The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-09-18
MAINE AND REED.

The cheering Republican news from
Maine grows with each cOmpleter report.
The full force and effect of the Maine
election was hardly appreciated when the
first returns came in. 1t is tremendous
party victory that Republicans have won.
1t is gigantic personal victory that has
been accorded to Speaker Reed. The
largest off year majority ever attained by
the party in the Pine Tree State is suffi-
cient cause to electrify the party in every
State in the Union, awakening respOn-
sive action and victories at the November
elections. 1t is irrefutable evidence that
the speciously told tales of internal dis
sensions, supineness, lethargy and dis
satisfaction among Republicans, with
which the columns of Democratic and
Mugwump papers have teemed for
months, were unadulterated falsehoods.
The Grand Old Party has not had such
full and perfect victory in years. 1t is
encouraging, gratifying, rejuvenating,
electrifying. 1t is the handwriting on
the wall to notify the free traders of
their certain defeat all along the line of
political battle. Their hope of carrying
the fall Congressional elections crumbles
away before the Maine election as an
eggshell in the hand of giant. 1t is
not so long ago, either, that the Demo-
Gratis carried Maine on fusion ticket,
and they had pinned all their hopes on
it this year, having enormously accepted
Vermont's small vote and reduced ma
joriGy as the beginning of breakup in
the Republican ranks. Instead of being
the sign of disaster the Vermont election
was the signal fire warning to Republi-
cans that to d of the danger of apathy.
II hnC hnnn nnatunraH hu a rallu thaf
completely upsets every suggestion of
belief that the Republican party has ac-
complished its mission. We shall go on
from Maine to still greater successes.
The result there will stir the sluggish
blood in other States, and Republicans
everywhere will be aroused to make
every effort not only to retain but to in
crease the present majority in Congress.
The Press believes that the impetus from
Maine will enable Republicans to effect
that desirable result.
Speaker Reeds reelection is q tri-
umphant and overwhelming personal
victory, in which the whole party re-
joices. 1t is most stunning blow as
well to the Democracy, who hate him
with the cordial hatred that vice accords
virtue. 1t demonstrates that the people
| like pluck and acSiOn in their represen-
tatives. They do not want idlers, dema-
gOgues and ob5tructiOnists to rule the
National councils. They want men of
courage, conviction and conscience in
the forefront. They want work from
their representatives. They want energy
displayed in the transaction of public
business. They want the majority to
rule, and they do not want any nonsense
about it. The voters of Mr.. Reeds dis
t,ict deserve the thanks of the country
for their glorious vindication of his
manly, fearless, PRACTICAL discharge of
his onerous duties in the presence of a
bullying, desperate, fillibustering minor
ity, whose motto is to ruin if it cannot
rule. They have declared with him that
a member of Congress cannot be present
and yet absent, that the franchise of
freemen must be guaranteed and protect
ed South as well as North; and that the
principle of protection is sound policy
of government, which should prevail in
the administration of the United States.
They have declared FL this with most
certain and unmistakable voice. Mr..
Reed, by his course in Congress at this
session, has put more life ir the Repub-
lican party tnan any man since Lincoln.
He has been tower of strength, feared
by his political adversaries, admired by
his political friends.
Maine has done magnificently well, but
Mr.. Reeds district has done better.
Good for both of them.-N. Y. Press