The Ravalli Republican. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1894-1899, 1894-11-21

asked. But he will blush, the hon
est, faithful husband that he is,
while be stammers Through his story.
Octave Thanet.
THE WRECK OF, DEMOCRACY.
Clcvclands's Trcaehcry and Humiliation
Of America the Cause.
This fading out of democratic
strength and courage and this shame
ful Identification OF the democratic
cause with all that it has been his
torically bound against, has been
countcnanced and promoted and ex-
hibited by the powerful treachery Of
q democratic president, Who first
smirchd his party with his atrocious
apology for the crimes Of Homestead
and then prostituted it to the iincomc
tax plank OF tlle popu1ist platform.
No man, whether president Or mere
politician, and no party, whether
democrat or republican, can tramplc
under foot the most vital sentiments
Of the American nation without be-
ing overwhelmed by it's wrath.
In another respect the influence Of
Grover Cleveland upon national poll
tics has been as potent for the cmas-
culation Of his party as his cu]tiya-
tion of populism. x man without a
party, like Cleveland, must be backed
by mob Or be without a following,
and that mob must be mixed and
uncertain, and if loyal to his capri
ciousness, which neither recognizes
nor understands party allegiance, it
must be irresponsible and unneces-
sarjly offensive to the community at
large. The people in this country
are governed by parties, and just as
their respect is great for tine ga1G9aci-
pie or party politics, SO is their
aversion to any effort to displacc it
with the despotism Of a personal con-
ceit using power given to it for
another purpose. The Cleveland
idea affronts the universal democratic
prejudice, and the party associating
itself with it must surely suffer after
the first spasm Of cohercncy has
passed While Cleveland is at the
head of the democratic party, the
general instinct tends toward the
organization which holds high the
spirit ,.of Amcricanism, ard that,
party.
In the same way Cleveland has
stamped on all American Feeling in
his foreign policy. In this intensely
partisan republic, domestic partisan
ship has stopped at the border with
every administration which has ever
governed it before. Our foreign re-
lations show one general purpose to
sustain, to preserve, or, as occasion
arose, to extend the interests and the
prestige Of the United States. TsEhc
Cleveland administration is the one
exception which has subjected even
the foreign interests Of America to
it's personal spite against It's POLITICAL
ly antagonistic predecessor and to it's
craze for the sensational and the fam
tastic. 1t wasn't the actual hauling
down of the Americal flag in Hawaii
that made the American public feel
ashamed and cheated and jndi CHANT
and vcngeful against the party whose
name had been made to cover the
deed: but the utterly outrageous
reputation Of honesty and faia play
in dealing with the struggling Haw-
allan government, rejoicing to see
the flag raised, and hoping to sec it
wave forever, and the intolcrablc
folly Of attempting to restore dis
gusting monarchy. So with Samoa,
or Canada or any foreign countr!
with which our connections have
risen into prominence.
In short, the first effect Of Clcvc.
lands administration has been Il
strip the democratic party Of ever
the semblance Of uTku!t'ing Americal
Institutions and American traditions
and American pride, and ito force Tit
national flag, at home, as well a
abroad, into the keeping Of the re
pu'blkcans. This extraordinary trans
fer has been witnessed once before
the republicans first lascamc tn
|kceDcrs Of the national sentiment il
1891, and they held power for twcn
ty-tive years aftcrWard. New Yor
Sun (dem.)
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