St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-11-14
SHOWERS OF PROSPERITY
Are Now to Be Shaken Out Of
the Ambrosial Repub-
lican Clouds.
THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY.
1t Will Easily Rout the Forces
Of Plutocracy and An
archy.

A reporter of the GLOBE ran across
Gen. James a. Baker. who came down
from the Second district with some of
the smoke of the conflict about him
still, and asked him what he thought of
the avalanche, what caused it and what
the outlook was. With his character
istic geniality, the general said:
"Sit down here, my boy, and I'll tell
you all know about it. Yes, it was an
Alpine avalanche to an extent no one
anticipated. 1t carried the Democrats
not only into the soup,' but under the
table, into the cuspidor. AS result
of all this. we are to have good times.
We are all to ride in private palace
cars, wear diamonds and ride in car
riages. Showers Of prosperity will be
shaken out of ambrosial clouds. These
are the Republican promises. And they
must be accomplished facts without
any delay. The people have become
restless and mercurial. They will
demand immediate results. Now, If
prosperity should come and continue
during the next two years, then great
Republican victory is assured for 1896.
But should prosperity loiter or he In
any way obstructed, then an open grave
awaits the Republican party. 1t will
be useless for it to attempt to interpoSe
the plea of non-responSi5ility. You
will remember that Immediately after
the Democratic landslide of 1899. before
the new party had done thing. the
Republicans declared that the Demo-
Gratis had already wrecked the country,
not by what they had done, but by what
they intended to do. They have taught
the people impatience. BY their own
logic they are at once responsible for
the present and Immediate future of
the country. 1t will now be either Re-
publican prosperity or Republican de-
stfucti0n. Their great victory has
brought, the greatest responsibility.
There are victories which are even more
dangerous than defeats.
"What About the Democratse
"Never IN the world was party so
weighed down with handicaps as the
Democratic party was in the recent
election. First, there was that faithIesS
congress. which wore out the patience
of every true Democrat i'll the land
through nine long months of delay and
torture, till finally the whole thing
ended in the senate by treachery, trea-
son and corruption! 1t broke the hearts
of the rank and Gle of the party.
and they vowed vengeance the
first opportunity, and the result
shows they have kept their VOWS.
Then, beside the German treacherv,
there was whole job lott of con-
curing causes which aggravated the
situation. Hard times resounded
through the land, the calamity howl
Swelled the chorus, and the very causes
of Cleveland's election were success
fully twisted into results of his success.
Then there was the unutterable rotten.
ness of TammanY in New York, which
was proven by the work of the Commit
tee of Seventy. and has made DR.. Park
hurst the greatest moral hero of the
age. The crimes of TammaDy were, in
a measure, spread over the whole
Democratic party. Democracy of the
Tammany-Hill sort came TO be looked
upon as the protector and promoter Of
public crime. These things made it i'm
possible for the Democratic party to
command its own votes, aud thousands
of them either voted with the Repub-
licanS or sulked in their tents.
Gas to the Futurea
"Well, it remains to be seen how the
Democrats will bear themselves under
defeat. Their recuperative powers have
always been amazing, but they never
were tried as now. Their center of
thought and action must gather about
living issues and keep up with the peo-
pie. | think the people are fully
ahead of both the great parties. Pu5-
lie men are generally towards. and
party leaders are always cowardly.
The thing to do is to dismiss
dead Issues and take hold of living
ideas. Broaden and liberalize party
texts. Grant federalism of opinion, and
stand honestly for good and pure gov
ernment, and the Democratic party may
yet turn what is apparently Waite rloo
into channels of new strength and
vigor. If the Republicans insist upon
uniting with the plutocracy, as the
Wings did with the slave oligarchy, and
the Populists are unable to keep out of
the control of the anarchists, the pleas
ing and patriotic duty of yet saving the
nation may logically devolve upon the
Democratic party"