New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-16
DENOCRACYS LAST HOPE.
THAT THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS WILL
BE AS USELESS AS ITS OWN.


THAT THEY MAY SNATCH AN
OFFICE FROM THE WRECK.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TElBrNEl
Washington March l5-It IS stated that an
American humoris; OF some distinction, who had
been suffering from boils. was asked BY friend
one day where he thought boil gave him the least
pain and discomfort. and that he promptly re
piled: ION some other fellow" The Democrats in
Washington of the same mind these days
They have been suffering for Two years on ac-
count Of eruptions in their own party which seem
to be growing worse instead Of better and they are
naturally anxious TO communicate the disease 10
the Republican party. Moreover. they seem 10 De
neve that their efforts will be crowned with sue
cess probably because they have failed in every
thing else. When they came into power win
whoop and hurrah two years ago they SAID mat
they would purify the Administration cf the GOV
eminent with the help of the "Consecrated one
in the White House. Everything was To be cheap
except wages and agricultural products; trusts
and combinations to be destroyed; financial
and currency problems were TO he solved econ
omy was TO rule appropriations and expenditures
in short. the country was about to enter upon an
era of prosperity such as 1t had not ehJo!eu s'ee
the halcyon days "befo' the wah
Unfortunately II happened that before the new
Administration had been in power month pau
symptoms began to appear. and before the new
Congress had been in session three months party
blood poisoning was clearly indicated. From that
day to this the symptoms have steadily grown
worse and the eruptons more offensive ana II mas
been found necessary subject the party In power
TO the strctest of quarantine regulations Its
power 10 DO mischief has thereby been greatly cur
tailed and diminished, but the nature or the
beast" remains unchanged. The dismal Democrauc
"statesmen" and "ex-statesmen" who still remain
IN Washington TO give the 'Consecrated one the
he frpndlipSt. kind OF reCtp-
ton when he returns from his inspection or the
lights and buoys of the Dismal swamp Canal ana
Pimco Sound. are finding soine coihlort IA ~ cne
hope that the Republican majority IN the neNi Con,
gress will prove incompetent. aS uipattlotC anu
as impotent as the democrats MAJOR ma0 ibai IN o1 ny
once before in its history did the Democratic parry
succeed Ss has dome IN the last two Years and they
appear TO be inspired by nope that the h'puDp-
Ucan marty will not be strong enough ana patriouc
enough TO meet the emergency as II did thirty-H'e
years .s... o., ,.,,r.,.o~
two or more OF these political dereliciS approach
within halng distance OF one another ana II se9ihs
II was wholly natural indeed inevitable, that, rea-
soning from personal and paLy tey
unon the expectation OF factiOna fouds ana per
sonal jeaouses among the members ot ihal iHIHi
Lv a democratic eX-Represcutative in conversation
with a Tribune correspondent to-day. IN biie'' ne
said:
The newspapers irrespective q party have con
denned the majority OF the Lila Congress and de-
OF the party that placed It IN power. Two years
hence the country will get its seal Of disappToYal
upon the IIVth Congress. it IS already apparent
that there VII be bitter contest over the Speaker
ship Of the House Of Representatives., ana "ha''F"I
may % the result it will leave wounds mat cannon
be healed before Presidential campaign or next
year The Republican party Is as badly dlNlded on
the money question a. the Democratic party Is. ana
Il Will be unable to frame or pass financial meas
IRE that will be sccepta bic 70 the country Neither
will II be able to enact any legislation 10 relenish
the revenues and It will therefore be compelled to
do as we have done-make appropriations FOR the
support Of the Government in the face OF a Treas
urv deficit Everything that the Republican ma
tority in the next House OF Representatives docs
or attempts DO will be gauged with reference to us
probable effect upon the prospects OF rival candl-
dates for the Presidential nomination. There can
be no return OF general prosperity WITHIN the mex,
eighteen months and long before the expiration o,
that time the voters OF the country VIII have lost
confidence in the Republican party.
The man who said these things and many NOR"
of the same tenor. is Statesman out OF a job
who will be grateful II not satisfied. II he obtains
the appointment which ne is seeking 10 an
office the salary OF which is a good deal less than
that which he received "a member OF the House
OF Representatives. He Ia a fair specimen OF the
class of Democratic statesmen to which he belongs
men who having demonstrated their utter inca.
pacity and impotence legislators are hoIriul
that Republicans will show themselves TO be equally
incompetent and imbecile. II Is perhaps pertinent
10 add that rather extensive search has falled
TO discover single Democratic eX-kepresentatVe
who was defeated at the polls last November who
proposes to appeal 70 the voters OF his district Tor
"vindication' and reelection next year