Show A MISTAKEN JJB1TON Lord SALISBURT at a banquet given in Guild hall on tho 9th instant in honor of the new lord mayor of London is repre settled as saying that the recent election in America had shown that the slight re action against protection had lost its force The declaration was hailed withies with-ies of hear hear by his lordships auditors In respect to the cries of hear hear they are sounds signifying nothing as your Britisher in attending n meeting especially if connected with politics considers himself in duty bound to cry out hear hear occasionally whether it is in point or not Ho would be a poor thing of a lord who could not arouse his auditors to cry hear hoarl But to come to lila lord hips remarks Surely he has been very neglectful in considering the logic of the American elections both those ot last year and thoso of more recent date In the first place the splendid sweeping victory of a year ago which gave the Democrats a majority of one hundred and thirtyeight in the lower house of the American Coneress can scarcely be considered a slight re action against protection It was a very pronounced reaction against it and ono that loses none of its force because of the result of the recent elections On the whole Democrats have more to rejoice over than Republicans have from those elections The results give promIse of Democratic success in 1892 if I Democrats will but maintain bravely the advantages they have won in the late elections It was the result in Ohio that his lord ship had in view when he said that the slight reaction against protection had lost its force SALISBURY is far astray if he thinks that the Ohio Republican Re-publican victory counts for anything in the way of evidencd that the reaction against protection in this country has lost its force It gives no real concern to Demo orate this Ohio Republican victory They know as Lord SALISBURY most likely does not know that the whole Republican power not only of Ohio but well nigh of the entire country was concentrated in the Ohio campaign It was a death struggle not only of McKiNLEY but of the whole Republican party and all that can be said ill that the Ohio victoryobtained by a desperate effort of the whole party and a lavish expenditure of money much of which was furnished by the protected industries gave it i a lease of its precarious life and under the influence of stimulants in the form of a variety of expedients the ghastly sickly party will appear in the lists of 92 Lord I Ir SALISBURY will then have an opportunity r of seeing whether or not the reaction against protection has lost its force Then the Republican party Backed with all the money of the protected infant Swill S-will have to meet not Governor CAMPBELL almost single handedbut the entire S Democratic party full of that fait 1 and courage which come from a consciousness con-sciousness of being in the right with a splendid fighting chance of winning Pshaw I It makes one tired to see an Eng lisa lord and a prime minister at that pas judgment upon the issue of a war because one part of a skirmish lino has been routed I and that for the reason that the enemy turned the force of his whole army upo that part of the skirmish line Why In this l skirmish which precedes the general engagement of 1892 all along the line eat e-at one point only the Democrats Demo-crats were victorious yet this prime minister seeing only that ono breach in the line concludes that the effects ef-fects of the splendid Democratic victory gained in the general battle of a year ago are neutralized Out on such logic His lordship if he applied this kind of logic to English affairs would conclude that England Eng-land was incapable of continuing her occupation L occu-pation of Egypt if through some misadventure misad-venture the little garrison she keeps in that country should be overpowered by an onslaught I on-slaught of the entire Egyptian army The Democratic party gathers now hopes from tho recent elections The victories vic-tories gained in old Massachusetts and the recent Republican state of Iowa tell us that tne battles or the future are to be fought on live issues not by an appeal to the prejudices which were engendered by the mistaken and precipitate action of a section of tho country where Democrats were in the majority The war of the rebellion re-bellion is past and happily past fornver From the dust and mists thrown over the entire Demooratio party because of the unhappy un-happy sectional conflict tho party of the people and of the government the government gov-ernment whose constitution is a crystallization crystalli-zation of the principles of that party emerges in the full strength and vigor of a lusty manhood confident in its ability and its right to guide the destiny of the great republic |