Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-11-24
Why the Republican Party viii Stay In
Power.

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the most sagacious of the Republi-
can leaders as to the long continu-
ance of the power OF their party in
the nation are manifold and mani
fest. But these reasons are not gen
orally understood as they should be.
1t is not only because the party has
recaptared the Federal government,
though that is tremendous advant-
age. 1t is because, having the gov
eminent, Republicanism will assert
its legitimate strength in the two
Virginias and North Carolina, where
the existing Republican majorities
will maintain their rights and will
grow in power every year. The same
result is likely to follow within the
next four years in Kentucky and
Tennessee, while all "the new South"
where manufacturing and mining and
other enterprises are fostered by
Protection, the men whose futures
are not behind them will "turn tfeir
eyes to the morning" of new End
endless day.
But it is in the West where the re-
suit of the late election gives the
pledge of the assured development,
Of the normal Republican strength
in that section-lately coveted by
the Free Traders and rainbow. chas
ing democratic managers. Few East
ern people realize to how large a de-
gree the '.Old Northwest has been
drained of Republican votes by the
ceascless tide of immigration to the
States and Territories west of the
Missouri. What drain on the Re
publican vote in Ohio, Michigan, In
diana, Wisconsin and Iowa is reveal
ed in the fact that the Republican
plurality in Kansas at the last cleo
tion amounted to S2,000l!l
In addition to this waste in Re
publican strength in Kansas, Nebras-
ka has "surplus' of 10000 Repub-
licans, and Dakota has $1,000 Repub-
lican voters who have been deprived
of their natural rights by democrat
ic opposition in the House. The
movement of Republican voters into
other far West Territories has been
immense and keeps under way.
When Republican Administration
admits all these Territories as States
in the Union, a new epoch in the
party and in national politics will
have been reached, and the "Ncw
West" will be as staunchly Republic
can as New England. No chance for
a Bourbon democratic reaction put
ting back the mighty North Under
the control of the unfittest survivals
of the unregenerate Confederate lead
ers.
And the "Old Northwest and the
"New West" will be as one people,
with like political sympathies and in
terests. The democrats in their mad
ness have made the ties between these
neighboring regions closer and warm
er than before. "We warned the
democratic party in 1884," says the
st. Paul Pioneer Press,'' ''that the
people would, by-and-by, remember
Dakota; that the outrage of her exclu-
sion, contrary to every principle of
our government, would some time
return upon the perpetrators with
overwhelming force. That warning
was repeated in 1886, when this Con-
gress was chosen, and still it was not
needed. The representatives of the
States which once declared that Kan
sas and Nebraska must come in with
slavery or not come in at all had row
established the test of democracy for
Territories asking admission with ev-
en- better right. The people Of these
Territories are the kinsfolk of the
Northwest.
What an array Of Republican States
will, in 1892, stretch across the vast
distance from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc, along the lines of the march of
civilization, unique in its purity and
power and capacity for progress, from
New England, through New York,
first to the Northwest" and then to
"the New West" And the moral
and political power Of this country
will never depart from this belt of
homogeneous, yet varied common
wealths.--N. Y. Hail and Express.
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