The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-02
THE NEW GOVERNMENT.
Democrats Resort to Test of Physical
 Endurance.

Democrats Resort to a Test Of Gh!S''", Endurance.
 Various kinds of government have
 been tried by the human race. The first may be called that of physical force. The man of power, the man
 able to beat anybody else in brute con
 flict, was the king, or the man who
 can, as Mir. Carlyle, but seldom more
 epigrammatic than accurate, used to
 say. Then came other kinds of gov
 ernment by the score, and when one
 after another had proved inadequate,
 self-government came, the enthrone-
 ment of the common sense of most,
 and was considered the worlds last
 and best hope. But now appears new kind government by physical en-
 durancc. It is something like return
 to the stone age. The stout senator
 who can thrash his opponent on the
 floor is prevented by the march of
 civilization. The able senator who can overpower his opponent in reason argues and pleads in vain. The will of the millions who elect senators is impotent. The majority in the sen ate is defeated by its rules. Govern ment now turns upon the power of the minority to tire out the majority, to live with less sleep and less eating, so that the typical American of the period should be Dr. Tanner, who beat the world in fasting.
 Certain democrats fail to appreciate this new form of government, as it
 blocks their purposes. They forget that it was an invention of their own. For many years the republican nation found in republican senate the eX- pression of its will. Shifting fukes when there is no wind sometime, de- feat the better yacht, and so ficlilcness and laziness sometimes sent to the house majority not in harmony with the deliberative policy of the nation. But in the senate the same strong and steady wind of unshaken purpose worked out the will which the convic- Sion and conscience of the people had shaped. Then the democratic party set out to defeat that will Unable to out vote the majority, democratic senators resorted to physical endurance. They could filibuster indefinitely, resisting measures which the nation wished, and the rule of the senate made the majOri- ty powerless when the minority was willing and determined to defeat it by sheer endurance of fatigue. Men who know anything of public affairs do not need to be reminded how often great measures which were essential to the success of the nations policy were thwarted by democrats in the senate. They were only a minority, and yet they detied the majority to force them to vote. In those days democrats treated with scorn the argument that the majority ought to rule. "Yes, if it can in accordance with the traditions of the senate" they answered. Appeals to their patriotism were utterly wasted. When republicans proposed to modify the rules, not depriving the minority of any rightful power, but reasonably limiting its veto, the democrats shrieked against the tyranny of sup pressing debate" and declared they would fight the year out, stop all legis- lation and block the wheels of govern ment, before they would suffer the rules to be changed.
 Measures of the highest importance to the welfare of the nation were thus defeated. Largely in consequence of these defeats, and the displeasure which the people felt because their wishes were not carried into effect by the ma ajority charged with the respousi- bility of government, there finally came n change. To the democratic party was intrusted opportunity to see what it could do. And now grave democratic who ought in very shame to their conduct in times past, are execrating minority for doing just what they also had done repeated ly. They call down upon that minor ity the wrath of public censure, as if they had forgotten that their own re- bellion against the reasonable rule of the majority had at last brought them the power to govern. They rave and plead to no end. Exactly as they de- spised all appeals to courtesy, others are doing the same. If they talk of closure, a minority threatens to resist; exactly as they threatened to resist only a few years ago. Rebellion against the will of the people was made pardonable offcnse, one might argue, when democratic victory re- wardcd such q rebellion. The major ity in the senate or elsewhere has no rights which men of physical endur- ance are bound to. respect. Thus chickens. curses and democratic of- lenses against self-government, still come home to roost--N Y. Tribune.
 Mckinley on the Change.
 ''The people of this country voted for