The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-11-19
THE TIDAL WAVE.


Everything has gone. It looked black
enough when the fact of the utter
rout of the Republicans in New York
became known, but when state after
state, small and great wheeled into the
Democratic column there settled a sort
of apathy upon the Harrison shouters,
and even the fact that Ohio was pro-
baby lost, when it become known,
failed to awaken even the faintest show
of pain. The agony from the first
heavy blow had dulled the sense of
suffering for the rest.
The result has been surprising, not
only itself, but it's far-reaching magni-
tude. Possibly it was to have been
expected that Cleveland, in an alliance
of kept-faith with Tammany, would
carry New York. But what Democrat,
even the most enthusiastic, dared more
than hope that Indiana and Connect
cut and New Jersey would also declare
ed for the great tariff reformer? Then,
when it come to Illinois and Wiscon-
sin and Iowa, and even Ohio, why, the
Democrats went mad, and men of no
party had room for further surprise.
Even the slight hope held out by
Delaware to the Republicans was brok-
en-, and the South stands solid.
The trouble this time appears to be
that it stands solid alongside all the
balance of the country. Cleveland has
not only been elected, but he will have
the largest majority in the electoral
college that has been given to a can
didate for the presidency i'll recent
times. The people clearly demand a
revolution in the economic policy of
the country, and they appear to have
given Democratic president, a Demo-
cratic Senate and Democratic house
of Representatives with which to effect
that revolution.
A surprising development in con-
nection with the results has been the
strength shown by the Populists.
Where the Republicans have lost to
the Democrats they have lost to the
Populists. Always and everywhere it
has been the Republicans who have
lost. There is no hope for the party
anywhere, save the hope that the
policies advocated by its opponents
should prove, as the Republican party
has always claimed, economic mistakes
when reduced to practice. For the
persent the people has chosen the
theoretical side of the great econom-
ical question as against the practical
workings of the others side, and in
this country the people rule. That
they rule wisely, in the end, at least,
is shown by their ability to work
revolution without bloodshed. The
Republican party must trust to time
for it's justification.
The Populists strength in the West,
notably in Kansas, Nebraska, and the
Dakotas, mark new departure in
national politics, in that the people
are seeking remedy at the ballot box
for the capitalistic expressions of
which they have SO long complained.
It is not, perhaps, SO much revolt
against the Republicans as against the
corporations that have used the Re
publican party, and have been permit
ted to use it, for their own enrichment
at the expense of the producing classes,
in the past staunchly Republican.
Colorado and Nevada had the silver
question to settle, and in the fight to
put the inferior metal upon a none
tary equality with the superior fought
as much against Democratic policy as
against Republican.
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