The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-11-04
HERE'S YOUR HEROES !
A Solid North Sends Booming
Back the Taunt-Of the
Solid South.
Garfield 4 Arthur Elected by a
Convincing Majority of the
States of the Union.
TUESDAY

was d3y longed for and ye: dreaded. It
was day upon which vital issues relative
to the welfare of a great nation, were to
be tested and settled. A solid South had
arrayed itself against the lenient and free
dom loving N orth, and its leaders had
threatened to push their cause to a succ css
either by fair or foul means, which ever
was necessary to accomplish their ends,
The old element that has ranked and
burned for Supremacy ever since its
suppression by union forces, bad received
new life and force during the brief reign
of the democratic party in Congress- and
the supplement begging rebel has assum
ed the role of dictator, under the mag.
unanimous treatment Of a generous north
which had removed the disabilities that
treason had imposed,
The unrepentant traitors Of the SOUTH
as soon as they acquired maj oritv,
II rough the mistaken charity and sym
pathy of foregoing people boldly taunt-
ed them with their runous schemes, and
boosted of their intention to run tho gov
eminent as they pleased and in their own
interests. It Was the hydra headed infam,
ols "lost cause" clothed with new gar
ments as disguise, but invigorated With
new life that the scions of the old rebels
had impaired, struggling and frantic for
a restoration to power; disguise, deny and
color it as they attempted. The serpents
fangs were visible, and its deadly poison
was too cdorous to be con cealed.
The few years of misrule and their
threatened continuance had not only
alarmed the north, but forced its far see
Ing stl!esmen to united action that
would check and dlsthrone power that
was nation destroying, and that would
ettectually ignore all the grand preccpts
and results that a contest with treason had
successfully established.
Principles, that had once constituted the
base for democratic party, were de-
nounced, series Of self qualifications AID
abandoned platforms followed, and as a
final key note for a unanimous rally and
extinction Of Republican party. The
"lost cause State sovereignty cloaked with
the garb of a solid South was struck for
the campaign Of 1880. Money, brains,
deception, duplicity, bulldozlng and
fraud, all combined were brought into
active requisition for the Presidential
campaign just closed, strong men trem-
bled, capitalists boarded their funds with :
drawing therefrom investments, manufac
lures limited their productions, and the
laborer feared the "change" clamored for,
meant want and starvation for them.
Slowly, but surely, as the I'd Of Nov.
approached, the thinking men of an
alarmed and indignant north began to
cement base OF action that would ensure
a solid north to meet the aggressors upon
their own plans. What Is the result
Tuesdays sun set upon the broken shat
tered wreck Of party whose mlnlons
were scattered never to be recalled. The
Union blast sounded from Name to the
Pacific States was the death knelI of the
Democracy, and of brigadier rebedom.
and Tuesday, the day that was surrounded
with gloomy forebodngs has left halo
whose brightness will ilumine the his
toriC page of the Republican party.