Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-11-17
THE NAV AND the HoUR.
A Conservative Republican View of the
Popular Revolution.

! lhlla. Evening Telegraph, of Wednesday.
\ 1t is not yet five years since Grover
| Cleveland startled the American people
| with Presidential message upon the
| subject of the@taritf that seemed to be
tho work Of political dreamer. On
every hand, within as well as without
his own party, it was stoutly declared
that he had effectively barred his way
to any future preferment by the voters
/ of this country. To-day he is again the
President.elect, so far as the popular
| voice has so determined ii, and this de-
cision has been made in manner which
must cause the student of the political
history of our times to ponder deeply.
| Last night witnessed the fruition of the
most remarkable campaign of education
the country has ever known. II was the
same suggestive and impressive story
almost uninterruptedly, from the first
bulletin until the last. The signal gun
of the victorious Democracy Of New
York city was echoed from every part
of that great state, from the teeming
valleys of Connecticut, the industrial
hives of Massachusetts, the hills of New
Jersey, through the rich agricultural
regions OF Pennsylvania, the longtime
| Gibraltar of protection; from the low
lands of Indiana, the piny woods of
| Michigan, the rich prairies of Illinois,
the prosperous homes Of Wisconsin, the
| great farmlands of Nebraska and
Kansas, and the far.away mountain
| ridges of the Rockies. All night long
| the popular voice Numbered its protest
against Republican unwisdom, against
| the short-sightedness and amazingly
selfish folly Of political leaders who
have blindly refused to listen to the
stern admonitions of an ovGrburdened
| people.
II was the manifest purpose Of the
| Minneapolis Convention to carry the
country with the ceaseless song Of pros
| perity, ever pointing to the pilng up of
| riches, due to the enforcement of an
economic policy that, in its integrity, all
patriotic citizens must approve of, but
which, abused, must result in arousing
| overwhelming public condemnation.
With clean, honest and efficient ma
| tional administration, il was confidently
hoped that the people would not listen
| TO the song of the Democratic siren; and,
when the Chicago Convention had com
| pletcd its work, the battle was regarded
as more than half won, because Of the
stupcndous folly Of the ruling element
therein. The platform put forth by this
assemblagc, in its essential features, was
| 50 contrary to dominant and patriotic
ideas that it seemed waste Of breath to
try 10 defend it. Instead, however, of
the campaign becoming one Of furious
and successful aggressiyeness on the
! part Of the Republican organization, it
was permitted to Mr.. Cleveland to change
| the whole course pf Affairs nuin.1V nnI
| unostentationsly, and vet most cilec-
lively, he simply thrust the work of the
Chicago blunderers behind him, and
stepping out into the open he made his
battle-trankiy, cOurage0usly, yicto-
riously
The people refused to accept as state.
mcnts Of fact the dire predictions dnnod
into their ears from every Republican
platform, and repeated before their eyes
in the columns Of every subservient
| Republican newspaper. They said, in
reply, that they would take Mr. Clcve-
land 1T his word; that, as between
| Mckinleyism and Cleyelandism, the
latter was the most to be trusted, that
the former had been tried and found
wanting, and that the latter should have
a fair and honest trial.
1t WAS wonderful to witness the pass
ing change in public sentiment. Each
day il was more and more evident that
the people would refuse longerto follow
| the leadership of the Quays, the Platts,
the Carriers, the Clarksons, &c., and that
they would walk in the pathway
pointed out by the Greshams, tho
Coolcys, the Russels, sc. So one may
study the returns of Yesterdays election
and see the most significant evidence Of
the final determination OF the voters of
the United States to insist upon tariff
| policy that shall be us nearly lust as
| possible to all the people; and, in order
that there may be no question as 10 the
responsibility for the future, full power
has been placed in the hands Of the
| Democracy, the Senate and House being
| in accord with the executive, all depart.
mcnts of the Federal government being
Democratic for the first time in nearly
| 40 years.
1t is q tremendous Obligation. hut
there is one thought in which the public
mind rests with supreme confidence
| Mr.. Gle ycand is the absolute master of
the situation. He has riyen lis word
Of honor that there shall be no war Of
destruction upon established American
industries, ana he will be held to n rigtid
accountability for the performance or
the trust bestowed and the duty involved.
ii will be quite impossible for Inc rrck /.
less free trade or agrarian clements that
help to make up the opposition majority
in the House and Senate TO lcrislSte 50