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ciates among the South's representative
in Congress Both the Georgia Senators
are the same. Moreover, they have 80 lost
the high sense Of partisan good faith that
they have found no more difficulty than a
free lance like the President in waving aside
with indifference the verdict and compact
OF a national election IN favor Of a specif-
ically and historically rejected Socialistic
policy, happening to possess attractions for
them and their constituents as individuals
These statesmen come to Washington in
the name Of the Democratic party, but
to q judgment unclouded by partisan de
lusion they are not Democrats but Pop
ulists, and liable at any time, when the
great American principles Of Democracy
are threatened with subsection to Social
istic eccentricity, TO abandon their defence
and TO Join with their enemies. SO II is with
our Southern friends wherever found As the
tant Of Populism pervades the Democratic
party throughout the South, how can that
fact fall 10 impress the mind of every North
erner, whether Democrat or Republican
And this fading out of Democratic strength
and courage, and this shameful identified.
tion OF the Democratic cause with all that IL
had been historically bound against, has
been countenanced and promoted and eN-
hibited by the powerful treachery OF a Dem
ocratic President, who first smirched his
party with his atrocious apology for the
crimes Of Homestead and then prostituted it
to the income tax plank of the Populst
platform. No man, whether President or
mere politician. and no party, whether
Democratic or Republican, can trample un-
der foot the most vital sentiments of the
American nation without being over
whelmed by its wrath.
In another respect the influence of GROVER
CLEVELAND upon national politics has been
as potent for the emasculation Of his party
rs his cultivation Of Populisn. A man with
out party, like CLEVELAND, must bc
backed by mob OF be without following,
and that mob must be mixed and uncertain,
and, IL loyal to his capriciousness, which
neither recognizes nor understands party
allegiance, it must be irresponsible
and necessarily offensive to the COM
munity at large. The people in this coun-
try are governed by parties, and just as
their respect Is great for the principle Of
party politics, so is their aversion to any
effort to displace it with the despotism of
a personal conceit using power given to
it for other purposes. The CLEVELAND
idea affronts the universal Democratic pref
udice. and the party associating itself with
it must surely suffer after the first spasm
Of coherency has passed away. While
CLEVELAND is at the head of the Democratic
party, the general instinct tends toward
the organization which still holds high the
spirit Of Americanism, and that, unfor-
tunately, is the Republican party.
In the same way, CLEVELAND has stamped
on all American feeling in his foreign
policy. In this intensely partisan republic,
domestic partisanship has stopped at the
border with every Administration which has
ever governed it before. Our foreign rela-
tions show one general purpose to sustain.
to preserve, or, as occasion arose, to extend
the interests and the prestige Of the United |
States. The CLEVELAND Administration |
Is the one exception which has subjected
even the foreign interests of America |
to its personal spite against its politically |
predecessor and to its craze !
for the sensational and fantastic 1t
wasn't the actual hauling down OF |
the American flag in Hawaii which made |
the American public feel ashamed and |
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the party whose name had been made to
cover the deed; but the utterly outrageous
repudiation Of fair play and honesty in deal
ing with the struggling Hawaiian Govern
ment, rejoicing to see the flag raised, and
hoping to see it wave forever, and the in
tolerable folly Of attempting to restore a
disgusting monarchy. So with Samoa, or
Canada, or any foreign country with which
our connections have risen into prominence.
In short, the first effect Of CLEvE-
LANDS Administration has been to strip the
Democratic party Of even the semblance of
upholding American institutions and Amer
can traditions and American pride, and to
force the national flag, at home as we'll as
abroad, into the keeping Of the Republicans.
This extraordinary transfer has been wit
messed once before. The Republicans first
became the sole keepers of the national
sentiment in 1881; and they held power
ior twenty-five years afterward.