Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-09-17

would Do the remeuy JUST at tEo pIeseh1
time and under present circumstances;
but the broad, genuine craftsmanship that
American commercial progress should
claim as It's ally, is that which would place
our great exporting interests above any
contingency, and not to play a secondary
part to that Of any power in the world. IL
doing that we should not fail to apply
every means in our power, not only to re-
tain the limited demand we have in the
United Kingdom for our surplus bread
stuEs, but make the necessities of that
large demand feel their dependence, as they
| once did, upon our country.
The true lessen of the Maine Election.
The Lynchburg Ne,Us expresses SO we'll
the views we entertain Of the effect Of the
election of Reed By an increased majority
that we adopt its article in lieu OF one of
our own. It says, 'if Reed had been beat
en- there would have been q universal &C
claim Of joy from Democrats, as well as
from liberal and enlightened Republicans,
land. Why? Because he is an INSCRIPTIONS,
dogmatic despos, who SCOTS at the idea of
purity in politics, and overrides, roughshod,
the immemorial rules and traditions of the
national legislature, ID order to psrpetuate
the ascendancy of the Republican party.
But he has not been beaten. On the con-
trary, he has been returned to Congress by
an increased majority.
Now, we desire to say that tho triumph
ant reelection of Reed is the most auspi-
cious omen in current politics for the speedy
and splendid triumph Of tho Democratic
party. 1t demareates by division, as
broad and blazoned as the equatorial line,
the separate limits of the two parties. The
Democratic party represents the sober and
sedate portion Of the American people, who
contend for the original idea Of the Fedora
States Or soyereignties. The Republican
party represent the modern idea Of an
obliteration Of State lines, and concentra-
tion of absolute power in & federal head.
Reed is the most extreme and ultra expo
nent of this Republican and radical idea of
autoeratio power and supremacy. If, then,
Reed had been defeated, the Republicans
could have plausibly commended that they
did not endorse his dogmatie and subversive
doctrines. This, indeed, would have been
stab under the fifth rib to tie Democratic
party. Fortunately, no such disguised ar
gument is offered. On the contrary, in the
election of Reed by an increased majority,
the issue is fully, fairly and emphatically
made. IF, On this issue, the Democracy
cannot succeed, they deserve to be defeated
for time and eternity.
There mover was! No, there never was
before, and there can hardly be hereafter,
exhibited such a spectacle of mingled deg
radiation and arrogance in the history of
the world. Not in the history Of Greece
after Aristides tho just was banished; nor
in tho history Of Rome after the real friends
of the Republic were superseded and siaugh-
tered by the C@saIs and Neros. Ponder
over il for moment Here comes a cot
ton-buttoned and brazen-fronted fellow: a
man Of mediocre calibTe, but with check
harder than adaman5 itself, and an ar ful
duplieity more seductive than that Of the
willy UlysEes-here comes this embodiment
of perfection, this Apollo Of Republican
politics, and captures the expeotsnt crowd.
| What, then, does it amount to but an in
dorsement by the wholesale of the Reed role
of politics! 1t amounts precisely to that.
And, amounting to that, it diseriminates at
this early day. two years before the election,
the lite Of separation On which the Presi-
Dental campaign of 1892 will be fought.
The Democratic party could have asked fer
nothing more suspicious than the logic of
tho Maine election in forcing the Republi-
can party to endorse The Mckinley tariff
riot-rulings. It cannot now reeede. Hence
forth Reed is the ruling spirit in the Repub-
lican party. His audaoious dash has placed
him in the foremost front of the daring and
unprincipled kBaves who rule the Republi-
can counsels. He occupies the ''bad emf
nence" of Satan in Millions sublime epic.
What more opportune than this could the
Democratic party desire? Reed is the com.
ing man. He is ahead of Blaine; ahead of
everybody in the Republican party. They
have in shame and perfdity bowed their
heads to him, and now to him they must
submit. He is their leader, their exponent,
their examplaF. By him are they to be
judged. Yes, by him. By as low, and
vulgar, and dogmatic an ppstart as ever
figured in the public gaze, from the era of
Cleon, the Demagogue, down to the present
era.
We repeat, therefore, that nothing more
fortunate could have happened to the Dem
ocratic party. We now kDow-all the
world now knows-what the Democracy has
has to encounter in the next Presidential
contest. 1t has to meet party of whom
Reed is the accredited exponent. We re-
peat, therefore. that if the Democracy can
not succeed on this issue it ought to be de-
feated for time-for eternity"
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