New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-11
THE CAMPAIGN Up TO DATE.

Four remarkable interviews were given out
Sunday night by Chairman Carter, of the Re
pubrican National Committee, Secretary Charles
Foster. Senator sherman and Senator Aldrch.
The essential point of all is contained IN these
sentences from Mr.. Carter's remarks: 81
think that the people understand that both
branches OF Congress will necessarily be Demo
cratic in the event of President HARRISON de-
feat We cannot lose the Presidency and save
either the Senate or the House" In this state
ment Secretary Foster, Senator Sherman and
Senator Aldrich agreed. Nor is there any doubt
that il is true Every voter should understand
that he casts his ballot on November 8, not
merely as between Benjamin Harrison ana
Grover Cleveland but as between our present
governmental policies of Protection, Reel
procity and sound finance on the one hand, ana
Free Trade. the abandonment of the Reciprocity
treaties and the restoration of State bank cur
rency on the other. The question before every
voter is Do you wish the policies uhdef
which America has achieved the prosperity
that YOU see around you reversed, or do you
wish them to be continued? The man who
desires to have these policies reversed will vote
the Democratic ticket. The man who desires
70 have them continued will vote for Harrison
and Reid. But he must distinctly understand
that he cannot vote for Cleveland and expect
anv other result than the enactment OF Free
Trade tariff, the abrogatiOn of the RECIPROCITY
conventions and the substitution for our pres
ent Trustworthy money of system OF finance
under which bits of paper will be stamped ana
circulated among the people as legal tender
without guarantees as 10 their value.
Shortly after this campaign opened Mr. Red
sought to impress on the Republican party the
danger of overconfdence. This has been the
danger all along, and it is the only danger that
confronts the Republican party now. Repub-
Leans are everywhere saying, IN rather light
hearted way, that the proposed policies OF the
Democratic party are too preposterouS TO admit
of the belief that they will be sustained by the
people. This ought to be true. Indeed, it IS
true: but there is reason to fear that many
noonlc. who are more or less attached to the
Domocratic party by association and who in
cline to entertain a good opinion OF Cleveland
personally. will vote for him on tho ground
that the Democrats really do not mean what
thew say in their platform, that they Will no'
dare attempt its execution, and that II they
did. Cleveland would step in with vetOeS TO
avert disaster The Democratic party, more
over. does not do much thinking. Ii is Il solid.
compact, well-olga gained and wcll-diScpned
mass strongest in the cities where the vote IS
most easily got out, and it will carry into the
ballot boxes of its own momentum an enormous
vote Republicans. therefore, must wake up.
They must realize that they cannot re-elect
Mr.. Harrison without united and substantial
effort They must keep before their own minds
and before the minds of their friends and neigh
bors of independent and Democratic leanings
the fact that the Government in all its branches
IS at stake that Mr. Cleveland's election will
almost inevitably place the whole power of the
Government in the hands of Democratic poll
ticians and that the men will have control OF
Congress who believe in income taxes, Free
Trade free silver coinage or no coinage at
all, and that whether these men succeed or