The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-12-13

White House had arisen from the Buffalo
shrievalty to supply. They carried the
Excalibur of the white-robed priest of
Reform.
There were GEORGE FRED WILLIAMS,
WILLIAM EVERETT, JOSIAH QUINCY,
NATHAN MATTHEWS. WILLIAM Il. RUS
SELL, john Il. RUSSELL. JOHN w. Cor
CoRAN-a shining group of peer
less knights-errant of the great round
table of Reform. Beside these there we're
the Silk Stockings, led by High Priest
LEvERETT SALToNsTALL, who finally lent
the glory of their silvered locks and sage
experience to temper the strong tone of
the young men rampant.
These drew TO them very large fol-
lowing. They made formidable COM
pany, truly. They were all bright men,
brainy men, honest men, eloquent men.
Yet it has happened that the cause
these men devoted themselves TO has not
prevailed. 1t has, indeed, crumbled
into dust, and the wind of the Republi-
can victories this fall has blown it into
unobserved corners where it will decay
and be swept away to mingle with other
rubbish of history, unwept, Union
ored and unsung."
These honest men builded house Of
cards, and when there was any weight
put upon it it collapsed.
Tbara fo 10 hatfa, characterization, of fba
shallowness of the Democratic creed
than tie course it has run in Massachu-
setts. 1t mas been tested there under
conditions as favorable as could be Gre
ated to order. There has never been
a scandal connected with any of
the eminent Democratic Office holders.
They have labored with single-hearted
zeal for the good Of the people. They
have had the most powerful portion of
the press very heartily with them, but
they could not prevail.
Why could they not prevail?
Is there any possible reason except
that their cause was bad one, and the
people discovered its badness and repu-
dated it?
There is no other reason, and the ex-
tinction of the Democracy in Massa-
chusetts has more significance, as
evidence that the country has at length
realized the fraudulent nature of the
Democratic claims, than the tremendous
overturn in New York, or the election
results in any other State.
People born in Massachusetts, of Mas
sachusetts parents, are wont to exclaim
upon occasion Massachusetts There
she stands = And there she stands now,
the silent and inexorable witness TO
the vengeance an intelligent people
wreaks upon fraudulent pretensions.
She has patiently allowed the men who
were fooling themselves an opportunity
to try to fool the rest of the people.
She has given the political cult of the
Cry for Reform clear field and many
favors.
Yet that paralysis which comes upon
eve tHlus Alidl nus hob ouhhSiche iho
blood struck the cult down, even before
it had come to the dignity of kits
What killed the Democracy? Go and
inquire at the Boston city hall, at the
Massachusetts, State House, at the
shepherds lodge on Leicester Hill, at the
Cambridge lawyers Office, at the
ex-judges law Offices hunt Quincy
over for "JosH' QUINCY, and look about
the game town for Head-master EVERETT.
There ought to be some information at
these places.
OF course, Massachusetts has proven
that there was no life-giving sap in the
Democracy. Its appearance of life was
wholly artificial. When the winds and
the showers of various campaigns,
and the wrenchings of two leases
of national power. had washed
off the paint, blown out the feathers of
the head-piece and laid open the put
tied joints, the poor, misshapen, wooden
image became too repulsive for people
to endure, and they simply turned their
backs upon it.