The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-11-09
BRILLIANT ACHIEVEMENT OF
THE GREENBACEERS!
They Succeed In Defeating,
All the Gre3nback
Candidates.
And Elect a Staunch Hard
Money Congress.
AND COMMIT SUICIDE WITH
CHARMING ENTHUSIASM.

We give elsewhere sufficient returns OF tn
elections on Monday to Indicate the genera
result 1t needs but "A superficial glance ut th
figures to show that the Democratic party i
routed, horse, foot and Dragons They hav,
lost New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
| last wear Democratic states, and have iallcl
short of their own in the northern republican
states They have lost enough Congressmal
to cndangcr their majority IN the next house
and have certainly lost their control OF Il ma
ioriy of states in the next house, that if tho
presidential election in 1880 is forced into the
house. the republicans will have control and
elect their man.
How is this singular result to be accounted
for? Has the administration Of fraud-thC
creature of ballotbOX suffers and returning
board thievcs--suddenly jumped into popu
larity and swelled the aggregate of its voting
party followers? As in La Sale county, 50
the rule will hold generally, that the Republi
can party, AS compared with the opposition
has fallen into II greater minority than it has
been in since the organization of the party 20
years ago The republicans are beaten four
teen hundred III this county, and as the same
relative diminuion of their vote seems TO hold
good elsewhere they are probably beaten TWEEN
ty thousand in the state. Yet practically they
enjoy all the prestige and advantage of bril-
liant victory
How did that happen? \ few words will
explain. 1t was the result of the National
GrccnbacIl craze, While the Democratic
party had gone as far in favor of an enlarged
paper currency and aTcstlng specie resump-
ton as common sense or reason could Justify,
there arose Il tribe OF crazy currency philosO-
pliers who insisted ON rushing the soft money
idea to Il wild and insane extreme 1t was
vain and idle to reason with them. You mi ght
as well attempt to teach iackass logic. But
what they lacked in common sense they made
up in zeal. The zelot is never without follow
ers Joanna Southcote and Joe Smith never
lacked an abundant following though afflicted
with as irrational Il craze as the National
Grecnbackers. John Sherman and Wall street
saw the drift Of the delusion, and seeing that
it was admirably cOntrivcd to divide and dis
tract the Democratic party, encouraged it with
ly ovcTun with greenback stumpcrs and paid
electoneering agents. The democrats, stunned,
conioundcd, Disguised, though sOrcly tempted
and seeing inevitable defeat before them, man
al. ~
back tempest sweep ON in its own wild way
The outcome IS exactly as John Sherman
and Wall street calculated Though they may
not have been able entirely to overcome the
Democratic majority in the next congress, they
have reduced it to such low figure rs TO in
sure u good working hard money majority in
hard money democrats there to give John
Sherman, with the republican members con
troll of the house on the financial question.
Thus resumption will remain untouched.
The chard-moncy programme of sherman
and Wall street VIII remain the fixed policy of
the government for the next four years Ma
tional GrccnbaCkism, which, by a sensible
union with the Democracy had it in its power
to secure unlimited control Of the next con.
grcSS by clccting honest pronounced green
hackers both Of the National" and Demo
cratic label to congress- has through the
adrot management of Sherman and Wall
street, defeated both, and laid grcrnbaCk,m
in congress upon the shelf hopclcssly and for