The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-10
T 1T Is OVER.

menus. lney are worthy d plaCo C'SiJ
paper, and they are well worth reading,
as they tell we'll and loud the definite
end of PoLK's party, which in that state
is called independent:
"Now that, in the language of the kal-
~amaZoovian statesman and the cross
roads editor, the smoke has cleared away
from the field of battle, let US take a sur
vey of it. All in all, it was a most inglo-
rious day for the Independents. Like
the rebels at Shiloh, after their first sue
cess they stopped fighting and went to
p%lundering the knapsacks, tents and
butler stores in the camp they had taken
by surprise. While they paused to load
themselves with spoils the enemy rallied,
returned and licked them out of their
boots, Notwithstanding they were rein
forced by the majority of the democrats.
At this time both sides are claiming the
election of Posi- and EDGERTON respect
lively, with the chances in favor of the
republicans.
"But for all practical political pur-
poses it does not matter who is elected.
The independents have made their last
fight worthy of the name. 1t is dignity
ing the contest they made last Tuesday
to call it a fight. A rabble was routed
and dispersed by the vain and misdirected
energy of its own assault upon the court
houses in which the enemy were en-
4,ouoIoJ t. +Ioco oo,p+;oc -LorD tbou
repudiated democratic aid the independ-
ents were beaten by inferiority of num-
bers. In those counties where they &C
cepted that aid it was made more and
worse than useless by dissension and
treachery in their W ranks. In the
state at large their vote fell off from in
difference and desertion to the extent
that stood off the net democratic vote Of
$4,000 that came to their help,
at is too late to talk about it now.
The chance to overthrow republicanism
in Nebraska is gone glimmering. And
it was a spectacle for the gods that those
villainous political ~scoundrels, the en-
envy, presented. Courage, audacity,
dash, were theirs-they marched to the
battle with banners floating and bands
playing and plumes waving, as if grac
ing a holiday review instead of a field
where they were Outnumbered two to
one, to make a last desperate stand for
their political existence. They ought
to have been beaten, annihilated, by all
the rules of political war. They should
have been beaten for the good of the
country, for the good Of the state, for
the good of the country in which they
have held high revel for a quarter of a
century, They deserved to have been
beaten for their misrule and misconduct.
Under the banner of plumber they won,
just as the brave and disciplined men
have ever won under the flag Of the
freebooter.
And it is worth the while to look
with a microscope into some Of the fea-
lures of their tactics. With their stand
ard bearer a self acknowledged and
proven seducer in the act and a weak
and ~quibbling liar and sneak in his de-
NAL Of it's phases-with one accord the
editor and preacher and Sunday school
teacher shut their eyes to the facts and
'swore with one uplifted voice that he
was innocent as a blue-eyed cherub just
down ST. PETERS pathway.
"Attacking with the most insistent !
virulence the opposing candidate for the
supreme court, they testified with afida-
Wits piled to the clouds that every debtor
in Nebraska would refuse to pay and
EDGERToN would present him with a
statute of exemption from execution. i
With the same breath they Landed to the
skies half a dozen of their own candi-
dates for the district bench who were
running upon the explicit platform that
they would neither order nor confirm
mortgage foreclosure sales on the farms
of their constituents.
And over and under and through it
all was the magnificent and sustaining
esprit of the army that is we'll paid, well
fed and we'll led. Your barefooted and
half starved soldier is picturesque in lit
erature and art, but he is no match in
war or politics for the fat and saucy ras-
cal in a new uniform.
Back of the republicans were al! the
railroads, all the banks, all the power of
organization, all the money and supplies
needed, all the force the whisky element
could give. Last year this last was part
demOcratic-this year it was wholly re-
publican. The managers Of the republi-
can campaign lacked for 40 money.
They had the services of a united bar.
They lad the power to win by brute
And the poor, demoralized indcpend-
had none of these things. They had
the hope of plumber animating the lead
ers and right purpose moving the rank
and file, and the latter were not spurred
by empty bellies as they were q year ago.