The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-03-30
ON WEDNESDAY NEXT
REPUBLICANS WILL WIN
A BIG VICTORY.
Democrats and Independents Will Help
to Condemn a Policy OF DishonOr and


Democrats and Independents Will Help
to Condemn "A Policy OF Dishonor and
Fraud.
AS the day of the spring election ap-
proaches, the Republicans are growing
more confident that Rhode Island will, as
Governor Brown expressed it, give a
laundering "amen" to the unmistakable
verdict of condemnation which the voters
of Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania have uttered
against the Democratic mal-administra-
ton. It is believed that the people re-
alize that it is not yet too late to prevent
the infamous wrecking of the Mckinley
protective tariff, and it is thought that
a rousing vote for the Republican ticket
in Rhode Island will strengthen the
powerful dissatisfaction with the Wilson
bill, already perceptible in the United
States senate.
Undoubtedly the Republicans will re-
ceive the votes of many independent and
old-time Democrats, who are thoroughly
disguste l with the one years experience of
Cleveland and his cuckoo congress. The
causes of this feeling of disgust and dis
trust have been graphically expressed by
Henry Charles Lea, Esq, of Philadelphia,
in a recent article in Harper's Weekly.
Mr.. Lee, who was supporter of Presi-
dent Cleveland during his first admins
tration, says, referring to the election OF
1892:
Bold Fraud.
THE canvass of that year on the part of
the Democracy was the boldest and most
successful fraud since the somewhat
similar one of 1874. Mr.. Cleveland was
nominated on platform framed to rem
der his nomination impossible, and he ac-
cepted it in letter which was a model
of adroit evasiveness. His managers were
thus enabled to solicit popular support on
pledges suited to any given section" ="
1t was Pyrrhic victory, and the sue
cess of an administration SO brought into
power would be reversal of the moral
law. When the time came to redeem the
assortment of mutually destructive
pledges made for Mr. Cleveland by his
lieutenants, there inevitably ensued the
disintegration and decentralization which
are rendering Congress an object of con-
tempt, and which are only kept under
fitful control by prostitution of patron.
age more cynical than has hitherto dis
graced the nation. No great party in our
ton so humiliating as was the Democracy
when in order to carry out the silver pol
icy of its platform it was obliged to call
upon its cheated and defeated opponents
to overcome the majority of its own MEM
bers; nor is it today able to control the
antics of Mr.. Bland with that majority at
his back, or to prevent its helpless and
uerveless Secretary of the Treasury from
tnv will ba IF
five millions of fiat money to be based on
the swindle of the so-called seigniorage.
1t is small wonder that the land which
two years since was so prosperous is now
paralyzed with fear of the possibilities
which lie before us at the hands of the
motley mob gathered in the halls of Con-
gress. Nor, in considering the effect of
this upon the popular mind, can we omit
the bitter humiliation arising from the
fact that we are delivered over to the ten
der mercies of the South. To one whose
memories of the civil war are still fresh it
would seem impossible that the van
Qushed South should already, by means
of the Democratic party, have become
dominant in the Union, into which it was
cOerced The South is thus enabled
TO look with patience on the spectacle of
the suffering industries of the North-the
silent forges. the closed mills, the hun
dreds of thousands of starving men and
women converted from industrious opera
tives TO dependents on charity. To one
who deplOres this desolation it adds a
sense of shame TO reflect that the vast and
complex structure of Northern civiliza-
tion was placed in the House of Repre-
sentatives at the mercy of a little knot OF
Southern country lawyers, and that in
the Senate Missouri, Arkansas and Texas
furnish the men who counsel together on
the destinies of Massachusetts, New York
and Pennsylvania To meet an ap-
preaching deficit of so, 100000 tariff is
framed deliberately estimated TO reduce
the revenues $4,000, 900 more, and TO fill this
yawning abyss resort is had to the most
unjust and detested of war taxas-the tax
on incomes. Moreover, as though to adj
vertise the predetermined purpose of this
the tax is so devised as TO throw the bur
den mainly on the industrious commIni-
ties of the North
Gettysburg Avenged.
When the South can accomplish legis-
lation so purely sectional, Gettysburg and
Five Forks are avenged.
1T is useless for those who voted for
Mr. Cleveland in the fond belief tnat he