The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-14
LESSON OF THE ELECTION,
A Protest Against Tariff Disturbance
and a Revolt Against Democracy.

To the Editor Of the indianapolis Journal:
You were kind enough, shortly after the
last presidential election, to allow me to
say, through the Journal, that tariff played
no appreciable part in the result of that
election, but that it was produced by the
solid South; the solid saloon-slum-social-
istic element, which, though most marked
In New York and Chicago, is g. controlling
factor in all cities and large towns; the al
most solid Catholic Church, and the almost
solid organized labor, and that it is unwise
to ignore these truths. 1t is true that free
trade. very thinly disguised, was prominent
in the Democratic platform. But no matter
what economic measure the Democratic
party may propose or oppose, the first three
or these forces can always be relied upon
Tor help, as they have been for fifty years,
and as they will be for the next hundred
years; hence we may count the Democratic
party an abiding menace, ready to come to
the 'front.' whenever these inherent elements
receive any considerable assistance from
without. 1t is a well-known historic fact
that no Democratic politician or paper has
In nfty years uttered a syllable which would
ALLEVIATE one of these political forces. They
oare not do 1t, and Republicans are always
and everywhere unwise when they seek to
cater to any one of them, either in platform
or by the personnel of a ticket.
The case of organized labor is very differ
ent. Except In large cities our labor organ
atAOA oIC OOlhpO0CQ VI liC NdludDlc
and intelligent class of citizens; and that in
large cities the dangerous socialistic ele-
ment has stolen the livery of honest work.
ingmen to serve their devilish purposes in Is
no more to the discredit of these hon.
est workingmen than it is to the discredit
lows ET the or c6 ofber w or of re odd Fels
that bank wreckers and grain gamblers and
other rogues work their way into, even to
controlling positions, In deserving social or
religious organizations. There were some
things very plausible in some of the allega-
tons of Democratic leaders last year which
were designed to deceive honest men who
bad not all the facts before them, and the
labor organizations were carried almost solid
for the Democratic party by them. The
Democratic speakers and editors prated
about 1t by day and by night. for the mem
DRY of man cannot recall a single instance
of the Democratic party's carrying out it's
platform on any economic question. No one
ever expected it to materially disturb the
protective system SO Well adjusted by the
they not have both houses of Congress q
few years ago, and did they not let the
they not for thirty years denounced our
u~nequaled Republican circulating mediums
in their platforms without once attempting
in Congress to disturb them? No one ex-
pected or now expects them to lay impi-
Gus hands upon our system of protection.
They may do just what a Republican Con-
gress would do, sooner or later. They may
reGdjusl some Of the details, as condi-
tons change or experience suggests; but
Tic OdIt pOSSlDlitly VI OuCh d dISluI dilCe
of values in having both the executive and
the legislative branches of the government
at once made every prudent producer of
such goods as can be affected by a change
of policy prepare for the worst, and labor
ing men who were receiving better wages
and living better than ever before find
themselves now inditing their epitaph after
the one on the headstone of a hypochon-
driac:
1T was we'll, but wished to be better
Took physic and died"
The vote this wear in Ohio and PennSy1-
vania and Iowa Is a protest against a dis
turbance of protection, and the intelligent
laboring men gave it, while in New York,
New Jersey and Chicago, as IN Indianapolis,
IL was a revolt against this domination of
long controlled II, both locally and national
ly, and a declaration that even Demo-
Gratis would rather trust Republicans to re-
form abuses than to any longer be led by
the abiding and essential elements of their
own party, for without these three in
variable solids as a reliable basis, and the
occasional help of the fourth, Democracy
would never have recovered from the stag
withdrawal of the brains of the party to
organize a Southern Confederacy. / am not
sure but we made a mistake in whipping
them back, at least in making it possible
for them to again dictate the policy of the
government, as they are now doing by the
aid of their solid allies. However, the late
elections show that when we want 70
throw off their yoke we can and will.
Democrats will not materially disturb our
system of protecting American labor, nor
will they destroy our splendid Republican
system of currency, but they will repeal
the federal election laws; they have to:
their Southern bosses say they must, but
then look out for a solid North &gainst a
solid South and another Punishment of the
indianapolis, Nov. 10. U. L. SEE.