Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-10-26
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1892
"Whoeyer Wins Wnl Win AL"


That was declaration calculated to or
rest the attention OF thoughtful men
which Mr.. WnITELAw RID made when he
said Of the presidential election, now so
near at hand. whoever wins will win oil.
We commented upon il briefly yesterday I;
but inasmuch as Senators SHERMAN and
ALDMcH. Secretary CHARLES Foster. and
Nr. Chairman CARTER have thought 1t
proper TO endorse Mr.. RErD's declaration,
re will take occasion to remind the reader
that there is much more involved in the
utterance of Mr.. REID than he intended to
place before the rublic.
Yes, If the Democrats elect Mr.. CLEvE-
LAND they will WIN ALL" They will secure
possession Of the national House of Re-
representatives. and OF State Legislatures
enough 10 enable them soon afterwards to
secure possession of the United States
Senate. They will win the right 70 re-
model the MCKINLEY tariff, and rid the
country of the burthen Of indirect taxa
ton which now cripples all our energies
and makes the people restless, impatient.
sullen, and conscious of being tho victims
of wrongs which they have no power to
right. They will win the right TO turn
the rascals out" Of all the Federal Offices
In the land and ell their places with honest
men, whose regard for principle has been
such that it has induced them for thirty
wears to shut themselves out of public
Office rather than surrender one article Of
the Democratic creed as means of getting
a place near the flesh pots of Egypt.
They will, In a word, win all"
And in like manner the Republicans will
twin all" If they win the election of Mr..
HARRISON. They will win the right to per-
petuate all the enormities of the McKIS-
LEY bill and to claim that the people have
authorized them so to do. They will win
The night to make protection" ten times
rs odious as It now is. They will win the
right to tax the people In every form and
70 throw millions of dollars OF pension
bribes into the pockets of the northern
people, thus impoverishing the southern
people and making absenteeism as pre-
valent in the South as 1t is IN Ireland.
They will win the right to Dragon and
harass the South, which would soon be the
richest country IN the world were
IL not lOI tut NIOuEs hLlCh ouc SuuNlo Nv
the hands of the Republican party. The
Republicans. like the Democrats. will win
both houses of Congress if they win the
presidency. But above all, they will win
the power and the right, as they already
have the disposition. TO enact the force
bull into law. and TO subject the south
ern people to indignities greater if posi-
BILE than those under which they suffered
and groaned in reconstruction days. They
will WIN the right to put every congress
tional district IN the Union under the
control Of JOHNNY DAVENPORT at the
head of a gang of Federal place-hunters
and tax-eaters to be appointed by Repub-
lican judges. They will win the right to
empower eighteen Republican judges to
Gil the land with Republican harpies and
cormorants. In word. they will win the
right TO destroy the fairest fabric of gov
eminent which the world has ever seen,
and place IN its stead grand consolidated
despotism. governing the country from
Washington and reducing the several
States to the condition of mere satraples.
Whoever wins will win all.