The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-11-09
The Chicago Tribune's opinion.

1t is a probability apparent upon the
face of the advices that a majority of
the electors chosen yesterday will select
Samuel ]. Tilden for President of the
United States. In this result there is a
much deeper signification than any
which the mere partisan politician on
either side discerned. 1t is in a peculiar
sense an expression of popular resolve,
rather than a desire of mere party
managers. The latter proclaimed the
battle cry of reform. What their
special motives may have been is imma-
terial. The country accepted the cry be-
lieving that it meant something more
than change, something more than sue
cess Of party combination. In that be-
lief the country decided that the decis-
ion did not mean political reaction; it
don't mean a recession in the particu-
lar or degree from the constitutional
reformation established by the results of
the civil war; it don't mean a restora-
tion of the South to the condition of a
dominating influence in the government;
it does not mean a rehabilitation of
b~ourbonism in Government policy; it
don't mean a resurrection Of the his
torically infamous Democratic party; it
does not mean that the better instinct
of the nation shall be outraged by an
administration that will turn its back
upon the imminent questions of the
present and the future, to grovel among
offensive things of a dead party; for
none of these things have the people
voted, none of them do they deserve
and none of them will they tolerate.
The country has not voted for Tilden,
nor for electors to vote for Tilden on
the 9th of December. The decision
made yesterday was a decision for re-
form, for a manifestation for a new or
der of things. The country has decided
in expectation that the reality of the
reform promised shall appear in the
expectation that the reform established
in the constitution by the results of the
wal shall be fully and faithfully main
tanned as the basis of other and greater
reforms to come;in expectation that the
equal liberty of all men under the law
be absolutely maintained; the expecta-
tion that the government shall be the
servant and not the master of the ma
tion;in the expectation that the govern
ment shall no longer proceed as an
agency of robbery for the aggrandize-
meht of rules; but shall abandon
wholly and forever the infamous spoils
system introduced by organized
demagogism half a century ago. Except
ing as he shall prove to be a faithful
and eficientagen in the fulflment ofthe
expectations the people care no more
for Mr.. Grant of Galena if Tilden and
the men whom he will call about him
shall fulfill these expectations well, If
not then not well. The country has
pronounced for reform; no more pre-
tense OF reform will suffice; no form
without substance, 40 keeping the word
of promise to the ear and breaking it to
the hope will save the new administra-
ton from the bottomless pit of political
perdition to which these people will
consign such as shall prove traitors to
the accepted pledge of reform. The
country has pronounced for reform;it is
determined to exchange its old servants
for new ones who fulfill will its expec-
tations in that regard. Woe be to that
servant who shall fail in his perfor-
pnonca