Its recent acts.
The democratic party has said "Let me
try; will do better" The people have
concluded to experiment. For four years
the democratic system will be on trial.
If events prove that the incoming party
has forgotten much and learned more, if
the common people shall be more pros
porous than in the recent past, then the
democratic party will undoubtedly retain
a further lease Of power. If it cannot
do this, the people will at the end of four
years seek further remedy by It's over
throw.
THE article IN this paper last week re-
gardiug the payment of one hundred and