The True Northerner

Democratic Harmony.

At the Democratic love-feast in New York there were several displays of "Democratic harmony." Mr. E. Ellery Anderson, in his speech, snubbed Bourke Cochran for having declared at the Chicago convention that Mr. Cleveland's popularity was great on all days of the year except on election day. The President-elect spoke of "a debauched suffrage," which was surely unkind, considering the hard work Croker and his lieutenants did to aid him. Speaker Crisp was not allowed to speak at all, even after he had handed a printed copy of his "remarks" to the reporters. "Tom" Johnson, of Ohio, taunted those Democrats who believe in moderate protection and called them sugar-coated enemies of the party. Carl Schurz alluded to "the open or secret opponents" of Mr. Cleveland as "radicals" and asserted that he, Schurz, represented the "moral forces" in the recent campaign, which evidently meant that "the regular Democratic organization" represented the "immoral forces." Roger Q. Mills amiably alluded to those Democrats who had said they were not Free Traders as "sulkers." But for frankness ex-Governor Campbell surpassed all the speakers in admitting that "he did not know exactly whom he represented" and that he was "in favor of the college professors" because "as long as they stayed in the Democratic party the party was sure of somebody who could read and write."