The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-11-14
No Step Backward.

No Step Backward.
The election is over, aud as was
anticipated from our of-year expert
ence, the Democracy have regained
control of the House of Representa-
tives.
The Democratic victory. though
sweeping, will be barren of results so
far as it will effect national politics.
1t will do to crow oyer but will bear
no fruit. Two wears hence the PEN
dulum will swing back again and a
Republican President and Congress
will, in all probability, be elected.
The Republican party has always
marched in the van of the progress
sive thought and sentiment of the
nation. Its position has never been
successfully aSsaied. The people al
ways ratify its action at the ballot
box when the proper time comes,
and then few years later the Dem.
ocrats come tracing after. and so it
will be again.
The Republican party still believes
In the protection of American labor
and American industries. 1t still be-
lieves that every lawabiding citizen
of the republic has right to vote and
to have his vote counted.
No step backward can be taken on
these great questions.
The Mckinley bill is legally on the
statute books; it is law of the land
and no power on earth can change il.
Its good or evil effects will be demon
strated by the test of practical exper-
fence, and there will not be another
opportunity to howl it down and
discredit it by falsehoOds aud by
wholesale misrepresentation without
trial.
There will be another session of
the 51st Congress. We still have
Republican Senate for an undeter-
mined period, and the next general
election is two years ahead. In that
time the Mckinley bill will have
demonstrated it's usefulness. 1t will
have developed a great many new
industries and resurrected a great
many old ones which have been
choked off by foreign competition
and the people will not again be de.
ceived by wholesale misrepreSenta-
ton.
In the meantime the American
people will have had time to exam.
inc into and mediate on the merits
of the Lodge bill and to determine
for themselves whether it is right to
count five or six million colOred peo-
pie in the South as a basis of repre-.
sentation and then to fraudulentIy
deprive them of their voice in the
government and actually to send as
many representatives 10 Congress as
they would be entitled to elect to rep.
resent-not them, but their political
antagonists, to count so many votes
against them and the party of their
choice.
1t would not be just to cut these
people off without representation.
But to count them as a basis of power
to be welded against them and their
party is mockery ofjustice, an out
rage on free institutions which the
American people will not sanction.
The Republican party could not
abandon its position now if it would
and it would not if it could. The or
der will be forward and not back
ward, and the party will be sustained
in its new position as the champion
of justice and human rights. The
Republicans will again touch elbows,
will again close 40 the ranks, and
sacrificing personal considerations
will again sustain the grand old
party which has made our country
glorious.
This Democratic party, what has it
done? Nothing f; absolutely nothing
in the last 30 years but howl. They
simply set back on their launches
and howl at everythingithe Republi-
cans do. When they gain tempo
rary success as they have done now,
they howl over that. The RepubIi.
Cans have gone on from one great
Achievement to another and the DEM
ats have simply resisted--and
lied,