The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-11-10
THE REAL REASON.

Ihe 81. Paul GtO6e feels sore over
the result of Tuesdays election. Pos.
sibly the Democrats expected that
there might be mild reYulsion in
public opinion expressed at the polls,
for such an expression is quite often
the case with any administration.
| But such a stunning rebuke as was
| adminiStrated to free trade Demo
cracy is without precedent in off-year
voting.
And so the Globe in its agony cries
out that it's party is being punished
| for sins it never committed,
and that the troubles which are as
cribed to 1T, are the direct result of
Republican laws. But this is an ex-
PLANTATION which doesn't explain. 1t
is simply threshing over the old straw,
which it has pounded on for the past
four or five months.
In the Presidential campaign Dem
ocracy promised more prosperous
times if it was given lease of power.
The country was prosperous under
Republican rule. 1t had never enjoy
ed greater degree of prosperity than
was given it after the Mckinley law
was enacted. This prosperity was en-
joyed up to the advent of Democratic
control, and then came a change. 1T
could not be otherwise. All think
ing people had expected it, for Dem.
ocracy assumed that power intent on
overturning the entire economic sys-
tenn of this country. This must mean
period of uncertainty, when indus
tries must be more or less suspended
with the consequent idleness of the
men employed.
1t is true that the situation was
somewhat complicated by the tinan,
cial question, but what threw this
question into the situation so sudden
ly? 1t was all right so long as the
| Republicans were in control and 1t
was not known that the Democrats
would be successful. Why? Because
it was known that they would meet
in statesmanlike manner any diff
Guilty which might arise. But when
it was known that the Democracy
tainted with every financial heresy
ever known to man, was in cOntrO
confidence was at once shaken. AnC
| NH OF did hpnaH If
made still worse by the timid man
ner in which financial matters were
handled by the administration, which
showed an utter lack of policy and {
disposition to drift with the tide.
But when public sentiment became
so strong that delay could no longe.
be tolerated, and President Cleveland
pressed the button which called con
gress together, that body did the rest
The fight in Ohio was squarely be
tween free trade and protection. On
the one side was the great champion
of the American system. On thu
other was the apostle Of free trade
the author of the Democratic reVenu
plank which declared protection ;
fraud and unconstitutional. N
contest could have been more sQuarel
Joined and the result was an over
whelming majority for the protection
idea.
The Globe and it's followers in tn
advocacy of the un-American polio
of free trade may sQuirm and twis
underline severe rebuke administered
and try TO charge it up to Republican
laws, but it will not go down. TIL
people have had taste in the recen
depression, of what the Democrat
policy will be, and they want no NOR
of it, and if Democracy does not prof
by Tuesdays result it will meet wit
a worse fate than the shock it receiy
ed in Tuesdays skirmish.