The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-11-26
THE GREAT VICTORY.
Democracy Triumphant in the East
and in the West
A Rebu.1s to Harrison, Mckinley, Reed
anL Quay Unp: ecrdented In the
History OF the Nat,On-Giory
Hallelujahi
Monopoly and Tyranny Undone.
[Chicago Herald, Dem.


and Reedism the Democracy have won
memorable victory. The extent Of
their triumph is hardly TO be accurately
measured as yet, but it is sweeping and
glorious.
The test was crucial one. American
institutions had been assailed not less
audaciously than when armed men con-
fronted their defenders. An insolent
and avaricious protected class, grown
rich on the plumber of the people, set
up an offensive tyranny in the House of
Representatives and with its aid passed
tariff tax bill that was intended to OPP
press the people and to enrich the men
in whose interest it was designed. Tho
answer of the people is House OF Rep
resentatives having an overwhelming
Democratic majority. Still further to
intrench the power Of monopoly and to
restrict that of the people, force bill,
intended to deprive Americans OF the
right of local self-government, was pre-
pared and railroaded through one house
and left suspended in the other. The
answer OF the people Is the defeat Of
scores of the wretches who misrepre-
scented them and an overturning of
things political that amounts to revo.
luton.
The coalesced monopolists of the
United States threw down the gage of
battle to the people. The people an.
swer them by throwing at their feet the
political heads of fifty of the most sub
servient tools OF monopoly. There is
no possibility that tho significance OF
this stupendous popular uprising will be
misunderstood in any quarter. Rob-
berS and tyrants know what it means.
The people themselves know what it
means.
Ignorance has been appealed to in
vain. immortality has been appealed to
in vain. Prejudice, falsehood, sophis-
try, idiocy, all enlisted on the side OF
monopoly tariffs and political tyranny,
have been appealed to in vain. The in
telligence and patriotism Of the country
have triumphed over tho bigotry OF
ignorance and the greed of avarice.
Happy, indeed, are the people who can
so swiftly rebuke unworthy pretension
and so mercilessly chastise the mis-.
guided men who sought to betray them.
Concerning the effect of this most
timely and most gratifying victory for
good government and good citizenship,
it is enough at present to say that there
will be no more Speakership tyrannies
in the House of Representatives, there
will be no more Mckinley high tax
bills, there will be no more of the force
bill, there will be no more subsidies
and bounties for favored interests. The
politicians at Washington will take
their sticky fingers out of the peoples
business affairs and keep them out.
There will be hasty retreat by some
of the Republicans and by others there
will he stampede to oblivion. All the
arts of James G. Blaine and other as
tute servants of monopoly will now be
called into rcquisition to devise new
tricks for the befoolment of the people,
but they will be in vain.
The light OF the morning is upon the
country. The sun Of truth. of decency
of fair play, OF unshackled commerce
OF equal rights and OF honest govern
ment has risen. Its welcome rays will
serve to illumine the glorious pathway
of reform during the two years remain
ing OF an Administration whose cleo
ton was bought and whose degradation
seems the moro profound now that i
stands in striking comparison with thu
majestic reawakening and Transportation
Of the people.