New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-08
THE PEOPLES VERDICT.

The people have decided for the Republican
party after four years Of Democracy IN the
White House. Every fraudulent pretence upon
which Mr. Cleveland was supported as Re
former, all the cant of his friends about nom
partisanship in the public service, all their
sham zeal for publication of the Government
have been made contemplate and odious IN
popular estimation by the conduct of MIR. Cleye-
lands Administration. A single term Of ex-
perience under Democratic Sham Reformer
vas enouob. and more than enough. The
President himself, and the choice assortment of
disloyalists scamps, jail-bilds, and political
knaves whom he has placed in Office instead
of loyal trained and faithful public servants,
will retire into obscurity. Not by such ma
terial can an intelligent Nation be governed
second term. With them depart from public
consequence the hypOcrites who proiesSed to
be anxious about the purity of the Govern
ment, in order to stab in the back the defend
ers of protection.
The people have decided that the American
policy Of Protection for Home industries shall
stand: that any needed notifications shall be
made by its sincere friends, and not by those
who, under the false pretence OF seeking only
a moderate reform of the tariff, have tried to
break down that policy, and to start the country
on the road toward English free trade.
For months the most effective helpers Of the
liquor interest have been those professed tenn
perance men who deprived the Republican can
didates of the electoral votes they lost at the
North, and who struggled hard TO turn over
many others to the Democratic party. Honest
and brave Republicans of Newly rk passed a
license bill, and were rewarded in the defeat
of Mr.. Miller by the conduct of professed tenn
perance men, who helped to re-elect the Gov
ernor by whom that measure was vetoed.
Honest and brave Republicans in NeW-Jersey
passed a Local Option law, and were rewarded
by delivery of the electoral votes OF the state
to a free-trade candidate, and by the defeat
of legislative candidates who were obnoxious
to the saloon interest. The result will make
third party Prohibtionists everywhere recog-
nized as the allies of the rum-shops
The Democrats proposed g. campaign OF
education," and there is not the least doubt
that the people have been educated to a notable
extent They have learned enough not to trust
a person as a Reformer who picks ont such men
as Thompson and Higgins as chief instruments
in the work. They have learned enough not
to call bill measure Of " moderate tariff re-
FORM" which English manufacturers shout over
as a free-trade triumph. They have learned
that a Prohibitionist who works to help the
rum-shOps is not the best friend in the world
of temperance. Let us all be thankful tsat SC
much has been learned. Let us also be thank
full that under the rule Of the Grand Old Party
which has helped the country to become more
honored and powerful, richer and more pros
/ porous, happier in its homes AID more progress
! sive in its institutions, than any other country
on earth, these United States will resume tho
onward and upward march which the election
| OF Grover Cleveland in 1884 partially arrested