Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-11-29
THE PEOPLES VERDICT.

a.. The PEOPLES VERDICT.
Some Things That Have Been Taught oy
the Great Republican Victory.
The people have decided for the Re
publican party after four years OF
Democracy In the White House.
Every fraudulent pretense upon which
Mr.. Cleveland was supported as a re-
former, all the cant of his friends
about non-partisanship in the public
service, all their sham zeal for purifi-
cation of the Government, have been
made contemplate and odious in pop
ular estimation by the conduct of MIR.
Cleveland Administration. A single
term of experience under a Demo
cratic sham reformer was enough,
and more than enough. The Presi-
dent himself, and the choice assort-
ment of disloyalists, scamps, jail
birds and political knaves whom he
has placed in Office instead of loyal,
trained and faithful public servants,
will retire into obscurity. Not by
such material can an intelligent Ma
ton be governed a second term. With
them depart from public consequences
the hypocrites who protested to be
anxious about the purity of the Gov
eminent. in order to stab in the back
the defenders of protection.
The people have decided that the
American policy of protection for
home industries shall stand; that any
needed modification shall be made by
who, under the false pretense of seek
ing only a moderate reform of the tar
if, have tried to break down that
policy, and to start the country on the
road toward English free trade.
For months the most effective help
ers of the liquor interest have been
those protested temperance men who
deprived the Republican candidates 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 New York passed 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 Governor by whom the measure
was vetoed. Honest and brave Repub-
licans in New Jersey passed Local
Option law, and were rewarded by a
delivery of the electoral vores of the
State to free-trade candidate, and by
the defeat of Legislative candidates
who were obnoxious to the saloon in
terest. The result will make third
party Prohibitionists everywhere rec
ognized as the allies of the rum-shops.
The Democrats proposed "a cam
paign 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
person as reformer who picks out
such men as Thompson and Higgins
as chief instruments in the work. They
have learned enough not to call bill
measure of moderate tariff REFORM"
which English manufacturers shout
over as 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
that so much has been learned. Let
us also be thankful that under that
rule of the Grand Old Party, which
has helped the country to become
more honored and powerful, richer
and more prosperous, happier in its
homes and more progressive in its in
situations, than any other country on
earth, these United States will re-
sumo the onward and upward march
which the election of Grover Cleve-
land in 1884 partially arrested.-M Y
Tribune.