Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-12-18
The Result.

| AOhh was uOt uihutiCipdtou Dy any Wf9c
Republican. While there was = margin
for doubt, "hope sprang immortal in
the breasts of Mr.. Blaine's friends.
But they knew that the chances wert
heavily against them, and they probably
would have been M5fs surprised and
startled than the Democrats II the result
had been different. We now have to
face the fact that Hon. s. Grover Clevs-
land il ,President-elect of the United
States, and u lHok forward to such an
Administration as such man Is hkel,
TO give us.
Speaking first of all as Americans,
and with reference to the honor, the
dignity and the welfare of our
common country, we must express our
sorrow that Democratic victory
has brought us nothing better than
this. There are statesmen, men OF
character and honor, men of long and
in some respects serviceable records in
the leadership of that party. All these
the Democracy passed. by to elect q
cipher, as regards both statesmenship
and personal worth, to the Chief Mag
AotAdCJ Vi liO kiCdbCoO Vi ndliOuSs Ao
posterity scans the list of our Presidents
it will meet more than one name whose
presence there Is puzzle 1t will find
in the accident of death the explanation
of Tyler and johnson. 1t will pause
in wonder at those of Polk and Pierce.
But it will be the most puzzled to know
why a party led by such men as Mr..
Thurman, Mr.. Mcdonald and Mr..
Bayard, passed all these by to find the
man of its choice in Mr.. Cleveland,
1t is just answer that Mr.. Cleveland
was taken, not because his party want
ed him, but because his selection was
urged by the boiling Republicans.
There was that known against him
which otherwise would have made bis
nomination impossible. But the indie
pendents had fallen in love with this
accidental Governor, and he was taken
because of the friends he had made. !"
On the Independents, then, rests the
onus of this selection. We wish them
Joy of it! We have very poor opin-
ion of the understanding and common
sense of any such Independent as does
not look forward with nearly unalloyed
anxiety to the next four years of our
NdllOudl UlSbOI1s We dIO dWuIO bHdJ
with most of them the danger Of rev.
olution in our fiscal policy carries with
it no cause for fear. They generally
are Free Traders, and have as
solid ground of satisfaction that
Mr.. Cleveland and the bulk of
his party agree with them. But
every other consideration tt1tist be G
cause of anxiety to them, They hayg
last stay and support against the opp-
preston which has not stopped at fraud
and terrorism, but has gone on to muir
der. They have transferred the civil
service to the control of party which
has the doctrine of ''the spoils to the
victors" engrained into its very consti-
tuition. They have removed a chief
constitutional safeguard against wild
experiments with our monetary and
banking systems, such as the Demo-
Gratis always have been eager to under
take. They have put back the shadow
on the dial of our history by transferring
the National Executive to party which
does not believe that the United States
is a Nation and which will lose no OPP
portunity of undoing what has been
done to nationalize the country during
and since the war.
If the Democratic hold on power, as
we certainly hope, should last but four
years, the worst consequences of the
present calamity may be ayerted. That
be Republican through the whole of
Mr.. Cleveland's Presidency must be a
comforting consideration to many who
have helped to make him President
But Democrats always have been FAM
Gus for their mastery of the arts by
which power once acquired is held in
spite of the popular resistance. Copiah
County win continue to hold the
Solid South in the Democratic
line. giving their candidate, in 1888,
but forty-eight Northern votes to
secure an election. With the whole
National machinery as well Us the local
machinery Of elections in their hands,
there will be but little difficultf In DIP
plying similar principles at the North.
One thing only is against the contin-
uance of the Democracy in power. 1t
is their capacity for plundering and
laundering. 1t is not unreasonable to
expect within the next four years they
will have made such record for them
selves as will enable the g ps9g s sut t9
an uprising in 1888 as will put it out OF
the question for them to claim the coun-
try either by Copiah County or by Al
bany methods. But there lies the only
hope. A bare-majority, honestly ascer-
tanned and honestly counted, has trans
ferred the Presidency. in 1884. 1t will
not suffice to do so fottt years hence;
unless the Democratic party shall belle
its whole record.
For the Republican party we still can
claim that it is the party of the Ameri-
can people. To it belongs the moral
victory of the year. In the States in
which every citizen is free to vote and
every vote is honestly counted it has an
immense popular and electoral major
ity. 1t submits to resign the insignia
| of power, because it has no Constitu-
tional and peaceful redress against no.
torious wrong-the using Of fraud and
violence in National elections, ~ has
the military resources of the Nation on
| its side. Its voters are the men who
filed the victorious Danks of the Nation
al armies. But it values the peace o.
the Nation above all party advantage,
and it casts itself in confidence on the
future. Philadelphia american.
"A good memory built upon well
made intellectual structure is a noble
blessing, but that same memory Will