The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1894-11-23
DEAD YET
The Democrats Very Much Alive and Kick
tug-PFgparing the Message
The Bend Issue.

From cur regular correspondent.
Washington, ID, G., Nov Is, 1891
These republicans and popniists WHO
are trying so hard TO make somebody
thinl, that they believe the democratic
party, as national organization, is
dead, are merely making themselves ii
dioulOus. The democratic party which,
to go no further back than the memory
Of every middle-agod man, made six sRo-
cessive unsuccessful presidential cam
paigns-deieatod II five at the polls and
in one at the hands of an abortion known
as the electoral. commissions not % be
killed by dissension among few Of its
prominent members which resulted in a
stay-at-home vote large enough to de-
feat it la a congressional election. On
the contrary, that defeat will eventually
make the democratic party stronger
than ever before. because it will result
in showing some Of the prominent ex-
perimenters that deyiations from the es-
tablished principles Of the party will not
be tolerated by the voters; that thou
sands, aye millions of good democrats
will refuse 10 endorse amy half-and-half
principles, preferring defeat 70 com
promise with principles they have been
taught to oppose. The recent election
was bitter lesson, hut the future Will
prove that it was a useful one.
President Cleveland is not spending
much time at the white house lust now,
because the time is short between this
and the assembling OF congress and his
annual message To congress, which will
be one of the most important to the
country and to the democratic marty be
has ever written, requires his entire
time, and he can work undistarbed Mt
his country residence, something which
experience has shown him he cannot do
in his office at the white. house. During
his vacation the president devoted much /
time 10 studying the financial system of
the country, which is generally admitted /
TO be radically defective. and the result |
OF that study viii be shown in the rec 1
concentrations of lis message 70 con I
gress.
No democrat can possibly regret the I
Issue of bonds officially announced this l
week by Secretary Carlisle, more than |
does fFeSluenr Cleveland and the mem-
hers Of has cabinet, but in the face of the /
necessity for preserving the national /
credit, and in the absence of any other /
method, owing To the system Inherited |
from long series Of republican admin /
istrations regrets were idle aud action (
imperative. When merchant finds his I
credit endangered, owing TO his receipts |
being less than his expenditures, he can 4
NOT afford 10 waste time IN regrets be- I
cause those expenditures are largely the /
result OF eXtraYagant contracts made Iy 4
has predecessor His credit must be pro-
teeted aud nothing will do that but .
prompt payment of his obligations as /
they mature, and 10 do that he must /
have money and il can only be had ly .
borrowing il on his note. That be does. /
trusting 70 has ability TO step the leaks /
IN his business and make it profitable In I
order to pay it hack, That is precisely I
the position Of the administration in an
nouBclnE an Issue of bends.