The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-17
Going ON the Rocks.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Just one year ago The Inquirer, with all
the earnestness and argument at its COM
mand, was urging the necessity ofre-elec
ing President Harrison and sustaining
Republican principles. AT that time the
whir of the loom, the click of the shuttle
and the hum of machinery resounded
throughout the land. Peace was on every
face and prosperity's wings spread over
all. Not In the history of the world has
nation been more prosperous, and yet
there went up from all sides the cry for
change" In spite of arguments and en-
treaty the people decided on the change"
and to-day The Inquirer is constrained to
ask charitable people to give bread to
keep the unemployed from starving. The
forty eight months of Republican prosper
ltv have been swallowed up by eight
months of Democratic ascendency, even
as the lean kline of Pharaoh's dream ate
up the fat kline and were still lll-favored
and lean-feshed.
We were told by certain great orators
and editors that all virtue was vestedI in
the Democratic party, that all good men
were Democrats, that the Republican
party was the party of robber barons, of
rich men who squeezed the life-blood out
of the poor, and who sought to set up an
oligarchy band on ill-gotten wealth. We
were assured that protection was robbery,
that it was unconstitutional that the of
ficials of the nation we're corrupt, and that
a change was essential to keep US from
the horrors of plutocracy. We were told
that the Democratic party was the party
of honesty, that it was the poor mans
party, that it sought to equalize the bur-
dens of government, that the prosperity
we enjoyed was not prosperity at all, that
there was a mist before our eyes and we
were deceived; that the real prosperity
would come with triumphant Democracy
and that the land would then flow with
milk and honey. We were told that
there was only one great statesman in all
the country. So they builded an altar
dedicated to Democracy on platform de-
voted principally to destructive considera-
tons they placed Grover Cleveland
thereon and babe all men fall down and
worship him.
There were many good men in the
grey dawn of last November 9th who
looked at the triumph of Democracy and
the wreck OF Republican ideas and felt
that the end had come indeed; that the
Republican party had received its death
stroke, and Democracy was restored
to its supremacy of generations agone.
The Inquirer did not believe this. 1t has
never believed that the right will ulti-
mately fail. but it did not have the opti-
mism to expect such sudden reversal of
public sentiment Not year has passed
since the triumphal professions of enthu-
siastic rooster bedecked Democrats march
ed up and down the streets of the land
exulting in the death of Protection and
the prospect of bread without price. Too
- hos no at nil mi nv
of them indeed are eating bread without
price, because they have no money where
with to buy. and must needs depend on
charity.
We were told last year that Grover
Cleveland was the only man to unite the
Democratic party and that in his election
all discordant elements we're harmonized.
At present it looks as if he woald 90 down
in history as the destroyer of his party
rather than its savior. Senator Smith
the other day, in well considered speech,
said truly that the Democratic par y
stood at the parting of the ways and that
unless all joined in following the admins
traton a split would come. 1t is no long
er possible for Mr. Cleveland to control
his party. He is not real leader. He
seeks to control and that is difficult of ac-
complishment. There are men in Con-
Rft6S VIM WCiO Oiu bllO DOlfiSC Va thC
party when he was an unknown lawyer
at Buffalo and these will not submit to
domination. Mr.. Cleveland lacks tact.
There is not a particle of diplomacy in
him. He is a plain, blunt man, with
many excellent ideas, whose success in
the past has ruined him as leader. He
has been spoiled by the adulation of his
own friends. During his first term he
was held in check by Republican SEN
ate. Now that he attempts to rule he is
utterly helpless. Some of his friends say
that this failure is because he is right on
the silver question and the majority of his
party is wrong. Unfortunately, this is
not the only rock upon which Democracy
is split Heretofore the devotion to Mr..
Cleveland, of Harper's Weekly, the New
York Euening Post and the New York
World has been of the most slavish char
acter They have worshipped at his
shrine they have heralded him as the
patron saint of Democracy, as practically
the only good and great man left in the
nation. What do they say now Says
Harpcr's Weekly. eve are compelled to
say that his (Cleveland's) action in this
instance (the Van Allen easel has dealt
blow to his moral prestige recovery from
which is exceedingly questionable"
Says the World IF the World had
thought him capable of making such an
appointment as that of Van Allen 1t would