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treachery of the mugwumps, was sufficient,
as the result shows, 10 have accomplished
this result, though, as TO most Of these
fellows the party is better off without than
with them. even in New York; the exceed
ingly suicidal course of the political Pro-
hbitionists was another factor in the
problem; the Delmonico and the Bruins
wick banquets and the impression to which
they gave rise, and the weak and foolish,
as well as perfectly inexcusablc utterance
of broken down old man, all had their
influence On class of unthinking voters
and turned thousands from Blaine at the
last moment. The result is, If not saved
by Republican Senate, the interests of
American working men are trampled in
the dust.
BY aid of these agencies Cleveland has
been planted in the White House, and
through him the great Democratic party is
once again in power He has been elevat-
ed to this position by combinations which
are incOhesve and which will soon fall to
peces as the result of mutual distrust.
Official plumber, not principal, inspired to
action the great body of his folio wers. Be
hind him stands the solid South determin-
ed to reap the reward of their fidelity to
borbounsm. and the rascality and in
humanity of shot gun and ballot box stuff
ing policies; these are determined to break
their long fast by prolonged feast at the
doors Of the public treasury Behind him
stands all there is of the Democratic party
in the North, resolved, come what may, to
fill the offices from their ranks. Behind
both these stand the Judases of the Re-
publican party who boldly affirm that they
are 10 shape the policy Of the Admlnistra-
ton; but who in the future will learn they
have no more influence with the Democrat
c President they made, than they have in
the counsels of the Kingdom of Heaven
and their advice is sure to be treated with
as much contempta as was that of the Devil by
the Saviour of Mankind, on the mountain,
in Palestine. This is the position of the
country-this the political prospect which
opens to lay to the American people. This
is the field that ouropponents have planted
What the harvest will be II IS not difficult
to predict.
The election Of Grover Cleveland DIES
not place in The Presidency a man of
ability, man of experience or man pos
sessed of u sound judgement. There is no
question about these facts; nor any, that
no man ever went into The Presidential
Chair with so few qualifications To fill with
honor to himself or for the good of the
people that position. He is not either a
statesman or an able politician. All his
life he has been an accident. To pose him
before the people as reformcr is an insult
to their intelligence that will not down. OF
him the Boston Globe, the leading DEM
ocratic paper in New England, on the 1st
day of July last, said: mo inflated or
watered stock need De presented to The
Democracy for its suffages. A man of
mere local reputation cannot be transform
ed by the convention to man of national
Importance Yet this will be done if
Cleveland is nominated"
Yes, and that is precisely what was done
at Chicago. A fifth rate lawyer who
through a combination of circumstances
stumbled into the Governorship of New
York, was raised above all the old party
leaders, and his nomination actually forced
upon the convention by strikers and COR
rupt politicians who are a curse to any
party. These men, for they were of the
inner circle, knew their man. his calibre.
his habits, his scope, his character, and
they saw in him one who could be con-
trolled for purposes of their own, hence
his nomination
The Republicans have come out of the
contest without bartering their principles
or leaving stain on the glorious record
the party has made. Its gallant leader
uttered no word. from the day he sent out
his mastery letter of acceptance until he
closed his wonderful campaign in Boston
on the evening of the 3D. Of November,
that even his enemies could distort into an
improper use. No man ever lived who
stood up more manfully before the attacks
of men who seemed determined not only
to. crush him politically, but to carry ir.
reparablc grief into the Sacred precincts of
his home life He has been bounded as
no man running for the Presidency was
ever bounded before, and yet we see him
to-day, in the face Of defeat, calm and res.
olute, accepting the result without MUIR
muir, higher in the esteem of his unfinch
ing supporters, stronger in popular estim-
alton and more deeply seated in the
affections OF the people than when he was
first nominated at the Chicago convention.
The Presidential prize is lost to him, but
ne has triumphed because OF the continued
support of the millions who honor and
respect him, as no other American of to.
day is honored and respected.
AS the result of the election the Repub-