Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-11-16
DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS !!
A GLORIOUS AND IMPORTA Mt VICTORY!
The People have great cause for
Rejoicing-The heart Of the
South singing the Long
Metre Doxoloey.

When we put our paper to press last
week on the night of the day of cleo
ton, the news received up to that
hour, as we then reported, was favor
able to the success of the Democratic
party, but we had no idea then that it
was so glorious and overwhelming
that Democratic cyclone had swept
over the country. 1t is more than a
mere party victory-it is a peaceful
political revolu ton. The people
throughout the country, during the
whole canvass, were calm, but de-
termined. They refused to be dashed
into excitement, and calmly considered
the situa tipn, and they arose on cleo
ton day in the majesty of their might,
and in spirit of patriotism recorded
their righteous rebuke of the out
rageous and destructive policy of the
Republican party, which is not only
expressing the many for the benefit OF
the few, but is destroying the character
of the government by usurping the
rights of the States and the people and
centralizing power in the Federal Gov
eminent. A victory more important
was never won by any party in all the
tide of time. 1t will be far-reaching in
it's effect, and generations yet unborn
will have cause to rejoice that their
fathers won it, for the possession of
their rights and liberties, which other
wise would have been lost, will be at
tributable to it. The Republicans,
who were confident up to the day OF
election of the success of their party,
are amazed and dumbfonnded at their
defeat, and are wholly at a loss to ac-
count for it. They knew they had
spent millions in the canvass and they
expected, as they had done before, to
control the result by the use of money,
and, having little faith in the virtue
and honesty and patriotism of the
people, they are at a great loss to
understan why they were defeated
They fondly hoped and confidently ex-
pected to be able to retain power by
the use of money obtained from the
beneficiaries of their class legislation,
and to continue to violate the rights
and Cypress the masses of the people
ad Hbitatnl; but the people are more
honest and more Intelligent than they
gave them credit for, and they very
properly and emphatically put their
seal of righteous condemnation upon
them. The result of the election shows
that the people do not want high
tariff with it's duties so levied as to tax
the many for the benefit of the few,
nor a federal election law that will en-
able the Federal Government to take
charge of the elections in the States
The Democratic party is now coming
to possess its rightful power to rule
1t is the majority party of this coun-
try, and has been SO continuously since
1876; and of the white voters it has a
majority of more than a million. 1t
elected its candidate for President in
1876, but he was cheated out of it. 1t
l.
1884. In 1888 it had a popular majority
of more than $4,000, but was defeated
in the electoral college because the
vote of New York was controlled by
immense sums of money corruptly used
in New York and Brooklyn. And now
in 1892 it has an overwhelming majority
not only of the popular vote but of the
electoral college, with no danger of
being cheated out of its choice for
President. We recite these well known
historic and indisputable facts to show
that the Democratic party is the one
that is justly entitled to rule this
country, and yet it has not had at any
time since 1860 the control, at the same
time, of the Executive department
and both the Senate and House of
Representatives and consequently has
been unable to carry out it's policy in
the interests of the majority of the
people. 1t now seems, however, that
on the 4th of March next, it will in
augurate its choice for President, and
that in the next Congress succeeding
that date, it will have not only the
House Of Representatives, but most
probably a small majority in the
Senate, and it will then be able to rule
the country as it is entitled to do.
1t is to be hoped, and we believe it |
will, rule wisely, periodically and con-
servatively, in accord with our institu-
tions as designed by the wise trainers
of our government, and for the greatest |
good of the greatest number. and With !
out violating the rights of any-with |
equal rights and privileges to all, and
special privileges to none; for that is |
the basic principle of Democracy.
'Ichabod" has been written ON the |
portals of the Republican party, for its
glory has departed. With its present
principles, policies, and practices it |
will not dare again to come before the
people for judgment. 1t is in a state of |
disintegration and is falling to pieces
and cannot survive another canvass
unless the Democratic party prove
faithless to its principles or commit
some egregious blunder in the execu-
tive or legislative department of the
government. 1T should unite the in
nocence of the dive with the wisdom of |
the serpant, and give the country
honest, wise, and conservative legisla-
ton, and the people will endorse it and |
continue it in power. Should it become
corrupt and intoxicated with power,
and disregard, as the Republican party
has done, the rights and best interests
of'the masses of the people, it will be, |
and will deserve to be, Indignantly
hurled from power by the fiat of the
people. We have every assurance, so
far as the Executive department of the
government is concerned, that the ad-
ministration for the next four years