The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-11-21
The official vote of Pennsylvania
gives Blaine n majority of sl,0l9,
The Country is Safe,

II is natural that the more enthusi-
astic supporters of Mr. Blaine should
now take rather gloomy view of the
prospects of the country for the four
years beginning with the fourth day of
March next. To the older Republi
cans IN particular it will seem for
while as if everything was going to
rack and ruin The Republican party
came into power IN a time so stormy,
and excited from the irst so eager u
devotion among its members, that they
can hardly imagine it should ever be
allowed TO go ont of power or that its
defeat should not be Injurious to pub
lie interests.
The great collection of bummers and
camp followers which tagged after the
Republican party while it was victor.
ions, will be pretty sure TO fall away
from it now that it is beaten. Old
principles and old attachments do not
trouble these people, and If the scent
Of the loaves and fishes comes from the
Democratic quarter, they will be pretty
sure to start in that direction. But the
old Republicans, many OF them the
survivors of the Liberty men and the
Free Soilers, will not take things so
easily; aud in the country towns all
sorts of Republicans, except the young
mer, will have, perhaps, for the next
three months little of the alarm and
anxiety which the respectable old Fed
craliss had in 1900 at the time OF JEFF
ferson's first election.
OF course, the feeling of the Repub
lcans is good deal slighter than that
of the Federalsts was, but it is just as
absurd. In fact, it is more absurd, for
the folly of supposing that the good or
the bad elements of po|itc' and nation
al life are confined to any one political
party, and are not about equally dis
tributed among all parties, ought to be
more evident after the Government
has been administered by various par.
ties for nearly hundred years than
the similar folly was to the Federal
ists of 1900, who had only seen the
Government conducted by themselves,
But something of the feeling survives,
and manifests itself in the spprehen-
sions which some Republican journals
and men of business have of bad
times, which are to come in some indie
Unable way, from the fact that by a
narrow plurality the Democrats have
elected President.
But, good gentlemen of the mourn
ing and prophetic mien, what of it 7 II
the Democrats are the ogres you seem
to suppose they are, and are bent on
eating up the national prosperity, flesh,
blood, and bones, how can they do it !
IL the Democratic House of Represen-
tatives bent on doing something very
detrimental and atrocious The Re-
publicans in the Senate will save the
country in that case; and we suppose
also that they won't confirm any bad
appointments which may be made by
the Democratic Executive In fact,
they may possibly refuse to confirm
good appointments. The Senate will
be Republican till 1887 in any event,
and if the President and Democrats in
the House should do anything very
foolish, the elections of 1856 will go
the other way pretty conclusively.
1t is, OF course. too early to conjec-
ture what the Democratic President
will do, but we would respectfully re-
mind all heavy-spirted Republicans
that, unless the next House of Repre-
sentatives is very unlike its recent pred
ecessors, the Democrats in it will be
found contending under men like Ran
dali and Holman for rigid economy of
appropriation and administration, and
will be opposed and obstructed by the
Republicans in the Senate. And the
thick-aud thin Republicans whose fears
we are trying to allay, will probably
support the Senate in its attempt to
make the appropriations as extrava-
giant as possible
Unless the Republicans and Demo
Gratis both 90 wrong, it is hard to see
why the Government should not be
fairly well managed till 1887. So we
entreat our ssddened Republican
friends to smile once more. Perhaps
they will beat the Democracy in 1886
Perhaps they will carry the country in
1883, and perhaps they won't before
1883 but they certainly don't deserve
to get another election till every moth
ers son of them realizes that the Con-
stitution ia not going to be dumped
into the Potomac because there is a
Democratic President in the White
House, and another Democratic House
of Representatives in the Capitol
This country is all right, and its safety
doesn't depend upon keeping any par
ticular party in power.-N Y. Sun.