The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-11-18
CURRENT COMMENT.

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date to have deserved success and en-
countered failure than to have achieved
victory and deserved defeat.-Boston
Advertiser.
~ Republicans will generally take
their medicine without q grimace. The
heroic stuff of which they are built
will assert itself on top in 1S96.-Min-
neapolis Journal
sS In 1896 the republicans viii sweep
everything. The free silver and wild
cat currency programme of the west
ern and southern ends of the democ-
racy will be antagonized by the eastern
end and by Cleveland and the party
will be split for the time being. Thu
1896 will be n great year for the repub
licans.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Is When democrats shall have ''re-
formed" the tariff to practically free
trade basis--if that day shall ever come
-workingmen who in this year of
grace 1892 deserted the republican
party TO join the ranks of the free
traders will have an opportunity to
mourn reduction of wages which W i'll
be necessary to enable America to COM
| pete with foreign manufactures.-Chi-
cago Journal
| u The great cities of New York
and Chicago have elected the demo-
cratic president without much appar-
! ent change elsewhere, except in com
munities subject to the same great in
! hux of population. The republican
! party has, by the operation of the pro-
| tective tariff, built up the cities at the
cost of the rural districts, and the cities
have reqIited it by finging it out of
pOver.-Detroit Evening News.
y There is nothing now to prevent
the democrats from complying with
the wishes of the trades unions. Cleve-
land can call an extra session and by
next July a pungent tariff reform
bill can be enacted. and the country
can have the benefit thereof. And
then the workmen will find out
whether their employers can continue
to pay them high wages while they get
goods at foreign prices. There is no
other way OF convincing them they
have been fooled and voted against
their own interests. Experience is a
dear school, but many people never
learn in any other.-Chicago Tribune.
Il The republican party of the na-
tion is defeated but it Is not destroyed.
1t is party of principles, not of make
shifts. 1t can afford to wait for the
certain vindication which must come
when the people have had full exhi-
bition of the lack of business capacity
on the part OF the democracy. That
party's lease of uncontrolled power
cannot be long-unless the people of
the north submit to the introduction
of the election methods which have
rendered the name of southern democ-
racy kissing and reproach to every
honest man--Toledo Blade.
e What the republican party needs
to do is to organize at once for the
campaign of 1896 on strictly republican
lines, which have always been popular
lines. New blood must be infused into
the management of the party. Before
four years of democratic rule have
passed, the country will be perfectly
ready to restore republican supremacy,
provided the party is in touch with the
great heart of the people, as it used to
be, and is ready to lead them to even
greater heights of liberty and prosper
ity than they have enjoyed through all
the years since the close of the war un-
der republican administration
apOlis Journal.
s53 1t is idle to disguise the fact that
the result will be, for time at least, a
serious disappointment to the people OF
our own and neighboring states, whose
vast interests have been so long fos-
tered and engendered by the policy of
the republican party. The main con-
ISOLATION for republicans to extract
from the situation is that it is not any
positive Endorsement of the dangerous
and destructive democratic platform.
There is color for this in the necessity
under which Mr.. Cleveland and other
democratic leaders felt imposed on
them, late in the campaign, of virtually
throwing the platform overheard and
attempting to substitute for it some
thing less reactionary and offensive
Pitts burgh Dispatch.
eS5 1t is needless to say that the result
viii be great disappointment torepufN
licans, because they have confidently
relied upon the assurances of long-ex-
perienced leaders in different states,
whose knowledge Of the peoples
wishes has rarely been defective. 1t
had been hoped that the splendid re-
suits attained under President Harri-
sons administration had placed be-
yond doubt the maintenance of the re-
publican policy for years to come. a
result in doubt is therefore most disap-
pointing and If it proves that a demo-
cratic president and a democratic con-
greSs have been elected the conse-
Suences to the business and industries
of the country will not be such as to
insure the party a long lease of power.
N. Y. Tribune.
eHThe vote showed the effect of the
immense influx of foreigners in our
large cities. New York, Brooklyn and
Chicago all made unexpectedly large
democratic gains, due, without doubt,
10 the heavy accessions of foreign pop
ulation. As soon as 4 foreigner arrives
in either of the frst-named cities he
falls into the clutches of democratic
politicians, aspires to be police Off
GER. or to hold some similar position,
and swearS allegiance to the democ-
racy before he becomes citizen If
he new administration moves upon
republican lines industry will continue
TO thrive. Should the principles upon
which Mr.. Cleveland has been elected
be put into execution disaster would
be inevitable and the democracy would
be relegated to long period of obscur-
ty.-Cleveland Leader.