The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-11-16
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, November o, 1904.

WAsHINGroN, November 9, 1904.
President Cleveland is quietly at.
tending to his official duties lust as
though there had never been such a
thing as an election. He hasn't said a
word on the subject to any one who
had authority tc make it public. but it
is certain that he has been dong LOT
of thinking, and those able to read
between the lines will be able to form
pretty good idea of the trend of his
thonghts when, in few weeks, his
annual message to Congress shall be
made public. While he has said moth.
ing publicly, his closest personal
friends have left the impression upon
those with whom they have talked
that the President does not consider
himself in any way responsible for the
unexpected democratic defeat.
While few democrats of any promi
nence care to be personally quoted on
the subject of the elections, every one
with whom your correspondent has
come IN contact agrees that the great
est single source of democratic troubles
has been the lack of harmony within
the party, which was made so pain.
tully apparent during the last session
of Congress. The result of the election
is merely an application of the pro.
verb" United we stand, divided we
fall, " and the lesson must be taken to
heart and profited by if the party cal
culates to go into the campaign of
90 with reasonable chance to win.
A house divided against itself must
fall"
Senator Faulkner, Chairman of the
Democratic Congressional Campaign
committee, rises from the wreck to
say few words, which are both ex.
planatory and wise. He says: "The
history Of politics will show that every
landslide is the result of dissatisfaction
discomfort and want of confidence Of
the members Of the majority party,
whose action produces the result that
surprises and astonishes the people
not by voting the opposing ticket, bur
simply by remaining away from the
polls. The results of this election
when ascertained will, l am sure,
verify this conclusion. We have as
many voters in the country as we had
in 'o2, who believe in the principles
Of the democratic party, but the recent
business paralysis, financial stringency,
economic legislation-the benefits Of
which have not been developed
party dissentions, crlminations and
recriminations resulted in such apathy
as to cause the stay -at-home vote to
produce the surprising result. That is
my honest judgment. If we hope for
success in 90 we should maintain
with fearlessness and determination
the attitude we assumed in '92 let
personal and party chickering's of the
past bury their dead, and unite in an
earnest effort to harmonic those diff
ferences which have so seriously
affected our organization"
The returns from the elections were
calling enough to democrats in Wash
ington, but there was another thing
connected Herewith that was even
more CALLING to democrats. That was,
that some of the loudest cheers from
the crowds which surrounded the
newspaper bulletins with all the eager
ness of Presidential election, when
the news was favorable to the repub-
licans, came from the mouths of repub.
llcans who hold Office under the DEM
ocratic administration.
The friends of Reed, Harrison and
| Mckinley are very much alarmed at
the prominence of Morton as Pres
dental candidate. They know that
Tom Platt intended when he nomi-
mated Morton for governor of New
York to push him for the Presidential
nomination of his party, if he succeed
ed in getting him elected governor,
and they know that Morton's barrel
will be on tap at the next republican
national convention, and they fear it.
The Washington democrats, who
all belong to the never say-die family,
think they are playing in hard luck,
indeed, this week. They stood up
under the election returns with all the
stoicism with which they have in the
past received long string of national
defeats, comforting themselves with
the reflection "we'll lick 'em next
time," but they have heard something
since that has caused not few ol
them to use language not at all ap
propriate for an address to Sunday
School class. A few days ago mar
born in Washington, and who ha'
been a democrat all his life, was ap
pointed postmaster, the term of tht
republican incumbent having expired
As he will be the first postmaster the
local democrats have had since thu
: war, it was perfectly natural that some
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