Huntsville gazette., 1894-03-31
Grover, Grover,
-Four years more OF Grover;
In he goes,

Such was anticipation. How differ
ent has been experience! Where now
are the fat times of pro sperity and the
happy days of contentment? In what
can democracy take pride or the coun-
try find pleasure? How many Ameri-
cans are in the clover fields and how
great multitude find nothing better
than thistles?
The most tremendous facts of the
first year of Growers four clover seasons
are painfully familiar. The largest is
panic unprecedented in severity. Be
hind that great disaster follow its evil
brood of business failures, more numer-
GUS and extensive than were ever be-
fore known, loss of employment for
hundreds OF thousands of honest toll
ers, widespread misery and privation.
the sacrifice Of great property inter-
ests, the foreclosures of mortgages on
homes, and unnumbered evils of like
nature. The first sale of United States
bonds made within the last third of
century to obtain money for the
current expenses of the government is
one feature of the democratic clover
crop. Falling and inadequate revenues
have grown in Growers meadows.
Discomfort has spread and deepened
since the day when happier times were
ponderously prophesied. Social unrest
has been widened and intensified. The
proposal of an income tax has engen-
dered class strife. Prolonged struggles
over the initiation of the currency have
arrayed section against section. The
democratic tariff has set the whole
world of industry in a turmoil. Busi-
ness stagnates. while Bourbons fight
IN the halls of congress which were to
have been the presidents forcing beds
of prosperity. The Hawaiian fiasco has
deepened the disgust engendered by
blunders and crimes that are worse
than blunders at home.
If democrats narrow their view of
the first years record of their party
since it attained full control Of the gov
ernment, and look merely to political
results, the retrospect is not a whit
more cheering Defeat and dissenslon
have reigned supreme. Republican
majorities have swollen to enormous
proportions in republican states. Dem
ocratic strongholds have been lost.
Quincy led a spoilsman's carnival in the
state department. but all his prostitu
ton of consular patronage went for
nothing when the votes were counted.
Hoke Smith and Lochren made war
upon repu ublican pensioners and coddled
democratic veterans, but the result
was only more tremendous repu blican
majorities. Democratic senators have
humiliated the democratic president,
and the democratic president has bull
lied democratic senators and represen-
tatives. The party in power is mired
In wrangling and confusion Of counsel.
1t founders in the quicksands Of selfish
schemes, insincerity and cowardice,
and in It's helplessness it RACES to no
purpose and curses its own leaders.
Such, in the briefest possible space,
is the great change wrought in one
brief wear. Where there were conf
dence and hope despair and fear reigns
to-day Power has proved the bane of
the party which seized upon it SO
eagerly. Its pledges are unfulflled,
and its hopes of Inauguration day are
mockery of memory now. The travail
of uufruitful labor and aimless war
fare fills the present with bitterness
and blackens the future with the shad-
ows of more terrible defeats than have
yet been experienced by the mis-
guided and luckless democracy. There
is no JOY in remembering, no comfort
in reelection, no promise in looking
ahead And three years more of
Grover are to follow the one that has
worn wearily away.-Cleveland Leader.
Secretary Hoke Smith says he IS
q better Cleveland man to-day than he
ever was. Has the administration at
last been forced to get out testimonials
as to its .before and after taking' eff