Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-21
SPIRIT OF THE NEW YORK PRESS.

The Sun: Abraham Lincoln's speech on
the battlefield of Gettysburg is one of the
noblest utteranees of the human mind, and
one OF its ~sentencesis quoted in the Courier
Journal as the chief motto OF the newly
elected Democratic President. This Is 8
noteworthy coincidence. Lincoln was a
Republican, and in two memorable contests
the Democracy ~strenuously but yainly strug-
gled 10 defeat him. Yet here we ind a
Democratic journal Of our own day, con-
Quoted BY . former Confederate officer, now
proclaiming, as the supreme law Of its sue
cessful candidate for the Presidency, the
most striking expression of the same Repub.
Gcsn. Is a political millennium at hsnd2 Is
the difference between these great contend
ing parties after all so slender that a maxim
of the one may be the inspiration Of the
other?
The Times: Mr.. Blaine took the ocea-
sion Of q serenade at Augusta last evening
intended as a personal compliment by his
own townsmen, to deliver the most bitter
and mischieyous sectionalism speech that
has been heard in the North for many a
day. The anguish of defeat seems to have
exlnguished all the generous sentiment
which he professed to have when he penned
his letter Of acceptance; or rather, 1t shows
that sentin cnt was paraded in the hope OF
winning Southern votes, n having failed
in that he shows his real temper. lie be-
Titles the Northern influence that contrlbu-
ted 10 his defeat and treats the result as q
transfer Of the control OF the Government
to the South. which he processes to be-
lieye is fraught with misfortune to the
country.
The Tribune: The late election will
proye to be one Of those that settle nothing;
Il unsettles much. 1t is time to have Off
cially established the truth about elections
in the Southern States. Ii there Is IN
every one Of these States an honest major
ity on q full and free election, and with a
fair count, against the Republican party, 1t
il time this should be known. If on the
other hand there is ground for the prevail
ing belief that selfgoycrument does not ex-
isf in reality in several Southern States, 1t
~ time to have that fact known and TO con
slider what the Constitution means when u
states Congress shall guarantee to every
State q Republican form Of government.
II is not worth while to consider what rem
edies are at command until the
facts have been placed inteligently
before the country in official form.
The Herald: We believe that no patriotic
citizen, be he Republican, Democrat, PEG.
ple's party man or Prohibihonist, will read
the speech Blaine made at Augusta last
night without thanking God most feryently
for the delivery of the people Of the United
States from the danger and disgrace OF
having such a ~demagogue and ~inceudisry
for. their Presidezt. 1t is the first Instance
in which q Presidential candidate maddened
BY defeat has tried to inOculate his country
with sectional passions in revenge tor Its
choice of another man. Unless We under,
estimate the patriotism of the people North
and South, they will greet it with such
scornful 2 everywhere that it will be
the last instance as well as the first, and
no future disappointed miscreant will dare
defy the warning.
The World: Blsine's revenge in the hour
of his defeat and humiliation is to excite dis
trust of the people Of the South and fan
anew the slumbering embers of sectional
ism. His speech at Augusta last night was
an attempt TO alarm the people of the
North. He said nothing that Republican
stumpers and ~demagogues Of the bloody
shirt school have not been saying for years.
II will deyolve upon the Democratic admin
i~strstion Of Mr.. Cleveland to give the lie to
Mr.. Blaine and his fellow slanderers, and
this will be done.
The Sun: A good many conspicuous 6g
ures in the present House Of Representa-,
tives will 20 out next March. There are
more than one hundred and thirty members
of the Forty-eight Congress who viii not re,
appear in the Forty-ninth. Some Of these
have achieved distinction on the floor and
in the business of Legislation; some have
gained national reputation as euriositieS;
and there are q few whose departure will
be q source Of satisfaction to all friends oi
honest government, irrespective of party,
Among the members who depart at the
end of the short session are Gen. Rosecrans
of California, the veteran William W. Eaton
of Connecticut, Judge Payson Of Illinois.
prominent in connection with the landgrant
forfeiture question, WI. Cslkins ~ofIudiana
who has not the consolation that would have
been his if the people Of Indiana had elected
him Governor week before last William ID.
Washburn of Minnesota, Frank Hurd, the
Democratic free trader, and George /. Con,
verse, the Democratic proteetiOnist of Ono.
John Hancock Of Texas, Judge Poland OF
Vermont, with bis old blue coat aa1 brass
buttons. the amisble Prussian, Deuster OF
Wisconsin, and MeSSrs John Hardy Or
lando b Potter. Waldo Hutchias. William
+. Robinson and William Dorsheimer al
OF New York.