The Red Cloud chief., 1892-12-02

POLITICAL DRIFT.

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tW-Mr. Cleveland will humble plati.
tudcs about civil service reform. Tam
many and Adlai will do the rest. Min.
neepolis Tribune.
tE-The democratic leaders are doing
their best To convince tho country that
they did not mean what they said dur.
ing the campaign.-St. Louis Globe.
Democrat.
tE-If the country has TO take n tar
in reform" cold bath IL Is better to
plunge into the water at once and not
get in by inches and sit In nm aguc chill
and perhaps be caught by IN attack Of
political pneumonia. Let the tariff
reform" knife do It's work at once
Chicago Tribune.
t8"The democratic pnrty 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 10
have tho democratic rooster sit on the
top rail and crow and let republican
prosperity go on prospecting the people.
They are the smart ones Of the party.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
tE"The party which made the rcpub-
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 rccrcatcd
the nation ind on Its old ashes built
| the most wonderful, the most power
full and the most prosperous govern
ment ON earth, can no moro die than
principles can die or great deeds per.
ish. Minneapolis Tribune.
CB-During the campaign the free
traders shrieked: ''Thc tariff is rob.
bling the people of hundreds of millions
OF dollars every ycur!" Now their reta
leaders are insisting that there shall
be no extra session and that no change
shall be made in the tariff for a year
and q half; and 1t will probably be over
two years before any change Is made,
as the democratic administration and
congress will desire to postpone all
changes until ''aftcr the election" OF
1894. Iowa state Register.
tG-The republican party will now
become the party of opposition, and OF
very vigorous opposition. IT Is not go
ing to pieces any more than the demo
cratic party went to pieces in the thir-
ty-two years OF its s~ojourn in the
wilderness. Harrison Is not rs badly
defeated AS Greeley WAS In 1872. The
democrats recovered from That disas.
ter in four years. In q presidential
term an opposition party a accom-
plish q great deal. and there Is no rca.
pAr %A ha1tnrA tkn ronstt1icnt. VA, ~ n
will be unable to appeal to the country
In 1895 with entire confidence. Detroit
Tribune.
N-When the democrats eight years
ago wanted To get In they howled from
one end of the land to the other about
"the enormous evils from the great
surplus In the treasury" just now u
excuse themselves from prompt scsior
to demolish what they declare ian un
constitutional measure" they asser'
that they dare not move because of ~
deficit In the treasury" The real fact,
are asserted by Secretary Foster, whs
says there will be no deficit either thi,
year or next. The deficit will como In
II any. when the incoming administra
ton has unsettled commerce and upse
the nations business. No sane maj
will doubt that.-Chicago Inter Ocean
tN-lt il well that the democrats have
secured the United States senate NJ
well as the house OF representatives
Upon the democrats should fall all re
sponsibility for such legislation as ma.
now be accomplished. II has beef
demonstrated repeatedly that where
. hooA tktnra oil thAtp nun
way they can promote the interests o
the republican party more rapidly thar
any action possible by the latter part.
itself. In Just what q demo
cratic congress- will disgust the pcopi
Of the country can never be foretold
but that It will do the wrong thing ca
always he counted upon. With tn
senate democratic and full freedom O
action thus assured the Fifty-third con
gress may be relied upon for undoin
the democracy. Chicago Journal.
! tH-Mr. Harrison has not only mae
good president, he has conducted hin
: self throughout the memorable contes
! Just closed in q way to add lusetr I
the honored name he holds. He ha
' performed his allotted task In the chic
magistracy with painstaking fideiit,
! patriotic discernment aud an evidcr
desire at all times 70 acquit himse
Justly In the eyes Of the whole peopl
His ambition to succeed himself WI
0 pardonable. even II INDUCED IN fro
personal motives. He Is not the kin
8 of man to einbarrass his successor
any intimation that a mistake h
been made, and no doubt ere this ,
e has manifested his own manly sense
the fitness OF things by congratulate,
the coming president. Benjamin nu
o rison viii not live In history as a gro
man, bnt no will rank as a preside
who in NIL essential respects met 4
requirements OF his time according
10 his igtt--PhiladelphiA Telegraph