Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-11-10
FRIDAY, NOV. 10, 1893.
coNDEMNED.

Tuesdays election was most
emphatic condemnation Of the Dem
ocratic party by the people Of every
Northern state who had chance to
record their political feelings. The
detailed returns formed one grand,
crushing verdict against the party
that had gained complete control Of
the national government for the first
time in this generation. It's incom-
potency, its disloyalty and its dis
honesty were SO quickly displayed
that the great states Of the North
gave such majorities against it as
recall the days when the people before
punished the party for its treason.
In years gone by Democratic leaders
denounced as unconstitutional the
efforts Of the Republican party to
preserve the Union, and their success
ors proclaim as unconstitutional the
Republican policy Of advancing the
interests Of this country as against
the interests Of the manufacturers and
the workingmen Of other countries.
There were reverses in the other great
contest but victory rewarded the
efforts Of friends Of the nation, and
few can now be found but believe
that the Old Democracy will be
as surely beaten as it was before.
Many instances combined 70 reveal
the inability Of the party in power in
the senate, and the house Of represen-
tatives and the departments to
satisfactorily conduct the affairs Of
the nation.
In public patronage foreign repre-
sentatives were selected from a class
of rich nobodie who contributed
to the Democratic campaign fund for
such promised reward, and drunken
buns were sent from Southern states
to fill Offices in the North, about the
duties Of which they knew nothing
and cared as little.
In dealing with financial questions
the Democratic leaders displayed their
old affection for dishonest money and
an unsound system of government cur
rency.
In the pension matter they showed
their old hatred of the veteran by
suspending from the rolls the names
Of thousands of needy and deserving
pensioners, AMI replacing only those
that no technicality could prevent.
In the matter Of honest elections
the house with its great majority
passed bill absolutely Withdrawing
every power the nation had to pre-
vent fraud and corruption in the cleo
ZION OF us own Othcers.
In the matter of the tariff the party
showed cowardly fear of either CIV
ing the relief it promised or of &C
complishing the disaster it threatened
to our industrial system.
Nationally it exhibited in general
such character that the American
people repudiated it, and in the sew
eral localities it attempted such OBJ
noxious measures that it was over
whelmed. TammanY Hall and Hill
tried to place on the bench of the states
highest court an acknowledged thief,
with the result that Maynard was
beaten by 100000 majority, and
every Republican candidate for state
office was elected, with both branches
of the legislature Of the same political
complexion. In Chicago the governor
Of the state decreed the defeat of the
judge who sentenced the murderous
anarchists, and last years Democratic
majority Of 10000 in that city gives
way to Republican victory.
Nationally and locally the Democratic
party is i'll as bad repute as it was
thirty years ago, and that on present
and living issues.