The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-30
HOODOOEO BY MUCWUMPS
A Democratic Paper on the
Change of Cieveland'S Luck.


From the Cleveland PLAIN Dealer;
Mr.. Cleveland seems TO have struck
a streak of hard luck. For ten
years fortune has smiled upon him.
f he had been gambler he woulc
have been able to break the bank at
Monte Carlo. But the tide has
turned. Mr.. Cleveland seems
headed for the rocks, not head on
either under full steam, but like a
disabled ship, drifting stern first or
to the breakers. His wonderful
luck seems to have deserted him
The disgraceful attempt to restore
Qleen Lii, to get out into the
Pacific and overthrow a white
republic, to set up black mon.
archy, has fai ed, utterly and igno-
mlnlously, as it should nave failed.
Perhaps it is we'll that ii did. The
temper Of the Democrats in congress
has brook.d enough from Mr.
Cleveland, and if force had been
resor,ed to, impeachment would
have been almost certain. On the
tariff the party is badly divided, as
a result of MIR. Cleveland's attempt
TO give congress a ready made
tariff bill. The treasury is on the
verge of bankruptcy, and in the
face OF the overwhelming protest of
the leaders of the Democracy in
congress, Mr.. Carlisle is preparing
to issue bonds.
All this is result of too much
mugwumpery in the councils of the
present Democratic administration,
and the worm has at last turned.
When the Democracy fought in the
minority it fought ike Leonldas at
Thermopyln. 1t guarded its prin.
ciples like Napoleon's legion in hol
low square at the battle of the pyra-
mids. 1t ne' err wavered and it
never faltered But when 1t came
into power its trouble began. Dir.
Cleveland began TO listen to the
siren song Of the political eunuch,
and he has been listening to him
ever since Mugwumps and ollie
t nte politicians, whose Democracy
was not dry behind the ears, were
Jumped over the heads of the old.
tine leaders Of the Democratic
party. The banner of Democracy,
carried high in the South and up
held against grea. odds in the Mid
die and Western states, was trailed
in the dust The conduct Of Demo
cratic policies was given over to
personal friends in New York and
Cleveland mugwumps IN Massachu-
sets. The old-time Democrats had
no voice. A man who parts his
hair in the middle can be forgiven,
for the contour of his head some
times requires it; man who parts
his name in the middle can even be
forgiven, because that is sonnet mes
the fault Of his parents, but man
who parts his politics in the middle
deserves neither mercy nor consider
alton.
And SO it has happened that for
years his party has followed Mr..
Cleveland and the Phariseep, but it
will do so no longer. The Hawaiian
ii asco marks the beginning The OPP
position in congress to the proposed
bond Issue will swell into a roar.
Men who were induced to support
the administration when it de. |
the repeal of the Sherman
law, who Reluctantly surrendered !
heir free silver convictions, begin |
TO see how far reaching was their
mistake. The return TO a gold !
standard, they zee too late, LIT down
.he bars TO iniqulties of which they
lid not then dream.
The Week in the South.
The NJ anufacturers' Record of
says:
Throughout the south there is
general feeling Of Improvement,
with many indications OF increasing
activity in trade and industrial cir
lies, but the tariff agitation restricts
operations in some ines One of
he mos, noticeable features of trade
s the heavy falling off III demand