Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-11-15
4 Solid UpIOU.

AS thesmoke of partisanship rolls from
the political field, it becomes more
evident that Cleveland's election has
been for the best interests of the country.
In his support, ranged side by side,
stood the great Democratic party and
the Independent Republicans who be
lieved that Mr.. Blaine's success would
be national calamity. 1t is not going
too far to say that the two represented
the best leaven of American citizenship.
Not that the Republican party contained
only the worst elements Of the popula
tion, for it has in its ranks many pure
and able men. But their prestige was
lost in the bad cause which they advo-
Gated, since no pleader can hope for per-
manent success when his pleas are not
founded on the immutable principles of
right. They had closed their eyes to
Blaine's criminal shortcomings and
sought to divert the people from the real
issue before them, administrative reform.
The result shows that the false lights on
the shore did not lead the voter astray.
But the most gratifying outcome of
Mr. Cleveland's success lies In the
promise that the thirty nine states Of
the Union will be drawn into closer
brotherhood. The cry Of solid South
against solid North has been heard for
the last time. TOa intelligent students
o. hissory il must have been long evi
dent that the South could have no hope
OF fair treatment from the Republican
party. The carpet bag governors wear.
ing the Republican livery and the Re-
publican machine below Mason and
Dixon's line in the hands Of the
Kellogg's, the Chalmers, the Cashes, the
Mahones, Ct id omne genus left a bad
taste in the mouth of the Southern
voter which required more than the
average loss Of memory to forget. And
the warm recognition of these political
guerillas given by the party in power
seemed to argue that they wished to
keep solid Democratic South as club
to drive the Northern states into the
Republican line.
Bat, happily, for the best interests Of
the common country, the sectional line
promises to be soon lost. Instead of a
solid South and solid North, there will
be solid Union. Despite the frantic
attempts of bitter Republican organs
like the Philadelphia Press and the New
York Tribune to fire the Northern heart,
the great Republican states of Michigan,
Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Massachusetts,
Kansas and Illinois have shown their
confidence in Democratic rule by total
reduction in their party majorities of
2i3,000. The scales have fallen from the
eyes OF the people and they have honestly
voted to bury dead issues of the past and
to begin the work of laying the founda-
lions of the Union on "a base broader
than ever before. And the South
stands ready to join hands with her
onee separated brethren Of the North In
the work. To her Cleveland's election
meant a resurrection, and the most ex-
travaganr conduct over Democratic
success might have been pardoned.
Yet during the whole of the dreadful
suspense in which the country has been
kept for the past ten days by Republi
can manipulation, not an incendiary
ulterance has escaped her. Though
viiely aspersed by the Republican presi-
DENTAL candidate In his Fort Wayne
speech, no outburst of hatred from her
added to the humiliation Of Blaine's
defeat. She has bided her time, feeling
certain that "truth crushed to earth
will rise again." and with a calm
assurance, unmindful Of petty sectional
flings, that with President Cleve,Snd's
administration will begin an era ending
Ia Q union OF the states solid for all time
to come.