The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-04-10
Is L chaos OF Death :
From - PhIIadeIphla ~.

fnlness, or whether the sequel OF is cla7
oticesn5iiuon shafl oaiace it from the lss-
tory OF American politics.
To-day the Democratic party has not a
single hopeful State north Of Mason and
Dixon's line; il has not single hopeful
State in the West, and the Southern
States are all trembling in the thrces oi
tl.reateoed revolGtiC2- If the Democrats
were compelled 10 face national contest
at this time they would enter Il without
reasonable expectation OF carrying any
State outside of the South, with The loss
of fully half the southern States more
than probable.
Such is the position Of the Democratic
party to-day. II is idle to theorize when
stubborn facts are SO clearly presented.
The party has been condemned by the
people with an emphasis that has never
been approached in the history OF our po-
Iiucal contests, aRd the Oyerls lelning de-
feat OF lsgi-a defeat that exceeds even
ihe million majority revolution against
the Republicans four years before-called
out 80 statesinanship in the DemOcratic
counscls IN Congress and Intensified the
madness OF Democratic lawmakers, in
stead of Christening a,id recalling them %
she lines OF patriotism.
While the causes which led 10 indus
tria! paralysis and financial distress are
moi in any degree justly chargeable 10
Democratic authority, the record Of the
Democratic Congress when that party
WIS in power IL every law making depart
nent The government, proved to the
people ofthe country thai its leaders were
united to cope with grave pablicqu
lions affecting the financial, commercial,
! industrial and trade interests OF the coun-
Try. Even what it did in the interest OF
the people il did 50 grudgingiy, 50 dis
cordantly and 50 imperfectly that it COM
manded little credit. ana the beneicent
results OF even good legislation were lost
by the contempt invoked by the law
making power.
Bat for the heroic integrity and patriot
! ism of President Cleveland the credit OF
! the nation would have been dishonorcd
and business chaos and general dis,rUst
must haze prevailed throughout Tie land.
The refusal of Congress, in the face Of ala
earnes, appeal from the President, to de
clare the faith OF the nation 10y issuing
bonds payable IN gold instead Of coin,
when over SlG,00,0O woald have been
"a. edto the people thereby and not dol
lar lost, WAS such a saperidiiye exhibi.
ton of lanatieai agrarianisin that publ,
patience cease 10 bc Virtue, and ths
elections Of lS95 have thus Tar simply
voiced the determined purpose OF the
American people to condemn and disgrace
the party that IS unequal 70 the wise gov
ernment ofthe Republic.
Is this position OF the Democratic or
g'nizstiou simply that Of temporary
cisaos ~ Is it death? Itcanno. live az Il.
presen. diScors.ant condition with ali APP
parent majority OF its people arayed
against The integrity OF nation, state, COM
nunity and individual, and il must
promptly recall the party as an oEg.,niza-
lion 10 Jhe hightesi standard of integrity
OF il must die. and de uniamented.
IA lhe entire South, where tine largest
mgjari1ies are, there has not been single
deliyerance made Tor national credit and
honest money since that issue has be-
come noInentcus, and in all OF the West
ern States. inclGding Ohio ~ oae of the
wo>t ofall, there = no honest organized
Democracy now ia existence. The Dem
ocrats of the West, Ike the Republicans
Of the South, have been utterly swallow
ed up i'y the most dangerous ofall mod
ern political cTazcs for cheap money, and
even IN lie Eastern States ihe Democrat
ie ranks are largely filed with dens-
gogues who are seeking To inislead the
Democratic masses against public and
private honesty.
No party thus poisoned with dishonesty
in is very yitals can survive, and if there
is - be i Democratic party ia tie future
i; must be promptly organized on the
basis o. honest government, honest mon
ey, honest taxcs ANA honest elections.
The RePahliaaas viii soon bc called
upoa to pass az ordesl equally severe
with THAI with " hich the late Democratic
Congress was confronted. It, too, l. torn
90 fragments 10y dishonesty; dishonesty
IN its statesmen; dishonesty IN lis Presi-
DENTAL candidates; dishonesty IN its lead
ers, and almost universal dishonesty
amongst its people ia the entire South and
West.
The first session OF the next Congress
Will compel that party 10 de.ino tinaa-
cial policy, and it i likely to De reat in
twain and - provoke puhl.c contempt
nearly or quite equal u that provoked by
the Congress just closed; bat perlidy or
biandering in Republican s,ateslnsn>fip
VIII not restore the Democracy q uublfc
confidence. !tmay destroy Ihe Repub-
iican Organization, but it VIII not revive
Democracy. Il mast be Ia position to
command the honest men of every p1liti-
cal faith or 1t nnst die, and if j. cInnot
retrieve Is honor and its fidelity % the
country, the sooner Il shaii die the better
it viii be for its followers.
The tiae has come when intelligent and
consideraie men VIII east party lines 10
the winds 70 sastain the integrity oftae
na;ioHsl faith aAd tine tranquility OF busl-
nes ana trade. The TGlt-s Will support
no man for President in 1895 who is not
s4pareiy for honest money. for that Is thc
paramount issue. The tariff question Is
settled. not only for the present. but for
;Ie future. There viii never be higher
protective tariff than that ia operation
to-day. Il may be rcdaced, bat never in
creased. unless Il be IN matters OF minor
detail, bat the issue Of honest money in
wolves the very life Of the Republic.
National and state credit mast he es-
;ablishedso clearly ami positively shat
the whole world viii accept it; failing IN
that vge must pay our thousands of mill
lions Of obligations held abroad. not one
half of which could be paid with all the
money OF every kind now in existence in
.he country. This is the issue the Demo-
cracy must face. and il mast face il now.
Ifii fails TO do 80 it must die. With tie
Democratic leaders rosis the solution OF
the problem whether the present over
throw Of Democracy shall be temporary
chaos or death. Which shall it be?
Great Snow IL Kansas.
Denver. April s.-Belated travellers
from the East report that the storm
throughout Kansas was the worst ever
known in that section.
Many of the passenger trains, now more
than forty-eight hours late, are battling
vita silow and sand GA thePrairies.
Superintendent Dogard. OF The Union
Pacific. with Headquarters az Chavenne