The Republican., 1900-11-15

Mr.. George Alfred Townshend, of
South Mountain, Nd, speaking of
the result of the election, said to
Herald reporter yesterday.
The victory was presented to the
Republicans by an opposition inco-
herent and idiotic, moral mulatto
combination of ex-slavery and silly
economics. 1t has weeded about all
the good men out of the hereditary
Democracy and left the old women
and the wilder Celts in a dazed group,
asking each other whether God is
good to so check destructiveness. The
success of the country in war, wealth,
foresight, foreign status, increased
army and armaments and world pol
icy was hateful to Bryan and his
supporters. We must fail and shrivel
to suit their platform. Every State
behind its normal growth, behind in
modern science and understanding,
behind in charity and free discussion,
went for Bryan, but where differing
is hopeless, the society forgets that
there are elections, and the vote of
the Bryan States is toward progress
i've nonentity. The commercial North
has to meet and overwhelm mean,
discordent elements, but does it with
out any qualification of their votes.
The noblest victory over such people
is the sunshine morning after election,
which reveals them far in the dark,
dislodged and void of rest "
WAS Cleveland an improvement
on Bryan" Mr.. Townshend was
asked.
There was enough decent sense
about Cleveland to make his party
hate him, and seek their own likeness
in Bryan answered he. "Cleveland
had no tact, was sort of a Coriolanus
among the Volscians, and his failure
was to create no improvement in his
party. They were then driven by
the jawbone of an ass into excessive
admiration. The crown of thorns and
cross of gold figure was exactly up to
the taste of that convention which
saw nominate Bryan in 1S96-Govern-
ors who looked like train robbers or
Quantrell's men, a leadership to make
civilization first despair and then up
guards and at EN-
''ln four years more so supreme
were those same leaders before their
mob that they had to give Bryan
every delegate and his theological
doctrine of 16 to l, although they were
kissing the feet of David B. Hill, who,
in 1896, had lashed them into frenzy.
How many reluctant men that dread
full old party has coerced and ruined!
1t is now taking measures to reorgan-
ize, but the name is hateful, associ-
ated with every remorse, but no i'm
provement. 1t hated and abandoned
Tilden, as it did Cleveland, when it's
politicians found that he would not
buy them twice nor harangue in favor
of another rebellion. In the last cleo
tion the attitude of Olney, Cleveland
and Benedict, juggling with their
votes, portrays them as trio of po-
litical sharpers. Open speech is a
greater privilege than the Australian
ballot. Cleveland would not tell how
he voted, so he is entitled to no bene-
fit of a doubt. His whole conduct
was such as to lead the Bryan news
papers to claim his influence. In
deed, it was the malevolence of Cleve-
land toward the mechanisms and in
dustry of the country which arrested
our growth from 1887 to 1897. His
Venezuelan irruption, which | am
now convinced was demagoguery,
had in it the gravitation to the Gu
ban war. He did it to capture the
Boston Irish, where Olney lives and
who were the tools of the Northern
mugwumps, men who have the colos-
sal idiocy to think that universal suf-
frage can be restricted to themselves.
After we wipe up the globe of it's evil
spirits we rejoice in these great cleo
tions, which were the highest moral
rebuke.
"The Democratic party is a little
phalanx of Pecksniffs cheating mob.
About all their statesmen have just
been hurrahing for Bryan and voting
for Mckinley. Is there any advantage
in continuing this bunco game, where
the leaders have no faith in the party?
Let the party disperse in the bushes
and its leaders climb treesl Govern
or Boies, of Iowa, has long been the
wisest Democrat and should have
been nominated over Cleveland in
1892. His advice yesterday was to
cast out the whole Democratic plat
form, but there are elements in the