New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-30
PEPf RLIC.iNS.

What Is the use Of urging that Republicans.
when they come into power by the free choice
Of the people. should not be Republicans? Is
there anything more than the contemplate in
decpncv Of partisanship in claiming. as some
journals do. that the Republicans ought immcdi-
otelv 10 divest themselves Of all the principles
and convictions which secured their election
Rcpublirans have won because they were RepuO-
leans and not because they were Democrats.
They have tho confidence of the business world
because they have Republican convictions ana
principles and not because they are expected
TO initiate Democrats in any particular. They
have magnificent mn joritics Of the people be
hind Them because what the Democrats have
done the people consider despicable and dshon-
orable and not because anything the Democrats
have done ought to stand. Cannot some Demo
Gratis Of average intelligence get their ntellects
TO meet this fact:
The unfortunate fact that discreditcd Presi-
dent cannot be moved out Of his place until
March. 1891 Is absolutely the only thing that
gives him any excuse for saying what he thinks
in an annual message. The country does not
much care what he thinks 1t only wants to get
rid of him and his crowd. Is there a Democrat
who doubts that Cleveland and his whole body
Of adherents and admirers would have been
dumped into the Atlantic Ocean # the votes OF
1894 and 1895 could have done 1t? Perhaps
some Of them imagine that the vote of 1879 in
States like New-York, New-Jersey, Maryland
and Kentucky may at some future time be re
versed. 1t is their privilege to think so. But
there goes with it the frighful disappointment of
1896 There are more Republicans in this coun-
try as the votes demonstrate beyond question,
than there ever have been at any previous cleo
tion-more than there We're until Democrats
were tricd-and that is the trouble.
The men who are worshipping President
Cleveland might as well worship one Of those
ugly brass Hindoo gods which were sent over
by the missionaries half n century ago. lie Is
a back number. The people have tried him and
his party and their votes show plainly what
they think about his policy and his party and
its capacity and the condition of the country
under Democratic rule. 1t is enough to say
that they are not worshppng in that direc-
ton II is open to any man who pleases to
make ont Of himself Cleveland idolater instead
Of an American citizen. but he may as well I'M
derstand that he has nothing under the sun to
do with the government of this country in years
to come
Republicans have been empowered by the peo-
pie to reverse as far as they can and as soon as
they can the amazing stupidites Of Democracy
and Clevelandism. Their critics may take II
for granted that they will not shrk the task.
nor prove unequal to It, 1t is not going 10 be
the Republican policy to get as close to Cleve-
landsm and Democracy rs possible. and the
Democratic journals which are urging that line
of thought upon Republican Congressman are
considerably behind the age The one thing
certain is that the Republican Congressman will
not try 10 be Democrats n far they can, after
getting elected as Republicans.