Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1899 — DEMOCRACY WILL TRIUMPH. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRACY WILL TRIUMPH.

&SfJtiBE!£USZ cast for next year is that it will amount to $30,000,000. The possibility Is also hdmftted that it may become Imperative to pnt on the market the remaining $200,000,000 of 3 per cent, whr bonds authorized by Congress. Thlß means that the Dlngley blllils a failure. As McKlnleylsm in one of Its phases Is but a reflection of the Dlngley bill, the McKinley administration has failed to produce a good reason for Its existence. It has been found wanting in the very essentials whereby It made Its bid for popularity and power. * It is difficult to see how the financiers of the McKinley school can avoid the issuance oTbonds and still more difficult to see how the Republican party can avoid the destruction which such an Issuance would precipitate. Under the guise or disguise of great moral ideas, however, the party is capable of performing some very extraordinary legerdemain, and it may yet attempt the task of explaining why, in time of peace, with the much vaunted Dingley bill, plus a war revenue, in operation, Republicans can ask for support while admitting that they are incapable of avoiding a deficit of $30,000,000. The failure of the Republicans to perform any of their grandiloquent promises, their dishonesty in claiming a prosperity which their measures did not cause, and their secret or avowed support of the huge industrial combinations that are sucking the life blood of the country, all point to an excellent opportunity for Democratic success. . ■ V The conditions affecting recent years will certainly cause considerable new alignment during the coming national campaign, and there will be some changing and adjusting of political views, but as government by party is still to remain In vogue and the Republican party has taken the necessary steps prior to committing suicide, Democracy will come again into her own. It will be a severe blow to the selfseeking demagogues who have usurped the functions of honest men, but a glorious entrance of the United States into the coming century.—New York News. 1

All for the Galleries. There appears to be a general disposition to concede the truth of Mr. Chauncey Depew’s prophecy that the next Republican platform will declare against trusts. It is equally well understood, however, that the trusts will accept the declaration In a Pickwickian sense, as a proceeding rendered necessary by public sentiment, but not to be taken seriously. That is to say, the Republican party will follow its usual practice of promising anything and everything in its platform and calmly repudiating its pledges after election. The trusts will not be fright-ened-much less angered—by a Republican anti-trust declaration, though Mr. Hanna may find his annual fat-frying tour somewhat less easy than usual. The whole performance will be for the benefit of the galleries, like the bimetallic plank in the St. Louis platform of 1896. Republican ante-election promises are like pie-crust.—Chicago Chronicle.

Alser’a Ideas. The grasping “we own them” policy which actuated the administration’s seizure upon the idea of territorial expansion was emphasized by Secretary of War Alger in a speech at his home city of Detroit. He said: “Supposing the soldiers had a little beef spoiled, what of it? If they had no beef at all they would have more than Gen. Joe Wheeler and I had in that other war. Whatever else may be, we can l>e assured that as the flag has been raised In Porto Rico and the Philippines there it will remain. These islands are ours.” There Is a big lot of the theory of benevolent assimilation and Christianizing of an unfortunate people in that doctrine which measures the effect by the extent of the gain—Rock Island Argus. Menace* Designed to Soothe. From this time forward till the meeting of the national conventions there will be much threatening on the part of Republican politicians. We shall bear on all hands that the Republicans have always-been zealous In legislating against- monopolies in trade, and that they are determined to suppress the trust system by tbe enactment and vigorous enforcement of such laws as may be necessary. But the trusts are not likely to take alarm, for these menaces are designed to soothe the discontents of American consumers till after the election.—Philadelphia Record.

V*ln Plot Against General Miles. The whole wretched attempt to cover up the facts and to protect the men responsible for periling the lives of the soldiers, even to the extent of praising the canned beef ration and preventing any reform, has failed. It has done so simply and only because Nelson A. Miles challenged the wrong situation in a way that had to be heeded. Then it tfas purposed to “down him.” That Attempt has signally failed, and ont of It all comes the order for a study of how soldiers in the tropics ought to he fed.—Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Bosalsm Among tho Bnckejrea, The demoralization of the Republican party In Ohio can be traced directly to the Introduction of bossism. It was the boast of both parties In this State that there was no State boss, either Republican or Democrat. In an evil hour the boss made his appearance. But the Ohio Republican boss was deficient In tact and instead of a union of the party under an all-powerful leader there was revolt against arrogant dictation. The result Is the present division and deBioralizatlon.—Cleveland Plain Dealer, S< . ‘ - ' i l ' 1 ' 1