American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-23
SUCCESS A CERTAINTY.

'lcanlSm on Tuesday, the l9th lnSt,
in Ohio, Nebraska, Iowa and New
Jersey furnish ample assurance that
the party will maintain its national
supremacy. The tidal wave of lS1 4
has had it's refluent flow. The
causes which induced the people to
administer a rebuke to the party
they loved and had SO consistently
hOnored have ceased, aad there is
! restoration of the confidence il
had SO long inspired. This is tn he
ascribed to the fact that the Repub-
lican party had the courage to COZ
rect its own abuses, as well rs to
tho inability of the Democratic
party TO comprehend the needs OF
the country. That party, seeming
ly inseusible to the stigma that at
taches to its record, has placed in
the van men who inspired distrust,
and in seeking to frame new issues
has antagOnized the good faith and
honor which the country holds dear,
and has done battle against the rec
ognised teachings of sound political
economy.
If it is said that the financial issue
has absorbed all other questions in
the Ohio campaign; we answer. that
this is an issue that the Democracy
everywhere the same in essence
AS in OhiO-precipitated in the true
spirit of demagogucry. 1t is not so
sure that its managers believed in
the heresies of imitation, but holding
the attainment of the spOils of office
superior to every other cOnsidera-
ton, it deliberately played upon
the passions of the ignorant masses,
invoked collision between labor
and capital, and raised the demon
of communism that it might there
by compass it's selfish ends. 1t
made a mistake, and q grievous
one; but it demonstrated tho per-
versity and recklessness which
rules its councils. By the plat
form on which the Democracy has
conducted the late campaign i'll
Ohio, by its bold attack on a fixed
principle of the nation it has made
the Republican party the ch impion
of u sound currency. That party
was naturally and irresistibly CRAWL
tating towards the championship
OF hard money, and would have
found itself in that position in 1876
in every State in the Union, even
without Democratic propulsion, but
the Democratic mistake has male
the way plain, the position more
certain. Henceforth the Republi.
can party, by the logical necessity of
the case, appears as the uphol'ler
and defender of the specie basis,
and as the only guarantor to the
creditors of che Republic that she
will keep faith with them. Hence:
forth that party is To be trusted, and
the Democratic party condemned,
however specious may be the pro-
LESSONS and exact the pledges that
the latter isIwilling to make. This
much is certain.
Turning for a moment 10 Iowa
and Nebraska, where the Republi-
can majorities have been materially
over those of last year, we
find that the financial issue was not
mado prominent, and the result is
not specially to be ascribcd to its
influence. The Republican party
was there judged by its record, as it
had thus been rany times judged,
and the verdict has been one of
emphasized in q manner
peculiarly gratifying. 1t is evident,
that reaction has spent its
the people will rally
round the party which has been
loyal to the Union and the Constitu-
ton through all its history. The
campaign opens under
the most favorable Omens. ALI the
signs of the times are suspicious of
victory in the centennial contest.
who but yesterday were
respondent, to-day are hopeful and
coura geous. Grave apprehensions
have been dissipated. Earnest re-
solve has succeeded doubt. We
enter upon the work of '76 with the
that that work will not be
iu vain. Strengthened and encour-
aged 10y the good news from the
West, Republicans of Mississippi,
march on to victory!