The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-11-04
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The Grand Triumph.
Philadelphia Press


plete, decisive and magnificent. When
the Wings were engaged in the
great log-cabin campaign of 1910 Mar
tin Van Buren, said it would be either
a farce or tornado, and the crafty
politician was buried beneath the
storm. This resplendent triumph
like that, is sweeping tornado. 1t
is majestic, popular and patriotic
upraising, like the mighty and ire
sistible surges of public feeling during
| the war. 1t is indeed, the old war
glow rekindlded and all abaze once
more, under the insolent threat and
the grave danger of Solid South.
The clear head, and the true heart,
and the strong right arm of the pat
riotic hosts saved the Nation then,
and they have saved it again.
Never were the lines more sharply
drawn-never was the triumph more
emphatic and crushing. 1t is justice
against oppression; equal ri ghts
against prescription; an honest ballot
against systematic fraud; honest
money against false dollars; protection
against free trade; peace and pros
perity against doubt, uncertainty and
danger; the principles of Lincoln and
Seward against those of Lee and jack
son; in a word, the National Cause
against the Lost Cause. Nay more,
hn ci1 a., tI,n 4
aimed at by the worst means. The
Democratic managers flung all pre-
tense of principles to the winds. They
trampled upon their own platform
stultifed their own declarations, am
and belied their own pledges. They
threw aside all show of fair discussion
and entered upon shameful crusade
of SANDER, defamation and crime
And this glorious result is the verdict
of the people not merely upon the
odious Democratic cause but upon tn,
scandalous Democratic methods e
fraud, talsehood, forgery and ;a-
pretense.
The triumph is grand or its in
mediate effects-it is grander still hi.
cause it shows that the heart of tn,
people is sound and trusty, The 10y;
masses have risen in their majesty,
and by their sturdy fidelity have res
cued the imperiled interests of the
nation. They have declared that
Solid South shall not rule the Repub-
lie it fought to destroy. They have
proclaimed that the cause which was
lost on the field shall not be regained
in the forum. They have given notice
that no ruthless hands shall strike
down the protective principle which
has built up our splendid industries.
They have thundered out that they
will not have change which would
beclould and endanger their present
brilliant prosperity. And they have
reaffirmed their continued confidence
in the Republican party and in the
cause it represents. The Republican
party can review the canvass and hail
the victory with unmixed pride. 1t
was true to principle. 1t was brave,
honest and manly. 1t was courteous
and just to Hancock. 1t fought the
battle on high grounds. The people
have planted its banner more firmly
than ever on the ramparts of govern
mems; the sweep of their condemna-
ton has stranded the shipwrecked
Democracy on the rocks; and who can
tell it's dismal and demoralized fu-
ture.
The great victory which we cele-
brate to-day will carry joy from Maine
| to California. 1t means peace and
prosperity. 1t means a splendid
career of business and industrial ac-
tivity. 1t means the ascendency of
the grand, free, progressive civiliza
ton of the North over the reactionary
spirit of the South. 1t means a long
lease of power to faithful, prudent
honest Republican party. And il
means the overthrow-perhaps tn,
complete dissolution-of the Demo
cratic party, which has tried every
device to defraud and to deceive tn,
people, and which, loaded with its of
fensive record and its wicked purpose
has now been buried beneath a crush
ing weight of popular reprobation
We have beaten the incendiaries @
the South and the tricksters of tn
North. 1t remains now to be true t,
the great cause intrusted to our keer
ing, and the Republican party wi
enter upon as grand mission and {
lofty career as even the lustrous hi
:. tory of its past.