Show HON WILLIAM L tells why the democrats mot met suc h disastrous defeat I 1 new york nov ov I 1 11 I 1 in a letter to tile press front from hashim washington ton lion Ilon william WilliamL L wilbon gives his views of the cause of de democratic Dio cratic defeat Ile I 1 ie writes hard times is an enemy enemy before which no political 1 party ill 1 america has ever been able to make a successful stand when in PO power this is iq and perhaps always will be a weak point in popular 0 covern government ment when labor is butof out of employment when farm products are low when our financial system is disorganized the wisest adin administration i in Rf ration of go merriment verri ment arld arid the most wholesome laws do not avail to save gave a party from temporary an d disastrous overthrow moreover the whole teaching of the protective system train men to depend not on oil effort the III 1 1 1 virtues ft and tea temperance 1 1 perance abr prosperity aud and material comfort bu bufa t on 0 government go vern ment aid and laws of congress 0 let roe me add also that we together with our progressive nation are arc now passing through an all era of change 0 of unrest ast and of somewhat tumultuous a agitation the rapid adoption of ill the e great modern industry and trade tile the complete revolution winch which these are bringing 0 about in production and distribution their steady obliteration of immemorial handicrafts their I 1 dislocation of many industries all this together with tile the 11 unsettled ll relations relations between labor anil ami capital have swept us into imo an all era where for some years it may lie be increasingly difficult lor for any one baity to told hold on oil to the federal government for any any ion long 0 time 1 I do not believe the people have rc rebuked or discarded tariff reform in their action last tuesday in every campaign since 1886 except that 0 of if the democratic party has won a decided teci ded victory on that issue to contend therefore that the people have now chastised the democratic party for doing ID what they put into their power to do is to question their honesty and intelligence telli a gence ence if they have inflicted chastisement it was because the party part did not carry out with willi sulli i cieni promptness and thoroughness the work they committed to it the lont ion and indefensible delay in tile senate the sinister suspicia suspicions bolls lolls that gathered around certain ules and duties as they are arc framed now kindled a dicapr disappointment and disgust L among the rank and file of the party that led to apathy and even misjudged hostility in ill the recent elections I 1 have no doubt that had the bill which pasi pasca cd the house 0 on n the first day of february passed a qed tin OW senate as early as april or may in substantially its original shape the result in Alis missouri and in many diany other sections of ilie country would have been reversed and tho the denio democrats illi might alit even have vve it alie indu industrial storm with credit if not success |