People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — That Land Slide. [ARTICLE]

That Land Slide.

In certan quarters and by certain people much ado is made over the recent state and county clecti i'S. Our Republican Iriends semi to be really alarmed cst all oiher parties disband and come stampeding into their camp. We think they need have io seri< us apprehension upon this point, for just such political mud slides have been exper.enced in this country before, and at the foil wing election the people seemed to be divided about even politically. We saw’ one, Grover Cleveland, elected governor of New Yoak, by over one lundred and ninety thousand majority and in two years we ,aw him carry the same state by out a few hundred. In 1882 a Democratic wave swept over this country carrying everything before it, but at the next election things evened up pretty well and neither party had complete control. In ISB4 a Democratic president and a Democratic congress was elected, but soon a change of sentiment set in and in four years a Republican lands dr* swept the country and Democracy was thought to be entirely lost, but through Republican corruption and mismanagement, the Democrats came back into power in '92 with majorities too Li to count. In ’93 we have apparently a change of political sentiment. This apparent change, unlike other changes, has shown itself only in state and county elections, unfortunately for the victors there were < > congress en electee last Tuesday; unfortunately for the victors this land slide came a year too soon. This great panic we have had for the last six months is the principal factor that brought about the change. Wicked and designing men have taken advantage of the people’s prejudice and poverty and made the Democratic party suffer at the poles for crimes the Republican party has committed. This panic came through Republican financial legislation, but many people have been led to think the tariff brought it about. Time and Democratic legislation will show that teriff, either real or immaginary, had nothing to do with it. When the present tariff is acted upon by the present congress an the laboring men find that they can scarcely tell Wilson and McKinley tariff apart they will find that they were deceived in 1893. This Republican victory will react, ii is really an jnjury to the party, while to the Democrats it will show to them that they do not own the world; that they must be cautious; that bosses cannot always have their own way; that their best men must be nominated if they expect to succeed. The Pilot would gladly see one or the other of the old parties knocked out, we care not which one, with one of them gone new’ questions and proper questions wonld come before the people sooner than they will come with the two old frauds fighting over twedle-dee and twedle-dum. ‘Cleveland is bigger than his party.” Well that is not saying he is very big, if we measure his parity by its v ork last Tuesday.