Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-24
Tie Peoples Advent.


recent elections of the great central States
of the Union. They do not alone de-
termine the national result in November,
but they have powerful significance as
pointing to the rapid spread and increase
of intelligence among the masses of the
people. The Liberals based their hopes
upon the theory that few leading
minds" mold the political sentiments of
the people, and that by union of those
leading minds, without any regard to
principle or past records or political
faiths, the people could be sold like sheep
in the shambles. They recalled the per-
sonal power of Webster, of Clay, and of
John G. Calhoun, and counted upon
Sumner, and upon Trumbull, and
upon Schurz to exercise the same
degree of controlling influence
upon the sentiment of the country. The
utter failure of these gentlemen to make
any impression upon public opinion, in
opposition to the leading political ideas
to which they had been devoted all their
lives, shows that the people no longer fol-
low men, but stand firmly by principles.
1t shows that the people reason as care
fully and much more econscientiouslyt than
the politicians; and that they not only
thoroughly understand what particular
measures tend to render the country pros
porous, but that they understand political
intrigues, and have the power, no
less than the desire, to thwart the
corrupt schemes of designing and unscru-
pulous demagogues. The Pennsylvania
election is a striking illustration of the
weakness of faction as opposed to the
strength of great party which obtained
the confidence of the people by course
as wise as it was patriotic, and retains it
by an administration of affairs distribut-
ing blessings equally over every quarter
of the country, and protecting every citi-
zen in the enjoyment of all his rights.
Every device known to political warfare
was resorted to to destroy the popularity
of General Hartranft. He was slandered
without mercy, and no falsehood was too
gross with which to assail his personal
and official character. From the first the
Press, of Philadelphia, powerful under or
binary circumstances, led the coalition;
but the detection of Colonel Forney was
so generally known to have been dictated
solely from personal motives that it exert
ed no influence in the campaign. Over
all these adverse circumstances the Repu-
cans of the Keystone State moved for
ward-unaffected by personal considera-
tions, unaffected by the treachery of the
Press, penetrated by a strong sense of the
necessity yofcontinuing the Republican par
ty in power-to avictory so grand as to be
decisive of the national campaign in No
vember. No election ever before held in
this country offered such a stinging re-
buke to designing politicians, such a
warning admonition to oyergrown jour-
nalism, as this one of Pennsylvania. 1t
shows that the great mass of the people
analyZe every question which comes be-
fore them affecting the general interests
of the country as critically as the most
learned men and the most astute and best
trained politicians. This symptom of
modern politics is full of hope for the fu-
ture of free institutions in America, and
it ought to be lesson to ambitious men
that the only way to lead in this country
is first to learn to follow Let the fall of
Mr.. Sumner, of Massachusetts, of Mr..
Curtin, of Pennsylvania, of Mr. SchurZ,
of Missouri, and of Mr. Trumbull, of Hi
nois, be full of Instruction to every man
who desires to make for himself politi-
cal career. One year ago all these men
stood high in the estimation of the people,
but they were not satisfied with reason
able degree of popularity; they were not
satisfied to serve their party and country
in the positions assigned them. Defeated
in the realization of their aspirations,
thON SONShI W OCobAOy liz PaAb
advocacy of whose principles they had
mounted to. power and notoriety, and
build up in'its, place new organization
which they hoped to control in the
interests of their selfish person
al purposes. Now there is no
man so poor politically, as to
do either Mr.. Sumner, Mr.. Curtin, Mr.
Schurz or MIR. Trumbull reverence" 1"
They have committed the objectionable
sin of seeking to creates upon false basis
false issues, and of attempting first TO
delude, and then to dictate to the Ameri-
can people what their duties are and how
they shall perform them.
All the sophistries, all the falsehoods,
and all the slanders of the Confederate
press and the Confederate speakers, and
of Mr.. Greeley himself, have been brushed
away by the authoritative voice of the peo-
pie heard in the elections of Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana. And the people breathe
easier under the healthful impulse of the
assurance afforded by those elections that
no clique of distinguished ~ men can rob
them of their rights; that no combination
of Independent newspapers can deceive,
cheat and delude them: and that coali-
ton conceived by bold; bad men, and
fraught with great danger to free institu-
tions, has been exposed, pilloried before
the country as a gigantic political fraud,
and utterly annihileted thirty days before
the day of the Presidential electior-Chi-
cdgo Inter Ocean.
PROFESSOR Ito student at the black
board, snow, sir, Whit instrument would
you use in constructing geometrical
figure?ss Studert ilooking confused), "a
piece of chalk, SIR
CLEANING GUTTA-PERCHA-This can
be done by using a mixture of soap and
powdered charcoal, polishing afterward
with dry cloth with little of the char
coal On II