The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-11-24
WE COSGRATULATE EVERYBODY.

Elections have been recently held in
thirty-three States. Fifteen voted Tor
Governor, and in thirteen of these the
Democrats were successful Inc Dem
ocrats were successful in electing their
candidates in nearly all the eighteen 9TH
er States. They reduced the regular Re
publican majority IN every one'of them.
For this defeat of the great party of
corruption we congratulate the whole
country. We congratulate the Demo-
Gratis for having, after most aggressive
and creditable campaign, seen their ef-
forts rewarded with success. They are
TO be congratulated on getting what they
wanted and what they deserved.
We also congratulate the Republicans
on the more decent and economical gov
ernment that is bound to follow the abo-
lition of Secor Robson, and a Republi-
can majority iu the House of Represent
tatiyes, that rioted in jobs.and eXtraya-
CANT appropriations, and took its great
est satisfaction IN Kidding the country
of the immense surplus of taxes by
spending it instead of reducing taxation.
And last of all, we extend our sincere
congratulations to the members OF the
Republican press, For the last ten or
fifteen years they have been devoted to
a most .irksome and repugEant task.
They have supported the Republican
party and praised its magnates through
an uneXampled career of corruption
They have stood by and smiled when
jobs and subsidies have, been put thro'
/ Congress. They have repelled all dam
aging charges against their leaders,
laughed at investigations, and have new
|, er withheld their support when party ne
cessity demanded the election of candi-
dates whom twelve honest. men in court
would have sent TO the peniteGtiary,
They ihdulged themselves occasionally
IN a little relaxation by having fling at
SOME dlSgTaced Republican of lesser i'm
pOrtance, but when by the natural de-
yelopment of his party he rose to great
er prominence, and his further success
became question of vital interest to
his political brotherhood, all his sins
were forgiven or ignored, and no former
record of political rascality or personal
corruption prevented him from receiving
the support Of the whole body of Repub-
ltcan journals.
What an emancipation now awaits
our esteemed contemporaries Their
leaders and maste rs have been fearfully
beaten. The great jObbers and eoFrup-
tIonIsts have been most signally punish
ed. Those who have managed to era wi
back into their places in Congress, have
done SO with such scanJy majorities and
in snch diminished numbers that their
power will be scattered and broken, SO
as to work little evil in the presence of
great Democratic majority. Hereaf-
ter the success of the RepubicOn party
will not depend on the elevation of dis
graced villains to office, for the further
success of the party under such leader
ship has been declared impossibl
With what feelings of satisfaction and
rejoicing our esteemed CONTEMPORARIES
regard their relief from such happy
thraldom is best shown by their general
eXultation over the final defeat of Secor
BObesOn. That successful public plumb
ereF goes out of Office in the midst of un-
iverSal denunciation on The part of the
party journals. He would have gone a
little sooner if they could have brought
themselves to regard his nefarious ca
reer with the same enlightenment when
he was in the full tide of prosperity; but
he has gone at last, and all honest men
have reason to be thankful.
Upon the defeat of this scamp car es-
teemed Republican contemporaries are
to Oe congratulated with special earnest.
ness. He was one OF their greatest bur
dens, and they, alike with all of us, VIII
breathe the purer air which must follow
the elimination from politics of such a
source of unalloyed knavery e.
The election of last week was God
send to the whole country, but on no
portion of the community does it fall
with greater benefcence than on the Re-
publican press.-Ne1C York San.