The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-14
LOOKS FOR A BIG LANDSLIDE.
JOE WHEELER OF ALABAMA TALKS
OF THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

He Thinks the Indications Point
Very strongly to IA Large Demo-
cratic Majority in the Next Lower
House OF COnGress-Laborers Tn
employed and the Price of Whent
Bound to TumbIe-IndignatiOn
Aroused by the DingIey Tariff Bill.
Washington, Jan. 14-Represeutative
Joe Wheeler of Alabama predicts a great
democratic landslide in the coming ma
tional elections. He says:
The indications now point strongly to
a very large democratic majority in the
next House, and the triumph of the priu-
ciples of democracy in the presidential
election two years from next November.
Not a single promise which secured Re
publican votes in 1896 has been realized.
Iaborers are unemployed and wages in
many of the great manufacturing indus
tries have been materially reduced while
the prices of many farm products have
reached a lower average than has been
experienced In half a century. The adj
vance in the price of wheat, caused Ivy
famine and blighted crops in foreign coun-
tries, is only temporary. 1t will be fol-
lowed by increased acreage all over the
! world, and very low prices will be the
result
1.-THE Dlngley tariff bill has aroused in
dignation in localities vital to the success
of the Republican party and it has Eot
strengthened it in any place at all essen
tial to Republican success. The people of
the great West, without regard to party,
feel that they have been deceived and
cheated by false pretense of internation-
al bimetallism and, as so ably stated by
Senator Chandler, nothing but an open
and unqualified declaration in favor of sill
yer coinage will save the party from
overwhelming defeat in the great North
west The conservative civil service re-
formers stand amazed and appalled, to see
their theories scoffed at and a return to
the spoils system demanded by leading
Republicans, who are understood to be
highest in the confidence of the President.
History is constantly repeating itself.
The middle of Grants term, in 1874, Wit
messed a great democratic victory. In 1878,
the middle of Hayes term, the result was
similar. and the result was the same in
the middle or Arthur's term, in 1882, Har-
rison's term, in $780, and Cleveland's in
1894.
Assuming Tilden's election in 1876, we
have had the same revolution in every
Presidential election for quarter of a
century; Grant, Republican, in 1872; Til
den, Democrat, 1876; Garfield Republican,
1880; Cleveland, Democrat, in 1884; Harrl-
son, Republican, in 1888; Cleveland, Dem
ocrat in 1892; Mckinley, Republican, IN
1885, and 1t requires no prophet to foreteil
that a Democrat will Overwhelmingly
sweep the country in 1900
REVOLUTIONS in sentiment and in mat
tiers which the people deem necessary TO
their advancement, never go backward.
They may be pent up and retarded for a
time like a stream choked by debris and
drift, but ibis temporary hating only adds
to their Vigor, energy and power 10
1896 jefferson, and in 1894 Jackson were
beaten by the same element which de-
feated Bryan in 1896, and this resistless
sentiment secured their election four years
after their defeat In 1856 the slavery
question was sooffed at as a defeated is
sue; but four years later il was the con-
trolling element of strength of the sue
cessful party. The Democratic party
stand to-day more united and determined
than at any former period Its devotion
to the best interests of the people Is be-
ing understood by the great mass of Vot-
ers throughout the land, while their Re
publican opponents are hopelessly divided
upon the questions of currency and silver,
the tariff civil service, appropriations and
the lewiston of offices and spoils."