Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-11-19
A TIDAL WAVE.


Call says: The 6ght has been won-snd
loss. Literally il has been tidal wave.
Everything has gone. 1t looked black
enoogh when the fact Of the utter rout Of
the Republicans in New York became
known. bat when State after State, small
and great wheeled into the Democratic
column there settled a sort Of apathy
upon she Harrison shousers, and even the
fact that Ohio was probably lost, when
it became known, failed to awaken even
the fsintest show Of pain. The agony
from The first heavy blow had dGlled the
sense Of suffering for the rest.
The result has been surprising, not
only itself, but is far-reschiug magni-
tude. Possibly it was to have been ex-
pectsd that Cleveland, 10 an alliance OF
kept-fsi,h with TammAny, would carry
New York. Bat whs. Democrat, even
the most enthusiastic, dared more thar
hope that Indiana and Connecticut and
New Jersey would also declare for the
great tariff reformerf Then. when it
came to Illinois aud Wisconsin and Iowa,
and even Ohio, why. the Democrats went
mad, and men Of no party had room for
further surprise. Even the slight hope
held out by Delaware to the Republi-
cans was broken, and the South stands
solid.
The trouble this time appears TO be
that it stands solid alongside all the bal
ance OF the country. Cleveland has not
only been elected, bu. he will have the
largest majority in the electoral college
hat has been given TO a candidate for
The Presidency in recent times. The
people clearly demand revolution in the
economic policy Of the country, and they
appear to have given Democratic Pres
dent. q Democratic Senate and Demo
cratic House Of Representatives with
which to effect that revolution.
A surprising development in connec-
zion with the result has been the strength
shown by the Populists. Where the Re-
publicans have Lost to the Democrats
.hey have lost to the Populists. Always
and everywhere 1t has been the Repub-
licans who have lost There is no hope
for the party anywhere, save the hope
that the policies advocated BY its oppo-
usnts should prove. as the Republican
party has always claimed, economic mis-
,akes when reduced TO practice. For
the present the people has chosen the
theoretical side Of the great economical
question as against the practical work
iugs Of the other side. and in this couu-
try the people rule. That they rule
wisely, in the end, At least. is shown BY
their ability TO work q revolution with
on. bloodshed. The Republican party
must trust to time for iss justification.
The Populiss strength in the West,
notably in Kansas, Nebraska, and the
Dakotas, mark a new departure in na-
sional politics, in that the people are
seeking remedy at the ballot box for the
capitalistic expressions Of which they
have go long complained. 1t is not, per
haps, so much revolt against the Re-
pablicans as against the corporations that
have used the Republican party, and
have been permitted to use it, for their
own enrichment at the expense Of the
producing classes. in the past staunchly
Republican.
Colorado and Nevada had the silver
question to settle, and in the fight to put
the inferior metal upon monetary equal.
ity with the superior fought as much
against the Democratic policy as against
Republican.