The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-11-13
CURRENT OPINION.

The Republican party is the party Of the
present and the future. The other be.
longs to the past.-CiReiandti Tina (Rtp.
1t begins to look as II honesty might be
the best policy, and as II 1.-THE friends ofhon-
est mOney would havea chance Of running
the Government.-S. Louis Post lLld.)
The efEectual manner in which Massa-
chusetts sat down on Butler is n Of the
most cheering circumstances that has hap
pened in ten years. There is probably not
another man in the whole United States
from whose political burial the sensible
people OF the whole United States would
have derived such unanimous and solid
satisfaction. Not because Butleris Butler,
but because Butler is an able and conspi-
cious %demagogue, whose power for evil is
proportionate to his ability and unscrupu.
iousness.-Quincy Herald (Aep.)
These results will have a marked effect
upon the country, and will seriously modi-
Is the politics OF the future. They will
settle the financial plicy Of the country,
aud settle it properly. Discussion has dis
closed the fact that the American people
can readily grasp and apply financial
principles US any other, and that there. is
no danger of being permanently misled by
fallacy or dishonesty. The struggle has
been u memorable one, and the response
OF the people contains u warning TO politi-
tians who may seek to triHe with popular
intelligence or to tampcr with popular
conscience. philadelphia Pres rep.
Butler has been disastrously defeated in
Massachusetts,, as il was desirable he
| .kn,,I1 1.n TI,n rnu,,11 10 n1rnnfuuanI3u in
one respect, ut least, 1t has taught the
Butler wing Of the Democracy that any
thing for succesSis not a substantial thing
to rely upon. It has taught the old hide
bound leadership that ignoring the .lopu'
lar element is not the way to hold the
party together. a party which has only
the respectable clemGnt-tlle s0-called re-
spCctable-cannot succeed. Parties are
made up OF all classes, and the general
average is the thing to be sought for. The
result will be, in Massachusetts, the best
for the Democracy in the long run.-.NdSh.
rifle (Ttn.) American DEM.
The Chicago Inter Occam remarks: ut
is,'a ConklinS victory in New York; it is q
| Chandler victory in Michigan; it is Cam
cron victory in Pennsylvania; it is an anti
policy victory in illinois. In short, it is q
stiff backed, stalwart, anti-mush Republic
can victory everywhere" True enough.
And the Inter. 0ccdR might add, rs far rs
this State is concerned, that ii is a stiff
backed, staiwart, authorization, honest
currency Republican victory" wOn in
spite OF the fact that it furnished the enemy
throughout the campaign most literally
with false history and unsOund doctrine,
and generally rendered n service to the
Nationals only surpassed by sam Cnry's
speeches. The Republicans OF Michigan
owe it no gratitude DdTUt Post tHtp.)
Gen. Butler has nov for the third time
polled the State Of Massachusetts, for the
Governorship, after n very earnest canvass
in which no chose his own issues and had
everything in his favor, except the candi-
date against him. lie has repeatedly
sought this last vindication, and At length
projected his own candidacy upon the
people. Tried upon n very thorough can.
vass, he has been decisively rejected and
buried beneath a plurality OF fully 5000.
The effort to force himself upon the State
rallied all the old Puritan reserves against
him, and tho people united regardless OF
party to finish up once for all the llumbug
reformer, the political and financial trick
ster ,.thc proctor OF spOils and pcrluisiteS,
the statesman OF folly. Now, then, is
Gen. Butler satisfied and ready to retire?
He can't do anything clsc.-SPrh4fc'd
CMa@.) Republican.
zone hundred thousand Democratic ma
jority, and perfect quiet" says II dis
patch from South Carolina. This is the
State, let lis remember, which, us Mr.. Til
dcn's confidential agent reported in cipher
to him, actually gave 4 majority OF its
votes in favor Of Republican Electors in
1875. Within two years, when the Repub-
lican votes at the North have greatly in
creased, have half OF the Republican voters
OF South Carolina been converted to De-
mocracy? Or is it conceiSable that the
entire Republican vote was voluntarily
withdrawn; that $4,000 free citizens, who
voted for Messrs. Raincy, Cain, Smalls,
and other Republican candidates for Con-
gress two years ago, have now uIani-
mOusly refused to vote for the same and
similar candidates? Let this question
be seriously and carefully considered
by the citizens Of Northern States. 1t in
wolves something UNNECESSARILY more i'm
portant than the success or failure OF eth
er party in a single State or Congressional
election. There can be no better time to
consider it than this. The Democrats have
control OF the State Government, and ev-
cry member OF the Legislature except
three, it is said, and every Representative
in Congress. Whatever they wanted in
South Carolina they have secured. Nor is
there any Congressional Committee by
which the Democratic methods in South
Carolina will he investigated. But those
methods will nevertheless be examined,
and ~anxiously, by the people Of the North,
where freedom exists and the Constitution
is obcycd.-Mr York Tribune Htp.O.