The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-15
The Election.

narty is most assuredly on the wront
course or at least sufficient part OF i
to make the people fear to trust it will
power. For 80 years New Jersey ha'
been democratic vet thisye she goe'
republican. So does New York. Ke'
tucxy, Maryland, and Ohio. Aissis
sippi alone seems to be true to th'
faith, but in fact she is the hatchine
ground for all the disasters There Il
little doubt but what the wild unsats
and pernicious idea of free silver 70
gather with the bungling vicious ano
tardy handling Of the tariff has orough'
about this crushing defeat and rebuke'
There is in our opinion no possible
doubt but what the alleged treachely
Of Hardin in Kentucky towards the
sound money element caused tha'
State to go republican. blackburn
loo. was of the same political faith as
Hardin. There is one important les
son to be drawn from the situation IN
this state and that is that there can be
no compromise with wrong. There is
Init one way to deal with it and that Is
"a firht IL to the bitter end, oil and
water will not mix. The sound money
men made fatal mistake in not settle
;nr the issue in the party convention
lot the result be what it might. IL
wont do to go to war with general IN
1eaone with the enemy. Hardin dup
ed the gold standard bearers into COM
promise and then fought them. Sen
ator German was the chief manipulator
az the tariff law and in opposition 70
President Cleveland and the real re-
formers. who wanted coal and iron on
the free list With all Germans form
err prestige reclat he is defeated after
having made herculean efforts To
succeed. What does all this mean?
Simply that the people stand by the
sound principles enunciated by the
administration even to party defeat In
order to rebuke the recalcitrant and
dangerous element, and prefer TO suHer
the veins of government to pass into
repu blican hands believing 1t to De
sonnd on all the vexed Issues. 1t is
impossible to forecast with certainty
the outcome Of the presidential election
next year. One thing however is aoso-
lutely by certain that if the free silver
advocates persist in urging their Poiicy
# will either eventuate in split IN the
party or bring in nominious defeat oy
some unaffective compromise as has
been done in Kentucky. The con-
sarvative element should not waltz into
any snch trap. 1t does seem to be the
widest lunacy for large contingent
~ the marty to make relentless war
upon the only man who has ever lead
it to victory, which Cleveland has done
in the only two it has achieved in the
past thirty years. Mississippi, as the
yicksburg Post say, with her Pertie
Springs platform of free silver is So
lonely as TO be pitied, with no formid'
able opposition her victory was an easy
one but like the King Of Expirus, well
NAV she exclaim lone more such vic
tory and am ruined" Some time ago
we said the political horoscope locked
musky for the democracy and that the
time would come when all sound money
advocates would have TO stand togath'
err. The one is verified, aud the other
NAV before another twelve months.
The Charleston Convention just prior
70 the war in which Ben Butlei voted
more than fifty consecutive votes for
left Davis dominated Stephen A. Doug
lass. The fre-eating element bolted
and nominated Breckenridge. and de-
feat followed-not only the Democratic
but the Wing party and Lincoln was
elected. Splits may come next year
and no president be elected by the peo-
pie. and the election be thrown into
the House as was done early in our
history in 1901 between Jefferson and
Burr. when even then it took 36 bal
lots to elect jefferson which was done
by some of Burr's friends withdrawing
their opposition to Jefferson
and voting blank ballots. Jcffer-
sons first election-while legal, was
not really by the people. or he their
avowed choice. This simply shows
what contingencies may arise and how
small occurencies may turn the desti-
ties of nations. Burr would have pur-
sued the policy OF Washington and Ad-
ans Of strong Government, whilst
jefferson pandered TO popular Glamour
"A ste utr,osf freedom. ~ policy fer