New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-29
THE DEVASTATTNG DlVENPORT

THE DEVASTATING DIVENPORT
1t now appears that the main issue Of the
present campaign is not to be the tariff or free
silver or the Billion-Doar Congress. but the
deyouring. devastating John /. Davenport. For
the last two or three years we have been told
that the Presidential campaign of 1892 was
to be fought on the issue of the tariff. with
Cleveland as the foremost representative Of
tariff reform. Cleveland has been nominated
on the s'raightost FreeTade platform ever
offered but all at once his friends have ceased
to talk tariff. 4 little while ago, just after
the Republican National Convention, we were
told that the Republican platform contained an
ignominious stladde on the silver question
and that Cleveland would be put on an out
spoken, square up-and- down antsvcr plat
form on which fight would be made in which
he would win hands down. Since the Demo-
cratic Convention made its platform We have
not heard anything about silver, except that
it is not an issue, and there's no use talking
about it. For the last year or more the Dem
ocratic press has had a great deal to say about
the Billion Dollar Congress, and tho over
whclming way in which the people would re-
bukc it by the election of Democratic Presi-
fifty majority Congress began fumbllng with
appropriations, pairing down everything so as
to fatten up the River and Harbor bill, the
Billon-Dollar racket has ceased.
The great issue. the only real issue, is the
Force bil' and John !. Davenport We are
now told that if President Harrison should be
reelected he would Immediately LET Davenport
loose and that that small but exceedingly wiry
and agile Destroyer would at once sharpen up
his bosom and go through the South intimi
dating the entire white population, taking
forcible possession Of the baot-boxcs and
ramming them full of votes for colored men for
all the offices, setting up negro Legislatures,
inauguratng black Governors, and standing
good government on its head everywhere. Our
staid and proper contemporary 1.-THE New
York Times" which for the last two years has
been weeping over the runous effects of the
Mckinley bill to such an extent that umbrellas
were almost as necessary in Printing House
Square as in Democratic National Conycn-
ton has dropped Mckinley and taken up blood
boiling over Davenport 1t describes in detail
the processes by which Davenport will carry
out his internal schemes tells how he will 60
into town where there is $50 Democratic ma
jority and with single stroke OF the pen add
to the list 1000 Republican votes mot cast
on account of intimidation" and thus give the
Republicans 80 majority And it says no
power on earth can stop him. THE bare
thought Of it," it says, (" is enough to make a
mans blood boil.'' 1t has already begun to
boil the blood of its readers, in view of the
impending calamity. This, too before the
campaign is week old. Why, at this rate
, with blood boiling the first week, everybody s
liver and lights will be on toasting forks,
sizzling over slow fires before the campaign is
ended.
Now, without undertaking to dilute the
diaboliSm of Davenport or soften the lines in
which the character of that bloody minded
despot is drawn, we venture to suggest that
if he is to be the sole issue Of the campaign. il
may be n mistake to show him up all at once
and at so early a stage. There is danger that
people will get used to him, and after while
cease to be afraid of him. He should be shown
up by easy stages by a sort of tapering pro-
cess that he would become more and more
dreadful each day as the canvass wears on to
its elimination, and then the Solid South, which
is just now giving signs of dissatisfaction with
Cleveland, will rise up is one man, and, shout
| ing Davenport is at the door" vote the reg
ular Democratic ticket all day long 1t seems
to u.s. too, that the attention oi the people
should be occasionally directed to the r,llnous
effects of the Mckinley bill, though that, of
course is nothing to be compared with the
swooping down of Davenport upon a doomed
people, With the evidences 81 thick about us
that the Mckinley bill has brought ruin, it
would be a mistake not to remind voters oc-
casionally of the fact Right here in Printing
House square may be seen any afternoon hun
dreds of young persons, bnrefooted and with
but one suspender, Offering with distressfu
cries To sell some of the most interesting and
valuable newspapers ever printed for a cent
apiece, when they are clearly worth twice that
sum and would bring it in any kind of pros
porous times Moreover, there may be met
almost any evening in City Hall Park gentle
men, travelling on their uppers. who have had
nothing TO eat since Clcvcland's Administra-
ton, and nothing to drink since yesterday.
All on account Of the Mckinley bill Let
Davenport the Destroyer continue to be the
main issue. but do not let us forget to point