The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-08-25
N-PARTIsANsHIP.

When Democracy wants to get any
decent or necessary thing done it al-
ways has to appeal to the other party.
Then we are always told this is l OF
party question" Taen with anxious
faces and trembling hearts all the SEN
sibe and honest men of various par
ties are implored to forget everything
except the immediate emergency, and
TO come up to the help of the Lord
against the mighty. But who are the
mighty? Invariably the majority of
Democrats. Who are the enemies of
public prosperity and public honor,
who have to be put down by a great
non-partisan uprising of all good citi-
zens? Always the majority of Demo
Gratis. They use the votes of respecta.
ble Democrats to get power, and then
play the mischief with that power so
outrageously that grand non partisan
uprising is necessary to save the
country.
Men are beginning to ask whether
it would not be cheaper tolput down
and keep down the Democratic party
and partislnship, from which the re-
curing perils always come. b What is
the use, they inquire, of voting the
Democratic party into power in the
CITY or the state, in the House or the
Senate. or the Waite House, when
the next thing is always piteous ap-
neal to the people who have voted
against D mocracy TO come forward
with sacrificing patriotism and
save the land from perils which Dem
ocratic victory threatens? If it takes
united dead lift of all the patriotism
in the country to avert disaster and
dishonor, when Democrats have once
obtained power to do any mischief,
would it not be cheaper and more
sensible to unite in general nOn-part-
isan uprising to keep so dangerous a
party out Of power?
Democracy has not begun as yet to
use the great legislative power intrust-
ed to it by the votes of last November.
But the one thing certain is that a
large majority of the Representatives
and Senators Of that party are bent
upon changes which would send the
business and industries of the country
to the dogs. The dread of such
changes has already brought disasters
in many respects greater and harder
to bear than those which followed the
panic of 1873. Yet the Democratic
majority goes on its way attributing
all evils to a gradual increase in the
use Of silver, and yet insisting that
the only remedy is a su 1den sand
complete substitution of silver for gOlC
in use. The peril is realized Jby every
business man. A cry goes up which
few but Democratic representative
would hear unmoved. But because
two thirds or three-quaters of the cleaI
majority in both houses is desperately
and blindly going wrong, men Of every
shade Of political opinion are besough
TO put aside all partisanship and hell
to resist and overthrow this dangerou
Democratic majority.
Itisa a good thing to do. But
would have been an infinitely bette
thing to keep this mischief.makini
Democratic patty out of power las
November. That would have savet
the country countless millions. A
that time thousands OF anxious patflOt
who are now begging everybody to b
non-partisan, and thereby to save tn
country from the horrors of Dem ocra
tic finance, were rabid partisans q
Democracy and its candidates The
these men thought partisanship c
their kind was the only patriotism
Now they are on their knees beggin
everybody else to save them from tn
consequences Of their own victory
There is wanted new dictionary
Non.partisanship appears to NEAR
first Of all, to give the offices and tn
power to Democratic partisans, an
then to keep the Democratic tige
chal ned ifpOssible.