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Show SEW YOKK IN POLITICS.' Whenever a man becomes too great for his party we say, "overboard with him." So ehould it be with cities and Btates. Now it has become evident, wesuppose, to even the dullest on looker in American- politics, at least from a democratic standpoint, that New York has grown too bie for the democratic party. For thirty-five or forty years New York has dominated American politics, no matter the part in power or the individual who may be seated in the white house at Washington, Washing-ton, So long as New York was satisfied satis-fied to press schemes in which her merchants had interest in common with the merchants of other sections of the country, people nor parties grumbled much but followeJdocilely enough. But this thing of a conceded, unquestioned superiority in time produced pro-duced its sure and logical result. Not content with furnishing the commercial commer-cial law and policy of the nation, her lordly merchants and business men went a Btep farther, a logical and reasonable step as they deemed it, and began to lay the law down to not only the remainder of the nation but to the government. Her bankers are wont to over trade themselves and when it was necessary to extricate themselves and a few score millions ofj money were needed, they made requisition upon the treasurer of the United States. That worthy knew too much to refuse and the nation's money went out in sufficient volume to bring the required relief. This is not democratic, any more than it is republican policy. It has been pursued under every republican president nince the vrar and was the rule n force curiae Mr. Cleveland's first as it is now in his Eecond term. So it comes that the national financial policy has come to be the New York financial policy, or just what New York wills it to be. This, alas! is not all. The republican and democratic national na-tional conventions have come to be but the expressions of the will of New York. There was no other force either at Chicago or Minneapolis, save only New York's wiBhes. It was said at Chicago, giye us Cleveland and at Min neapolis, give us Harrison, and afterwards after-wards jocosely all over the union, "now it matters little which is elected, we are safe" meaning by "we" the bankers and dominators of the government in Wall street. Still the good people of the United States are not alarmed. The other day the president appointed a New Yorker to the supreme bench. That did not suit Mr. Hill's taction of New Yorkers and so Mr. Jlornblower was sent to the right about by the senate, sen-ate, which is subservient to New YorK. Another New Yorker was nominated, and he, too, got his walking papers, from the same source. The president would not dare to appoint ap-point a consul to any first class place, like Liverpool, Hamberg or Glasgow without consulting New York. Now we think this New York Cesar of oure has grown entirely too great, no matter at all about the meat it eats and it will have to be taken down a notch or two. It is time for the west, tor the eouth and the northwest, to be taken into the account, a little. New York has had her day, and if we would ever have ours we must seize it now or in a very few years it will be too late. We want nothing but a reasonably distributed equality of chance. "We do not want it all, as new York does. We want recognition, must have it, and if it is not con ceded, we will simp'y reach out and take it. We have the power and are only enslaved because we do not resent re-sent it. |
