Huntsville gazette., 1894-03-17
THE DEMOCRATIC BREACH.
I'm Exceedingly Dark Outlook for thu
Bourbon Hosts

I'm Exceedingly Dark Outlook for the
Bourbon Hosts.
The signs are steadily growing more
and more manifest which point to q
serious breach in the democratic party.
Caucuses on an important question like
the seigniorage Issue which are deliber-
ately and ostentatiously disregarded by
d powerful element of the party calling
them reveal the presence Of centrif-
ugal influences in the organization af-
fected which gravely threaten its In
tegrity and potency, Intelligent dem
ocrats concede that the wrangle in
their party on the silver question and
that which recently took place on the
supreme court vacancy matter are de-
moralizing and disheartening, and they
are looking for a rupture more or less
serious on the tariff and bond-issue
questions. Both these subjects will be
in the burning stage for months yet, as
the passage of the Wilson bill before
May or June is not deemed probable at
present. while another bond sale Is
likely to be made necessary in three or
four months at the latest.
Nobody imagines, of course, that the
democratic split will be permanent, or
that 1t will affect the party seriously
beyond few years. The vitality OF
great organizations like the two lead
ing parties Of the present day has been
shown SO frequently and so clearly
within the past third of century that
no intelligent person looks for the
death of either of them as conse-
quence of few reverses, however COM
plete and overwhelming they may ap-
pear TO be at the time. The republic
ans, who made clean sweep of the
country for president and congress in
1872. were disastrously beaten in the
congressional election of 1874 won the
presidential canvass of 1879, have had
several ups and downs since, and their
star seems to be again in the ascend
ant. Frequently since the beginning
of the war the outlook for the democ-
racy was dark, indeed, and in one or
two canvasses it appeared to be blotted
out almost as signally and thoroughly
as was the host of Sennacherib before
the wrath of the Lord, but it carried
the country, nevertheless, in 1884
and 1892
While sensible persons have stopped
writing the obituaries of great polit-
ical organizations, it Is clear now to
all sagacious democrats that the imme-
diate outlook for their party is exceed
ingly dark. The responsibilities which
absolute power has brought to their
party they see have been coupled with
duties which the party has been un-
able to meet, and this condition of
things imposes penalties which cannot
be evaded. The democracy is not
unit on any great question OF the day.
fractional lines of cleavage are drawn
in various directions, until it seems to
some of its members that the party for
the time being Is destined to fly into
fragments, All over the country this
tide is unmis takably turning in favor
of the republicans. In every state
which voted three and a half mon tbs
ago the repu ublicans made immense
gains. If president and congress had
been chosen at that time there would
have been an overwhelming republican
triumph Every special election for
congressman which has been held since
then, including the one which took
place in Pennsylvania a few days ago,
revealed a striking growth in republic
an strength. All the omens and augu-
ries portend that the immediate politic-
al future is to be put in the keeping Of
the republican party. st Louis Globe
Democrat