Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-10-30
THE VICTORIES.
COngratulatOry Address from the Ma
tiOnaI Republican Committee.

COngratulatOry Address from the Ma
tionaI Republican Committee.
The Republican National Committee
halls in the glorious victories already won
a sure omen of the greater victory that is
close at hand. Vermont is still the star
that never sets. Maine, captured in 1880,
rebukes slander by plurality of 10000,
gain of IL per cent of its entire vote. West
Virginia, in place of II 900 plurality for
Hancock, now falls below 3,OO0-a Republi-
can gain of Z per cent, which kindles hope
that the 153 votes of solid South may be
broken in November. But the result in
Ohio is a revolution and prophecy. Only
a year ago Democratic by $500, and two
years ago by 10000 plurality, Ohio now
gives 10000 plurality for the lowest Re
publican State candidate, and on National
issues 900 for the Republican Congress
men. Holding the State and local offices
and the whole machinery OF elections. the
the Democrats scattered corruption money
with lavish hand, colonized voters. import
ed professional repeaters, and in spite Of
the most strenuous efforts to enforce the
law against them, cast many thousands OF
fraudulent votes. Because of this power
they had chosen to stake all upon that
State, declared that it would foIeshadow
the result in November, and were strongly
certain of success. They filled
the air with slander. Local issues led
many voters to discard national ques-
tious. Against such odds the magnificent
victory is a prophecy of 10000 plurality
for Blaine and Logan in November. With
the ratio of gain in other States, it fore
shadows an increase of 100000 in the Re-
publican national vote, and the largest
popular majority ever given to any candi-
date. These victories show the determlna-
ton of the people that as Lincoln, Grant
and Garfield were slandered in vain, so the
foremost statesman of to-day shall not be
driven from the peoples work by the
tongue of malice. They show that the
Republican party, which was the first to
resist and uproot the dogma of perpetual
allegiance" to foreign power, is chosen by
the Nation to defend all rightsof American
citizens abroad They show that so long
as the Democratic party rests all hope OF
success upon denial of free suffrage in
the Southern States, it will ask in vain the
confidence of any State where free vote is
recorded Dy nOnest count.
BENEFITS OF PROTECTION.
They show that the people will not
abandon the protection of American indus
try, under which the country has gained
twice as much in twenty years as it gained
in all its previous history the protection
of American labor, which has lifted wages
81 per cent higher here than in England.
The people see what stagnatiOn Demo
cratic first firm step toward free trade"
months ago, flushed with victory and
boasting of certain successes, the Demo-
cratic party made no secret OF its blind ad-
herence to British theories of free trade.
Now neither a deceitful platform nor a
dumb candidate avails to check the stam-
pede from the party. For its voters know
that protection has made the rewards Of
labor greater here than in any other coun-
try on earth.
The national committee appeals to the
people to make the victory decisive. 1t is
no time for overconfidence, or for neglect
of any proper effort. Bare success is not
enough It is time to put stop to the
agitation by. which the Democratic party
prostrates business every four years put
an end to the hope that the nation can be
ruled by shotguns in sixteen States and
frauds in two put an end to the villifca-
tiOn of the two foremost champions of
American ideas by men who do not dare
to meet vital issues of national policy.
Make the principles proclaimed by our
matchless leader-"Peace with the world;
commercial expansion in every practical
direction encouragement of every form OF
American industry; protection of every
citizen, native or naturalized, at home or
abroad..-not only triumphant, that the
the splendid prosperity which they pro-
mote shall not again be interrupted by the
struggle of obsolete theories and foreign
interests for the mastery of this continent.
The grandest part of the grandest his
tory every made by any nation is the work
of the Republican party. 1t rests with
yea, Republicans of the nation, to carry
forward the work which you and your
fathers have begun, and to which so many
brave and faithful men have given precious
lives, that government by the people, and
for the people shall be maintained in the
land.
(Sgned) B. F. JONES, Chairman
SAMUEL FEssENDEN, Secretary.
NEW YORK. October Is.
No Fusion.
PITTsBURG, October 23.-Ali ideas OF
fusion between the Democrats and But