Los Angeles herald., 1892-04-10
SOMETHING ABOUT NRGATIoNs.

ways happy in it's plays on phrases. 1t
is just now busily engaged in proving
the Democratic party to be negative
organization. 1t imagines that when it
has rolled this word around it's tongue
with great JUNCTION it has accomplished
something very cunning. Let us see
how this comes out.
Society itself is negative force. 1t
supplies the policeman and other off,
GERS of the law to act as negative on
the thief and law breaker. The mega
tive action of the Democratic party and
it's eternal vigilance have been of mo-
mentous consequence to the well-being
of the United States.
The Democratic party has put mega
tive on schemes of profligate expendi-
ture that would have repeated the ex-
periences of the billion dollar congress
at every session of that body since the
war.
1t has put negative on third terms,
force bills and on the outright surrender
of all the functions of government to the
money power. 1t is true that this mega
tive has not been potential in every in
stance, but it has been of incalculable
efficacy, all the same.
It put negative on the proposition,
after the war, to make the southern
states conquered provinces.
1t has been precisely that kind OF a
negative politically which virtue is to
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liable attitude of the Democratic party,
and but for its eternal vigilance, the
locks would have been unscrewed from
the doors of the public buildings in
Washington, and even the furnaces that
heated the public buildings would have
been carried off.
The Democratic party put its mega
tive, and a very peremptory one, on the
style ofspeakers of the house of represen-
tatives we have had following the war.
1t imposed negative, which amounted
to quietus, on Schuyler Colfax and his
Credit Mobilier escapade, and the coun-
try helped it do so by the celebrated
tidal wave elections of 1874, by replac-
ing a house OF representatives three
fourths Republican by a house which
was nearly two-thirds Democratic. The
splendid work of the Forty-fourth con-
gress was not only negative, but affirma-
tive to striking extent.
1t negatived in 1884, by the election
OF Grover Cleveland over James G.
Blaine, the prostitution OF great public
trusts to private gain. Bearing Blaine's
career in mind, no speaker OF the house
of representatives will ever dare to
write of his action in an official capacity
as respects railway, as Blaine did in
the case of the Little Rock and Fort
Scott railway, 81 am no deadhead in
any enterprise in which am inter-
ested."
Last fall the Democratic party put a
crushing negative on Gear Reed, who
assumed to be sort Of congressional
dictator, by electing house of repre-
sentatives three.fourths Democratic in
place OF that which he assumed so in
solently to control.
Fine as the negative action of the
Democratic party has been, it's affrma-
tive deeds have been still more praise
worthy. 1t has given the people an
opportunity to see what fine thing an
economical administration of the affairs
OF the nation is, and what good thing
it is to be able to confront the people
with surplus, instead of deficit. 1t
has shown that it could construct navy
without any strain on the resources Of
the United States. 1t also showed, in
the disturbance on the Isthmus of Pan
anna, how Democratic administration
could maintain the honor of the United
States and make our power respected
without bluster.
All the negative action of the Demo
cratic party has been in the direction of
curbing Republican excesses. But our
opponents have been quite negative in
many essentials in which negation was
disastrous to the United States.
1t has negatived out of existence the
merchant marine of this country. The
Republican party destroyed the Amer
lean navy, and the first work of the
Democracy on recovering power was to
upbuild it.
A most gloomy negation of our ma
tional honor was perpetrated by the
Republican party when Grants admin
istration permitted Burriel, the Spanish
butcher, to slaughter American citizens
who formed the passengers and crew OF
the Virginius.
The Republican party has negatived
all the traditions of American manhood
in submitting to arbitration the rights
we acquired in the Bering sea from Rus
sia and which we have always claimed.
The only things which the Republican
party has never attempted to negative
have been the clamorous demands o1
the iron barons and those of other pro.
tected interests. On the other hand, ii
has negatived merclessly the legitimate
aspirations of the producer and con-
sumner.
Words are easily played with, and
often very frivolously. The Democratic
party is engaged just now in attempting
to negative some of the infamous exac.
tions of the Mckinley tariff. 1t is safe
to say that this negatory action will be