The Globe-republican., 1893-06-30

tax, which sent them into epileptic con-
vulsions during the war as an odious,
inquisitorial invasion of human liberty.
they accept without murmur of pro-
test, and under the pitiless scourging
of his contempt for their greed of office
they whimperingly cringe with snarl-
| ing servility.
Had Harrison issued an order for the
| expulsion of place-hunters from the
White house and their Punishment from
Washington, the welkin would have
| cracked with such ''sweet thunder" as
has not been heard since Hippolyte
| bayed the bear with Hercules and Cad
mus in a wood of Crete.
DEMOCRACY IN POWER.
But Cleveland knows his accomplices.
He treats the party as an Esquimau
sledge-driver treats his team of dogs.
Once in harness, he gives them the
thong. and at the end of the journey
he losses the hungry pack chunclz of
frozen fish or decayed seal meat in the
shape of the nomination of a renegade
republican as a democratic secretary of
state, or ration of spoiled pemmican
made of the indefinite retention of re-
publican postmasters and lets them
sleep in the snow.
For the first time since the pusillani-
nous and vaciilating Buchanan escort
ed Lincoln to the executive mansion,
in 1861, the democracy is restored fully
to the possession of the congressional
and executive authority. The pendu-
lum has swung back from nationalism
to particularism again. There was an
uneasy apprehension that national and
centralized authority had expanded be-
yond safe limits; that the progressive
policy had proceeded too far, and that
the people should learn to rely more
upon individual enterprise and less
upon the government. 1t seemed to
many, and to some who were not dem
ocrats. that the train was going too
fast. So they applied the brake. For
four years we are to have strict con-
Struction and conservatism. For prog
resS. inertia is to he substituted. We
are to take account of stock. cut down
expenses. pare Off eycrcscences here
and there, pruEe the pension list. bal
ance the ledger and have the govern
ment conducted under a solemn sense
of responsibility for the discharge of
patriotic duty, as Mr.. Cleveland SO
often and SO solemnly says in such a
solemn manner with SO much solem-
nifty.
A BEAUTIFUL REPUBLICAN RECORD.
The republican party is the legiti-
mate inheritor of the ideas of Washing
-, .,
of the theories of jefferson and Madi-
son. 1t has exerted more powerful
influence upon our institutions during
the interval of its supremacy than any
other political organization in the
United States. The three constitu-
tiOnal amendments. with their insepa-
rable incidents, are the summary of it's
achievements The sovereignty of the
nation. a national legal tender paper
currency. the resumption of specie pay
ments. the development of the empire
of the west by its land and railroad
policy, the suppression of polygamy,
the construction of a navy, vast sys-
tenn of international improvements, the
nurture and ma intenance of American
commerce, agriculture, mining and
manufactures by protective tariff, are
its contributions to our political and
economic history.
Republicanism eliminated with the
close of Gen. Grants first term. and has
since CROPPED, foundered and declined.
Its central idea, whose force had unified
SO many discordant elements, having
been irrevocably fixed in the organic
law OF the nation, disintegration began.
The liberals, under the lead of Sumner
and Greeley, sloughed off. A series of
scandalous episodes, arising largely
from Ora want of civil experience
and his generous adhesion to unworthy
favorites, reused apprehension and dis
trust. The jealousies of rival leaders. in
ternecine feuds and quarrels intestine,
divided the party into hostile camps,
and the discomfort of the people was
made manifest by the tidal wave of |
1919, catastrophe whose proportions |
seemed so disastrous and irretrievable |
that immediate dissolution was conf |
IDENTITY predicted. But Hayes limped |
in, and after the Garfield tragedy came |
another hiatus. Four years of Cleve- |
land satisfied the country with par
ticularism. Harrison was chosen. Then |
followed the debacle of 1892, which |
surprised the victors fully as much as
the vanquished. And now. as in 1874, |
the prophets predict that the republic !
an party is to disappear; that the lines |
are broken down and a new organiza- |
ton is to be built upon the ruins of the |
old.
The republican party has never been
what is commonly called popular. Its
Purposes have been too serious and its
aims too high. For this reason it could |
never attract the detached and indif- |
ferent elements. The sentiment of de- |
pendence upon the people and of con-
sideration for the feelings, prejudices
and weaknesses of the people have
been wanting. It's leaders have occu-
pied the position of pedagogues toward
pupils needing reproOf and
instruction. Because it abolished
slavery they have felt it their duty to
abolish everything else that is perni-
drunkness, bad food,
gambling. speculation-and to regulate
transportation, commerce and bust