The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-11-22
A REPUBLICAN VICTORY.
That is the View which the Pioneer Press
Take of the Elect1on.-How that
Paper Puts It.

THE republican party has won one OF
the grandest victories OF modern times.
It is a great thing to conquer an enemy
in fair and open fight, but it is a thous-
and-fold greater to rise superior to self.
For the first time in the political history
Of the United States, great party has
unfalteringly applied the knife to the
cancerous sores that were sapping It's
vitality; has risen in its might and de-
clared that it will neither perish nor live
only to serve the selfish purposes OF un-
scrupulous men; has proved to the peo-
ple its title to new confidence, by de-
votion unsurpassed to pure and lofty
ends. A month ago the republican
party, tolerant ofevils, open to reproach,
and outwardly forgetful OF its one great
mission, was apparently Fastening to It's
fall. TO day it rises in new might to
declare itself still the instrument OF good
government and the embodiment of the
spirit of reform. It has removed ali
cause Of cayi and deodorized the places
which its corrupt camp-tollowers had
befouled by long occupation. It comes
now before the country with prestige
which nothing can weaken. 1t has
claim upon the confidence OF the repub~
lie which no other organization i'll its
history has ever been able to boast. The
vote of Tuesday ensures beyond reason
able question the eelection ofa republican
president in 1884.
It is q proper subject for congratula-
ton that there is no possibility OF mis-
taking the significance of these returns.
When the people want to read leaders
and parties lesson, it usually happens
that there is something incomplete
about il; some plausable pretext on
which the defeated can plead not guilty.
| by attributing their misfortunes to the
faults or iolies of others, and whenever
| they can thus shirk their responsibility
a great part Of the moral effect Of the
| lesson is lost. This time such misinter-
preta1ion is impossible. EaEt and west,
| democrats and republicans. unite in de-
claring that the blow which has fallen
was aimed st the machine and the sins
Of the machine Tt was "bossism,' - the
/ system which, mainly by the use of fed
eral patronage, aims to wrest party gov
ernment from the control Of the people
and hand it over to little clique OF un-
scrupulous managers, chosen by natural
selection for their power to do evil, and
endowed with the right to name their
own successors forever, which was on
trial and which has 80 utterly and igno-
miniously fallen. The people knew ano
understood the issue. 1t is because they
knew and understand the significance
of the result, that yesterday was through
out the union day of republican jubila
ton, day which brought to thoughtful
democrats no promise for the future.
A map indicating the result Of Tues
davis work would show, with the clear
ness of weather chart, that, almos
without exception, the storm circle wa
lensest where the machine was most ag
gressive; and that where the machine
was non-existent or feeble, there wer
fair or only threatening skies. Th'
Northwest holds it's own. That genera
disaffection which was caused by SOM
features Of the last session of congress
was felt, of course, more or less in al
sections.
But it is upon New York and Penn
sylvania that the Whirlwind broke il
, all its fury. The Cameron machine wa
the type of all that Republicans hav
learned to hate and resist. 1t was tn
strongest ever seen in any State, and
a is laid in ruins. There was but one issu
, and that has been fought out to the bi
ter end. It was in New York, however
that the interest of the nation centeree
because there not only are the bosses 8
once most insolent and most contempt
q bic. but also there new element entere
! into the contest. The federal admini
! tration had thrown itself into the fgh
i | to put the state in the hands of that no.
t machine known as the president
f party And it was justly felt that th
! attempt of the president to interfere i
!. the affairs of q State, to dictate its of
d GERS and personally superintend its cal
i vass, was as dangerous as it was unpr
d cedented Once let national machiI
d be established, with branch machin'
Z in every State, and self-governmel