The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-03
A DEMOCRATIC EPIDEMIC.
Characteristic Conduct of the Party of
 DIscOrd,

Discord.
 Next to the widespread business de- pression and financial disturbance which were the first fruits or the great democratic victory of 1892, and are still everywhere in evidence, the most strik- ing effect of that untoward event was the outbreak of ill-temper, violent lan- guage and bad manners in the party which carried the election. It began in Oregon with coarse and impudent dispatch from the democratic governor of that state to the president of the United States in answer to civil off cial communication. It was followed by venomous outburst from the dem ocratic governor of Illinois against the judiciary of that state. Gov. Waite, Of Colorado, elected by coalition of dem ocrats and populists, soon achieved un- enviabIe notoriety by the violence of his language, the recklessness of his temper and the wildness of his vocifer- ations. Lewelling, of Kansas, another product of the democratic-po -populist al- liance, already had his state by the ears and the people embroiled in tur. moil that came near ending in blood shed. In South Carolina Gov. Tillman at once began carrying things with so high hand as to threaten conflict, not only with the local opposition, which he consistently eXasperated to point beyond endurance, but with the federal authorities. over which he assumed su- periority and whose power he affected to despise; and he has had his state two or three times on the verge of civil war.
 In congress Speaker Crisp has repeat edly given way to outbursts of ill-tem- per and exhibitions of bad manners. Angry with members of his own party because they world not respond to his personal appeals to them to discharge their duty by appearing in their places and answering to their names at roll call, he has vented his spleen on repub. licans, and with such arrogance of manner as was never known before dis. torted precedents and violated rules in pursuance of his own purposes and to gratify his spite. In New Jersey a democratic minority long obstructed public business trying to defeat by law. lessness the peoples will. But for the patience of the republican majority and their confidence in the final tri. umph of right through the safe, though slow, processes of law the state of New Jersey would have been plunged into a condition of anarchy by angry and hot. headed democrats. 1t seems as if an epidemic of ill-temper and bad man. ners, characterized everywhere by vio. lence, lawlessness, coarseness and bru- tality, had come in with the party and overspread the country.
 Meanwhile, it is hardly necessary t.o add, republicans, true to their tradi- tions and constant in their temper, look curiously on, biding their time in pa- tience, while the object lesson is before the country. Never before in our his- tory did a political party demonstrate so quickly after its entrance upon power it's utter unfitness It has been in all respects melancholy expert ence. and the country will not for a long time entirely recover from it; but in the end it will prove salutary and wholesome. Once in generation, per haps, it is necessary that the people for their sins should endure the ordeal of democratic administration backed by democratic congress. But once Is enough.-N. |. Tribune.