Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-09-27

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and has on the strength Of it been
permitted to administer the govern
ment for thirty years, is going to
say to the people to induce them to
restore it to the power from which
it was SO emphatically hurled two
years ago. 1t is going to "view
with alarm" and "point with pride. :"
But standing on its record is
precisely what that party has been
doing ever since the war. The
record it made in that affair consti-
tuted its whole stock in trade for
twenty years. It "fired the northern
heart" with air. 1t found presi-
deucy after presidency wrapped up
in it. 1t lost and stole the presi-
dency on it in '76. But that part
of its record is burned powder. A
generation has come on and is in
control to whom the war is legend,
and more concerned in the practical
AFFAIRS of today than in sentimental
"reminiscences. The war and south.
ern outrages, and the Confederate
brigadiers, and all that vocabulary
of sectional hate 10 burned out, and
no breath of oratory can start its
fires again. The Grand Army of the
Republic surrendered to the slo-
quehce Of Henry Watterson, the e1-
Confederate, and will Cross Mason
and Dixen's line to hold its next
encampment. The war is over.
Will the senator's party point
with pride to its financial record,
that laughing-stock of financiers the
world over; that crazy quilt of cur
rency? Will it point to the 4oo,-
100000 silver dollars piled up in
useless idleness in the treasury
vaults, while the paper representa-
ives are standing menace to our
whole currency system? Will it
designate the Sherman act-that
lever by which the Mckinley act
was lifted over the silver states,
that makeshift to save presidential
candidate from the necessity of
vetoing free-coinage bill, that act
that sent our securities scurrying
home from foreign investors to give
the panic it's crushing force-will it
point to that as part of the record
on which it will ask restoration?
Will it point to the Mckinley
act, that ripe fruitage of its sub
serviency to capitalistc greed, re-
jected by the people in 1890 and
trampled on by them in 1892, as the
record it wishes to stand on? With
half the party conscious of the
stupendous blunder then made and
already turning their backs on 1t
and deprecating any further agita-
ton; with Tom Reed for once in
his life crying "peccavi;" with John
Wanamaker firing his daily broad
sides into it, and all the keen adver-
tisers of the nation drawing custom
by their announcements of things
made cheaper because "released
from the unnecessary bondage of
high tariff taxation'-does the
senator think his party can stand on
that record?
And, if it must avoid its record
of finance and taxation, what else
has it? Will it care to exploit its
grants of the public domain to the
railways? Will it refer with COM
placency to its subrogation of the
governments first lien on the Pacific
roads to the second mortgages, and
point to the present result with
pride? Will it point to its change
of surplus into deficit and to the
appropriations which won for its
congress the doubtful title of the
billion-dollar congress and caused
the deficit of revenue? And, if it
cannot point with pride to these
things, what else can it? Really
and candidly, we think the senator
and his party had better drop the
record-there' too much of it of
the wrong kind-and stick to their
ahuse Of the plaintiffs attorney.