The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-12-21

alyzed and understood than immediate
ly after the result was made known
and while the Democrats were carrying
torches by night and shouting their
victory on the streets by day, and the
Republicans were so keenly feeling
their defeat.
The smoke of battle has now cleared
away; the losses and gains to each party
in the contest can be seen and estimated,
and it is ascertained that neither had IA
complete victory over the other
1t is true that the Republican party
failed to elect its candidate for the
office of president and that the Demo
crat party has large majority in con-
gress, but it is not yet known which
party will have the most votes in the
senate. The Republicans have increased
their members of congress by forty
over their numbers in the previous con-
gress, and among them are many of the
ablest men in the land. The Republi-
can members of both branches of our
national legislature are such as will
command the respect of the whole ma
ton. They are in most instances states
men of experience who will see to it
that the people are promptly appraised
of and protected against any con-
templated legislation inimical to the
best interests of the whole nation.
The Democrat party occupies to-day
most peculiar position. 1t has caused
to be elected a president who is adj
mitted by both Democrats and Republi-
cans to be purer and better than his
party and who was elected because of
that belief 1t is safe to say that he is
the only Democrat living whom they
could possibly have elected.
David b. Hill is typical Democrat
politician. He was an aspirant in the
convention of his party for the first
place on their national ticket, but no
one has the slightest idea that he would
have been elected president had he re-
ceived such nomination.
Mr.. Hill and his faction of the Demo
crat party had much to do with franz
ing the platform adopted at Chicago,
but Mr.. Cleveland turned that platform
down and prepared one of his own
which did not bear much resemblance
to the Democrat national platform. In
fact it repudiated it i'm its most essential
features, and he was elected because
the majority of the people believed him
strong enough to stand by the dcclara-
tions contained in his letter of accept
ance.
He therefore stands to-day practically
before the people as one elected indie
pendent of the party which nominated
him. This is position most fiattering
to Mr.. Cleveland but not tlatterng to
the Democrat party whose platform
he wisely repudiated and whose voters
were not numerous enough to elect
him.
The Democratic press, however, by
their declarations, have given every
evidence possible that their party will
attempt legislation to carry out the
principles declared in their Chicago
platform, Notwithstanding its repudia
ton by the president-elect, and the peo
pie will soon have more evidence be-
fore them than they care TO have that
the Democrat party is not safe party
and ought not TO be trusted to manage
the affairs of this nation.
Long before the next presidential
campaign is on the people OF this land,
the honest patriotic men of both north
and south, will have received the same
object lesson we have had in Michigan
where that party had full sway and
gave us such legislation and statesman
ship as the Democrat party alone is
capable of and which is evidently
about the only kind of legislation it can
give, and its effect all over this
land will be us il has been here, namely:
the turning down and out of the Demo
crat party for the next generation and
the return of the Republicans to power
and control of the affairs of this nation
it rescued from secession and Demo
cratic misrule.
The duty and demands of the hour
are plain. Republicans, stand firm for
honest government honest money and
honest enforcement of the laws north
and south. Organize; be watchful and
earnest; insist that pauper, diseased,
corrupt and criminal immigration shall
cease; be true to your glorious past and
active and earnest in the present, and
your future and the future of our coun-
try will outshine and eclipse all former
achievements.
The signs of the times indicate that
the president to be elected four years
hence will be Republican.
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Stockbridge Should be Reelected.
1t goes without saying that citizen,
possessed of the advantage which six