Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-11-06


ter the nomination to sulk in their
tents, and to leave the work of cleo
ting Garfield to those who had nom
mated him. They did not enter into
the canvass at all, except in per-
fectly perfunctory way until General
Garfield in absolute despair had Wis.
tied New York, and in some manner
of which the public were, of course,
uniformed-had made his peace with
the leaders of his party. What the
terms of his surrender were, we re-
peat, the public does not know, and
perhaps never will know, except
through one of those disclosures
which bring honest men to their own
after the parties to such a bargain
have fallen out /; but it takes the
combined credulity and effrontery of
an independent Republican to pre-
tend that there is no evidence Of a
bargain.
From the New York Journal of Com
merce, Dem.
"The Republicans have achieved
very signal victory. The Demo-
Gratis have been defeated throughout
the entire Northern states. But
there is something more than this {;
the victory has been gained and the
defeat inflicted by the honest count
ing of votes and the country may
be congratulated that the newly cleo
ted President may take his seat with
tn feeling of satisfaction that over
and above the votes that may have
been unduly influenced on either
side, he has been fairly elected by
the suffrages of the people. Even if
it is found that, taking the whole
country together, the numerical SUI
periority i'll the popular vote is on
the side of the defeated candidate, it
is still evident that very consider
able majority of the people in the
Northern states are unwilling to in
stitute a change of administration
or to trust the Democratic leaders
with executive authority, and that
General Garfield is fairly entitled to
his Inauguration. We have, never
theless, protested against the often
sive manner in which the campaign
was conducted. Many of the Re-
publicans assumed that all the vir-
tue and patriotism of the country
were on the side of that party. But
still greater offence was committed
by Democratic speakers and writers
in personal denunciations of the
character of the Republican nomi-
nees. There was nothing to justify
such vituperation. We hope that
the dominant party will soon have
working majority in both branches
Of Congress, that they may be held
fairly accountable for the manage
ment of public affairs"
From New York Evening Post, Rep
"There was a still more potent
reason for the inefficiency of the
Democrats, and that was their want
of a definite policy and their faith
leSSneSs to such fragments of poll
cy as they had positively avowed. A
party in opposition which invites a
people to abandon a party in power
has two things to do: 1t must prove
the party in power either theoretical
ly or politically unworthy of trust,
and it must provide consistent and
attractive scheme af measures where
with to supplant the incumbents.-
Now, the Democratic party was an
opposition, and no more. 1t had
great deal to say against the Repub-
licans, and it proved a great deal of
mistakes, miscarriages and positive
offences but it had nothing to SUBJ
stitute that was better. On all
questions of legislation likely to
arise it was quite at sea. AS to the
finances, it coalesced freely with the
addle-headed teachers of the paper
money gospel, and it did so in the
face of its own most honorable ira
dltions."
From the New York Commercial Ad-
yertiser, Rep.
The great victory that has been
won shows that the people of the
Northern States are true to the prin-
ciples Grant, Sherman, Garfield and
Hancock fought for. There have
been other issues, but this was the
great overpowering one. The tariff
played its part, but was it not the
fear of the South that brought the
tariff question out =? The South so
managed to-day is antagonistic to
the North in all its parts. The de-
mand for free trade comes from the
South. The "changes" asked for
were first heard there. 1t was the
determination that the South shall
not rule this country through Han
cock, Bayard, or any other Northern
man, that brought about the result
Yesterday, Men NAV decry this NAV
sheer at the "bloody Shirt" and
prate about the "war being over, y
but these are the hard facts, and
cannot be disputed.
From the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution,
Dem.
1t is the elimination of a series of
blunders, beginning with the Potter
committee and ending with the sur
render of the party to the selfish
A.