The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-22
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 lcds destroyed,
but II was that OF Darius himself. On the
5th OF November political tidal wave has
really roared over the United States but it
was Republican and not 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 ms jorites for Grant. The same Penn
sylvanIa which the Confederates appreciated
up to the Sth October. and in which Carl
Schurs employed all his persuasiveness, gives
a Republican majority (from $4,000 to 100000
so unprecedently large that all the howl OF
" fraud must be shsmed into silence before
IL
The same remark applies to most Of the
States which have voted Republican. In the
face OF such ma jorities even the most loud
mouthed Liberal shriekers must lose breath
and dare 40 longer to represent an expression
OF the popular will which IL 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 1t had won
V,
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, 1t is
bitter reprOGcheS 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 firmer
together, and increased their assurance Of
future victory. Such is the case with every
party which represents genuine principle OF
freedom and progress. Now 40 is it, however,
with all unsavoTy alliance, where the one
party only wanted to use the other az the cat s
paw to get the chestnuts out of the fire. Such
was the case with the Liberal Democratic con-
spiracy. No principle in common, but COM
mon craving for the spolls was the bond OF
tins unholy combination. What II inscribed
as a programme on its banners were empty
phrases. in whose meaning it did not itself
believe. and which its own candidate repudl-
ated. Under these circumstances, the Lib
eral" firm, which had begun life with such
grand intentions, was not new party sprung
from a common fundamental idea in an organic
manner, but a promIscuous crowd OF selfish
individuals. It's defeat III 1872 will therefore
not prove a sequel to the Republican defeat
of 1856. 1t passes away like one-days fly,
born on the LIST Of May, 1872, 1T died on the
9Th Of November. 1t belongs already now as
much to the past as the American party OF
1855.
That which is genuine and well founded in
the desire for publication OF the public life,
for reform in the domain OF the State, that
the Republican party will strive for and attain.
Not in Wild and childish precipitation, but il
the only salutary way of an organic develop
ment OF the popular consciousness. Viewed
in this sense, the triumph OF Grant is pledge
that the Republic will progress quietly and
steadily in the liberal form which has won by
the reduction of the rebellion and slavery,
and without the danger that one OF the fruits
OF this struggle will be Imperfect by q reac-
tiou-IAtnOlS Stats Zeit,ulg.