The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-07-28
SUCCESS INEVITABLE.
Never Teiore Were signs SO Hcprfc, fol
Democracy.

Democracy.
Since the war the democratic party
never entered presidential canvass
with 80 strong hold upon, the conf
dence of the people of the several
states OF the union as It has this year
The campaign OF 1858 was fought upon
an issue tina. was new to the voters of
the generation, an issue which proposed
to clear away the tax legislation of the
war period and restore the country to
the normal conditions of development
under which at was prospecting before
the war nccessitatcd enormous taxa
tion which brought about abnormal
conditions. The party was hound to so
to the people on the issue of tariff re-
duction some time for the first time,
and to take great chances Of defeat
when it first made. the contest on that
line. Defeat came in 1888; but in a
maryelously short time the issue has
gained ground with the people. In
iori tYszof5stllie erszof#t the
United States Expressed themselves IN
favor of tariff reduction as outlined in
President Cleveiand's message and EN-
bodied in the Mills bill; but the cleo
toral machinery provided ny the eonsti-
tuition was against the popular vote.
For four years the democratic party
has been making the fight on the same
lines as in 1883. and as a result it has
driven the republican party from every
great Office for which the people during
that period have been privileged to
vote. An overwhelming democratic
majority in the house OF represents
tives and republican losses in the
United States senate are not the only
proofs of the ascendancY of democrat
ic principles and purposes. State after
-ststte which in 1sss voted for Harrison
and protectionisIn has joined thelepubz
lican column, until the fingers OF the
two hands outnumber the states which
the republican party with any certain
ty can count on 10 give their electoral
votes to Harrison in November.
The democracy have carried New
York by fifty thousand plurality and
are in control of every executive branch
and both bran hes Of the Legislature;
they have carried Indiana by nearly
twenty thousand, and have demon
strated that the republican nominee
cannot win i'm his, own state. Twice in
succession they have carried Massachu-
sets in the cast and Iowa in the west,
two states once claimed as republican
strongholds, and the aggressive de-
mocracv of those states arc confident
that for the first time they may con-
tribute positively to the election of a
democratic president and vice president.
Wisconsin and Michigan have each
democr attic governors and democratic
legislatures, and where democratic
hopes in 1888 in those states were built
upon the rainbow, this year they rest
on tally sheets of elections held that
certify to democratic majorities in those
states. Illinois has been steadily grow
ing in democratic strength, New Hamp-
shire, honestly carried by the democ-
racy. stands ready to rcbukc republican
fraud which deprived the state of its
democratic governor and democratic
United States senator, and in Mime
sofa, Kansas and Nebraska, the repub
lican party has become minority par
ty which must struggle hard to main
tain a place in the republican electoral
column.
There never before have been SO many
doubtful states in presidential election
as there promise to be this year. State
after state in which in the quadrcnnial
struggle the democracy have made but
perfunctory efforts, this year will be
the scene of determined attempts, not
to fight against odds, but to repeat vic
tories already won in 1890 and 1891, or
in both years : 1t is not surprising that
the republican party does not wish
to risk the reorganization of Harrison on
the one hand. and on the other does not
know which way to turn. The situa-
ton has nothing of encouragement in it
for the republican party. The 6eld is
already occupied by the democracy.
A lhanu RIMS