The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-11-08
WHAT lr AcComrLIsmgD.
The Wor II Done BY the Republican Press
In the Late CanvnAs.

N. Y. Tribune,
In giving honor to whom honor is due
for the magnificent victory Of Tuesday, nc
grateful Republican-and the whole land
is filed with grateful Republicans to-day
will forget the noble work Of the Repub
lican newspapers. TIL ere has never been
q campaign in which the power Of an in
telligent and conscientious press showed
itsoli 80 great as in this. There has never
been a campaign In which the Repub
ican newspapers, and particularly those
OF the interior, were 80 far in advance oil
public opinion, and none iu which tn, y
have had more electric success than III
rousipg the better sentiment OF the coun.
try 10 the dangers OF Democratic Admin.
istration, When General Hancock vas
nominated hardly O DEMOCRAT could be
found who did not sincerely believe that
candidate was fore.o,dained to be Presi.
dent, and many Republicans feared 1t
Il nomination made temporary truce
in this State, His personal character was
above reproach. His military record was
brilliant, and It had not been proved that
In civil affairs he would be incompetent,
There was time when General Hancock's
alection seemed not impossible.
But the Republican press, knowing the
danger that lay in the path, went to work
with a grand energy, undismayed by the
1873 electoral Vo;ee which the South had
massed together to be voted 10 lump,
We venture to say that there has never
boen campaign in which the Republican
newspapers, from Maine to California,
showed such fighting ability and such
Sighting spirit as in this. From the day
the canvass opened they put the Demo.
cratic party where 1t belonged-on the
defensive. They forced the Democratic
record in all It's hundred phases, on the
attention OF the country, aud kept the
Democratic orators aud organs busy pro.
testing that the ps:ty would not do In the
future what II had meyer failed 10 do In
the psat. The candor Of the Republican
papers was as grsat ps their courage. Every
issue that has arisen has been discussed
feareesly and skillfnlly. The ability and
the zeal with which the business mems
issue and the tariff question were urged
upon the country, are casea IN point,
They had clear campaign also. General
Hancock was treated with the respect
which his private caracter and public SER
yice demanded. At the same time there
was not 6 SANDER upon General Garfield
put forward by the Democratic press,
which the Republican papers, aT reason
d having much the greater supply OF
brains, as we'll as trnth, on their side,
have not made to recoii upon the heads oil
its inventors The Democratic gem OF Win.
petation, 500, and the Democratic mas
ierpiece in CampeIgn fiction, the forged
letter, were made good for Thousands and
thousands Of Republican votes by tbs
iraukness with which the Republican pa:
mars took them up, and the wit and skill
with which they turned them back upon
their authors. The Democratic cry Tor "a
change" was caught up In the same way,
and used with telling eject. But It would
taEe 4 good part OF President GRrtield's
term 10 enumerate the achievements Of the
Republican press OF the interior in thii
campaign. This splendid engine OF en-
Ilightenment and progress has battered the
walls Of the Democracy-blow upon blow
week after week, month alter month-un
I'll they fell, and great was the tai
/, would not be Just to omit tribute te
the most efficient ally the Republican
press has hSd, viz: the Democratic press
Has the,e ever been time when the low
| tone and inferior ability OF the average
Democratic newspapers we're 90 conspicu
ousY Il Las not had the decency to tel
the truth when II helped the other side
nor Inc skill 70 tel IL well when i Nigh