Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-11-15
ECHOES OF THE ELECTION.
Reasons Assigned by Democratic Journals
for the Result.


for the Result.
The stupid delays and dallyiDgs
OF damphool democratic congress did
the business.-Detroit Leader.
The worst of it all is that the re-
publicans will probably now have the
assurance to turn around and assert
that the revival of industry under the.
new tariff has been the result of an
anticipated republican victory at the
polls.-Buffalo Courier.
The overwhelming story Of the
ballots is notice to the Administrations
that enduring democratic principles
must no longer be ignored or sacri-i
feed, and the party OF the people made
a mere instrument for the satisfaction
of few ambitions and the gratifica-
ton of personal vanity in high place
Cincinnati Enquirer.
TO some extent democratic dis
asters are the direct outcome of demo
cratic disSensions and mistakes The
disastrous oyerturn in New York state
is a result of laundering at Washing
ton and plundering in New York city
No party and no leadership could
stand up under such a double load
Philadelphia Record.
The simple explanation of the
election is in the fact that with demo
cratic rule came financial disturbance
and industrial paralysis, and hungry
or distressed men are not prepared for
the refinement of augmentation that
seeks to place the responsibility any
where outside of the party in power
Philadelphia Times.
The panic took place as soon as
the democratic party came into power
from the bankruptcy and outrageous
taxation brought about by republican
legislation. The democratic party be-
ing in power had to father the results1
and the people who do not stop to
think under such times went pell-melI
against the democracy because it
could not undo the evil work of thirty
years of republican legislation in a
day, and the result is what we see to-
day.-Burlingto Gazette.
The results of the election render
unlikely the passage of any 1egisla-
ton of a partisan character during the
next two years. Such a result is not
unfavorab BILE to the public interest, as
far as it is likely to confine the doings
of congress to business rather than POI
htical law making. We think the cur
rency will be safe from mischievous
changes in enactments, and if con-
gress shall fail on this point the coun-
try has still a safeguard with Presi-
dent Cleveland in the white house
Boston Herald.
1t is triumph of calamity. Tbs
result over the whole field of the ma
ton shows that the democrats now,
as in 1887 and 1857, are the unfortunate
1egatees of a long line of republican
legislation eliminating in the panic of
to power. and that the .unthinking
have accepted the charge of the repub-
licans that it was solely due to the
change of policies decreed in 1892. We
are the heirs of a house undermined
by its previous occupants, that crum-
bled and fell soon after we moved in
ST. Paul Globe.
BY far the most effective cause
for the avalanche which has swept
away so much that the democracy
gained in 1892 was the hard times of the
last year. That the party in power
was not responsible for the hard times
has been clearly demonstrated. Quite
as clearly has it been demonstrated
that they were the direct and inevita-
BILE result of republican extravaganza
and vicious legislation. and nota bly, of
such measures as the Mckinley tariff
and the Sherman silver acts. 1t was
inevita BILE, however, that the party in
power should be held responsible, as it
always has been under similar circum-
stances.-Detroit Free Press.
The one great and aIl-pervad-
ing cause of the slump throughout
the country may be summed up in two
words, viz: Hard times the hard
times the country has gone through,
and from which it is now slowly but
surely recovering. These have been
brought about by republican legisla-
ton, but the brunt of them has fallen
upon the country just as the democ-
racy was called into power to provide
a remedy for them. As is always the
case under such circumstances, the
people have not listened to reason nor
reasoned among themselves, but have
held the party in power responsible
for the depression and for the suffer
ing it has brought upon them. Time
will demonstrate that they have made
a mistake and have gained nothing
n. Y. Mercury.
We remember that certain repub-
1ican journals professed to believe, in
August last, that the reduction of the
duty on tin plate would not be fol-
lowed by reduction of price. 1--WE