Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1895 — MR. BRICE HEARD FROM. [ARTICLE]

MR. BRICE HEARD FROM.

5Si Democratic lloss •Is Oct of a .100. ATr.YioiTnnn has. no! been In ar<! from since tlie election except to say that such things do sometimes happen. 1i is friend Hill htfsi not said as much as that, even, hut the other member of tile trio, Brice, has found his voice, 'i hiit Murlborougli-Yandjerbilt wedding breakfast gave him strength enough to speak above a whisper. He is in tin- social swim, with wealth enough to keep him in it, off fee or no office, and so it does not matter much to him. with his social father than political ambition, whether school is out or not. lie can afford to indulge the easement of giving some vent to his iee lings. Mr. lirice finds a little comfort in the fact that he went down in a general crash. His was not an isolated case, by any meuns. Nobody has a right to say that his being a virtual nonresident had anything to do with the result, or that the sugar scandal “sweetened” him. This was the year of universal disaster for the democracy, without regard to individuality, locality, or any secondary consideration whatsoever. Extreme free trade or moderute protection, gold or silver, did not matter. They all went down to one common ruin. To be a democrat was enough. There is no occasion to go into details.

Mr. Brice does not hesitate to say that his party has no show for carrying the next presidential election. He feels nbout that as Cassio did about getting buck bis military job ufter that famous drunk. “I shall ask him for my place again,” he says, but Othello will not, as he prognosticated, stop to go Into particulars. “He will tell me 1 am a drunkard.” That will settle it. So, ns Mr. Brice opines, to know thnt n candidate for president is a democrat will be the end of controversy. "You are n democrat,” will be enough. The candidate might have aa many mouths ns Hydra; such an answer would stop them all. But Mr. Brice does not think Gorman Is necessarily done up, and he is right about it. For, unfortunately for Hill, the state senators elected in New York the other day will vote on his successor, mid. still more unfortunately for Brice, the Ohio legislature will cast him into outer darkness, and make a short shift ol it. too; but lucky Gorman is ae-ving a term that will,not end until March 4. 1901. Anything that lasts until the year one may be renewed. Thai is a good way off. Maryland is naturally' a democratic state, and the wily Gorman w ill see to it that if he live and have his health it must be himself or astraightotit republican. The man w ho could work his way from page to aena tor knows politics and how to play every curd. Hie ' ■n iefortune 18, however, that of the 5$ in the pack he holds only a baker’s { 4mm a. and about the lowest ia the desk.'

There is really no special - gj: just now to any democratn- n.< ■ but it is rather interesting ,* . the movements of the felme u n. sonime. —Chicago Inter Ocra-tr- -