New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-08

VIEWS or AN ORIGINAL MUGWUMP"
THE PARTY AHHAIGNEp FOR CANVASS or
FRAUD FOLLOWED BY A POLICY

or sEcrIoNALIsM.

OF sEcTIONALIsM
Henry Charles Lea IN Harper's Weekly.
As original Mugwump Of Republican ante
cedents who has never hesitated 10 act with the
:, az -, nI,. w Pun $50 81 ai,,s,S ~ hot
! H. or TO dcnounce the errors ana abuses OF DCin
parties. may possibly be able to take not wholly
pre1udiced view Of the political situation.
ward glance on the election of 1892 The canvass or
boliest and most successful fraud since the some
what similar of lNii. Mr.. Cleveland was nomi-
mated on platform framed TO render his nomna-
ton Impossible and he accepted II III letter Whlch
was a model Of adroit evasveness. His managers
pledges suited to any given section II objections
were made to the radical demasoguery Of the plat
the platform. and that his assumed cons"rvat.sm
was guarantee against danserous Innovation.
Where that conservatism was objcctonable, they
TDH po,'' TO tne patI3rt an, ,l'"' rS ~
lively used, farmers were da2zed with the prospect
were told that the tariff had nothing to DO with
wages. The antl-snappers lured with the
hopes Of yndicaton Of the principles for which
p!acat"d In the my stories OF the Victoria Hotel
skill the managers succeeded in uniting in Mr..
Clevelands support the most inconsruous and an
ton OF voters never before marshal"i to-
gcthcr Mt the polls. Its nucleus was that standing
votes in Congress ana the electoral coliesc based
On the freedmen. whose ballots are practically sup
pressed Allied with ms were the great corpora
tions In sugar. beer and whskey: Tammany Hall IN
New-Nork. the rac.track gamblers ~ New Jersey
Illinois. and the Socialists. who under various dis.
euises have obtained SO wide following beyond
the Mississippi. Mr.. cleveland marched to triumph
tn" head 81 all the dangerous classes OF the Re
Of an Administration brought into power would
be reversal OF the moral law. When the time
structiye pledges made for Mr. Cleveland by his
lcutcnants there inevitably cnsued the dIsintegra-
ton and decentralization which are rendering Con
@ n All q, an utri E y urnsti,,tion 81 patron
tHp plY
Nation. No great party in our history was ever
silver policy ~ ts platform It was Obliged to call
upon rs cheated and defeated opponents 70 oyer,
to-day able to control the antics OF Mr. Bland win
irss and i' ncrye'ss secre,ary Of th rcasry from
toying with the ilusiye prospect Of S''ts' OF nai
money to be- based on the swinilc Of the so-callel
Il is small wonder that the land which w? ySaT.
since was prosperous Is now p'raiyzrd YIN r.
of the possibilities which e hefor, 10. at the hands
81 th- motley mob gathered In tn halls Z Congress
lar mind can We omit tn htter humiliation arising
tender nercles Of the SoGih To one whose mem
cries u the civil are sui fresh u would seem
rcaIy. 6y rcans - the DSm5cratc Tary have be-
come dominant In he Union into WHICH WAS
o HS az No. ,ss santerc ~ ne sever,
's, conJrmnnil,1 on his own party. which is 81
ahjcctly under southern coutro. AMI is content -
be- The Instrument tnroueh which me i4-c'y re
enabled e., look win patience on thc spectacle Of
the suffering Industries Of the Nor'h The s!cr,
forees the closed mills the hundreds ~ thousands
OF starving men and women converted rom IN
dustrous operatives To- dependents on charity. To
one who deporcs this DISSOLUTION II adds Il sense
Of shame To reflect that the vast AID complex
structure of Northern civilization was piacci IN the
House of Kopr, seutativ's al the mercy of Hite
knot of southern country ANFrir ana lill ~ NE
senate Missouri Arkansas ana ItH'F furn!'h me
m'n who counsel together IN the t''iln'es or
MassaoA u~c''. Nc"-fort anl rrnnsvN ,l m H.
dor such "onI'lpns d Is no wonder I''t III. p'-N
adopted seems as thourA it wer" m'3nt ior tnr
Grand-duchy of G'-o.si"r. IT, m" IN inpr 2'Gn-
In deficit OF @"F'nif mlii,"n5 t'iII y iI'.h.l
bcratrly ostnat'd 10 reduce ~, r'''nu"t SrVr'}-
nv hl.,."nS nor anu L. ,, ,i 49,, ,ad' -
war the tax 0n incomes. Morroy'T 80 though
to n4yer5sS me I to- STSM r ,b 5Grn man
ON the Industrious communities OK ne North. ! n
ilci th,t south 81 Inc Potomac the returns will not
drfray the cost 81 collection and that The practical
w@enT ra 81 tne M w W draw 6encc Whcn the
;nth c,, ',cnonnlish lecisi1ton - purely secona
in ar f,nd belief thrr h. VIZ better ihln hi; p:rty
AZ the hanis o. such ioriu,ious ~ me" non or
,'ihrfrd 4, his support h. forfeited M. influence |
over hIs supporters cave that derived from me |
,,bico r.ces,lri'y cxhausts itself. Nor can thee
who. durrr period y such nneXaap.,d National |
distress hI."s himself in qulNoilc end"nvofs - right
itnishi rrilniry which Profes-or Woois"y has shown
20 be ennGnt!y anl W .b "n n
m 6rv comfort which lover OF hts country can
nj lat III" unha.lowrI combination which elected
Mr Ccyeian4, T., rope Of >1ni an is apiy
section ac,er another discovers taaf t1e multi (
tuInoua ami !ncomp'tihe pie! sca ev'n r. bis neme
mug D. .aoocrd %ast Is r b be- 5 tae r;.a !,
p-c ,ncourn1 ng .n1smuch "s th"y inl!elte revival
am r'c3ns'.ii,.n % ,on. , sro,.
1ssn.' r p: a4G' f foaai .cf ' ""''" the
on the other tand there are Irospcc's which are