The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1874-10-08
The Fall Outlook.
frrom tho National Republlcan, /

tFrom the National Republican
Last winter, MI through tho spring
and in the earl y summer DAYS. when
Congress was bringing its sessions
to II close. the opposition orators and
newspapers were prating glibly of
the great political reaction the fol.
lowing October and November
would bring to the country. We
were told Of dissatisfaction and
disscnsion everywhere, in the South
and in the North, in the West and
in the East The Republican party,
we were assured, had lost ground
everywhere. In the great Northwest
the Grangors were going to over
turn the political foundations and
tear down everything which stood in
their way In the West the tinan-
cial policy of the Administration had
ruined the party, and every Con-
gressman who did not join the wild,
ignorant howl for more paper money
would never hear his name called on
the rolls OF the Forty fourth Con
gress.
In tho South every carpet baggor
and scalawag would be sent baci, to
the obscuiity from which he had
emerged to plunder and oppross q
down trodden nation and in the
East discontented people, eagerly
pouting for change and reform,
would drive from power the champ
ions and agents Of monopoly and
legislative jobbery and corruption
The Democratic organs predicted
that in the high places which had
been so long dishonored we should
have new, pure, and bright De.
mocracy, reclothed in the robes of
the morning, all the stronger and the
better for the many blundors, the
dangers and the peiils of the past.
The Liberal Republican journals
assured the country that, taught 10y
the experience of 1872, the Fentons
and the Cochranes would apain
come to the front to save the rcpub. d.
lie from the awful fate impending
over il.
In the light Of thcso closing Sep
tember days, tits at least amusing f.
turn back to the old speeches and
dingy newspaper columns of six
months ago and compare the rcali2a
tons with the predictions. Instead
OF a beaten and bailled party vanly
striving to save itself amid cngulph-
ing waters of m angry popular sea,
the Republican ship sails proudly,
with full canvas set, laden with the
hope and safety and aspirations of
the nation. The party lines have
been drawn in nearly all the princi
pal States the politicians have come
together, the platforms have been
made and the people are only wait
ing the appointed hour to pass the
judgment which has already been
made up. To be sure for some weeks
we shall have the usual beating of
drums and banners and notices and
torchlight PROFESSIONS, empty oratory
and burning editorial appeals; we
shall have what is called an active
nvass and all that an active canvass
means but it will have very little
influence upon the result. The
country has already made up its
mind and hardly dozen votes will
bo changed in each Congressional
district between today and the day
OF the election. The people who
have watched and waited for the full
filiment of the promise of the party
orators and organs have been disap-
pointed and become convinced that
any change in the existing govern
ment OF the country would boa change
Tor the worse. Democracy placed in
e the scales kicks the beam. In the
South it means war of races: in the
west reputation il the North more
plumber. Republiaanism, on the
other hand, means hard money, peace
III all the land, the development of
tho industry and the enterprise of
the Rel nblic, economy. in a word,
good government. Marty every one
Of the great States is certain 10 go
Republican in the coming contest
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Illinois. In the next Congress the
majority will be fully as great as in
the present one, and states which are
now Democratic will he remanded
back to their old positions in the
party. The hopes and predictions
ofall the anti Republican papers and
politicians have been again disap
poiated and shattered aud the coun-
try wheels into line as intensely Re
publican rs in the years when Il was
almost invincible.