Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-02
THE POPULAR VOICE.


No man who has lately gone great dis
tances over the United States, as has the
writer, can have failed to notice two
things. The first is the profound dis
content that followed fast upon the
heels ofIthe Minneapolis convention. 1t
was wide, outspoken and unqualified. 1t
represented the disappointment OF Re-
publicans who felt that their party had
had great opportunity and had failed
to avail themselves of it. The
denomination of Harrison was dep
recated by multitudes of Republicans
on the ground that the attempt
to rally their party around the man who
had stood in with the Billion Dollar
congress in all its excesses, was to invite
defeat. They believed that the success
of the president at Minneapolis was
equivalent to houting the clearly ex-
pressed will of the people. They felt
that the triumph of the administration
was conspicuously purchased by the
scandalous employment of federal
agents, and that Harrison was the per-
sonifcation of that re-actionary force
bill legislation which a large por-
ton of his own party had
repudiated in the senate of the United
States. In fine, large portion of the
Republican party not only felt gloomy,
but they were sure that the spirit of
the Mckinley tariff and the force bill,
embodied in the person of Mr.. Harrison
and in the platform of the Republican
party, had already wrecked the party to
which they were attached and that,
for all purposes of the present campaign,
they were not in it. Added to this large
number of Republicans who felt but q
cold and perfunctory interest in their
party, was the number almost as large
who felt that the time had arrived for
their withdrawal from any further con-
| fed itself and plainly marked itself out
for destruction. These people, honestly
devoted to their party, raised, on every
hand, a wall which recalls nothing SO
markedly as the poignant plant of the
prophet, Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
would have gathered thee. as the hen
gathereth her chickens, but ye would
| not.'
How different it was when the nomi-
nation of Cleveland was announced !
From all quarters arose glad shout.
Democrats at last felt that the day of
happy omen had dawned. From every
state of the Union came a cheerful
Democratic refrain. They knew that
victory was in the air for the gallant
Democratic leaders, and no voice of dis
sidence was raised. Democrats who
had thought that it was perhaps expe-
dent to nominate another leader, re-
allied the fact that their individual
opinion was not as wise as the
overwhelming voice of the masses.
They recalled the adage that the
voice of the people was the voice OF
God, and respected the emanations OF
the Chicago convention accordingly. In
fact, in nine cases out of ten, of those
who had hoped for another candidate,
there was an honest change of opinion,
and the remaining tenth proposed to
stand in with the nominees of their
party in any event. This spirit has per-
vaded the adherents of Tammany Hall,
and from the great state of New Yokk
we now hear nothing but harmony. No
such magical change has ever been wit
messed in American politics.
| AS result, from the center all round
to the sea, there is one resounding cry
for the election OF Grover Cleveland and
Adlai E. Stevenson for president and
vice-president OF the United States, re-
spectively.