The Globe-republican., 1893-06-30

it Is necessary to be as wise as seTpents
and as harmless as doves.
| CAMPAIGN MISTAKES.
| Had Mr.. Cleveland made the pres;.
] dent of . colossal railroad system his
| political spokesman and manager at
| Chicago last summer he would not have
strengthened his cause before the peo-
pie. Had the democratic party nomi-
mated for vice president an uxorious
| millionaire who had antagonized the
! labor element of the country by super
cilious affronts, its intrepidity would
have exceeded its discretion. Declare
tions of policy delivered by gentlemen
who step in evening dress from patri-
clan banquets to the porticos of palaces
may be profound and patriotic, but they
do not thrill the bosoms Of the plebe-
| ians, the common herd who eat their
dinner from tin pail at noon and live
| in tenement houses in the cities and
dug-outs on the prairies. As Gen. Bos-
quet said of the charge of the Six Hun
dred at Balaklava: "This is brilliant
but it is not war;
The constructive period of the nation
has passed. The epoch is closed. The
constitution is the supreme law. Slav-
cry, state sovereignty and the other
| disturbing issues of our forInatory and
preliminary era are extinct. We have
no foreign complications. no policies
that will provoke or engender HOSTILE
ties at home or abroad. The questions
of the future will concern admin!stra-
tration like those arising in the conduct
of great business enterpriSe-the
finances, wages, profits. partners, mar
kets and internal police. Foreign wars
are possible, but in the highest degree
improbable. We ought to destroy En-
glish commerce and burn London in re-
turn for the sack of Washington and
the piracies of the Ala bama and Shen-
andoah, but Great Britain fights only
the feeble. With her equals she arbi-
trates. The Anglo-Saxon is courage
Gus, but he is prudent. Discretion is
the better part of our valor. We bully
Chilli, Italy, Mexico and China. but
with Great Britain, Russia and Ger
many we are punctilious. Toward
those we practice the ethics of slug
ger, to these we extend the golden rule
and the code of international law.
New times demand new measures and
new men, it is said. Neither do men
put new wine into old bottles, else the
bottles break and the wine runneth
out and the bottles perish, but they
put new wine into new bottles and both
are preserved" The republican party
must readjust itself to present condi-
tions and rectify its frontiers. 1t has
few Jonahs who should be cast over
board. 1t must desist from the attempt
to fight battles with cartridge shells
that have been emptied and 10 grind its
grist with water that has run by the
mill. The veteran commanders should
go on the retired list and more atten-
ton be paid to recruiting stations and
less to drumhead courts-martial If
anybody wants to vote the republican
ticket it would be well to permit him
to do SO without inquiring too infinitely
about his pedigree, his tailor, his re-
ligious preferences or his habits at the
table. At the polls the result is de-
termined by numbers, and not by
wealth, education or respecta bility
alone.
The recent convention of republican
leagues at Louisville was neither a con-
sultation of physicians over a moribund
patient nor post-mortem upon his re-
mains Its deliberations We're wisely
confined to serious and thoughtful con-
ference upon present conditions. Ev-
cry party has impulsive members whose
function is to prepare issues. In the
spring their fancy lightly turns to
thoughts of campaign literature They
care not who makes the laws of a coun-
try so long as they can write its plat
forms. Then there are the political
rain-makers, who lombard the sky
with decorating explosives which are
expected to produce fertilizing showers
and to arouse attention on neighboring
spheres.
THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE QUESTION.
1t is related by some forgotten his
torian that once upon a time the
savants and philosophers decided that |
if all the inha bitants of the earth would
shout together at the top of their voices |
at the same instant, as is done at polit- |
zeal conventions generally. it would |
make such tremendous noise that it |
would attract the attention of the |
jewellers in the moon. So arrange
ments we're made, circulars sent out, |
the time fixed, clocks carefully COM
pared and rroclamations issued. Upon |
the appointed day business was sus-
pended. The people assembled in the
fields and parks and open places with |
expanded chests. eager for the expert |
ment. When the clock struck every |
one was so anxious to hear the noise |
himself that instead of the. unprece-
denied uproar that was anticipated |
there was dead silence on every island |
and continent in the world. The only
person who shouted was an aged deaf |
woman at Pekin.
1t was very still at Louisville. The
attempt to commit the party indirectly
to women's suffrage was impolitic. for
the reason that this question should be
decided by women and not by men, and
by the states and not BY the nation.
The tendency from subordination to