Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-03-18
REPUBLICAN HOPES FADING
High and Lordly Air Of Republican
Leaders Rapidly Disappearing
at Washington.
TOTAL FAILURE OF PRESENT CONGRESS
Viewed with Contempt, Scorn and Pity
by the People-Republicans in a
Worse Plight than Democrats
Ever Were.

Washington, March 18.--The high ant
lordly air by which Republican leader:
we're so recently recognized has entirely
disappeared. The confidence that dis
tinguished them no longer exists. The
theory of party infallibility has been ex
ploded and millions in the country who
have been voting the Republican ticket
SIMPLY because they acquired the habi,
of 80 doing are engaged in some very
active thinking. Ever since the party
first came into national control it has
cunningly maintained the fiction that il
alone was capable of directing the affairs
of the government. During the brief in
tervals of Democratic rule all the con.
centrated energies and eloquence of the
opposition was directed to charging in
competency, inefficiency and want OF
harmony. The Democratic congress was
berated and maligned from the time Of
its assemblage to that of its final ad
jonrnment when the vociferous ieers
turned to prophecies of speedy dissolu
ton.
Now the Republican congress is in {
far worse plight than any of its prede
cessors. All the contempt, scorn ant
pity, which were affected toward the Dem
ocrats during a brief period of control
return uponit
WITH TEN.FOLD FORCE.
But aside from the utter imbeciity OF
congress- and the self-chastisement which
the ajority has inflicted on its party,
there is much to attract the thought of
the Republican citizens They are be
ginning to ask whether a political party
is the means of worthy end, all mem
bers standing on an equal footing aud
working to accomplish the same purpose
or whether it is the army OF few self
appointed commanders who direct cam
paigns, assume supreme authority, pun
ish insubordination and appropriate the
spoils of victory. They are asking this
in every state where machine rule opens
the way to jobbery, favoritism, corrup-
tion and abuse of patronage; where the
INDIVIDUAL oITIzEN rs A CIPHER
save as he can be used to cast vote and
forced to pay taxes. The management of
the party it is disgraced, discredited and
degraded. Decent men of affairs, men
who think that the true end of govern.
ment is to serve the best interests of the
people, are quitting the boss ridden party
and looking for another political alliance.
And Democrats are already full OF hope
and confidence.
The Democratic chances of n national
victory next fall are 100 per cent better
than they were ninety days ago. The Re-
publicans in the senate have succeeded in
giving its own party one of the severest
trouncings ever administered to politi.
cal organization. The trick of those who
sought to pass tariff bill under the pre-
tense that it was required to meet an
urgent demand for more revenue, with
belief that political capital would be
realized should the president veto the
measure, has reacted with fatal force.
All pretense of Republican unity is
abandoned and that familiar cry in time
Of trouble,
II WANT TO GET HOME"
ia heard from all the oid-line members of
The party in congress. Waving political
that have to do with the
good of the country, the party that few
months ago was waving its banners and
shouting it's huzzas, is a worthy object
Of pity. II only required to be shown
iberality in the allowance of rope, and
here was assurance in advance that it
would hang itself. On the one Issue upon
which it could 60 before the country in
he hope of victory, 1t has beaten itself
md mournfully acknowledged the defeat.
The tariff bill is as "dead as Cesar"
Senator Carter, chairman of the Republi-
,an national committee, emphatically an
lounces in the senate that there can be
40 further tariff legislation until there is
rec coinage of silver. The Republicans
If his financial views will have both or
hey will have neither and the party is
lopelessly divided. It's own members
'ay SO, and are abusing each other like
pickpookets. Their boasted ability to
egislate for the good of the country has
ventilated in the most impotent efforts
'yer put forth by a congress of the
United States. They have created su-
oreme disgust in the country that arrays
tself against the party responsible for
his lamentable state of affairs.