Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-11-16
HOW IT HAPPENED.
Chicago Times, Dem.

| Olcu, NONOIuOCl tbt3s 1907, VI al Ofci-
dose of party President. the Republican
party, aged twenty-six years.
Buffalo Express, Ind. Rep.
1t means loyalty to the Republican
principle, to the Republican ides-and
that is loyalty to to the Republican par
ty
Dayton Journal, Rep.
The Republicans will have tremen-
dous lot of repairing of fences in the
next two years if they expect to corrall
the next President.
Kansas City Journal, Rep.
The cause of defeat may be attributed
in a great measure to the wranglings of
the party's leaders. 1t will rally in 1884,
and relegating to private life those who
have permitted their selfishness to bring
disaster upon it, it will enter the contest
under new leadership and with deter
mination to regain its lost power.
Buffalo Com. Advertiser, Stalwart Rep.
Firmly do we believe that in less than
twelve months the great majority of the
Republicans yesterday acceded to the
surrender of the party's strong position
will bitterly regret that they listened to
the advice of treason, and that they were
deluded into looking upon treachery and
revolt as reform and publication.
Chicago Tribune, Rep.
Can the Republicans of 1882 exercise
the same courage. the same earnest en-
deavOr and accomplish the same results
in 1884 that their associates did in 1876 ?
Let them begin by cutting loose from
the corrnptions of the past; let them
peremptorily crush out all bossism, and
let them organize again as a purified
party for the victory in 1884.
Chicago Inter Ocean, Stalwart Rep.
just so. Let the bands begin to play
The old fogies who voted for Lincoln
and Grant have been rebuked. They
feel keenly the defeat of the party Tkey
voted for the ticket, and they deserve
all they have received. Kick the mand
cuff them, and then, when the time
comes, ask them, for the love of the old
party, to fall into line and help pull the
reorganized scheme through.
st. Louis Globe Democrat, Rep.
1t may be said that the Republicans
needed this defeat. They invited it,and |
had it not come the bosses would have |
been very sure to bring it on two years
hence. There will be two strong influ
ences at work to win Republican sue
cess in 1884, namely: the exposition of
their own weakness on the part of the |
Republicans and the demonstrated ne
cessity of correcting them, and the exhi-
bition of Democratic inability TO gov
ern. In fact,this Republican defeat is
pretty good thing if it is only viewed
rightly.
St. Louis Republican, Dem.
The immediate effect upon the Demo-
cratic party will be exultant happiness
and perhaps over confidence, but later
there will be a closer definition of
of principles, especially with reference
to the reformation of the revenue system
and the future financial policy of the
country. Conscious strength will beget
independence of merely local and neces-
sarily irreconcilable interests. Incon-
gruities which have been tolerated in
the leadership and in the declarations of
party beliefs will have to give place to
frank and consistent avowals of the
purposes even at the risk of temporary
and partial defeat.
New York Post. Ind. Rep.
The Republican leaders should indulge
in no delusion about it: the people have
begun to become tired of the Republican
party as it has been for years-tired of
its boss rule and machine methods, tired
of its constant professions of reform
performance, tired of its civil
service while carrying on the scandal of
political assessments, tired of the ex-
tra1agance under its auspices, tired of
its constant plea that an old set of poll
tical tricksters must be kept in power at
the North to secure freedom of the bal
lot at the South. And that disgust the
people expressed at the ballot box yes
lerday.
Cincinnati Gazette, Rep.
What next? Is the Republican party |
lead? Certainly not. But it demands
That its voice shall be needed by the |
President, by Congressman by its leaders. |
Its members, by voting with the Demo I
Gratis, or not voting at all, have protest:
ed against boss rule; the abuse of official t
patronage; against extravaganza, and I
against the continuance of a revenue in
excess of the legitimate wants of the {
Government, economically administer
ID. 1t remains for the President to cast I
,ff the weights that he has been endeav- /
,ring to carry, and to fall fully into line |
with the people and bend all his ener- '
,ies for the rest of his tern to inspire l.
public confidence in his methods and l.
lis purposes. At the same time Con- r
.ress should meet in December for work, r.
md by attacking the tariff question ear s
y and vigorously make a record for the
he party. and force its opponents to t
make a record alSO. In the immediate | h
uture the tariff will be the leading is b
ue, and the Republican Congress should e
axe the lead in revising the system and u
eeing that American industries are h
airly and reasonably protected. With t;
he dethronement of bossism and the
doptiou of reforms called for by the q
'eople. the Republicans of the country |,
will reunite, and purged of the abuses Fl
hat have weighed the party down, t,
march again to victory. "
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The Slave Trade on the Nile. .
Swedish missionaries in Nubia report n
hat they have lately experienced much ii
pposition from the Egyptian agents
nd officers in the upper Nile Valley, Il
ccount of their hatred of the slave
rade. A very extensive slave trade is tC
arried ON by Egyptian and Turkish
lerchants in the region south and west fs
f the Blue Nile. Troops of negroes
re brought northward in chains. Those CT
lho prove too weak for the journey are
ither abandoned without mercy to per-
'h from hunger or wild beasts, or their p,
rivers at once kill them.
The girls are sold to the harems of al