Huntsville gazette., 1892-12-10
DEFEATED. BUT NOT DESTROYED
Republicans Will Await the vindication
of Their Principles.

+, Republicans Will Await the vindication
of Their Principles.
The result of the presidential contest
can be stated very briefly: Cleveland
is elected; the democratic free trade
party has triumphed; the new house is
largely democratic, and the senate will
be of that political faith after March 4.
The long years of Justification, OF
preaching political millennium to the
credulous multitudes have at last borne
fruit The people of the United States
are to-day exactly in the position of
that Athenian who, when the question
of the ostricism of Aristides was be-
fore the citizens for decision, asked a
man whom he did not know. but who
was Aristides himself, to inscribe that
name upon the shell which he intended
to vote. The statesman asked him
what grievance he had against the
man whom he proposed to Danish
The reply was that he had none, but
was tired of hearing Aristides called
1.-The Just!'
So with large number of American
citizens Just now. They were tired of
hearing the republican party extolled
as the conservator of the best interests
Of the nation. They are reckless of
what may come from transfer of un-
controlled power to the democracy, and
are only anxious for change"
1t is in obedience to a well-known law
that pendulum, drawn to the extrem-
ity of its arc on one side, when released,
fa,. t,o al Io
The war for the preservation of the
union was the irresistible force which
swung the mighty pendulum of the
popular will to the extreme limit of the
arc. With the triumphant outcome of
that mighty struggle, this supreme force
was removed. The tendency has been,
for the past twenty years-that is to
say, since 1S72-toward the other cx-
treme. Various issues have served as
hindrances, and hitherto prevented the
full swing to the other end. This year
they did not prevail, and the swing is
made.
But the hour of the democratic party's
triumph is also its hour of doom. If it
dares to carry out its wildcat money
scheme, as promised the people in the
Chicago platform. it will meet with dis
affection in the west and south. If it
carries out the policy outlined in the
tariff plank of its platform, it will
rouse the workingmen to a realization
of the incredible folly of which they
have been guilty, and be hurled from
power as soon as a general election
gives these deceived citizens the oppor-
tunity. If it does not fulfill that
promise, the farmers of the west and
the planters of the south will wreak
their vengeance upon it. Its tergiversa-
ton has placed it in the predicament of
the gentleman who found himself To-
Gated between the devil and the deep
sea.
This result is inevitable with party
which reaches power through false
methods The democracy has commit
ted the error of pursuing the policy of
negation. 1t has condemned without
stint any and every measure emanating
from republican source, without hav-
ing the ability or the craftsmanship to
frame wiser policy 1t has been
driven to the advocacy CT theoretical
makeshifts, which are sure to prove
less advantageous, when put to the
test of practice, than the policies they
antagonizeG. Hence we look, with the
full assurance that our anticipatiops
will be realized. for a complete dis
crediting of the democratic party in
its attempts to remodel the economic
and fiscal systems under which the
United States has grown so marvel
ously within the past thirty years.
The republican party of the nation
is defeated, but it is not destroyed. 1t
is party of principles, not of make
shifts. 1t can afford to wait for the
certain vindication which must come
when the people have had full exhi-
bition of the lack Of business capacity
on the part of the democracy. That
party's lease of uncontrolled power
cannot be long-unless the people of
the north submit to the introduction of
the election methods which have rem
Tered the name of southern democracy
a Kissing and reproach to every hon.
est man.-Toledo Blade.