The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-11-19

commanded the confidence of all elements
OF the people. irrespective Of party who
/ are Interested in order. sound finance.
economy and equal laws The people
turned with disgust from the old regime
| Of rottenness. privileges. corruption and
! extravaganza. 10 the bic ssed morn which
this new prospect open ed TO them. But
4 how performance fell instantly short Of
promise. As soon as the party took up
1 the relns Of government which the people
| threw down at It's feet, 1t boldly pro-
| claimed TO them that its programme In
| cluded fat money, Reputation OK con-
/ tracts the closing Of workshops, disorder
Of currency, and all the curses that come
on a people tampering with their money
and the public credit. Is it 10 be won
dered at that all the conservative orders OF
society turned with horror and disgust
from such a spectacle? Is it TO be Won
dered at that IL considered Itself taken
in and deceived? We say that 1t is not
and that the Democratic party must
learn instantly, and at once, that IT must
eliminate from its aims and association
every element OF anarchy, communionism
and population, or 1t had as well make
I'D it's mind that IL has been trusted by
the people for the last time, and that
1T is destined 10 remain forever out Of
power as soon as IT'S present lease ex-
pires. And we not only say that IL will
remain forever out of power, but we add
that Il ought to so remain. The progress
OF our civilization and Of this world rests
upon Justice. performance Of contracts
as made, obedience to the laws. and order
in every quarter. The Democratic party
must learn that this is so, or it must
prepare it's mind for an everlasting alb
sence from power
The article which we quote wisely warns
the men who represent the South In ma
tional affairs that it is they who have
most Of all excited the widespread alarm
Of the country at the threats OF general
order with which the Democratic party
is now credited. II. as the article. suggests,
they are muddle-headed, or If, as 1t fur
Their suggests rney too easily yield to the
cowardly fears of the Populist party
they should still recollect that the south
does not and cannot control this Union.
They should remember that the South,
ever since the war, has been badly han
dicapped by the prejudices which the war
and what led up to it loaded her with.
Her representatives, therefore, have been
granted a place in government more on
sufferance than with a design to allow
them to take charge Of It, and even when
they are on their best behavior, they
are looked at askance and with measure
Of suspicion. These considerations, even
IL they are "muddle-headed," ought TO be
sufficient to make them understand that
they should be moderate even in pressing
sound and just views. but that they are
committing suicide for themselves and
their section when they boldly and impu-
IDENTIFY press for legislation that closes all
the workshops and banks of the North
and West, that those who owe money IN
their own section may repUdiate their
obligations. They must be "muddlehead-
ed" indeed, if they were unable to see
AidA just tiiiS consequence WAC SUM, "
follow their raid upon northern capital
and vested rights.
Another point made in the article we
quote is very noticeable indeed. 1t claims
that Mr.. Cleveland has lost prestige I'm
the North the spells politics which his
administration has been carrying on" IL
must be remembered that this is from
Harpers Weekly, chief Of the Mugwumps
and one Of the strongest supporters that
Nr. Cleveland has heretofore had. When
we complained recently that Mr.. Cleveland
ought to have known of the use which
Mr.. O'Ferralrs friends We're making OF
his name, and that he should have ended
that use we did not know that 1t was al
legged elsewhere that the administration
was being dragged improperly into local
politics there. Can it be possible that Mr..
Cleveland, in moment Of weakness and
good nature has allowed the prestige of
his name and administration to be used by
designing men for their own benefit? We
shall be very slow to believe that this can
be true, and It will be with intense re-
gret we shall learn it, If knowledge Of 1t
is ever forced upon US.