The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-11-21
Both Parties Satisfied.
QUELQUEFoIs.

the Congressional election.
The Democratic leaders did not make
a strong effort to elect majority to
the lower house of Congress. Special
efforts were made in favor of Demo-
Gratis of superior worth and usefulness,
even where the Democrats were in the
minority, but no earnest, energetic eff
fort was revealed to secure control of
the lower house of Congress.
Ex-President Cleveland recognized
this state of things before the cam
paign was half over and took pains to
publicly advise against such policy,
declaring that the election of the lower
house of Congress would be safe step
ping stone to complete victory in 1904,
but the leaders in control of the cam
paign did not accept his advice.
The cause for this is not far to seek.
The election of the lower house of Con-
gress would mean the blocking of
legislation proposed by the Republi-
cans to which the Democrats were OPP
posed; on the other hand the Demo-
Gratis could not hope to secure legisla-
ton when the Senate and the Presi-
dent were opposed, hence no desirable
change could be affected, looking to-
wards the reduction of the tariff or
suppression of the trusts.
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holding the lower house of Congress
would be held to some extent respon-
sible to the country for their opposi-
ton to Republican measures, to read
just the tariff on lines, which the DEM
ocrats could not consistently approve,
and to legislation affecting the trusts
which the Democrats might not con-
slider adequate to the prevailing con-
ditions.
Democrats who look ahead will, of
course, deplore the defeat of individual
candidates, especially those of excep-
tional force and popularity, but they
will not greatly regret the general re-
suits.
Taking the larger view, it is better
for the Democratic party as such that
the Republicans should continue to
have undivided responsibility and
plenty of rope until the next Presi-
Dental contest
The Republicans now will be held
responsible for the fulfllment of their
promises, made to the country during
the campaign, to revise the DINGHY
Tariff schedules on lines in the general
interest of the people throughout the
country, and to take legal measure to
prevent the trusts from expressing the
people.
The Republicans claim, that pros
perity has its abiding roots in high
protective tariff policy, such as the
DINGHY tariff bill affords, and they will
now have two more years of uninter-
rupted sway to prove this claim.
Those who have some skill in inter-
preting the signs of the times would
not be at all surprised if there should
be halt in the march of prosperity
before the election of 1904. If the
Democrats were in control of the House
in such an event the Republican man
ayers would lay it all to ''fear'' on the
part of the business world to compel
Democratic ascendency in the near
future. They have worked like game
successfully in the past and they might
work it successfully on some hundreds
of thousands of credulous voters in
1904 if the House were Democratic.
On the other hand, with both Houses
Republican, a financial revulsion and
business depression would work
against the Republican party just as a
similar condition culminatingina panic
in 1893 worked against the Democratic
party in 1898 and 1896.
The Republican party was the one
that profited unjustly from the coun-
try's misfortunes in those years. 1t is
just as well that it should not have an
opportunity to profit again in like
manner.
1t is the recognition of the need of
tariff revision and additional trust
legislation that has given the Republi-
cans the victory. If the party had ig-
nored the tariff and the trust questions
in the campaign, as they were planning
to do, before Speaker Henderson of the
House of Representatives thrust it up
on them by his refusal to run for re-
election to Congress, defeat would like
ly have followed If the let well
enough alone policy, of Henderson and
Mark Hanna had been the Slogan in
the campaign, instead of those of Cum
mings, Babcock and other leaders of
the party, who doubts that the party
would have been defeated in its race
for congress.
The Republican party will now have
two years in which to redeem its