Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-14
NO CHANCE FOR THEM.
Democrats Doomed to n Long Period
of Exclusion from
Power.

Extracting hope from defeat is the
task to which many democrats are
now devoting themselves. Some have
the fr2ngness to admit that the here
sizes of populism embodied in the Kan
sas City platform were, to large eX-
tent, responsible for the crushing sec
ond defeat of Bryan and Organism.
The vagaries of the badly jointed,
rickety Kansas City platform contrib
uted, no doubt. to the Overwhelming
character of that democratic defeat,
but no nominee and no platform which
that party could have offered the peo-
pie had, in 1900, accomplished Mr.. Me
Kinley's defeat.
Mr.. Mckinley had, in his first term,
shown himself possessed, in an eml-
nently high degree, of every quality OF
craftsmanship demanded for the right
discharge, at one of the most critica!
periods of our history, of the duties of
the worlds greatest office. He had sue
cessfully, brilliantly led the nation
through the perils of a great foreign
war, displaying in his tactful, firm, jul
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and events powers of government not
inferior to those which made Washing
ton. Jackson, Lincoln and Grant ia
nous throughout the world. The
American people likes. president who
proves himself equal to the greatest
emergencies which may confront him.
They measure him by this method of
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problems which call for solution at
the hands of his craftsmanship and pa
triotism.
Thus measured, President Mckinley
was, by the people, rightly adiudged
one of the most successful of our chief
magistrates, and, as such, undeniably
entitled to reelection. His victory was,
of course, enhanced and emphasized
by the prodigious political blunders
of his opponents. But the democrats
can find no true source of satisfaction
in the belief that with better plat
form or a better candidate they could
have defeated Mr.. Mckinley. The lat
ter was simply invincible.
Those democrats who see a silver
lining TO the huge, heavy, darksome
cloud that obscures their party's sky,
draw comparisons between the demo-
cratic situation after Greeley's defeat,
in 1872, and the condition of the party
to-day. They point with seeming sat
isfaction to the overwhelming demo-
cratic congressional victory achieved
in 1874, just two years after the repub-
lican landslide which carried Gen.
Grant into the white house for a sec
ond term.
Conditions are however, very differ
ent now. Tie republican defeat of 1919
was due entirely to the scandals fas-
tened by unworthy men on the nation
al administration. There are no such
scandals now. and none likely to be.
Preeminent as a soldier, Gen. Grant
lacked some qualities needed in an ad-
ministration. He was too confiding.
Accustomed in war to place implicit re-
lance on those to whom he issued com
mands, he was equally trustful of men
holding high civil office under the gov
ernment at Washington. In the latter
respect he was, in some instances, it Is
well known, woefully deceived.
President Mckinley has all the eau
tion and reserve needed in the success
full administration. He expects every
man in Office to do his duty or take the
full consequences If neglect or mai
feasance. No abuse of his confidence
unvisited by stern punishment shall
give the democrats an opportunity for
success in 1902 or in 1904. The unfor-
tunate alliance with populism, con
tracted first in 1896 and reaffirmed in
1900, has doomed that party to long
and deserved exclusion from power
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.