Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-11-08
THE NATIONAL BIRD,
SUCCESS OF THE NATIONAL
DEMOCRATIC TICKET

The great struggle is at last ended.
The terrible suspense of the last three
DAVIS has terminated. Cleveland and
Hendricks are elected. There seems no
longer a doubt of this. Our dispatches
indicate that many of the leading Re-
publicans and Republican journals OF
New York give up the contest. Jay
Gould, MI. Blaine's strongest and most
substantial supporter in the Empire
State, sends a message congratulating
Gov. Cleveland on his election. Senator
German. Chairman OF the Democratic
National Executive Committee, issues an
address in which he declares that the
plurality of Cleveland and Hendricks
reaches 1900. These evidences, as well
as the returns sent out by the Associated
Press, seem to be conclusive of the whole
case.
But as was to have been expected, the
Republican managers and politicians do
not surrender cheerfully. They cry out
fraud and allege that New York has not
been carried fairly. The weak point in
this declaration is the absence of specific
charges. If they had any reasonably
good ground ON which to base it they
would hardly fail to state the facts fully.
All such talk may therefore be treated
as the result of disappointment and dis
missed as entirely idle and unfounded.
We are sorry that the election was so
close. This leaves room for %squabbling
in the final count. But we do not appre-
bend, and none need be apprehended, OF
any change in the expressed will OF the
people as actually recorded through the
ballot boxes. The good sense and patri-
otism Of the American people will not
indorse again in this country any trifing
with the result as ascertained at the
polls. The country has endured one
strain of this character. 1t possibly
might not stand another. 1t would be
the end of popular government were ii
to come to pass that the majority could
not rule. The permanency and stability
of our Republican institutions is of far
greater Importance than the failure OF
success Of any political party.
And besides there are no absorbing
political questions before the people at
this time. There is not o single national
issue between the great parties. TIE
change is merely in the personnel Of the
government. Under these circumstance
the change must necessarily be practi.
cally imperceptible. In a week after
President Cleveland is inaugurated the
great mass Of people will hardly be able
to realize that there has been . change
Of administration. The government
will 60 on just as though nothing had
happened, and the people will devote
themselves to their usual avocationi
without a thought Of the administration
Of the affairs Of the country having
passed into the hands of the Democracy
Certainly, individuals in many instances
will be affected, but the people generally
will not feel the change. President
Cleveland will give the country q wise,
safe and conservative administration.
He is a man Of the very highest order Of
irmness and official integrity. His
motto is to do right regardless Of con
sequences. In . word he is strong and
courageous in his own convictions.
This characteristic is worth all else in
public servant, and President Cleveland
will be found to possess it in a more
striking degree than any man who has
appeared in public life in many years in
this country.
The SENTINEL congratulates it's readers
and the country on the success of the
National Democracy in the memorable
struggle now happily closed. 1t believes
that the time had arrived for . change.