The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18
GENERAL PRESS REVIEW,
Maine.
Globe Democrat.


Tho result of the Maine election is now
known with sufficient accuracy 10 enable W.
10 draw our conclusions, ana " w0u'd DC
very foolish to attempt TO disguise lhe mean
ing or diminish the importance OF 20 serious
defeat. 1t is really the greatest disaster
which has happened to the Republican par,
ty in twenty years, and IT cannot DO disposed
OF by efiecting to disregard It, or by any OF
those CHEAP consultations with which party
manapers are wont to console themselves on
such occasions. We are at a loss 10 UNDER
stand what the New York Tribune means, for
instance, by calling 1t "a draw battle" or by
claiming that Maine is state which has had
no share in the recent revival ofprosperity II
this is the case, why was II not made known
before the election, and why was the ssue
distinctly made on the very point that the
country's prosperity was the Republican par
tvs platform? Maine was selected or accepted
as a battle-ground, and the5 5000 900 Republi.
can voters of this country were told that tho
election was test Of the feeling Of the whole
country, and that the chief reliance Of the
Republican party was the general prosperity
which its management had done 80 much to
bring about. After this to turn around and
declare that the election is not test, that
the result means nothing, that there IS nc
connection between tho politics Of Maine and
the prosperity of the country, Is to insult the
intelligence Of every ono who reads aucb
comments. There is nothing in the Maine
election to weaken the allegiance or to sway
the opinion Of II single honest Republican
II has changed nothing in the value of the
principles for which the party has commended,
or of tho ideas which 1t has embodied. The
Republican party still holds tho truth which
1t has vindcated In war and in peace, still
represents all that this country has that is
worth thehaving in the control of its public
affairs. To every true Republican those
principles are as sacred, those ideas as dear,
those truths as immutAble as ever. They lose
none of their sanctity none of their influence,
because few thousand Republicans in Maine
have allowed themselves to be misguided into
following the Greonbsck flag; on the con
trary, they are all the more sacred in defeat,
aud the duty of vindlcating thom is all the
more sacred now that they are endangered.
The lesson the event should teach us is, that
never DOES any good to deceive ourselves
by Understanding tho strength of the en-
envy; and the next plain and homely truth
because We did not have votes enough. We
do not want to loso any more elections in the
same way. We want to carry Indiana and
we want to carry Now York, but we will not
have votes enough to do this If we do not
tand firmly together, if we do not call out
every voter. 1t is evident that we have not II
single chance to spare, that wo need every
man and every effort every vote and every
dollar within our reach to avert the disaster
which mena"es us Ms sequel to Monday 5
test. Fortunately our situation il just bad
enough TO nerve us to redoubled effort
and if tho campaign is well managed and the
full vote called out, if the Republican party
can be made to put out its full strength. the
Maine thundorelap will DO but y summer
rain, to bo followed by clear skies and HE
long-continucd sunshine of Republic ,,.u
and prosperity.