Weekly journal-miner., 1912-11-13
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think tha, the United States is strong enough to stand dose cf Democrat. ic rule every twenty years. especially as this rule IS quickly overturned This is rather queer belief. bu, we will no, quarrel with it here. We had dose of this rule two decades ago, and it lasted just two years Ever since then the country has been immune to Democratic assaults until last 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 punish ment is a little more than the coun- try deserves However, we are get. ing the punishment again. and as we survived the attack couple of decades ago, we can do is once more knowing that it will soon bc spoken of in the past tense
 Anybody who is curious about such simili,udes can trace resem- blanee between the country's present lurch to the Democratic party and that which came couple of decades ago As in 1898. the Republicans carried the country in loOS. elccting a president and both branches of Congress. In 1890 the Democrats won the House of Representatives and reduced the Republican lead in the Senate. a performance which was repeated in 1910 This was followed by Democratic victory along the whole line in 1892. Cleveland beating Harrison, and gaining the ascen- dancy in both branches of Congress a performance which has bobbcd up again. It was expected. however from the split in the Republican ranks For the pas, few months the Republican party hss been divided house. and we know what usually comes in such cases.
 Now let lis continue the sequence of twenty years ago. We have found that it has worked with mathemati- cal regularity thus far, beginning with 1908. and ending with 1912 covering three elections. The Con gress Democratic in both branches which was elected in 1892. was thrust out ignominously. and with good deal of checrfulness. the first mo. inent that the people got a chance to hit it. which was in 1894, and a Congress Republican in both branch es was placed in power. Although 1892 was the first time since Buch- anan entered office as a result of the election of l8S6 that the Democrats had complete control of the govern ment. the Senate being in the hands of the Republicans during Clevciand's first term, the country showed De mocratic sway longer than two years. The next term in the se- quence of Democratic mutations comes in 1914 A Republican vic tory for House and Senate is due then. as in 1894 Having had a new trial of the Democratic scourgc. there is no reason to believe that the Am erican people will find it less obnoxi- ous now than they did a, the begin ming of Clevelands second term. For the last two years of his term Cleveland had a Republican Senate and House of Representatives to deal with( and the Republican House was renewed every two years after ward until the nuke of 1910, when. through pique or indifference. hun. drcds of thousands of Republicans remained away from the polls. while the Senate remained Republican. A country of oo,O00,000 of people ought not 10 grymble al an inhiction of Democratic rule every twenty years, particularly as it ends just as soon as the people get chance to hit