The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-25

INDIANS. With that conviction, Hancock
permitted the understanding TO go forth
flag In the contest that followed he was
badly beaten; and thus IL was that tne
country tottered four years longer on the
rocky edge OF dissolution.
In 1884 a robust county official OF BulIalo
was called by the Democrats to LEAD them
in one more attempt TO succor the govern
ment The Union savers were this time
nominally successful. elect1ng the Buffalo
Mascot with a decided plurality over James
c.. Blaine. Cleveland's victory in TINS can
vass will be recalled In future ponucal MS
tory as the defeat of Blaine Ills auinlnlS-
tration was handicapped throughout by the
Republican Senate, which stood IKE a CID
raItar weather-front i'm the way or the
promised mugwump millennium. Inc nrst
Cleveland term was. therefore, little more
than a season of innocuouS 1esuetu .
In 1858 General Harrison, of Indiana, tenn
porarily retired the plethoric reformer, and
gave the people another four years OF eN-
asperatingy good government. purlng
this period the protective policy took def
mite form and pre-eminence In the McAm-
lev law. The federal election law and sun
dry financial measures were also features
OF the Harrison administration
The ''ides OF March, 1893, terminated
practically continuous run of Republican
legislation. dating from the eventful spring
the lower House OF Congress 10 the Demo
Gratis: and in the presidential election of
1892 the Buffalo man of destiny was again
pitted against Harrison. The result was
phenomenal and astounding. Cleveland lit
orally carried the country, even many Of
the old Republican States falling in line
with the triumphant Democracy"
The victory was so overwhelming and de-
cisive that the Nations deliverance was
doubIy assured. The Democrats themselves
we're as profoundly amazed at the result
as the rest OF the civilized world. Many
OF them were moved to tears The golden
age had burst upon them between two
moons Thousands of Democrats who had
for a quarter of a century looked eagerly
and confidently for famines. pestilences.
his fnII1 Gafin n=
tons and all other conceivable forms of
calamity and catastrophe taught by their
leaders as incident to Republican admins
trations. were thrown into violent and
sometimes malignant symptoms of hys-
terra. Old Jackson Democrats wanted to
die while the spell was on, but the younger
Bourbons preferred staying with the post
offices and other dispensable usufruct. The
plain people" who had helped TO drive the
piutocrats from power made the sky
lurid with bOnfires and burning effiges.
The factory employes-many of them-were
temporary sharers in the general tuba-
ton The mortgage-5 urdened farmer came
gaIIoping to town. eager TO help wind the
first blast that was 10 do double duty i'm
starting fires in all spent furnaces and
China pigs The reformed wOol-groWer
marched TO the strident music of rams
horns over the broken walls of Republican
JCrchOS. Kansas corn and Nebraska wheat
waved a Joyous signal across the valley
and mountain. and the Boston bean re-
spOnded with characteristic emisSions of
pure down-east enthusiasm. The inmacu-
late mugwump laid his lily-whfte hand ON
his rufiied bosom and rolled his humid eyes
In utterlesS alteration toward Buffalo The
Eastern importer compiacently patted his
emispheric front elevation as ne saw in
his minds vision the New York custom
house melting and spreading into a vast
Republican mauSolcum- Even the Voice.
Of prohibition sent up a falsetto chorus Of
hosannas. and in. due course followed il
with stealthy instruction from headquar-
tiers. announcing that now was the time To
go forth with hand bags and gather in the
scattered household gods OF defunct Re
tublicanism.
The country was indeed "saved''-from
Montreal to Cuba. and from Castle Garden