The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-19

substitution OF state banks for nations
currency, would give an immediate and dis.
ss'r0Cs shock to business But we are some
times told they do not mean what they saw III
SO, could the people wisely entruss power 20 .
party which does not mean to keen
promises and appeals for popular sup
port with admitted lie On its lips.
NJ oeAer tines we are told their
Candidate neither believes IN the Platform nor
would dream of carrying it ont, and that there.
fore there Is TO danger. We put no such as.
parsion upon their candidate. It is impossible
that any easd date in the contest could for an
instant have intended TO occupy a position so
unworthy. Furthermore, the duty of carrying
out the plain purpose decided by an overwhelra-
Ing majority in the highest Democratic
tribunal would deyolve not upon tho
president. but upon the congress to be elected
oy this party. The danger has never been be.
lore SO great The Democratic party has threat
ened the peace and prosperity of the country,
out within the memory of this generation it has
never lad the power TO carry out its purposes
1t 10 sometimes said: "You predicted all
manner of disasters when Cleveland
was elected, but nothing happened" A
good many regretabls things did happen,
though the worst could not, because the hands
OF the party were tied in congress But tho
present political situation makes it plain that
Democratic victory in the states which they
must now carry in order to elect the president
would also insure them enough new senators to
reverse the present slender majority in the SEN
ate. IL they elect the president they will GER
tain!y have both house and senate, and thus
VIII be placed in absolute control for the frat
time since 1889, with nothing 20 prevent carry
ing out the threats they have made against the
present tariff and currency. l: is idle, there
lore, as ii Is slanderous to there is no danger
from the triumphs of our opponents since the
candidate will refuse TO carry out their prin.
? nnt wit Nd hsn
not anyway. because the power was not with
Eim but with congress
Iie attempt 10 change the issue from the
tariff and currency and divert attention to the
alleged force bill scarcely calls for notice. Tho
very title Of the bill proclaims its object to be
TO prevent the use of force at elections. lt
failed, anyway. and Southern white men,
who were lately its chief and most inter-
ested opponents, now begin TO wish il was
revived TO protect them from being themselves
counted out OF elections they fairly won, as the
other day i'll Ala abama by their own white fellow
Democrats 1t is well, however, to say that the
enumeration in the Democratic platform of the
principle that the federal government may su-
pervlse the election of federal officers Is
grotesoue. The principle has been long
recognized and sustained by the courts.
1t now stands undisputed on the
statute books and WAS enforced at recent cleo
tons py Grover Cleveland, then president, but
il is not to be disguised tha: the recent clamor
against the principle, if 1t means anything,
means purpose to nulify the fourteenth aud
fifteenth amendment to the constitution.
The Republican party has t4ken successful
steps to revive American shipping. and the reso-
ulions of its convention confirm its devotion
to the principle. The Democratic resolutions
say nothing on the subject, and it is fair to say
the Democratic party takes no interest in it.
Its only desire is that We should buy ships
abroad, just rs through the tariff contest IL
wishes us to buy iron, clothes, cotton goods,
glassware, pottery and tin abroad.
The administration of President Harrison has
been generally recognized honest, able and
safe Considering the number of important
subjects both foreign and domestic. il has been
compelled to deal with, and the satisfac-
tion that has attended the results,
it may. indeed, be pronounced sue
cessful believe your declaration of
principles and your denomination of prudent,
spotless and successful president will command
popular approval at the polls and will under
God inure to the continued benefit OF our coun-
try.