Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-29
MR.. BLAINE ON THE ELECTION.

MIR. BLAINE ON THE ELECTION.
Augusta Dispatch to the Boston Herald.
Jubilant Republicans INDUCED in a
regular jollification Tuesday night in
Augusta over the success of their Ma
tional ticket. Mr.. Blaine's house was
brilliantly Illuminated and decorated
with Chinese lanterns. In response to a
call made on him by the paraders and
citizens he spoke as follows:
Fellow Republicans of Kennebec: ]
thank you for the compliment of your
call. lJoin with you in hearty congratu-
lauons and Fluctuations over the great
National achievement of last week. We
nave elected the Republican candidates
to the Presidency and vice Presidency.
ana never did any party have candidates
IN whom more implicit faith could be
placed faith in their principles. faith in
their ability, faith in their zeal. faith in
their honor, faith in them personally. faith
in them officially. 1t adds to the value of
our triumph that we have secured in Gen.
Harrison a President who cOmprehends
the wants of the whole nation. and who
by temperament and experience, embOd-
les all the requirements for executive DO
sitlOn, whose duties are perhaps more
engrosSing and exacting than any similar
position in the world, and yet if the cleo
ton of Harrison and Morton was merely
the elevation of two eminent citizens to
the highest positions in the Republic our
rejoicing would not have the deep signifi-
canoe which attends. The President and
vlce-PreSident-elect carry with them in
their deserved elevation the triumph of
the protective policy in the United States
and that is the feature of the victory
which StlrS the Nation.
MANY persons, from inattentiOn to the
course of events, and some from mere
cyniciSm, regard Presidential election
as only struggle for the spOils of Office.
Perhaps close examination into the val
ue of the 'SpOilS' would cause them to
modify this opinion. We are now Co.
OOO,OC0 people and we speak of the dan
ger of having 10000 Otfice-holders under
the National Government Quite true,
we have 100000 office holders, but vast
number of those have salaries under
SlOO each, great portion under $1,000
each, more than four-fifthS of the whole
number under $1,000 each. while the
President does not have within his power
of appointment 200 civil officers with sal
aries exceeding 5000 year. l doubt.
indeed, if he has more than 100. Certain
ly 'spoils' cannot profoundly effect the
interest or call forth the efforts of a great
people among whom opportunities for
business and for fortune are greater than
in any other Nation of the world. 1t was
something far deeper than 'spoils' of of
flee that called the full Republican
strength to the polls, and no question but
that of protection could have done it.
"But, my friends, let us remember that
wise monition of the old man eloquent to
triumph moderately. Republicans have
always been more quiet in gaining vic
tory at the polls than in boasting of it
after it has been secured. 1t is well that
it is so, for victory would indeed be
barren of good fruit and unworthy of re-
spect if it did not bring benefit to all the
people alike, regardless of geographical
lines or party divisions. We have sharp
rivalry as Democrats or Republicans in
the earnest struggles of the campaign,
but when the election is over we remem-
Der that we are all united in the endear-
ing brotherhood of American citizenship
citizenship of the East and the West,
of the North and the SOuth-citiZenShip
of the great, undivided, individual Re
public.