New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-08-02
No Leader But One.

-" No Leader But One. -.
The democratic press all over the
country are giving a great deal of
thought and discussion to the question
who will be the democratic leader in
congress during the coming extra session.
The discussion does not appear to pos
sess any special value or significance.
The democrats really want leader very
badly, but is decidedly doubtful wheth-
er they will find him or indeed whether
they can ever find him under existing
conditions.
There is one supreme leader of the
democratic party and he is at present in
the presidential chair. He will not brook
and, evidently neither will the party
brook,any rivalry in leadership with him.
He is the arbiter OF the democratic for
tunes. He is the Moses who has brought
the party out of the wilderness of defeat
into the promised land Of spoils. Who
ever is to be leader will be his appointee
and his creature, and there is little use
in trying to have it otherwise. Whose
/ everis the mouthpiece of the administra-
ton on the floor of the lower house, he
will he the leader, none else. It will
not be Bourke Cochran as so many ex-
pect, because theSe is as much sympathy
of feeling between Cochran and the pre-
sent actual head Of his party as there is
between the smoker of good HAVANA
cigar and the tobacco sign outside the
store in which the cigar was purchased.
Neither will it be either of the Breckin-
ridges. It will be whatsoever man Mr..
Cleveland will designate, and he is more
likely to designate some shifty time-serv-
ing old war horse like Springer than any
one with the real qualities of leadership.
There will really be no occasion for a
leader, except in perfunctory way. Con-
gress has its duty very plainly mapped
out for 1t. The lower house will, we be-
lieve, respond promptly enough to the
demands of the country for the repeal of
the silver purchase law. Mr.. Bland and
his following may make the situation in
teresting for time, but all the forces of
the hour are against them, and they will
yield in little while because they will
have to yield.
1t is in the senate that the need of
leader will be found. That is body in
which the idea of personal prerogative
has been carried to the limit. Senators
will there find themselves called upon to
vote as they voted in the first place.
simply on account of considerations of
senatorial dignity and courtesy, and I'M
less, as in the case of Senator VOORHEES,,
the proper steps have been taken to car
ry conviction to the souls of the free sill
yer senators there is little use in hoping
for very much from that body.
If this matter of congressional leader
ship were really live problem it would
not be difficult Of settlement in either
house. There are two men, one senator
the other representative, who by their
steadfast adherance to course of oppos-
ition to. and dcnunciation of the Sherman
law, and By their pre-eminepce in their
party, ought to lead of right. These men
are: William Bourke Cochran in the
house, and David B. Hill in the senate.
But as we have had occasion already to
remark, there Is one leader of the Demo-
cratic party; and the 'democrotic party
has already decided between him and the
Hills and Cockrahs. If he is not the
party itself, he certainly is the leader.
ST Pan1 DiSnatch