Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-11-20

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A SOLID. HONEST, UNTRAMMELLED
REBEL YELL
GROVER CLEVELAND Is OUR NEXT PRES
IDENT
THE DEMOCRACY Is ON TOP AT LAST !
ALL DOUBTS DTSPELLED.
GLORIOUS CERTAINTY
NO MORE TROUBLE FOR THE SOLID SOUTH
NO MORE SCALLAWAG OR CARPET-BAG
GOVERNMENT
YELL
YOU SOLID WHITE MEN AND HONEST
DEMOCRATS
YELL
WE HAVE A DEM CRATIC PRECEDENT AT
LA-Tl
The town went wild last night. A torch
light procession of democrats paraded the
streets bonfres were set blazing, cannon
roared. the city hall bell rang out the glori
Gus news. and all the factory whistles blew.
creating \ splendid din, and mngling with
the increasing yells of the triumphant democ.
racv. who crowded Main st. aud listened at
half dozen different stands to speakers she
were hanled from the crowds and put up to
talk and to swell the enthusiasm which burst
all restraints of dignity and every trammel of
custom.
lnere are no WOruS 10 express the present
emotions of the democrats of the South. and
! there is no use trying to find them. We
hoped that after the first flush of victory had
passed and the delightful shock of triumph
was lessened by time and familiarity we could
frame some coherent sentences to tell how
The News and the vast majority of its read
ers think and feel But we give it up. The
/ occasion is too great to be measured by
words the Joy ia too wild aud magnificent to
| be shap ped and pressed into written or spoken
/ phrases There ia only one thing for it only
one method to meet the requirements of the
/ time. That is to go ont where there is an
/ abundance of room and plenty of free, elastic.
/ pure air, and with head thrown back, swing.
( ing hat. distended mouth and the throttles of
/ the throat wide open to utter a series of clear
| resonant, ear piercing rebel wells which will
/ send the atmospheric sound waves laden with
I triumph and JOY rolling and vibrating through
streets and over fields and hills until they
break and die among the remotest echoes
/ For three DAYS conflicting emotions of hope
/ and fear. JOY and anguish. have been tearing
democratic breasts, and they have produced a
/ cyclone of feeling which cannot be controlled
mod rated or limited There is no proper
EXPRESSION of our feelings except the
wild esr-piercing, scattering wells natural
. IN southern threats aud developed
/ bv experience under the Southern Coufed
eracv and in 1876 The rotten, debased
prosttuted and tyrannical republican party i.
overthrown, and the bearer of its black anC
threatening flag is PROSTATE under the mos
terrible rebuke ever given a human being
/ The splendid, clean, glorious democracy. the
party of the people and the party of peace
ard good feeling is victorious The scala.
wags and carpet bsggers who are now hold.
ing the radical party of the South together
must GO The white men who have sold out
their principles, and abandoned their race
bee use they believed the republican party
would retain power forever, will be laugh
that they have received less than a mess o
pottage, and will be forced to do honest work
! or left TO starve, under the indignant scorn o.
the democrats who have faithfully stood By
their party aud principles through years O
doubt and disaster. and now gloriousl,
triumph. Cleveland is elected President
The long night is over The reign of tn,
carYt Dagger and the scallawag. of the whit,
traitor and the black striker is over. foreve
and forever, This white mans country il
going to be ruled by white men, and tn
South is going to have boom like that Of
California in lS49
1 Yell,