Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-10-13

seeking sycophants about the White
House, be concluded to make assurance
doubly sure by posing as 1.-THE admins
tration candidate, " never dreaming that
he would fail to reach the gubernatorial
chair and thence mount to higher
things. Then came an eye opener of
large proportions to Mark, Mac and
John Addison The Nutneggers incon-
tinently dumped "the administration
candidate" the elegant and aspiring
John Addison, and selected some COM
mon plug Republican as Republican
son returns to his duties az secretary
to the president" o sadder but wiser
man.
The truth appears to be that this ap-
pears to be q bad year for all the tribe
Of Mark and Mac. Somehow the times
are out Of joint with them.
The Vermont nIection.
Up in Vermont, where the Demo-
Gratis reaflrmed the Chicago platform
and enthusiastically Endorsed Bryan,
they had an election the other day, and,
10 and behold, the Democrats increased
their vote 8 per cent and reduced the
Republican vote 10 per cent, making a
net gain Of Is per cent for the silver
~lunatics, and yet we are solemnly told
a Thousand times every day that Bryan
ism is dead as the men who lived before
the food, all of which. ! suppose, is
demonstrated by the vote in the Green
Mountain State.
"One swallow does not make q
spring." says the old adage. but there
are others.
At the Maine election q week later
the net gain for the Democrats was 90
per oentl Now. II there IL any comfort
to be extracted from Republican policies,
the denisens Of Maine ought to be hap
py as o clam at high tide, for Maine
comes pretty near running the whole
machine In the Fifty-ffth congress.
Hon. Thomas Brackets Reed. . master
full, great man, the most brilliant Re-
publican living. with his sc~intillating
genius, ID general ringuaster OF the DIR
Gus. Good Governor Dingley is chair
man Of the great committee Of ways and
means and understands precisely how to
tar everybody else for the benefit Of his
constituents, while the bounding Bou.
teile is chairman Of the committee on
naval affairs, which by reason of the
Spanish war Is o great committee In the
present house. Surely, with all that, the
Maine people ought to have rolled up an
increased majority for the ''great God
and morality party" but with q perver-
sity to be accounted for only on the
| theory that Organism is dead as a smelt.
| they didn't enthuse worth q cent and
actually pulled down the Republican
majority by nearly 90 per cent. 1t may
be that Mark Hanna is not popular uI
in Maine, and It's barely possible that
| the Republicans Of the Pine Tree State,
| who are exceedingly proud Of Nj. Reed
| and his shining talents, do not remem'
| Der with pleasure how Mark bought the
~presidential nomination In 1896.
Oh, yes, but we will be told that
nevertheless and Notwithstanding ths
| Republicans carried both Maine and
| Vermont. Yes, they d.d, they won vic
| tories, but IL my memory serves me cor
rectly Il was Pyrrhus who, gazing up
on a battlefield which be had won, IL
| agony Of soul exclaimed, Another suct
o victory, and we are uudone." 30 with
the Republicans. II they lose as great
| per cent In the remainder Of the states
as they did In Maine and Vermont. ths
Democrats will have 100 majority IL
the next house.
But Bryan and Organism are dead
| dead as q doornail. Another evidences
| Of its death I read in a Republican papel
the other day, which mournfully re
marked that George Fred Williams wa
holding the Democratic organization O
Massachusetts, too close On the lines O
the Chicago platform.
The Treasury "surplus."
The Republican papers are all cac
king about a surplus in the treasury
One Of two things is absolutely true
either the editors Of those papers hav'
all suddenly gone daft at once or =
assume that all the American Pc
are natural fools. Do they really
lieve that they OAR deceive anybody |
braying about that surplus? Eve:
man, woman and child in the land VI;
two ideas above a mud turtle know
that that surplus was obtained by tn
simple and ruinous process of borrow
ing money and mortgaging the country
The greater the surplus obtained il
that way the worse we are of. Is an,
man idiot enough to think he is gettini
rich by mortgaging his farm and hi
cattle and his household property? Ye
that is precisely what the Republican
have done to raise q surplus. and ye
they have the infinite gall to bloviat
about it. They must be the fellows tina
st. Paul had in his minds eye when b
spoke Of a certain class Of people glory
ing in their shame. By the easy process
Of issuing interest bea.ing, nontaxabl
bonds they might as well have a bill
lion dollar surplus as a million.