The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1880-09-18

A@btNSR 81 ttt 49,
1t is not q repul.e or a defeat: il is
the utter overthrow Of a party that
las ruled Maine for a full quarter
Of a century,Asitll the exception Of
q single year Of what was deemed
the accidental triumph Of faction
in an unimp1rtant struggle; and
the revolution was wrought against
the ablest and noblcst and most
skilful Of all the Republican Ma
.tienal chieftains. The gallant
rlumcl Knight, whose name leaps
from the hearts of earnest Repub-
licans from the Eastern to the
Western seas, led the Maine battle
in person, and but for his magnc-
tism and matchless organization
and sagacious employment Of all
the appliances of modern politics,
tho Republican flag would have
been struck without so much as u
hopeful battle.
II was the revolution in Alainein
1910 that started the Harrison
hurricane; it was the moro than
$4,000 Republican minority #
Maine in September, 1860, that
cast the doubtful States OF Indiana
and Pennsylvania into tho Lincoln
scale and rerQlutionizcd the ma
tional administration; it was the
more than 200 majority ofMainc
in September, 1872, that turned
back tile Greeley lido and post
poncd sectional peace indefinitely;
it was tho moreltllan 1900 major
lily of Maine in September, 1876,
that saved New Hampshire, Ohio,
Wisconsin, California, Oregon and
Nevada to Hayes, and made his
formally declared election possible
by mi Electoral Commission, after
his defeat by quarter Of i million
majority; and tile loss Of thccntire
Republican majority Of Maine,
hitherto more than ten per cent Of
the Whole vote polled, will cast ev.
cry doubtful State in the Hancock
column, and make States doubtful
which have been practically con.
ccded to Garfield. Whether the
indicated election Of Plaistcd, Fu-
sionist, shall DO maintained by the
complete returns, or whether Davis,
Republican, shall DO elected by Il
nominal majority, is not material
!. estimating The lesson Of Alaino to
those who are 10 give battle in
Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia,
in October, and in Connecticut,
New Hampshire, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania. Illinois, Wis.
consin, Colorado, Nevada, Califor.
mia and Oregon in November. II
will be read and understood alike
by all i'll all those States, md now
the trembling scales Of tile political
balancein Indiana will settle in
conlestably on the Hancock side
and eqUivcring scales will honcc.
forth play their part III Ohio.
Maine Eurls IN anti-Garfold Con-
gressional delegation ind probably
an anti;Garlielil=G Governor into5tliN:
eddy the battle, and There are no
Garfield reserves now visible 70
resistzthis nnlooked fOrzantl over.
whelming assault. When BlaiNc,
the Henry Clay of=Ieopnlilicanism,
is beaten in Maine, wlmt must be
Tho tate Of Garfield in Ohio?
Aud this signal defeat Of the
best Republican ciieftain, ia the
hitherto impregnablc Republican
position Of Maine, has been nc
complished by an aggregation of
dispnting political clements with
nothing to commend them or their
cause beyond opposition to degen-
Grated and abused Republican
power. II stood with thousands Of
once earnest Republicans in its
ranks, who wcn hcetlIcsss Of the
eloquent appeals of Blaine and
many other Of the ablcst Rcpubli-
can leaders, They presented the
national contest as paramount to