Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-11-22

responses, and the vote shows that they
understood them.
On the whole, the Judgment of the
Northern people is that the destinies of
the country are still safest in the hands
of the party that freed the slave, pre-
served the Union, and stands now the
bulwark of the National honor, and the
champion of rational finance. Yester-
days work made this judgement plain.
We may now confidently hope that the
work of 1880 will make it palmer still.
For the first time since the inaugura-
ton of President Hayes there is good
reason to trust that we may have a
Republican successor.-M Y. Tribune.
Nor has there ever been less excuse
for belittling the contest or depreciating
its consequences. Instend of "polit-
ical farce,h we have had something not
unlike revolution. In city affairs only
great uprising of intelligence and re-
spectability could have overcome an
| organization intrenched in nearly every
department of the municipal govern
ment, with ramified and corrupt agen-
cies, and an unscrupulousness that
nothing could restrain. In National af-
| fairs similar influences have achieved
even more remarkable results. The
tide of loose and unsound opinion which
threatened to sweep away the public
credit and engulf business and finance,
has been effectually stemmed. The
forces that menaced the community
have been broken, and the adventurers
and demagogues who hoped to profit by
a great delusion have been rendered
harmless. Anxiety was deep and gen.
eral. A new party had suddenly sprung
into existence with many signs of pop
ular strength. The main body of the
Democratic party had adopted the es-
sential features of the policy repre-
sented by the new movement, and the
October elections seemed to fore
shadow, if not its victory, at least its
success to an extent that would ma
terially affect the solution of pending
questions and the future of parties.
These appearances have been falsitied
by events. Within month the new
party has lost its prestige; it is terrible
no longer. The Democrats who en-
grated its ideas upon their platforms,
and descended to the dirt in quest of
votes, are now cursing their folly.
They have discovered that dishonesty
does not always pay, and the vague
. dread of danger which hung over busi-
ness like cloud, and paralyzed tinan-
cial energy, has all at once vanished.
As the first fruit of Republican victories,
,, we have tangible proofs of confidence.
But is the snake scotched only, OF
/, killed. Is the agitation for initiation
l and qualified Reputation merely
: Il fn ha.
lieving that it is rendered practically
powerlessP One of Natures DEGREES
, is, rapid decay as sequence OF rapid
growth. The silver craze would have
! collapsed could the opportunity for the
play of intelligence and Judgment have
; been secured before the enactment o.
reconciliation. Loud clamor silenceC
: argument; experience was unheeded
y the measure was hurried through Con
: gress. Not a few of its promoters ar
now ashamed of themselves; its apollo
5 gists are silenced by facts; men VIII
: expected to profit by it confess thei
: embarrassment. The sole hope of tn
u Greenbackers rested upon their abilit,
= to create q similar furry in behalf o
u their scheme. Things seemed to favo
. them at the outset. The craze that hat
= enacted the silver dollar set IN strongly
' in the direction of inconvertible paper
J Maine helped them. Had the State
: which voted ON Tuesday followe,
II Maine's example-had the Greenback
d ers and the Democrats unitedly obtain
ed absolute control of the next Hous
/ there is no telling what might nc
,, ;, have happened. But the Greenbac
IL craze withered under discussion. 1t
D fallacies could not withstand commo
g sense. Its tendencies needed only t
y be understood by the masses of tn
le people to be condemned. Tuesday
~ verdict is fatal to it. Its supporter
- will quietly recede, and the best {
10 them will soon be as ashamed of thei
~ connection with it as are supporters
10 remonetization. The Greenback c1
I. citement is over, and with it much {
' es the danger.-N. Y. Times.