Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-11-13
What the Result Means.


states holding elections last week show
increased, rather than diminished, ma
jorities. In all probability portion
of the Republican ticket in New York,
apart from Governor, Is elected, by
trifing majorities. Cornell's plurality
is now put at $4,000, and as returns
come in from remote districts the i'm
mense den ocaatic majorities of New
York and Brooklyn are being over
come. Fot only is this true in New
York, but the fact is likewise revealed
in other states. So terrible convul-
I sion-so great an upheaval is not with
out cause. The people of the North,
as body, are intensely loyal. Parti-
san feelings weigh nothing when
national life is imperriied The furore
occasione1 by the advent of the Green
back nonsense lasted for day, mush-
roon-hke it died almost as soon as it
had birth The increasing ana
healthy business of the country, with
no idle men anywhere, Excepting
those who alroays aoU be IDLE toseth-
er with the advance IN prices for labor
and productions, and the re-occupa-
ton of all the industries of the nation,
knocked the bottom out of the green
back lunacy, and left not even skele-
ton to make the sceptical afraid. With
the money question settled, the people
everywhere found time to look the
questions of loyalty and disloyalty
squareiy in the face. The vivid pict-
ure of terrible rebellion overcome by
the power of the nation was not hid
den from view, The possibility of a
re-enactment of the scenes of 1861 to
1865 took possession of the thought of
Of the loyal heart everywhere. In the
Democratic party Of the country loyal
ty saw only determination to paint
upon newer canvas the vivid picture
of treason and blood. In the plat
forms of the party that sought to de-
stroy the nation were detected the
planks of that heresy, State Rights,
spiked down with the Kentucky and
Virginia Resolutions Of 1898, and the
response was ready to be uttered on
November 4th. ''We'ye had enough
of that, this is Nation with big n"
and with the memory of ''Old Hick-
ory'' fresh in the minds OF the people.
they voted, and every ballot was a nail
in the coffin of incipient treason.
The persistency with which the Dem
ocracy chung to the dead heresy, hug
ging it to the Democratic heart, sick
ened the thinking, patriotic voters
throughout the entire North. The
Republican party. once SO far forgot
decency as to fondle it, but patriotic
emetic threw it up, and the young
giant has been more ''stalwart" ever
since. Again, the shot gun policy of
the south can never be in accord with
Republican institutions. That card
has been ''nine spot to the Democ-
racy, who hoped to find it an ''ace. ="
The election has taught lesson to
both parties, and one which will not
soon be forgotten by once great
party, now in its decadcnce. Loyalty
and Honesty, are help-meets always,
aud sisters in the same family. The
Democratic party has been, is, disioyal
and dishonest, and unjust go The
Republican party, with all its faults Is
loyal and honest, and has come to stay.
Disloyalty, however beautifully CARRIED
betrays itself in its unwinsome gait.
Loyalty, though Scared and blemished
by attrition with misconceived error.
is Queen always.
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