Middletown transcript., 1893-09-30
THE pEMocRAT Party.

AS Seen Through Republican Glasses
in the ssSunday STAR
The Democratic party is ike the locust,
..the seventeenth year." locust is its popu-
lar though unnecessary name. 1t does not
appear very often in century, and does
not stay long before it splits up the back,
goes to pieces literally and disappears.
During it's brief existence it makes great
noise, frightens women and children, puts
its poisonous sting into great many beau
tiful trees and despoils them of life and
shade, and leaves its larvae all over the
vegetable world as seed for future evil and
mischief The Democratic locust has
poisoned the tree of confidence, blasted to
great degree the projecting foliage of the
American system, and here and there II
has struck a deathblow to American en-
terprises. But it is already split up the
back; and it will soon crumble to pieces
and pass away before four years are up,
leaving only the seeds of anarchy, discon-
tent and class hatred to break out in some
other form generation later.
In the Senate the majority is divided and
under the half-hearted leadership of Voor-
hees the debate on the silver repeal drags
its weary length along. The vote for re-
peal, it is said by good authority. is: Re-
publicans, q; Democrats. 10; against repeal:
Democrats, %; Republicans, 9; Popuhsts, 8;
Doubtful Republicans, 2; Democrats, 3.
Total, IS. Three seats are vacant and Vice
president Stevenson only votes in case of a
tie. He is against repeal. Three-fourths
of the Republicans in the Senate are for
repeal; one fourth are aga inst it. More
than half the Democrats are opposed
to repeal. In the House the locust is split
too-oyer the repeal of the Federal Elec-
tions statutes. A faction of the Democra-
tic locust, which believes in stealing every
thing, wants all those. statutes repeated.
Another faction, which thinks that only
enough to insure success ought to be stolen.
wants merely part of those statutes re-
pealed. And it is said, with good show of
authority, that President Cleyeland will
veto any bill for the real of any portion of
those statutes.
Whenever Senator Higgins speaks, he
stirs up the ansmals. His accurate and
caustic analysis of the election systems of
the Southern states three years ago, brought
out fusilade along the whole Southern
line, his knowledge of his subject being so
full and exact that Senator Reagan was
forced to admit that he was being instructed
in respect to his own State, Texas Again
the other day the Senator, in his Silver
speech, although he treated the subject on
the highest possible grounds, entering into
the philosophy of the question probably
deeper than any Of his associates had done
this session, aroused o perfect battery of
Interruptions. His speech showed, as the
Baltimore Sun said, an exact knowledge of
the money systems of the world. A friend
of the Senator, in speaking of the speech
last week, stated that, Immediately after
the passage of the silver purchase act three
years ago, Senator Higgins began an ex-
haustiye study of the subject and that
since then he had ransacked the whole
world for money data; that he had kept
himself as intimately informed concern
ing the financial policies, opinions and
changes of the several countries of Europe,
of Asia and of South America, as he had of
his own country. 1t is to be hoped that
Senator Higgins will have mis- speech
published and distributed throughout the
State.