The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-03

gain bare majority. As The Herald's Inquiry shows, the Republicans ob- viously labor under a twofold diff1- culty-first, that in States that have supported them strongly in recent years. as Pennsylvania and Illinois, they stand to lose many members of congress" and second, Republican pluralities in every State In the Union, except in the extreme northwest and the Rocky Mountain States. have been shrinking ever since 1896" while the Democrats, who were disaffected in that year. have been returning to their old party allegiance especially in the middle west, New York and New Eng land. In the clear, cold light of such facts, Is 1t too much to infer that the reaction which has set in since Judge Parkers elevating and inspiring cam paign began promises to alter most plexion of the house. If this should be the case. 1t is possible. but it seems extremely improbable that the popu- lar verdict of the November election welt. Never since the foundation of the government have the people elect ed a president and at the same time put in power a congress hostile to the new executive if we accept the election of 1878, when Tilden and Hayes were the rival candidates in a contest the real result of which is, to say the least, still in a cloud of historic controversy and doubt. Even in the reconstruction era, when the Democratic party had not recovered from the demoralizing effects of the war and General Grant was serving his second term, it re- gained control of the house, organizing the forty fourth congress by a major ity of sixty eight, retaining It's control through the fortysffth and forty-sixth congresses.
 As such signs betoken a great reac- tion from the dominant political party, F. L. the people in every State a thorough campaign of education and to boldly define the issues to which its platform commits 1t. In this respect the lead CTS of Judge Parker's campaign would do well to emulate the Republican leaders. who have long since spread their literature broadcast over the land. On the one hand the Democrats owe 1t to themselves and the country to elucidate and popularize the tremen- dous contentious of their platform, which places them distinctly in the aggressive attitude. They contend that the federal government has been sub verted from its original and consti- tutionally ordained ends to carry on wild and burdensome schemes of q dangerous imperialism. by which the country Is plunged into vast expendi- lures necessitating heavy drains upon all citizens, and that this novel anti American system Is a ceaseless menace to the nations peace and commercial progress. since with every new foreign complication the values of all securi- ties, real estate and other property are subjected to immense risks of sudden depreciation. They also contend that the Republican high tariff. embody- ing protection run mad. has imposed mountainous and unjust burdens of in- direct and concealed taxation upon the whole people, fostered every form of monopoly causing a deficit in the na- tional revenue and has raised the cost of living inordinately to every con sumner in the land, while these enor- nous evils have been aggravated by Republican extravaganza and militar- contentious and allegations can be sus- tained in part or in whole by irrefut- able arguments their authors will do d great service to the country to blaze abroad the facts that the voters may be guided intelligently. On the other hand. If the Republicans are able to parry the force of their opponents ar guments and to show that the evils complained of are exaggerated or i'm aginary. they will do an equally patri- otic service in pressing their side of the argument.
 But as the political situation now presents itself to the cool independent observer the resistless tide of popular sentiment seems to be turning dis tinctly Parkerward, with indication will seadily grow until November and meantime will be strengthened by the logic of events Revolutions" said Wendell Phillips, "are not made; they come" This Is eminently. true of our peaceful political upheavals. which no human forces can stay. and when they do come they always surprise the par ty in power as much as the authorities of Martinique were surprised by the fatal eruption of Mount Pelee.