Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-10-11
The End ADDroaches.

I'VE take no note of time but from its
loss"
Four weeks from to-day the great battle
for the presidency ought To be decided
and II will be decided. The crime of 1876
will never be repeated. The people of the
United States have made up their minds
that they will never again allow the high
est Office in their gift 10 be stolen. Nor
will they allow it to be bought again. The
battle. then, will DO ended four weeks
hence. and the people will learn before
they retire TO rest on the sth of November
who is 10 be President of the United States
for four years from the 4th of March next.
That fortunate man will be GROVER CLEyH-
LAND. He was defeated in 1888. That Is
20 saw, an immense sum of money was ex-
pended in the great State Of New York
10 compass his exclusion from the presl-
DENTAL office. and with that sum OF money
that Office was IN effect bought. But, we
repeat, he will not be ruled out. nor
bought ont, nor counted out again. Free
dom's battle is always won, saws BYRON.
So freemen's battles are always won. The
people know how they were deprived OF
their choice in 1876 and 1888. and they Will
be on the alert in New York and every
where else. bent upon securing the object
of the current campaign.
Nothing is more tImid than million
Of dollars except two Millions" said
United States senator once. SO we need
not fear that the bloated capitalists who
last week determined to expend a million
Il 80, a. ole nf III
SON will dare 10 raise q finger after they
learn that CLEVELAND has been successful.
" BERrRAM's right and BERTRAM's might "
will have met upon Ellengowan's height
apd CLEvLLAND's title TO the presidency
will find not one millionaire to question 1t.
The people don't want the money OF the
capitalists or of anybody else. but they
want the presidency, and they are going
TO have it.
These be big words" Yes. but they Will
proye TO be true words The Republican
leaders are aware that their party cannot
survive defeat this year. but must IN
that event reform their lines and divide
the voters upon new issues Their party
is belated. 1t is out of date. 1t ought TO
have died long ago. It's survival TO this
day is not survival of the fttest. but
of the least fit. Let us bury 1t out OF
sight in November. Look at the present
House of Representatives. 1t contains SO
Republicans, s Farmers Alliance men, and
235 Democrats These 235 Democrats III
the Peoples House" are. by the way.
a sure guarantee that the Republicans Will
not attempt to steal or buy the presidency
after the voters have deposited their bal
lots.
But suppose Mr.. CLEVELAND shall be de-
feated after all, will the Democratic party
survive another defeat? Not If the Re
pubicans can succeed in enacting the
force bill into law. That bill, once be
come law in the form which it is yet to
assume under JOHNNY DAvENPoRT's
manipulations, would perpetuate the rule
OF the Republican party for an indefinite
period in the future. Federal officials
would return Republicans as elected to
the House OF Representatives IN just as
many congressional districts as they
might choose TO appropriate TO them
selves. But, thank Heaven, the Republi-
cans cannot overcome the Democratic ma
JOIltV III Tue DItecuN lipust VI ANtlANoNhho-
tiyes. and so the force bill cannot be
enacted into a law. New York now
stands free, thanks to DAVID b. HILL and
her last Legislature. and the Empire State
will not again be gerrymandered III order
10 give the Republicans a majority IN the
national House of Representatives. The
logical CONCLUSION Is that the Democrats
could and the Republicans could not sur
yive defeat in November, 1892.
But let us all work as if the result de
pended upon our individual exertions.
The prize for which We fight is worth all
the lsbors which we can devote o securing
il. The honor We seek for CLEVELAND IS
the crown of rejoicing which freemen
will bestOw upon him and upon them
selves when they learn that he has been
chosen the chief magistrate of sixty-odd
millions of people.