Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-11-14
The Uselessness of Bargains.

THE Republican victory OF yesterday
means two things the univefsaI Vlnuica-
ton of definite principle IN party Poii.ics;
BARGAINS. undertaken by individuals Tor
the benefit of individuals.
No mage in the history of the Ameri-
can Rep1blic, in the history OF any peo-
ple. more convincingly demonstrates than
did the election of yesterday, that party
suspected of dishonesty cannot and will
not command the suffrages of the intelli-
gent and yirtuous mass of the people.
That the Liberal Democratic coalition ap-
peared in dishonest role from
its birth to its death, the fathers of that
wretched fraud will hardly dare
deny. The Republican masses knew its
heart had much of the old Copperhead
in it that the poison of seces-
sion, of dishonesty and general unpatriot-
ism was in its veins, and that it was
worse than the routed Democratic party,
for, to all the unrepented viciousness of
that organization, it added the lie of a
good new name, and the hyocritical pre-
tense of a pure motive. The honest men,
the decent rank and file of the Demo
cratic party, despised the coalition as a
cheat; as brazen insult, profiering them
nothing in return for their all; deAoer-
ate declaration by dozen demagogues
that the whole Democratic party could
be put in bag, labeled with Republl-
can name, and sold for the pittance OF
constableship, and an office at the tail OF
the cabinet. The fraction of the Demo-
cratic vote which was resolutely not cast,
was not significant enough to have alter
ed the great result; but it is significant
enough to teach the managers OF the
party that, at Baltimore, they reckoned
without their host.
Still more conspicuously does yester-
days result indicate the sublime fidelity
of millions upon millions of American
citizens to sharp-cut political principles.
1t was not merely the legal voters who
voted it was the entire country. 1t was
not merely men and ballots that were at
the polls it was the clear, honest brain,
the heart, the integrity, and the force OF
the whole American people. A few
pigmy politicians were nothing against an
army inspired by single lofty motive.
Had handful of senseless demagogues
essayed for their own benefit to make the
Republican party assume hypocritical
part in the campaign, their success
would have been no better than that OF
their disgraced and overwhelmed oppo
nents. Little men, in an intelligent
nation, are of no account; great princi-
pies alone are national motors. The
people have demonstrated that the
Republican party is not the party
of afew men, of single President, of q
brief day. They have fixed their signet
upon it as the party of the nation, as the
nation itself. Its principles, because right
in the abstract, were made the shining
banners under which the most stupendou:
political victory ever witnessed has beer
won. Equal rights for all men; the abo
lition of classes; vigorous, just, coura
geous, humane government; civil service
reform; education free to the whole peo
pie; religion uninvaded; economy in tax
alton, and thrift in administration; per
sonal integrity, and, above all, hones
political principle, are what yesterdays
victory have asserted and proclaimed.
Now let a man with the eye of a snai
look over the national battle field and say
''the Republican party is dead."-ChicGg
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