Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-11-11
NOW o 1914.

Apparently there are some tens or
hundreds Of thousands of voters who
think that the United States is strong
seloudtn to stand a dose of Democratic
rule every twenty years, especially as
this rule is quickly overturned, says
the St. Louis be-Democrat. This
IL q rather queer belief, but we will
not quarrel with it here. We had a
dose OF this rule two decades ago,
and 1t lasted just two years. Ever
since then the Country has been i'm
muna to Democratic assaults until
Tuesday. Perhaps the body polite
deserves a purge OF this sort every
eighteen or twenty years, though to a
good many thoughtful men it would
seem that the punishment Is a little
more than the country deserves. How.
ever, We are getting the punishment
again, and as we survived the attack
a couple of decades ago, we a do 1t
once more, knowing that it will soon
be spoken of in the past tense.
Anybody who is curious about such
similitudes can trace q resemblance
between the country's present lurch
to the Democratic party and that
which came a couple of decades ago.
As In 1888, the Republicans carried
the country in 1908, electing a presi.
dent and both branches OF Congress.
In 1890 the Democrats won the House
of Representatives and reduced the
Republican lead in the Senate. a per,
Torrance which was repeated in 1916.
This was followed by a Democratic
victory along the whole line in 1892,
Cleveland beating Harrison, and gain.
ing the %ascendancy in both branches
Of Congress, a performance which
bobbed up yesterday again. It. was
expected. however, from the split in
the Republican ranks. For the past
few months the Republican party has
been q divided house, and we know
what usually comes in such cases.
Now let us continue the sequence
of twenty years ago. We have found
that 1t has worked with mathematical
regularity thus far, beginning with
1908, and ending with 1912, covering
three elections. The Congress Demo.
cratic in both branches, which was
elected in 1892, was thrust out
ANONYMOUSLY, and with a good deal
of ~cheerfulness, the first moment that
the people got a chance to hit it.
which was in 1894, and a Congress
Republican in both branches was
placed in power. Although 1892 was
the first time since Buchanan entered
office as a result Of the election of
1856 that the Democrats had ION.
plete control Of the government, the
Senate being in the hands of the Re-
publicans during Cleveland's first
term, the country showed that it could
not endure this complete Democratic
sway longer than two yers. The next
term In the sequence Of Democratic
mutations comes in 1914. "A Repub-
lican victory for House and Senate
is due then, as in 1894. Having had
a new trial Of the Democratic scourge,
there Is no reason to believe that the
American people will find it less OBJ.
uoxious now than they did at the be-
ginning OF C%leveland's second term.
Cleveland had q Republican Senate
and House Of Repres entatives to deal
with, and the Republican House was
renewed every two years afterward
until the nuke Of 1910, when, through
riQue or Indifference, hundreds Of
thousands Of Republicans remained
away from the polls, while the Senate
remained Republican until yesterdays
election. "A country Of 96,0OO000 Of
people ought not to grumble at an
i~nfiction Of Democratic rule every
twenty years, particularly as It ends
just @ soon Is the people get q
chance to hit, that party at the polls
again. II IL safe 70 predict that Presi.
dent Wilson will lose his Democratic
(o,insees III the election of 1914, -