Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-07-06
What Of the Result7

pated. The influences which started
that tidal wave we're many and vari-
Gus. Every political theorlzer, every
disappointed Office seeker, every
enemy Of American progress, every
repudiator Of honest debts, every SOC
ialist, every anarchist, every pension
hater, every Organization OF hatred,
every combination of political chilean.
cry contributed to assist the Demo-
cratic party into power. 1t IL not
therefore surprising that the cam
paign conducted by such incongruous
and INSCRIPTIONS forces should have
been one OF falsehood. IL Is not sur
prisiDg that such combination should
have been prodigal in its promises to
the voters. The people were assured
that the triumphant election of a
ticket opposed to the Republican party
would Immediately usher in an indus.
trial and commercial millennium, the
Inauguration of an era Of unexampled
and perpetual and universal prosper
ity. The chieftains of industry, whose
accumulated resources and skilled
energy alone make the employment of
vast armies Of workiDgmen at high
wages possible, we're denounced as
villains and tyrants, AS plunderers of
the poor and blackmailers, whose ex
tortions prevented the masses from
becoming wealthy. They were to be
oyerthrown and their fall, in some
mysterious way, was TO enrich the
whole people. The ability Of capital to
employ labor ut profit was to be de-
stroyed; yet labor was to enjoyigreater
remuneration than ever before. Our
home market was to be surrendered to
foreigners; but the demand for Ameri.
can products was to be multiplied man.
fold. The farmers, emacipated from
the trammels of the "robber tariff"
were to get double prices for their
crops; commerce was to gain new and
wider fields; money was to be plentiful
and Cheap" the entire population of
the Republic, with the exception Of
the tariff barons," was to revel in the
enjoyment Of good times.
Eight months have gone since the
people decided to change from the
business methods of the Republican
party to the unknown and
untried methods of the Democratic
party which has not an act of patriot.
ism or craftsmanship to its credit for
thirty years.
The results are not assuring. In
Kansas, mob was organized in the
city of Topeka, and without the
shadow OF legal right to act, declared
itself the legal house Of representativ
which the Populist governor proceeded
to recognize as the only lawful house,
and In order TO give II more color of
authority he called out the militia and
undertook with troops to difperse and
drive out OF the, State Capitol the legal
house OF representatives. This illegal
aud barefdced attempt at the usurpa-
ton of legislative authority by mob
of lSwbreakers led by the governor
himself Is u result of the overthrow of
the Republican party in Kansas in
1892.
In Illinois, Governor Altgeld
formed u combination to defeat the
Republicans by which he agreed with
the anarchists Of that State, If elected,
to pardon out Of the peniteutiary the
an irchists who had been sent there for
the llaymarket murders. Both sides
of the contract were carried out to the
very letter. The turning loose upon
the citizens of Illinois these criminals
is the direct result Of the defeat of the
Republicans in that State in 1892.
The condition of the entire country
In less than eight months after the
Republican defeat is graphically de-
scrlbed by the n. Y. Post, a Demo
cratic paper thus: 1T would be difficult
to exaggerate the distress and anxiety
which today pervade the business world
and are hourly becoming more acute.
IL has become almost impossible to
borrow money on any security what.
ever, aud this means, of course, that
the crisis will soon reach the working
classes through all the great agencies
OF production"
Since the 4th Of March there have
been S,46i failures or nearly 900
more than ever occurred in that length
OF time In any former period of our
history. The number of bank failures
In that time has exceeded by 200 all
the national bank failures for the past
ten years. President Harrison and
Secretary Window extended the gov.
ernment bonds at per cent, and paid
oil all who did not want the low or rate.
Last week there was an open sale Of
these bonds at per cent below par.
They sold Mt 95, n rate which has not
been reached before since the resump.
tlon OF specie payments In 1879. This
unfortunate aud lamentable condition
of the business interests Of this country
is the direct result Of the overthrow of
the Republican party in 1892.
The opposition obtained control of
states and 'he Nti0n ly false prom.
ises Statesmen aud Patriots were