Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-06-08
EPUBLICANREvIVAL
THE q. o. p. ENTERING ON A
NEW ERA OF PROSPERITY.
Indications Which Promise to Give the
Party Another Long Lease of Power
The Senate Bribery Investisation-Dis-
graceful Bargain with the Sugar Trust.
Democracv Ia Disrupted.

~ AkaotUpt0us
There are indications that the Re-
publican party is about to experience
a great revival and enter on q new era
OF political prosperity, says the Indian
apolis Journal. In q republic IN gov
eminent it is inevitable that political
parties should have their ups and
downs. The people, though level
headed in the main, are whimsical. and
they sometimes follow after strange
gods for a while just for the sake of
finding their way back. They never
get very far from the right path.
During the last decade they have been
experimenting with the Democratic
party, apparently with O view of seeing
If it was possible to get any good out
OF it. The party begged so hard to to
given a trial and made such unlimited
promises of good behavior that the
people, "for a change" concluded to
try it. The result has been SO dismaily
disastrous that they r now tumbling
path.
There has never been a time in the
history OF the country when the indi-
cations were SO clear in the second
year of an administration of the COM
p!ete dissolution of the party in power
as the present. 1t is not melely the
ordinary apathy of an off year or the
transient d~isaffection that always fol-
lows a new deal in the offices. These
are expected and discounted. The
present condition is very different.
Instead of a mild apathy and partial
disatfection there is deep disgust ard
complete decentralization. The Demo-
cratic party is not threatened with dis
ruption; it is already disrupted. 1t is
not in danger of being stampeded: it is
already panic-stricken. 1t is not drift
ing on the rocks; it's already wrecked.
1t will be a miracle if it pulls itself to-
gether sufficiently to stand up in the
next election and be knocked down.
The measure OF the popular disgust
with the Democratic party is a fairly
approximate measurement of the ex-
tent OF the Republican revival. An UNI
broken record of Rep lblican victories
in all the elections of the last wear.
State, district and municipal, shows
how irresistibly popular sentiment is
running the Republican way. Pro-
g~ressivlsts and conservatists, protes-
sional men and business men, capital
lists and w~crkingmen, old voters and
young ones, al seem to have reached
the common conclusion that the only
hope of good government lies in the
Republican party. Especially are the
young mon rallying under tho Repub.
lican standard. The un-American and
unpatriotic policy of the Democratic
party, its hostility to American
interests at home and abroad,
seems to have made a deep
impression on the minds of the young
men of the country. Working men
who have been voting the Democratic
ticket are coming into the Republican
party by thousands. The contrast be.
tween the prosperity they enjoyed le-
fore the Democratic party came into
power and the terrible depression and
uncertainty that now prevail has been
a powerful object lesson to all VINO de-
pend upon their daily labor for their
daily bread. So has the cont asst be.
tween the promises and the perform.
ances of the Democracy. AS a conse-
quence the workingmen are leaving
the Democracy in dloves, and a large
majority of them are joining the He
publican ranks. The net result Of
these various influences is an unmis.
taxable Republican revival which
promises to give tho party another
lease of power,