Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1902-11-13
'RuIIy about German. -

Lessons Drawn BY Wafterson
From The Democratic Reverse.
Henry Watterson. in an editorial
in the Louisville Coarfev-.JournaI,
says:
The vote OF last Tuesday, as e.
nally recorded and summarized,
and considered as q whole, shows
upon its face that the Republican
party is yet essentially intact,
thoroughly organized and equipped
as militant force; that the Demo
cratic party united only in the South
ern belt of States, exists elsewhere
largely through the force of circum-
stance and association and numbers.
but in numbers insufficient to effect
results.
Several individual possibilities
on the Democratic side are elimina-
ted. Pattison goes down in Penn
sylvania, Johnson in Ohio, and
measurably, Hill in New York.
The one Democrat of national di-
mansions left standing upon the
scene is German.
what may be the meaning of these
things. and what do they portend?'
THE personalities we leave out of
account. At their best, they are
illusory. evanescent, here today,
and gone tomorrow. As to Ohio.
IL seems reasonably proven that it
takes more than O swallow to make
q summer. The failure OF Tom John
SON TO unite the opposition may be
ascribed to the detection of the Nc
Lean influence. or to the puissance
OF the Hanna machine; but for what
ever cause. ii is enough. AS to In
diana, it is to be observed that in the
Hoosier State the longest pole always
gets the persimmon, and that in the
late election Senator Fairbanks took
nochances. In New York Mr.. Hill s
ownership plank must have cost Co
Ter good round vote up the State,
perhaps defeating him; while in
Pennsylvania the Dutch merely
maintain themselves and their own
in Holland, leaving outstanding a
suspicion that there was large siz-
ed, fat and juicy deal at the bottom
of the Presidents Arbitration Scut-
tie of Coal.
We had as well set down the
claims OF fraud TO the account of
profit and loss. The ms have ever
much the advantage for sharp prac-
tice. If Cleveland had not been
Governor Of New York in 1884
Blaine would have been President.
The long and the short OF il is
that Democrats must not expect to
prize the Republicans out of their
entrenched positions except by the
organization of both q public opin-
ion and plan of campaign meeting
force with force; because let no
Democrat forget that for many years
we have been employing bows and
arrows against Krag- Jorgensen ri
fies.
History so often repeats itself
because human nature is always the
same. The old Wing party went to
pieces in spite of such leaders as
Clay and Webster, for the reason
that it got out of line with the ad-
vancing trend Of the nation s thought
and movement. 1t grew too con-
sentative. If not radical, the times
were at least progressive; and the
slavery agitation coming upon the
stage of action, as a vital force, mid
die men were at adiscount. Itforced
the Southern Wings into the Demo
cratic party. Even the Northern
Wings had to pass through season
OF political regeneration before
they developed into Republicans:
the period lying between 1852 and
1860, being given over to all sorts
of factionism as to all sorts of fads
and fooleries. There were 'hards
and 'softs among the anti-slavery
men, as well as among the Democrats.
There was -Nothingism with
its secrecy, at once venomous and
intOlerant. Politics, with the oppo-
sition, during that decade, as dur
ing the present decade, was hodge
podge.
The Democratic party. which
swept the country in 1852, and, in
spite OF the mistakes of the Pierce
Administration, carried it for Buc-
hanan in 1856. seemed to have the
world in sling. AS long as the
opposition separated into factions
and wasted its energies upon such
issues as native Americanism and
anti Catholicism, the anti-slavery ell
ements agreeing nowhere as tometh
DDS, the Democrats had only to hold
together to continue to rule the
roost. They did not hold together.
They broke apart. II was the oppo-