St. Landry democrat., 1884-11-22

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Governor Cleveland is elected Pres
ident of the United States. We
know also that an attempt will be
made to cheat him Of his victory.
We feel assured that no such at
tempt can succeed.
At this moment, it is hard to re-
&lize that the struggle is over. The
hand still holloWs itself to the
sword-hilt the ear still rings with
the familiar battle-cry tired mus
cles still spring into nervous tension
at a word. Harder yet is it to
grasp the fact that a victory has
been won more important, more
sweeping in its effects than We had
dared to hope for. For we must
look not only to the immediate and
visible results of our work. What
has been done reaches deeper. We
believe that to-day the men who
have given themselves over for three
months to this pernicious madness
are heartily and truly ashamed of
themselves, and sincerely glad that
their folly has miscarried. Coming
to their senses, now that the bewil-
dering din is over, they see the mis-
chief that they SO nearly brought
upon us and they are thankful,
whether avowedly or in their secret
hearts, to the men who fought and
conquered them.
Every man of them must wish, IN
his heart, that he had been with us
through the fight. Hard and cruel
as these FIVE months have been,
they have given US glory that even
our repentant foes can never share.
When the insult Of Blaine's nomina-
ton was offered us on that Wretched
day in June, the cry went through
the land, from the few brave souls
that had fought and failed at Chi
cago-"W Who's for the Right p It'll
was the application of the touch
stone. Who's for the Right?
Who's for the Right? The cry
was answered. Here and there
arose a man who was not afraid to
meet the storm Of abuse and out
rage. It was but as two or three
gathered together in the name of
honesty but a spirit was with them
that gave power to their hands and
courage to their hearts. They were
called traitors and Pharisees.
Every name Of obloquy that brutal
arrogance could find was hurled at
them. If they had been outlaws or
conspirators against the public
good, they would have Jared better.
And yet they had banded together
in the unselfsh desire to save the
nation they loved from an ineradica
BILE disgrace.
All through the weary, hopeless
Summer months the little band
toiled on, in spite Of jeers and
curses. Day by day brought slow
accessions to the ranks, and as their
power grew, the bitterness Of their
enemies increased. They were as
sailed with new forms Of vitupera-
ton and Misrepresentation. They
saw around them needless people
led by bowling demagogues to their
own destruction. How great how
seemingly impossible was the task ,
Of turning back that mad crowd
The people had closed their eyes to
wisdom and their ears to reason.
They had hardened their hearts
against the living truth; they were
after false gods. And with
the spirit of the olden prophets in
them, these men whom they insult
ed and cast out and evilly intreated
Iabored with them night and day
argued, pleaded, expostulated. !
Sooner or later, here or there, they
won man to listen to them and
brought him over to aid them. The
time grew shorter. The dema-
gogues shouted louder, and the
blind people quickened their pace.
The cry Of danger only maddened
hem, and they pushed onward, !
drawing nearer and nearer to fall
rom which they might never arise.
Only by a hairsbreadth have they
oeen checked on the very verge Of !
lishonor. And there are madmen !
enough yet, we do not doubt, to