The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-05-23
STILL BEING DELUDED.
Democrats Continue to Run After
Wil1-o'-the Wisp Visions
of Success

A former resident of this city, who
was the democratic candidate for the
national house in this district four
years ago, and who, it may be added
regularly elected himself in every
speech before the votes were counted
appears to be in New York talking
about the results of the city elections
in Indiana. This long-range observer
finds in the results indications of Il
turning against the republican admin
lstration and the assurance of re-
publican reverse this fall in Indiana.
The man in New York who has had this
prediction telegraphed to the Cincin-
natl Enquirer has been repeating it be-
fore every election that has been held
in Indiana for years. Once it was pro-
tectionism that was to sweep the re-
publican party out of existence; next
republican adhesion to the gold stand
ard was to engulf the organization.
When he ran for the house on lotto
one platform it was Mckinleyism, the
sickness in the camps and the artificial
character of the country's prosperity
which would land him in the house.
All these predictions counted for
naught. The republicans triumphed.
The prosperity continued to increase
four years longer, and most of the
champions of 16 to one are cursing
the fate which attached the placard
to them for all time. Yet this prophet
keeps on his tripod, predicting the
things the opposite of which happen
with wonderful regularity, says the
Indianapolis Journal.
The journal has before said that
there is nothing discouraging to the
republicans in the city elections last
week. More and more municipal cleo
tions turn on local issues, as they
should. The element which has been
in power a long time naturally makes
record, even if it is good one, which,
displeases men belonging to the same
party, and they do not vote, or vote
for the other candidate. This hap
pened in the late municipal elections
to both parties. Both parties made
nominations which the voters did not
like, and men went into the election
booth to defeat Objectionable candi-
dates. Councils have not met the pub
lie demand in regard to improvements,
and the public settled the account with
both parties at the polls. The only in
dication in these elections was that
the taxpayers are seeking better man
agement of city affairs. When the re-
turns from the cities are inspected
the candid seeker will find it impossible
to discover any indication as to ma
tional politics. He will find in one or
two cases that democratic candidate
for mayor has pulled through by few
votes where all other republican can
didates We're elected by large majori-
ties. He will find the result reversed
in several cities-one democratic can
| didate being defeated and all the 9TH
ers elected. All these results indicate
that municipal affairs are getting out
of national politics.
The democratic managers in In
diana, as elsewhere, are in hard lines
They chase any will-o'-t he-wisp that
catches their unbalanced political
vision. Every two years they are the
victims of defective political vision.
Fortunately they have so often pro-
claimed victories that do not ma
terialize that no sensible man believes
them. They are singularly the victims
of distorted vision in what they declare
they see in the recent municipal cleo
tions.