The Democrat

HOW WE GO

The Democratic executive committee has declared that the party in the State is in favor of the repeal of the Internal Revenue, and we presume the State convention will do likewise. We shall all have to fall in line, but mark our prediction, if the Internal Revenue is repealed by the next Congress, we shall be compelled to submit to being fleeced and robbed by the protective tariff thieves for the next fifty years. But why need we fret and fume? We shall have to submit any way repeal or no repeal. We all made a mighty fuss about turning the rascals out in every campaign since the war, but as soon as the people decreed that they should be turned out Grover Cleveland and his organs discovered that these same rascals were indispensable to a successful administration of the government, and all who thought they ought to be turned out were and are denounced as corrupt spoilsmen. Now just as the time and the occasion are ripe to reduce the tariff, just as the people have determined to submit no longer without an effort, up steps the politicians, the leaders with Cleveland and John G. Carlisle and say the tobacco tax must go. Well if that must go, if any other reduction of the Internal Revenue must take place, blot it all out. We don't think it just the thing to do, but we will go with the boys, if they go to the devil. If we must go wrong, we will go wrong with our fellows. Our motto is to fight inside not outside the party. We reckon we are whipped on the subject.