Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-11-21
The Republican Tidal Wave.

A great political tidal wave would overflow
on the 5th of November the entire land. Thus
prophesied in July the Democrats and the
renegades, then still in the honeymoon of
their speculation.
1t was a prophecy similar to that "when
Darius crosses the Hays great empire will
be destroyed" great empire ,cas destroyed,
but it was that of Darius himself. On the
9Th of November a political tidal wave has
really roared over the United States, but it
was Republican and not a " Liberal one.
This wave has swept away, like frail sticks,
all the dams and bulwarks which the Con-
federates tried to rear up against it. Even
States like Delaware and Nevada. which were
never claimed on the Republican side, have
given msjorities for Grant. The same Penn
sylyania which the Confederates appreciated
up to the Sth October, and in which Carl
Schurz employed all his persuasiveness, gives
a Republican majority (from so, 900 to 100, 10000
so unprecedently large that all the howl of
s. fraud" must be shamed into silence before
it.
The same remark applies to most of the
States which have voted Republican. In the
face OF such majorities even the most loud
mouthed Liberal shriekers must lose breath
and dare no longer to represent an expression
of the popular will which is so crushing for
| them as the result of intrigue and fraud.
At other elections the defeated party has
at least tried to persuade itself that it had won
a moral victory since the number of its votes
was larger than could have been expected.
| But this time the defeated lack even this COM
| fort. They have been so thoroughly whipped
that they are no longer able to shrek, but
can only mutter and growl. As far as any
thing can be made out of this growing, it is
| bitter reproacbes which the " Liberal and
| Democratic associates cast at each other.
| The ones say of the others, and the others Of
| these. that they have not faithfully abided by
the alliance.
The Republican party WAS beaten in the
year 1856 but defeat only bound them frmer
together, and increased their assurance OF
future victory. Such is the case with every
party which represents genuine principle OF
! freedom and progress. Now so is it, however
with an unsavory alliance, where the one
party only wanted to use the Other as the CO "a
paw to get the chestnuts out of the fire. Such
was the case with the Liberal Democratic cen
! spiracy. No principle in common, but a com
| mon craving for the spoils was the bond OF
| this unholy combination. What it inscribed
| as programme on its banners were empty
phrases, in whose meaning it did not itsel1
believe. and which its own candidate repudi
ated. Under these circumstances, the " Lib
eraP' firm, which had begun life with sucl
grand Intentions, was not a new party sprun,
from common fundamental idea in an Organi,
manner but promlscuous crowd of selfisl
individuals. Its defeat II 1872 will therefor
not prove sequel to the Republican defea
of 1856. 1t passes away like one-days fly
born on the LIST of May, 1872, it died on tn
9Th of November. It belongs already now q
much to the past as the " American party" o
1856.
That which is genuine and well founded i
the desire for publication of the public life
for reform in the domain of the State, tina
the Republican party will strive for ard attain
Not in wild and childish precipitation, but i
the only salutary way of an organic develop
ment of the popular consciousness. We've
in this sense, the triumph of Grant is pledg
that the Republic will progress quietly an
! steadily in the liberal form which has won b
the reduction of the rebellion and slavery
and without the danger that one of the fruit
of this struggle will be imperiled by a reaC
TONI ino1s Stats Zeituflq.