The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-11-13
THE RESULT STILL UNKNOWN.

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THE RESULT STILL UNKNOWN.
Both parties are still claiming New
York, on which the Presidential elec.
tion turns. and the result can only bo
Uetermined by the official count. This
has been evident to every sane man
since Friday last. The count began by
counties on Tuesday aud the result
may not he known in full for several
days yet. r..
The air is full of opinions as to tho
outcome. It is claimed that there can
be no fraud perpetrated in New York,
that no party can steal that State, and
so on. But there can be legal contests
dragging their slow length along for
months. Meanwhile, the business of
the country must sympathize with the
political uncertainty, and enterprises
of ''great pith and moment will wait
for settlement one way or the other.
THE SPIRIT OF THE DEMOCRAcY
The spirit manifested by the Democ-
racy in celebrating victory which is
not yet known to be theirs, and in cele-
brating it with inhammatory speeches
and threats in nearly every important
city, is in every way to be deplored.
They simply claim that Cleveland is
elected upon unofficial returns, they as
sert that is so and that it shall be so,
and that they have been beaten out of
the Presidency once and do not propose
to be beaten again. This is essentially
the spirit Of the old rebels who could
not submit to be beaten without bring
ing on a war. They say, virtually, I'VE
must have the Presidency, fairly and
honestly if we can-but we must have
the Presidency"
Now, if all their talk and their
threats had come after the contest had
really been decided and there had been
any peg to hanga claim of fraud on,
we might finl some excuse for these
Democratic Hotspurs, who seem sud-
denly to have been possessed and pb-
sesstd by the old Rebel spirit. But to
howl, and threaten, and celebrate, and
talk war and boodshed before the mat.
ter is settled, is both assinine and
criminal! Every sane man ought to
deplore the utteralces Of such men as
Manning and Doug',erty, and yet they
have to Il great extent been re-echoed
throughout the country.
Considering the unfortunate close
ness Of the result, and the spirit of the
Democracy, we look for trouble, not
because there is necessity for it, not
because it is IN the issue itself, but be-
cause there are numbers Of men who
will make it.
A SOLID SOUTH AND Il DIVIDED
NORTH
The ADVANCE insisted from the be-
ginning of the campaign of 1884 that
there were but two great issues or
questions in the campaign, viz: ~
Shall the Democracy rule again by
means Of a Solid South and a divided
North? (2)Shall the magnificent devel.
oplnent policy of the Republican party
be abandoned?
There were host of minor issues
raised, out these were the two great,
overshadowing, all-important ques-
tiOns for the people to decide.
The election was 50 close that the
whole matter turns on few votes in
New York.
We have Solid South which is Ger.
tain to he kept solid for the Democracy
by fair means or foul, and we have u
divided North.
Notwithstanding all that has been
said against Grover Cleveland. we be-
lieye him to be one of the most honora-
ble, and, in public matters, one OF the
most upright and purest of our public
men. But he will be wax in the hands
of his party. The Southern element,
the old Bourbon Democracy, is sure to
rule again, and to do so by reason of a
Solid South.
II Cleveland is seated, we can set our
political and national clocks back a
fifth of a century, and, politically
speaking, again submit our necks to
the Southern Yoke.
If the Democracy, in the event of
their coming into power, are wise
enough to continue the Development
Policy inaugurated by the Republicans,
we shall still have our material pros
perity left to a great extent, but if the
old Free Trade Cotton. Slavery ideas
and elements are allowed to dictate the
policy Of the party, then ''woe is me,'
and you, and the whole country.
We 90 not of course mean that Sla-
very can be restored or that the old
state of. things, the old regime, can be
reestablished. But we do mean that
Southern rule can be restored by means
of a Solid South, and that the material
development of the country can be ar
rested. by change of administration.
The Senate for the present remains Re.
publican, and in that will be our pres
ent hope. But that dyke once down,
the Solid South will rule us by her 153
electoral votes
The Minnesota Legislature is report
ed as follows:
Senate-Republieans, So; Democrats,
II.
House Republicans IS; Democrats
II; Independents6