Show 4 l < > THE POLITICAL POT Now that the battle in Maine is ended and the effervescing clamstabber and the festive codpuncher have again gone their ways to beans and pinetop whisky Ohbejoyful Manley Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of that unhappy State exalts his horn and makes the air heavy with his jubilation over the great victory The Chicago News states the need of the hour in the following pithy paragraph Mr Manley Mr Elaines man Friday has formally assured the country that the Republican Re-publican victory in Maine last week was really the most remarkable one that was ever achieved The country is glad to know it Mr Manley Now suppose you bind a cake of ice on your heated brow and Rive somebody else a chance for a day or two It was a victory sure enough but such an one as that two more like it would irretreivably ruin the Republican party and the signs of the times point to such an ending To coolheaded men the proposition is something as follows If Mr Elaine the foremost Republican in the country aided and abbetted by a grand flop on Prohibition in a notoriously Republican State cannot on a Republican Republi-can platform specially constructed for the occasion and expounded by an United States Senator from that State keep the solid Republican vote from falling off several thousands what can he and similar causes hope to do two years hence in the doubtful States While Mr Manley is undergoing the friendly ordeal prescribed for him in the foregoing from the News this little lit-tle joker is commended to his joyful soul for analyzation It is also commended to the careful attention of all Democrats in the hope that the lesson involved will encourage them to take heart and continue their aggressive aggres-sive measures until no room for doubt exists and the blatant cry of o b jlfan j ley shall be known to be the death knell of Republican rule in this fair land The hour is ripe for the springing of issues for the coming campaign and the Republican Repub-lican party is doing its level best to follow the keynote sounded by Elaine to make protection and the money question the Republican stock in trade and prohibition prohibi-tion only an incidental or side issue Whatever vagaries may engage the astute brains of Republican leaders between now and the canvass it is not possible to tell but it is more than likely that the foregoing programme will be the one selected The Omaha Herald sizes up the case so well and briefly that we use its argument as our own The New York Tribune is laboring with its best vigor to make Mr Elaine and protection protec-tion the key notes of the campaign of 1888 and protection and the currency and money questions the dividing issues between the parties in the future The Tribune argues and argues correctly that the Republican party as a party is for high tariffs for protection pro-tection and that the Democratic party as a party is against it This is true and if this issue can be brought squarely before the people all Democrats will accept it and abide the consequences The Democratic party is for low tariff duties for revenue and against protection for the sake of protection pro-tection including Mr Randall and his strong following in the centralStates As to finance the Democratic party is the traditional friend of sound money honest dollars and when the question arising in a readjustment of national banking and currency cur-rency shall come it will be found as sound and steady as it was in the days of the Whigs and the Brag money ruin of the war period |