The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-11-15
THE LANDSLIDE.
Cleveland's Silver Policy Over.
whelmingly Rebuked. The
Democracy Split to
Pieces.

Pieces.
Just as we anticipated the Ameri-
can people have sat down on Grover
Cleveland and his single gold-stand-
ard policy with ten thousand tons
weight. No such Overturning has
been seen since the election of Lin
coin. Cleveland has torn the dem
ocratic party into fragments. 1t
has lost New York state BY about
$4,000; Ohio by 100000, New Jersey
by 10000, Massachusetts, by 10000
and even Iowa, (Which Boies twice
carried,) by 10000: while the demo-
cratic vote has been largely reduced
in Virginia and Kentucky and every
where else. The poor, bewildered,
prosecuted people, oppressed by their
miseries, turned on Cleveland like
wild beasts; and, like wild beasts
there was very little sense in their
madness. For while repudiating de-
mocracy they rushed headlong into
the arms of republicanism; forget
ting that the republicans were even
more to blame for the terrible con-
ditions of the country, than the
democrats; for it was in an effort
of Cleveland to unite with John
Sherman. and consummate the des-
truction of silver, begun by the re-
publicans in 1873, and pertinaciously
continued by them for twenty years,
that the collapse came. The repeal
of the act of 1890 could not have
been carried through the United
States senate without the help of
Sherman and nearly all the other re-
publican senators. There were 81
democrats voted for repeal and %
against it, while only 6 out of the re-
publicans voted in opposition to re-
peal and these six are only nominal
republicans. 1t is therefore as much
or more a republican measure than
a democratic one; and to rush from
democracy to republicanism on ac-
count of hard times, was a species
Of insanity, such as sometimes seizes
upon great communities. But the
same impulsive masses, who know
that something is wrong, and have
not yet found out what causes it.,
will say next year,-"Why, we voted
republican last fall to rebuke Cleve-
land, and times are just as hard as
ever. We will try the new party and
see what that will do" Jerry Simp-
son witty says,-the people are like
a man walking over a raft of loose
logs; he Jumps from one to another
to keep out of the water, and he will
eventually light on the populist log.
which will be big enough to hold
him. The whole American people
are "sloshing" around, in an extra
ordinary manner. Last year they
"sloshed" over to Cleveland, this
year they "sloshed" back again, and
there was about as much sense in
the one movement as the other.
But in the meantime the work of
education progresses steadily In
Massachusetts, the populists increased
their vote one hundred per cent; in Vir-
ginia they carried the counties of
New.Kent, Campbell, Carolina,
Prince George, Greensville, Powhat-
tan, Prince Edward, Sussex, Taze-
we'll and Floyd, with fifty other
counties yet to be heard from on
Nov. s; and no reports since that
time. The old party papers are sup
pressing all the news favorable to
the populists and distorting what
they cannot suppress. The Pioneer
Press, republican, says "The demo
Gratis have carried Virginia. Thank
God!" On the other hand there is
no bad feeling among democrats
over the republican landslide. They
feel it is all in the family. The
great horror of both the old parties
is-the populists! That is the bete
noir in the background:-the black
beast that threatens to devOur plu-
tocracy. By another year the pro-
cess of education, under the slim
illus of poverty and empty stomachs,
will have immensely advanced,
among the masses. They will find
the republican log turning under
their feet and ready to let them
down into the abyss, and they will
spring, as one man, on the populist
log,. representing constitutional lib
erty and human happiness. l. d.
More Trusts and Combines.
1.-THE formation of one of the most
gigantic trusts known in the Com
mercial history of the country was
brought to light by the filing of the
q rti icleS of INSTRUMENTATION of the Mis-