The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-05-01
CLEVELAND TO BLAME
For the Unhappy Plight Of the
Democratic Party.
NO LEADER. w4rTEason SAYS.
Flsta Expsessasa - shs Cssssnps YeIt
BY - nsssss Mss fsr DtsAea-
sssy - she People.

TACOMA. ArrSI 3o-Tspscial. l-Fo,iovin
10 IN authorized report OF N tnssrvew
with Henry watfsrson:
What 40 you think Of the sdminisfrs-
too 20
You want me 70 pot the history IL
year into . paragraph Il il nos scf
think great deal Of the administration
There ars those Who insist thss IN single
Twelve months il has consrived 10 ureck
the party. and that the slaughter house
With is open rraye attachment. that sofne
one predicted before the national conven-
.ion OF ise2. sas merely delayed. not
averted. This remains TO be seem In
American politics shree years is genera
ton, ard nearly three years lie bessfxt 40
and the NEXT presidential election The
Immediate situation certainly does isck
some of the accessories of . torchlight pro-
cessicn, but those laugh best who laugh
last. aud things may mend neasnrabsy be-
fore the next time. | am m op;imist. not
pesslmisi, and above all 3 Demoe rat, and
1 shall not look for the worst until Is A.
riyes"
How about the presidensf"
THE president 10 . master. not leader.
The opposition made 70 his nomination
in 1892 was provoked partially by the con-
dision Of things existing At that time in
the state OF New York. bnt behind that
consideration lay . certain doubt of Mr..
Cleveland - just precisely the man 90 full
I'LL reasonable Democratic expectations.
In Democratic fellowship and sympathies
Mr.. Cleveland has never been quite one
With the party. He has always half dis
trusted ii and felt disposed To make apollo
giss for IL. The man who thanks God that
he 10 alive cannot Be counted on success
fuiiy TO head . storming party. TO dispiace
Republican policies and carry Democratic
poiicieA Mistakes aggression II often bet
Ter than prudent conservatism. and reck-
less audacity often contains half measures.
Revolutions are not to be comprised by
rose water. - the Spanish provero has il.
Unhappsiy. thus far Mr.. Cleveland seems
to have disrei Arded this dark forecast.
The Democratic outlook is not propitious.
Every whers the party Is at cross purposes.
and while the president ought not to be
charged with entire responsibility for
this, he 10 the captain, and. in politics -
in war, the rule OF measurement - success,
However. as l suggested. one story is
good until another is told, and IL 10 too
early finally TO condemn the admins
trxtion. All things work under God for
good. Whom He loveth, you knew. He
chasteneth. and that ought to be TO Demo-
Gratis, AZ It ID to Christians, . hope and
comfort -
"And the Wilson biI? Pr
What Wilson bill? All. yes: think
there was bill All. yes. TO be sure, the
Wilson. bill: but then that died a-bornin',
didn't itf And now We have the Voorhees,
bill. or the Harris bill. which Is il? Any
how. II 10 not worth remembering, because
whatever is done today Will be undcne to-
morrow. and in no event VIII any Demo-
shalt have to do the whole thing over
again. In six short months the good work
OF twelve long years has been squandered.
The classes are in the saddle and the
masses sent to gra.s, and that by Demo-
Gratis. not by Republicans The ire
pie, twice approved by overwhelming pop
ular majorities, has been dissipated. and
the courage and discipline Of great ad-
vancing and conquering army had been
lost because Gruver Cleveland did not
know what he vas about when he wrote
his message Of 1857. liz il . sad end to many
campaigns Of educatian, nobly fought. II
was not thus. when the convention of
1892 rose apon its feet and brushed aside
the protectionist gibberish represented ~
tariff gospel by its platform committee,
substituting by two to one vote . deci-
sive tarifi-for-revenue-oniy declaration.
that the contidedt and triumphant legions
Of Democracy looked to see the outcome.
Bat God II just, and though somew hat
paralyzed, the Democratic hand 10 stlli
strong enough to pick its fins aud try it
again. Surely party which has survived
SO much was not born to die
"And the Industrial Army?"
You mean the Amaigamated Associa-
ton Of American Tramps,
Some In rags. and some In tags, and some In
velvet gowns,
who are on the way from nowhere, and
bound for no place in PARTICULAR Well,
there can be but one end to such excur-
sions, disaster TO those engaged in them,
hurt TO the people at large, and especially
the injury of the honest iahoring men and
women, who stay at home, work for Q
| living and try to educate their children
| With millions of waste acres. with vast
natural resources. with equal opportuns-
| ties in the walks Of life, there is no reason
able pretext for revolutionary expedien,s
| and violent agencies in a country like ours
| This sporadic outbreak of supine ruffian-
| ism will run its course. Ii will do its work
| OF wreck. ge. pass from the scene to be for
| gotten like the many local manifestations
notably thas Of Dennis Kearney ia San
Francisco--did before II. Il is melancholy
to think that any honest poor man shall
be misied by it. for il represents no real
| interests of honest labor. 1t can bring
| good to nobody, only mischief to all con-
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