The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-11-27

1T was predicted, says the N. Y. Eve
ming Telegram, by those who hoped it
Weuld he so, that il Mr. Cleveland
were elected, the financial interests OF
this country would go TO irretrieVabfs
ruin in the twinkling of an eye. This
prediction was made with such fire
quency and sneh emphasis that some
of the Democrats preferred bad times
under Blaine to the possibility of no
times at all under a change of policy.
Real estate was to sink out of sight.
and the beautiful grass of early Spring
was to decorate Fifth Avenue; the
busy drayman who makes Broadway
cheerful with his resOnnding team and
vociferous Oaths, was to sell his horses
for mere song and retire to q corner
room in the county wOrkhOuse to
spend the remnant of his days. The
confidence of the community, ON which
our business interests rest, aud which
has been SO shaken during the last fl
years that if man happened to have
AL extra dollar he dug a hole and bu.
ried it where neither he nor any one
else could ever find it, was to be so ut
terly destroyed that the whole nation
would pant with exhaustion and then
die of financial collapse.
1t was not particularly enticing
prospect which was supposed to be
opening up in the immediate future.
Mr.. Blaine went through the country
singing this dirge to the crowd at ev-
cry railroad station, and making pa
thetic appeals for votes, on the ground
that our manufactures would all be
closed and countless workmen thrown
out of employment, and Dead Sea
stagnation prevail everywhere il .
rough and Democratic hand we're laid
OH the Republican regime.
Two facts, however, were in the peO-
ple's minds, and they stayed there in
spite of Mr.. BIaine's eloquence: First,
that Republican policy, untrammel-
led by opposition, and with an open
field in which to show its mettle, had
ended in financial disaster instead of
prosperity. Every city town and ham,
let on the continent was complaining
of the lack of business. No one knew
where to put his money, if he had any, /,
and no one knew where or how to
make any, if he had none, for the sup
port of his family-a very ugly fact.
when one considers that the country
is rich, and brimming over with re-
sources. Second, that the constant
assertion that the Democrats, who
were also suffering under the general
paralysis, and who would profit by
better times AS much as others, wanted
to get hold of the Government only to
ruin it, WAS gratuitons insalt to y
very Important body of American cit
iZens. These two facts were so Weighty
that the people determined on the
hazard of Il change of administration,
and they effected that change in sober
judgment and out of love for the gen
eral welfare. About this there can be
no honest doubt.
And what will he the result, it may
be too early to prophecy. But one
thing is patent, namely, that our bu-
siness affairs are beginning to feel
quickeniug impulse. Wall street, the
pulse of America, has felt the change
of air already, and is getting Oh its
feet again. The brokers have not been
so cheerful for months as they are to-
day. The market has some life in it,
and the chances are all in favor Of
higher prices and increased activity.
The less feverish businesses OF the
country will soon follow in the same
direction. and We have an inkling that
the patient has at last got hold of the
right medicine and will rapidly be-
come cOnvalescent. We made no mis-
take when we sent the old doctor away
and called in new one.
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