Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-07
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TaE GREAT VICTORY !

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Tue GREAT VICTORY
The Bourbon Democracy has again
found its Gettysburg and its Appomatox.
Brice, Barnum. Bayard, Saekville West,
Upper, and Texas Mills have utterly
failed to give four years more of political
power TO the Buffalo adventurer and his
gang. The Golden Club and its allies
have found that this Nation respects its
independence and its interests more than
British ideas and British greed for com
mercial dominion. This county once
more redeems itself. Right again tri-
umphs from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The Republic is again in the hands of its
friends. One Of the most corrupt coali-
tions ever known in modern politics has
been defeated and the land of Washing
ton and Lincoln Is not to be at the mercy
of rivals abroad and impracticable theo-
rists at home. Justice and Truth have
won splendid triumph over wrong and
filsehood. Harrison and Morton are
elected by the same burning national en-
thusiasm and organized determination
which gave victory to the friends of Lib
erty and the Union in 1860.
The intelligent patriotism of the Amer-
can people having had an opportunity to
express itself has given Its verdict with
an emphasis which charlatans and knaves
cannot fail to understand. The solid
South has again lost its unhallowed grip
on the Government of the Nation, and
their stolid, conceited and unscrupulous
tool is remanded to that kind of private
life he enjoyed before he became the sheriff
of Erie The Bourbons and the Mug
wumps four wears since made most re-
mlrkable political alliance, shocking to
the moral 81 nse of the country and utterly
regardless of the principles and motives
which should be ever uppermost in the
minds and hearts of a free and virtuous
people. There never was darker delusion
spired the words and directed the ac ton
Of the Mugwumps in supporting Grover
Cleveland in 1854. Those who were SIN
cerc in their strangely eccentric course
had time to repent of their folly, and by
returning to the Republican ranks have
helped win the splt ndid victory which
liberates the Nation from 81 ameful con
spiracv Those who meant Free Trade
when they were mounting only professions
all the ignominy which is being meted out
to them in the overwhelming reputation
of tn, ir course involved in their present de-
feat To the Democrats of a consistent
record, however erroneous may be their
opinions, there may he IA future in Ameri-
can politics not without honor. But to
the Mugwumps who have supported Cleve-
land for reelection after his appalling
course of misconduct and mal-administra
tion, there can be no political future ex-
cept il absolute oblivion.
Yes the glad tidings rings through the
land, that the majority of the American
people can be trusted to defend their in
stitutions from utter prostitution and sub
version by pacific methods ofpolitics often
more dangerous than the evils of war, as
they defended them against armed rebel
lion backed by an alliance with foreigners,
very like that which has pushed the cam
paign which we have just passed.
The sober. second thought of the people
has pronounced for the restoration of the
National Government to the control of
the great and patriotic party which saved
the L Mon from the most terrible perils
which ever assailed a Nation fit to live.
The decision of Tuesday stamps the re-
suit of four years ago and the manner of
its accomplishment with the seal of
shame which will remain unbroken to the
end of time. Let patriots rejoice that
Justice has been done. that truth has been
yindicated, and that the country is in the
hands of its friends. Republicanism
stands. The great party of Lincoln.
Seward, Grant and Sheridan survives,
full of brain and Drawn, and British Free
Trade in this country has received a
stunning blow from which it will not
speedily recover. Let freemen rejoice that
the American system is triumphant and
enduring in its force, while the vietori-
Gus can well be generous to large ma
ioritv of their defeated opponents, whose
chief offence is in the fact that they al
lowed partisan prejudice to hold the
mastery of their patriotism.
GLORIOUS NEWS
From Hon. ]. Manchester Haynes Of t e