The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-11-12
BATTLE TO GO ON.

in the following vigorous manner:
The Republican party has met with
a reverse that may be compared with
the first battle of Bull Run The
exultant free traders will do well to
remember that four years after Bull
Run came Appomattox. The contest
with Republicanism has waged in
the past campaign has been one of the
most important struggles in the his
tory of the Republic. 1t has been a
struggle for the nearest and dearest
interests of the people for the home,
for the factory, for the farm aud the
school. 1t has been a struggle for the
dignity, the self respect and indepen-
dence of the American workingman,
for the preservation of that high
standard of living and wages which
a protective tariff has made possible,
anu WulCu llSS JlduC WOuLu uS9tIOJ'
1t has been a struggle for honest
money, and for the maintenance Of
national credit unimpaired. In this
struggle the Republican party has had
arrayed against it all the resources
that free traders and foreign industries
could bring to bsar to break down
American protection and place the
American worklngman at the mercy
of pauper competition abroad.
The Republican party has had to
contend against a vast corruption
fund, levied by Tammany Hall in the
city Of New York, with the addition
Of contributions from wealthy friends
of the free trade candidate, and their
fellow free traders in other countries.
1t has had had to contend against the
solid South, made solid by the open,
undenied and flagrant violation of the
National Constitution, aud inheriting
from slavery traditional devotion
to free trade. The Republican
party has met these foes and, for the
moment, has been driven back,
though not in disorder.
It's flag is still there. 1t floats to the
breeze above the vanishing smoke OF
the conflict, and it will yet float over
victories as great and memorable a.
any of the triumphs which the Repub'
lican party has achieved in the past.
The free trade, pro.slavery Demo
cracy thought they had crushed the
Republicans in 1856, but the reverse
of that date only stimulated Republi
can preparation for the great success
of 1860 and the added triumph of 1864
The Democracy declared, when Cleve
land was first elected, that th'
Republican party had been swept ou
of existence. But the Republican
party showed in 1888 that the repuls,
had been only temporary, and that thu
courage and resolution, the vigorou
and aggressive energy which haC
characterized the party in forme
struggles, were as vital as ever, an,
as capable as ever of achieving sue
cess.
The Press renews the combat to
day. 1t proposes to continue it
aggressive campaign against the com
blnation of free trade, fraud and vic
lence, which has had passin
advantage over the forces OF protection
and which is already proclaimin
that the barriers which guard Amer
can labor against pauper competitio
abroad will be torn down. The Clevr
land Evening Post is already demand
ing the repeal of the Mckinley tarii
and its London ally, the Pal Mo
Gazette, declared, in its issue of yel
terday, that "both the merchants an
unemployed workingmen of Englau
have reason TO rejoice at the Dem
cratic victory, as with the possibilil
of the reopening ofthe American ma
kets to the goods OF Birmingham
Bradford and Manchester, capitals
will get chance to procure SOL
return on their money invest
and the workingmen will have
opportunity to get decent price
their labor"
In face of such declarations As Tho