The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-11-10
SAUK CENTRE HERALD
THURSDAY. Nov. 10. 1892.
ROUTED.


At This writing it would seem that it
is no ordi airy defeat which the Rcpubli-
can party has sustained i'm the nation, |
but repetition Of the utter rout Of two |
years ago. All along the line the party |
has been defeated in manner which
would he ignominious hut for the fact
that the immediate cause is its firm all
h renee to settled policy and principle
which is patriotic and wise, and which
will. in time, indicate itself as the true
American policy. To the disappoint-
ment of de!eat there is no added sting of
conscious departure from either honor
able methods or patriotic principle.
The party nominated pure and able
men and placed them upon platform
which declared unequivocally for the
three great bulwarks OF national pros
perity and perpetuity, viz; protection OF
American industry, honest money and
an unrestricted ballot. BY system OF
ingenious Misrepresentation the demo-
cratic party during the campaign has
presented these issues in a false light,
and have succeeded in deluding thou
sands of voters. Added to this it called
TO its assistance, willingly or unwilling
ly, large class of political rnalcontents
whose only excuse for existence as
separate organization is that they could
by this means assist in the overthrow of
the best administration this nation has
enjoyed for a quarter of a century. 1t
was not hope of success which inspired
such leader as Mr.. Weaver. Mr.. Donnes-
ly anu Mr.. Halverson, but merely a
determination to compass the defeat Of
that party which made them possible as
potent political factors. e..
The Mckinley bill. for which the Re-
publican party has no apologies to offer.
has been treated by the Democratic
press and rostrom as though it were
mere aggregation OF disconnected tariff
rates, arbitrarily imposed for the arti-
fetal stimulation of certain preferred or
favored lines of manufacture. and not as
a principle Of which the schedules were
mere accessories. 1t is one of the most
homogeneous and skilliully devised
measures of its class ever attempted.
Tie Democratic party is pledged to its
oy.r.l.r1N-a hedge which it has neither
the courage nor the ability 20 redeem.
1t is not a measure which will endure
tinkeriug. 1t is magnificent structure
erected according to an ingenious plan,
every part and feature being supplement-
ed to and interdependent npon every
other part and feature. To attempt to
materially modify will be merely to dis
tort. There are individual items which
can be changed, and doubtless for the
better by altering a figure here and
there, but even that must be by skilled
hand-one who understands not orl!
the basal principle but the the true rela-
tions of the integral parts.
To the task of reconstruction or demo-
lition the Democratic party is in honor
bound to address itself with all the Wig
or and wisdom it possesses. Will it do
it? Scarcely. The Democratic south,
largely now as in the old days of nullif-
cation, welded to the Calhoun idea OF
free trade, still has an element which will
not submit to any measure calculated
to cripple the new industrial interests
Just springing into existence in the south.
And the northern Democrats are as
hopelessly divided upon this question.
They are free traders so far as what they
consume is concerned, but they are pro-
tectionists so far as what they produce
is concerned, and the gulf is SO wide that
it cannot be bridged-so deep that it
cannot be filled.
II the party is more wise than honest
it will nttempt nothing OF the kind, pre-
ferring the Charybis of broken promises
to the Scylla of damnatory failure, but
in either event doomed to destruction.
So, too, with the plank demanding
the repeal Of the 10 per cent tax on State
bank circulation-it will ignore the Chi
cago platform If it he wise. So tar as
attempting to guarantee and enforce
honest elections in the south, or any
where else, it will violate neither prece-
dent nor conscience by ignoring the mat
ter altogether.
The Republican party abides its time
in perfect confidence.