Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-11-22
with a Mailed Hand "

The authorized statement of Senator
Matthew s. Quay, Chairman of the Republi-
can National Committee, which we published
yesterday, declares that
The Republican party will hold with mailed
hand all that it fairly won on Nov. 6.
Why this pretentious proclamation of the
man on horseback with visor down and spear
in hand? Against whom or what is he de-
claring war? Is it the case of Chevalier
Bayard ar a Don Quixote? Why should the
Republican party or Senator Quay or any
one else be talking about 'holding with 4
mailed hand" after so peaceful an election, so
readily conceded by the losing party? Who
is it that the winners are going to fight now,
and what are they going to fight about?
Senator Quay speaks of threats that
Democratic Governors of States will refuse
to certify the election of Republicans to the
Clerk of the House, and he will refuse to
place our people on the roll" What threats
is Senator Quay talking about? Who made
them? When were they made? We have
heard nothing of any one refusing to certify
duly elected Congressman, whether Demo
Gratis or Republicans. Does the Chairman of
the Republican National Committee expect
that his Bombastes Furioso pronunciamento
will fflghten Democratic Governors and the
Clerk of the House into certifying as electe
Congressman who were not ele cted? If so,
he might as well understand, once for all,
that he is ''not dealing with children or old
women"
The House of Representatives of the Fifty
first Congress will be De mocratic if ma
jority of its elected members are Democrats,
but Republican If the contrary is the case.-
No manipulation will change the result, and
no intimidation be allowed to effect it. Bull
lies cannot rule this country, and political
braggarts are none the less bullies because
some of them masquerade as Plumed Knights
and others bluster about holding things with
ENABLED hand" whether they belong to
them or not.
Mr.. Quay's illumination will have not the
slightest effect on the course of the Fiftieth
Congress any more than on the composition
of the Fifty first Congress. The will of the
people as expressed at the polls will be as
certained, obeyed and in all respects en-
forced by the proper authorities for such case
made and provided, whether the result may
please any committee whatever.
What is the most deplorable in this affair
is that the official chief of a great and vic
torious party should descend to such methods
in political management. Certain it is that
if the people of the United States had be-
lieved in the probability of such a declaration
appearing directly after election Mr.. Quay's
nominees would have been defeated at the
polls. The truthful stories told about his
management before election were not uni
versally believed. People regarded them to
large extent as exaggerated statements of
party opponents. They were not. They we're
the simple truth, as every one can recognize
by the revelation of the spirit of Quayism
and monopolized Republicanism disclosed in
the extraordiary statement of Saturday.
One thing is already plain. The Republi-
can party has not come to stay. It is not in
sympathy with the spirit of the American peo-
pie. The country demands peace, prosperi-
ty. The Republican party wants disorder,
strife and speculative agitation. Mr.. Quay
tells the whole story in brief pantomime
when he struts about, shakes ''mailed hand,
in the face of the American people, and dis
plays the brass knuckles of the rough, not the
gau ntlet of the knight.-N. Y. Star.