The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-15
RALLY ABOUT GORMAN.

IeSSOHS Drawn by WaLLefSOu tfOEu
, the Democratic Reverse.
Henry Watterson, in an editorial in
the Louisville Courier-Journal, says:
The vote of last Tuesday as finally
| recorded and summarized, and consid-
cred as a whole, shows upon it's face
that the Republican party is yet essen
TALLY intact, thoroughly organized and
equipped as a militant force; that the
Democratic party united only in the
Southern belt of States, exists else
where largely, through the force of cir
cumstance and association and num-
hers, but in numbers insufficient to eff
feet results. .ass .-
Several Individual possibilities on
the Democratic side are eliminated.
Pattison goes down in Pennsylvania,
johnson in Ohio, and, measurably,
Hill in New York The one Democrat
of national dimensions left standing
upon the scene iscsorrnan.
What may be the meaning of these
things, and what DO they portend?
1.-THE personalities we leave out of
account. At their best, they are illus
DRY, evanescent, here to-day, and gone
to- morrow. AS to- Ohio, it seems rea-
sonably proven that it takes more than
a swallow to make a summer The
failure Of Tom Johnson to unite the
opposition may be ascribed to the de-
lection of the Me Lean influence, or to
the puissance of the Hanna machine;
but for whatever cause, it is enough
AS to Indiana, it Is to be observed that
in the Hoosier State the longest pole
always gets the permission, and that
in the late election Senator Fairbanks
took no chances. In New York Mr..
Hills ownership plank must have cost
Coler good round vote up the State,
perhaps defeating him; while in Penn
sylvania the Dutch merely maintain
themselves and their own in Holland,
leaving outstanding suspicion that
there was a large-sized, fat and juicy
deal at the bottom of the President S
Arbitration Scuttle of Coal.
I'VE had as well set down the claims
of fraud to the account of profit and
loss. The ms have ever much the ad-
vantage for sharp practice. If Cleve-
land had not been Governor of New
York in 1884 Blaine would have been
President.
1.-THE long and the short of it is that
Democrats must not expect to prize the
Republicans out of their intrenched po-
sitions except by the organization of
both public opinion and a plan of
campaign meeting force with force;
because let no Democrat forget that
for many years we have been employ
ing bows and arrows against Krag-
Jorgensen rifles.
History so often repeats itself be-
cause human nature is ever the same.
The old Wing party went to pieces in
spite of such leaders as Clay and Web
ster, for the reason that it got out of
line with the advancing trend Of the
nations thought and movement. 1t
grew too-conservative. If not radical,
the times were at least progressive;
and the slavery agitation coming upon
the stage Of action, as a vital force,
middle men were at discount. 1t
forced the Southern Wings into the
Democratic party. Even the Northern
Wings had to pass through season of
political regeneration before they de-
veloped 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-slav-
cry men, as well as among the Demo-
Gratis There was Know-Nothingism
with its secrecy. at once venomous and
intolerant. Politics, with the opposi-
ton. during that decade, as during the
present decade, was hodge-podge.
1.-THE Democratic party, which swept
the country in 1852, and, In spite Of the
mistakes of the Pierce Administration,
carried it for Buchanan in 1856, seemed
to have the world in a sling. AS long
as the opposition separated into fac
lions and wasted its energies upon such
issues as native Amercanism and
Anti Catholicism, the anti-slavery ele-
ments agreeing nowhere as to methods,
the Democrats had only to hold to-
gether to continue to rule the roost,
They did not hold together They
broke apart. 1t was the opposition that
finally got together. Sending ex-
tremists like Joshua Giddings, and Wis
ionaries, like Wendell Phillips, to the
rear. they in 1860 nominated Lincoln
an old conscience Whig--and, electing