The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-09-13
THE OUTLOOK IN POLITICS.
Causes which VIII Operate Against thu
Democrats.

Disgust is not usually long lived.
The political outlook for this year is
somewhat modified by the fact that
democratic disgust was intense enough
Ia year ago to defeat that party in the
states where it had for years held al
most unchallenged sway. That trait
Of human nature which leads many
men to tolerate after q time and at
length to condone the offenses that at
arst excite the utmost wrath has to be
reckoned with this year, as well as the
folly of some who will accept reviving
business as indicating the tariff which
democrats were kicked into passing.
When an incendiary is caught on the
premises, and by dint of revolver shots
Induced to vanish without finishing
his destructive work, it is not usually
reckoned vindication of the purposes
and character of the scamp II the prop
srty is mostly saved. Men like Prof.
Wilson in the house and Senator Vest
in the senate represented the great
democratic majority in both houses,
which was not persuaded. but simply
coerced into abandonment Of its in
cendiary work; and yet there are men
stupid enough to suppose the demo-
cratic policy entitled to credit for the
results of its defeat.
When to this foolisnness there is
added the propensity Of men to forget
their disgust with their own party, it
seems likely that majorities this year
may be smaller than in 1894 The ava
lanche of that year was In part due to
the refusal of the democrats to vote at
all, and of the men who could lift
themselves no higher then than a mega
tive and silent protest against the in
famies and the follies of their party,
some must be expected by this time to
have grown wondrous kind to its faults.
With better business and wages, the
sense of indignation loses part of its
personal stimulus. But there are
other causes which operate this year
against the democrats more effectively
than in 1894.
One of these is the surrender of the
treasury to a syndicate of bankers,
whose price for saving the country
from the consequences of democratic
stupidity has not appeared small to
the plain people. 1t is very well for
capitalists and bankers to extol the
and their associates, but it will never
be possible to persuade most American
voters that the government had any
business to pay twelve million dollars,
more or less. for placing bonds which
find eager buyers to-day at over twen-
ty-one per cent premium. The fact
that this thing was done by a
democratic president while a demo-
cratic congress was in session, and was
neither stopped nor hindered by the
majority, will settle the attitude of
many voters to the democratic party
for years to come; and this cause of Of
Tense has not only arisen since the
elections of last fall, but has been
kept in mind by monetary discussions,
and by the recent outgo of gold.
1t is sufficiently apparent in Ken
lucky that the democrats are doomed
to heavy loss of votes, whether they
range themselves with Harris, Jones
and Blackburn, or follow after Cleve-
land and Carlisle. Attempts to find
middle ground of union in Kentucky
have failed, and the ablest democrats
expect their ticket to be badly beaten
in that state; but in other western and
southern states the same differences
exist and are producing similar effects
The seizure of the democratic ma
chinery in some states by silver ex-
tremists repels thousands who believe
in sound money. The success of the
administration and its office-holders in
capturing conventions in other states
drives thousands over to the populists.
1t is not possible to say how far the
disintegratiOn may go, and, as is
usual in such cases, many may threaten
and will in the end be drawn by party
feeling to submit, but loss of many
thousand votes to the democrats on
this account appears at present newt
able.
Last years elections were a great
surprise. even to the victors, for they
had not anticipated so great a triumph.
The republicans this year have taken
it for granted that the democrats would
be able to call back large proportion
of their stragglers and therefore have
not calculated upon the exceptional
majorities of 1894. But in quarters
where industries have been most af-
fected by the tariff, and in quarters
where the silver controversy has most
divided the democratic party, it is pos
sible that the results this year may
again prove a surprise to alL-N. Y.
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