Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-15

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who cannot and will not enter INTO the
spirit of our institutions, but exert q
corrupting influence on our civilization
should be excluded.
There is Alarm In the Enemy's Camp.
Speaking of the dismay of the Mug
wumps and some of the Democrats over
the vote on the silver bill, the New
York Press says:
The immense Importance of the vote
by which the House of Representatives
fixed a date for the consideration of the
Bland bill is best shown by the Mug
wump and Democratic dismay over the
event. The Mugwumps, whose Ostenta-
tlous pretense of political saintliness
fails to cover the most cowardly and
tricky methods in American politics,
have been hugging the absurd hope
that the free trade Democracy, with
Grover Cleveland as it's fieure-head.
might gain the next election without
revealing its real purposes in regard to
the currency. Ali the shrewder Demo-
cratic organs in the Eastern states were
desperately anxious to avert a party
vote on the Bland bill. Like the Mug
wumps, they were conscious that unless
the Democracy could fight under false
pretenses this fall it could not win.
The Republicans have stripped che
Democratic party of these false Cre-
lenses. Here is some Democratic tenti-
mony as to the effect their action will
have on the approaching campaign.
The leading Democratic organ OF this
city declares thatthe certainty OF a vote
on the Bland bill seriously 'imperils"
Democratic success; that s'lt unfayor.
ably objects Democratic prospects in
those Eastern states whose ELECTORAL!
votes are necessary to the election Of 8
Democratic President," and that the de-
cision to bring on the silver discussion
is an unfortunate mistake" The Mug.
wump New York Times SAYS:
In two weeks from to-day the House will
have the Bland bill before it, and the fate
OF that measure, with the fate of the Dem.
ocratic party, will have to be decided. In
credible as it may seem. these men have
deliberately put their success with their
own constituents above the success of their
party. They, are prepared to save their
own seats, though the party. be thrown
access to the White House for another
quarter of a century. 1t now remains to
be seen whether the party can save itself.
The Evening Post use even palmer
language:
Let it be borne in mind that the anti
Bland sentiment in the North will take no
chances on this question. III that bill
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the game is lost to the Democrats in the
coming campaign. They will not carry
Northern state. They will lose even
Colorado and Nevada.
1t is a noteworthy fact that none of
the extracts we have quoted consider
the question from the standpoint of
public honesty. Each of the three pa
pers assumes as q matter of course that
it was the right OF the Democratic lead
ers to ..punco" the people. Now that
Republican congressman have shown
what the Democracy is, and what it
means, these journals virtually admit
that the chances of Democratic success
are lost.
A Democratic Wall Over . Democratic
Congress.
Three months of the present Congress
gone and nothing done! This is not the
growl of fault-findine, hypercritlcal Re-
p%ublicans, but the plaintive wall of all
the Mugwump and a large number Of
the cld-line, hard-shell, copper-bot-
toned Democratic newspapers through
out the country; So far'as Republicans
faction with this condition of things.
Indeed, they are so we'll convinced that
this Congress has neither disposition
nor capacity to do anything wise or pat
riotic that they view its inactivity with
much more Of resignation than regret.
The small %squabbles among the leaders
and fussv puttering over trifles which
have occupied their attention for three
months to the exclusion of other inn
portant matters seem 80 fitting and
proper. go we'll adapted to the mental
caliber of the majority, and any attempt
to take up larger affairs would be attend
ed with such great risksthat Republicans
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uation as on the whole the best that
could be hoped for under the circum-
stances. As long as the majority in the
House are contented to pass the time in
harmless wordy contentious among
themselves, or the i%nnocuous delights Of
dawdling, Republicans are quite satis-
fled, and not at all disposed to spur
them into pernicious activity. They
might do a great deal worse.
But the Mugwump and Democratic
newspapers, which bailed the election
of their $50 majority at the beginning
of the millennium, feel differently. A
great many of them, and they the most
confident and hopeful, have had moth
ing but disappointment eyer since the
House was organized by the election Of
appointments for them for three
months. Very few had provided
themselves with umbrellas, and
those who had o found them
turned wrong side out. They
are wet, sick and sore. Here, for IN
stance, is the Boston Herald, which
usually manages to take a cheerful view
of the political situation, complaining
that Congress has been in session over
three months, and up to the present
week not only has nothing been done,
but mot n speech of Importance on
any subject ha0 been mode in. either
house by a member of either party"
For this, it says, there has been no
precedent 'for fifty years, if there has
indeed for a hundred, or in any Con-
gress since the organization of the gov
ernment."
However. there 10 no occasion for dis.
couragement on the part of our Boston
contemporary. Since Its article ap.
peared, Mr.. McMillin, of Tennessee,
Las made "the greatest effort of bis
life" on the tariff question. And thatie
but the beginning o., floods of eloquence
waiting to be poured out. Tons of white
paper are waiting to be covered with
'sbeeches of importance" on the tariff,
wh3ch will M irfn tho Pooo.J 70 ~.