The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-30
WHAT A RECoRDl

! WIZ ''Stoh pi"De dSkS IndI pHPeC 10
publish the complexion of the Senate
and House Of Representatives during
Cleveland g second administration The
Globe complies with that request. Of
course neither the inquirer nor the one
/ who made answer had any political OBJ
| iecj in view either in the query or the
reply TO it, And yet, what an over
whclming smashing argument against
Democracy is. furnished by The bare re-
| cital of facts In reply TO that apparent
! ]y innocent question! And this is cm-
phatically reinforced by. the appeal
from Chairman HiIles which appeared
! in The Tribune dispatches of Friday
morning, on the peril Of free trade as
threatened in the election of Governor
Wilson And President Taft's warn"
ing in the same direction that morn.
ing is even more significant.
The Globe replies that in 1898 to
1905 the Senate contained A Democrats
and 3S Republicans, 3 Independents
and 3 vacant. The House Of Represen-
tativcs contained 220 Democrats, 126
! Republicans, 8 Independents.
I Bnt, after two years Of Clevelandism,
what tremendous change appeared! In
! 1895 TO 1897 the Senate contained SO
/ Democrats. 42 Republicans, and In
/ dependents; the House of Representa-
tIves l0i Democrats, 246 Republicans,
! and Independents.
! With the incoming of Cleveland the
| boI of
sentativcs IN the Lower House, and as
between Democrats and Republicans, a
plurality of in the Senate.
/ After two years Of Clevclandism the
Democrats had lost Senators, the Re-
publicans had gained 4, and the House
of Representatives was more than re.
versed, having 142 Republican plurality.
An upheaval and reversal like this is
in itself the most powerful argument
possible against Democratic policies and
Democratic performances The people
were disconnected with Republicanism
under President Harrison, and gave
over the country completely to the
Democrats, giving them the President,
the Senate, and the House. Immediate
" trouble began. The business inter.
ests Of the country were dismayed at
the result. and everything began to go
TO pieces from the day after election
until the people had the opportunity
two years later to correct their terrible
blunder. The Wilson tariff bill, which
even Cleveland pronounced to be
measure Of perfdy,'' was the imme-
date, melting cause OF the revolt of
the people against the second admin.
istration of President Cleveland. His
first administration was restrained bv
a Republican majority in the Senate all
the time, 80 that it was impossible for
him to do any damage, no matter how
vicious his policy might be or how hard
he might try. But when Senate and
House were both with him, everything
went TO the dogs save only as Senator
German, conservative business Demo
crat, was able to "save the pieces. -
But the pieces were not large, and they
did not help very much to ward Off the
general disaster which Immediately fol.
lowed
Here is lesson for the American
people. The voters of the country were
tremendously dissatisfied with Presi-
dent Harrison, and thought thev would
improve conditions by turning over the
control Of the country to the Demo
Gratis. Cleveland was a theoretical
Democrat, very much as Governor Will
son is now The conditions are similar
so far as the Democracy is CON
cerned, and they are not so materially
different so far as the Republicans are
concerned, because the party was disin.
tegrated then much as it is now; but
then il did not have a powerful organi.
zation like tho Bull Moose party to
contend against within it's own. ranks.
But the lesson to the American peo-
dogmatic theorist, came to the Pres-
dcpcv with his party in uurestrained
power. Cleveland had had but little
experience in public life. He had been
elected Governor Of New York much
as Mr.. Wilson has been elected Gov
eTuOT ol VIEW JeIhel. Inc L"O men
were close friends during the latter part
Of Mr.. Cleveland's life, and doubtless
Governor Wilson has many OF Cleve.
land's s ideas grated upon his own
academic theories for public economics,
and as the results Of Clevclandsm
were so disastrous to this country,
there is good reason TO fear that the
like theories of Governor Wilson, who
I, is even more inexperienced than Cleve-
land WAS. would be just as bad for the
business of the United States, Just as
destructive to its trade and commerce.
and Just as disastrous to it's industries
as the triumph Of Cleveland was in
1892. Indeed, Governor Wilson is
quoted as even more radical than
Cleveland in his ideas about interna-
tional commerce He thinks that this
country does entirely wrong by putting