Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-11
Cold Political Facts.

ticket is composed of most excellent
mep, men in whose hands the affairs C
the state will be conducted honestly
and with dignity. There is not q man
on the ticket but is worthy the conti
dence and suffrage of every republican
voter Republicans can not atf' I'd to
DO any scratching Of tickets this fall
Party politics is a matter of business
not sentiment Each party has certain
principles and theories of government
which it proposes TO carry out. and
these never can be carried out if you
put repres sntatives from other parties
in office. They can not and will not
forsake the principles Ct the party they
represent. though they may know that
their election is owing to the votes they
got from the opposite party. They
may be grateful for the votes but that
is as far as they can go Two years
ago the democratic party went into
full power. Executive, senate and
house of representatives the whole
political machinery was theirs. There
was nothing TO hinder them from at
once putting their promises and theories
in operation. but they were frightened
at their own success and at the ruin
thew must work, ard the promises they
must break, if they attempted TO put
their theories into prac ice. But some
thing must be done. The people gave
the democratic leaders power, because
it believe what they said, and the voice
of the people must be needed, or the
leaders knew that another election
would cost them their places. They
also saw that the country would suffer.
# they attempted to carry out their
ante.election ideas. What were they to
do? They had placed themselves in a
position from which they could neither
advance nor retreat without defeat.
They could have allowed the Mckinley
bill 10 stand but that would never do.
The very next election would throw
them out and they would never again
be returned. They chose the plan
that promised them the longest lease OF
lite, that is tinkering with the tariff and
all they have done with it is to tinker.
No body is satisfied with their work.
The country will not recover from its
effects for the next ten years. The
United States is going in debt deeper
and deeper every day. Business
throughout the country is picking up
but slowly, and that only as necessity
compels it to pick up. Factories every
where are running on short time, with
reduced wages or not at all. Every
city is arranging 10 care for its poor in
manner not known since 1857 and to
an extent hitherto unparalleled. But
there is little use to try to name the dis
aster and general distress that has come
upon the nation under democratic ad-
ministration. Everybody has felt them
and knows them, and there seems 10 DE
but little chance for improvement as
long as a democratic administration is
in power. Prosperity and the demo-
cratic party are strangers and all
growth Of industry and wealth of this
country under democratic rule has
been in spite of such rule and not be-
cause of it. History tells this truth on
every page, and any bright era how
ever short that has occurred under
democratic administration can be east
ly traced TO some other course than
democratic management; something
over which they have no control. and
therefore is only accidental. Study
American history and this will prove
itself. Try it and see. Now it is evil
dent that no theory of government can
be carried out except by its friends 1t
is good policy never to do what your
antagonist wants YOU 10 do if you can
help it This is true of political antag-
onists as we'll as of those in the field.
An election is civil battle and means
the supremacy of one party or the
other. Every voter owes it to himself
candidly and intelligeDtly to inform
himself of the history of parties and
the principles they represent. If he
finds on the one hand a party that
while having opportunity, has done lit
tie or nothing for the welfare of the
country or the happiness and prosperity
of the people. he can honestly conclude
that be is in no way bound by any tie
to support the candidates of that party.
If on the other hand no finds that the
history of party has been one of pro-
gress. prosperity, national growth. dig
nifty and happiness. it is bu. natural he
should look upon the candidates of that
party 10 uOb OhtJ poiAbiSoA AAiCuhS bht
friends of those principles that woven
into governmental policy will produce
the most desirable results both for the
country and its people. This is the
party to which be owes his allegiance
and should support. The history of the
last two years is full of object lessons.
Whenever the democratic party is or
has been in power history is full of
object lessons. Read United States his
tory for 1887, 1857 and 1894. Cold
facts prove it so. and no one can salts
factorily gainsay it. The records are
too pla N. This is not the history of
the republican party. Its records and
its principles are a large part of the
growth. prosperity and happiness of
the nation and the people. How grand
" it has discha' ged the duties imposed
upon it while in power. Day by day
the nation grew and the national debt
decreased The hum of Industry every
where and happy songs in all the land
from storehouse, workshop and field.
A land to which the weary toilers of
other lands lovingly looked. The Uni
ted States was the envy of the world