The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-11-13
ashIngt0n LeitOr.

Washington, November 9th. 1885,
The Democrats are up against
the h.1i wall of defeat again
Crne the defeat isn't as over
.ybslminy as the McKinleyites tried
to make the country believe 1t was, out
.tiIl II is defeat Democrats do not like
Iefeat apy better now than IN the past
nor anv better than the Republicans did
four wears ago, but there are numerous
reasons which serve to make The deleal
| of BRYAN especially aggravaung not tne
least of which is the knowiege that MS
election would have been so easy had
the gold Democrats given him as loyal
sunoort as the silver Democrats gave To
Cleveland in his three campaigns Still,
there is very little bitterness expressed
nv Democrats They made their night
,oainst the greatest odds any party ever
| fonoht against and came so near win
| ,ing that they frightened some of the
fellows almost to death, and, being
,ood citizens and thorough believers In
| the rule of the majority, they are gener
| ,IIv disoosed to accept the result phllo-
| sophically and to wait for time to even
| up things, as it generally does, In poll
tics aud IN everything else
Although it is too early, owing to the
absence of full and authentic returns, to
pass full Judgment on the extent OF the
defeat. it is known that majority OF
McKinle, electors have been elected and
probable that a majority of the popular
vote has been registered against the free
coinage of silver; it is certain that ma
ioritv of the Lext house will be anti
silver Republicans, and feared that
enough legislatures have gone Republl-
can to elect enough senators to wipe out
the silver ma jorlty In the senate and
give that body over to the control of the
autisilver Republicans. Granting that
these probabilities will all turn out to be
facts, they are not so terrible, from
Democratic point of view, as they at hrst
glance appear to be. In fact, II the
Democrats could not have the preSlden-
| cy and both branches of congress 1t Is
much better for the future of the party
let it not be forgotten that the Demo
| cratic party is the one deathless political
party that this country has known
that the Republicans should have them
all With the executive and legislative
| branches of the government In their
| hands there can be no shirking Of re
| sponsit ities on tle part of the Repub=
| Icans They have promised the coun=
| tr renewal of .sperit.', if they were
feStOred to power. Now Iuat Is exactly
| what the country stands most in need OF
and what the Democratic party hoped to
! accomplish. \ majority of the voters
| of the country have decided that the
| Republicans should have another trial.
| All right, let them go ahead and give us
! prosperity as soon es possible. If they
! do it, the voters will be sure to give
| them full credit for it, and they may be
| sure that the Democrats will be too anx-
| ious after their long period of "hard
times under previous Republican leg
isIation and policy to get a little of that
| prosperity for themselves to raise any
obstacles to prevent Its coming or to
| drive it away after 1t arrives If they
fail, as they have done before, the voters
will see their mistake and will give the
| Democratic party a chance to see what
it can do towards making the country
permanently prosperous, Instead OF
| spasmodically prosperous with long in
| tervals or ''hard times" between.
| Many things might be said about the
methods pursued to secure Mckinley
election, but as the case Is analogous tc
that of some of our unscrupulOus rich
men who have no hesitation about vic.
lating moral laws to get money but are
almighty careful not to violate the
crimi;;al laws, 1t is probably best to lei
them go without comment.
Since the election there has been con.
siderable talk about a reorganization ot
| vi.
which will bring together in one orgaui
zation all those who believe in the fun
damental principles of the party. Such
a movement properly conducted i;
worthy of all cOmmendation, but if it i:
intended merely as means of restoring
to leadership the men who failed the
party in its hour of need it will be Ger
tain 20 receive the condemnation it de
serves, from the rank and file of the par
ty-the men who bore the brunt of the
battle just lost, There may be two opin
| ions as to the need of a reorganization
I of the Democratic party, b t it is Ger
tain, to my mind, and i think to tha
of the most of those who are familiar
with the workings of the campaign Jus
endet, that the Democratic party needs
organization very badly in many states
That is one of the few things that III,
party might find that it would be advan
tageous to copy after its opponents
Ha tn Democratic parry been organi
zed as it should have been Senator Jone
and Faulkner would have had NOR,
trustworthy formation from severa
States than they we're furnished with
and had they known the real situation
in several states that were lost they
might have taken steps that would hav,
saved them and possibly have changed
the result of the election. 1t is the Gus
tom to sneer at party machines in som,
quarters, but for all that they are neces
sary adjuncts of most successful
campaigns. NJ