Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-10-31
RALLY TO THE STANDARD.
No Good Reason Why the Democrats
should Play a Losing Game.


should Play a Losing Game.
In facing critical situation it is folly
to ignore the dangers which 1T is i'm
perative to overcome before victory is
possible. II Is useless to disguise the
fact that the chief If not the only OBJ
stacle to a repetition of the democratic
triumphs in 1890 and 1892, is apathy.
The people appreciate the evils of Nc
Kinleyism as much now as then. The
fallacies of high protection are as APP
parent To them as ever, and the disasters
for which it is responsible have multi
piled. Harrison's administration which
impoverished the resources of this
country, and the notorious Reed con-
gress that made the nearest possible
approach TO partisan absolutism, do not
strike the country any more favorably
now than they did when chatting under
the laundering policy of the one and
the tyranny of the other.
Basing the conclusion upon the ac-
tions of democratic conventions in
every part of the union, President
Cleveland is personally stronger with
the people than ever before during his
remarkable career. They have no more
confidence in the republican party
or in republican principles than
they had when they elected dem
ocratic president and democratic con-
gress in 1892. Their intelligence and
wide-awake interest in national affairs
will not permit them 20 be hoodwinked
by the republican claim that the finan-
cial stringency and attendant depres-
sion were the result of placing the
democratic party in control at the die
tation of the greatest popular vote
ever received by a party aspiring to the
management of national affairs.
From every quarter the testimony Is
that better times are at hand and that
there is universal revival of business
which means in the future the restora-
ton of general prosperity. There is
every reason then that the democrats
of the country be loyal in their ale
glance and active in their efforts to re-
tain the supremacy which came to
them in such an overwhelming express
sion of favorable public sentiment. All
over the country most deserving men
have been nominated to the national
house of representatives, and in that
body the mistaken loyalty of democ-
racy to it's pledges is conceded. 1t
there indicated the confidence re-
posed in it by the people, and every con-
gressional candidate now in nomina-
ton by the party should receive its un-
divided support
In the state we have ticket to
which the party should rally in united
and determined support. To indorse
the scandals and extravagances of the
current administration by giving it a
further lease of power, while rejecting
the claims of those whom the demo-
cratic state convention placed in NOM
nation, would be for the party to
stultify itself and TO disregard the best
interests of the state. In Wayne county
there has been presented as strong
and clean a ticket as ever went before
the people for their Endorsement No
democrat can say aught against it. 1t
reflects the highest credit upon the
party which placed IL in nomination
and which now owes 1t a vigorous, de-
termined and winning support The
party Is in full command of the situa-
ton and for 1t to sacrifice its oppor-
tunity would be little less than treason.
Let every democrat do his duty.-De-