The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-08
The Exile Of the Republican Party.

On Saturday the republican party
surrendered to the democracy both the
legislative and the executive branches
of the general government. Excepting
for single term, the party had exer-
cised the chief executive power since
March 4, 1861. During this long and
eventful period it had been in posses
sion of one or the other, and frequently
of both, branches of the legislative de-
partment. Senator Morrill, makes the
exile of the republican party from
power the subject of very interesting
contribution to the Independent of New
York. In the opening paragraph he
says:
Republicans may little regret their tenn
porary exile il it should result in giving the
British system of free trade practical trial
on American soil, together with trial OF
the proposed unsound and rickety substi-
tutes for money, as foreordained by the
present leaders OF the democratic party.
More swiftly than any other argument will
an actual trial Of these measures, weighted
by worldwide prescription, restore the
republican party to the permanent conf
dence and affection Of the country.
He shows that the democratic candidate
for the presidency, though having a
majority of the electors, was, on the
popular vote, in minority of 1888 ,407;
that he received only 81 ,466 more votes
than when he was defeated in 1888;
that, emitting the solid South, the other
states show plurality of AL ,416 for
Mr.. Harrison over Mr.. Cleveland. In
view of these facts, Mr.. Morrill, is of the
opinion that the republicans may still
survive with undiminished courage, and
with no sign of inactivity or omen of
future obscurity.
No president of the United States, he
says, in the closing year of his term
could have been more truly entitled than
President Harrison to declare: 81
leave this great people prosperous and
happy; and yet, in view of the plat
form and pledges of the democratic
party which succeeds to the executive
and legislative power, he might we'll
have added: "After US the deluge."
The republican era in the history of
our country, the venerable statesman
believes, will be known as the golden
age of the republic. The writer graph
ically sketches the growth, during the
political ascendency of the republicans,
of the population, wealth and general
comfort of the people of the United
States, u growth larger than has been
recorded in the history of our own PEG.
pie or any other. 1.-THE electric spark of
protection has wakened both new and
old industries into life in all parts of the
country, and the splendor of their prod
ucts appears in all markets. The wages
of laborers have been raised and main
tanned at a higher level than in any other
country on the habitable globe, and
multitudes from beyond the seas have
been eager to leave forever the land of
their nativity for new and better homes
in the great republic.
In the following striking paragraph
the senator tells the story of the coun-
ry's marvellous development under re-
publican administration and exhibits in
strong light the immensely of the
market the Americans themselves cre-
ate for their own products:
The value OF the United States products of
manufactures, by the census of 1880, was
5,34l ,830,S9O, and, by that of $780, it is esti-
mated they will amount to not less than
$9,50O,OD,0Oo This extraordinary increase
in single decade cannot fail to be largely
and justly attributed to republican tariffs,
and the total amount is greatly in excess OF
the production Of any other country. AS
our exports Of manufactures are less than
800, 900 annually, it Is obvious that the
Americana are larger conaumers of hnma