Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-02-12
LOW EBB OF DEMOCRACY.
The Party of Discontent Hns But
Scant Hope, to Build Upon
for 1904.

seldom mas tne utlHOCIdllN p"i y III
the nation at large been so feeble as 1t
is at this time. In the entrances ana
exits of governors at the beginning OF
1903 there are left only four states out
side of the old slavery region of 1860
which are presided over by non-repub-
licans. One of these states, Montana,
elected its governor in 1900, and as the
term in that state is four years, he has
a respite until the beginning of 1903. If
Montana had elected governor i'll 1907
he would have been republican. The
other states of the north and west
which have democratic governors are
Rhode Island, Nevada and Oregon.
Rhode Island was lost to the repub-
licans on governor in 1902 though a
temporary schism in the party, aided
by a socialist diversion. Nevada elect
ed a fusionist, as it has been doing for
several years. The democrats, through
a republican factional fight on govern
or in Oregon, captured that official by a
very small margin in 1902, the repub-
licans carrying all the rest of the Off
GERS by large pluralities.
This is the condition of impotency in
which The democratic party finds itself
at the eve of the opening of the preSi-
Dental year, says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. In all except four states of
the north and west the republicans are
in the ascendant, and they were beat
en- in three of those by conditions
which are only temporary, while i'll the
fourth, Montana, they would have
carried the governor in 1902 if any had
been chosen in that year. In every one
of these four states, with the possible
exception of Nevada, the republicans
are almost certain to win in 1904. More
over, they have some of the states of
the old slavery section. They have
DelawSre and West Virginia, both Of
which are as reliably republican these
days-eXcept as the Addicks fight pre-
vents the election of senators in the
| former-as Ohio or Massachusetts
| The republicans have been making a
clean sweep in West Virginia for sew
eral years, and are likely to remain in
the ascendant for an indefinite period
in the future.
OF course, this solid republican
north and west may be interpreted tC
mean that the sectional line has re-
! turned to the politics of the country
This is a truth, however, which is not
calculated to harm the republicans
| For all the sectionalism that is in poll
tics in 1903 the democratic party is to
blame. The democrats made an as.
sault on the financial honor and stabil.
! ity of the country in 1896, and thus lost
such states as they had outside of the
! solid south. The effacement of the ne,
! gro in the south in recent years has
! been another cause of the preponder'
ance of the republican party in all the
states outside of that region. A solid
south, whenever it exists, will general.
! ly be confronted with a solid north and
west, and in that event the south's par.
! ty, the democracy, is certain to be
| placed far in the minority. At present
the weakness of the democracy in con
! gress and the country at large is even
more pronounced than might be in
ferred from its vote, for not only is itir
! the minority, but it has lost the coun
try's respect, has no men in congress
who command any attention from the
nation, and is likely to get still feeblel
before it grows stronger. a glance al
the roster of the governors of the cOun
try's 45 states in these opening weeks
of 1903 shows the democracy in a fab
bier condition than it has been in at al
most any previous time since tn,
foundation of the republican party.