The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-23
A VICTORY OF RIGHT.
The Republican Victory Triumph oi
 Justice.

!
 The verdict was against democratic
 policies and practices. It is cold com.
 fort for the party in power to detect scanty successes here and there. Bare
 majorities where overwhelming tri-
 umph was customary, not less than
 stunning defeat where victory was thought certain, admonish the demo-
 cratic party that its purposes and it's
 practices arc resented by the people.
 The change of public feeling within
 one short year is as startling as
 the change in the condition of busi-
 ness and industry. Those who have
 been most sure that it would come,
 when the real meaning of democratic
 success was disclosed, hardly ventured
 to hope that reaction so complete
 would come so soon. But to the wide
 spread suffering and incalculable loss
 which the democratic policy has pro-
 duced, democratic leaders in their
 anxiety to escape an adverse verdict
 added outrages singularly calculated to
 kindlc the resentment of respectable
 citizens. Just what that party may
 have saved from the wreck by it's frauds
 and dishonest apporhonments cannot
 yet be said. But nothing can be plainer
 than the fact that there has been tre-
 mendous revulsion of public feeling against the party which was intrusted
 with power so generously only year ago.
 Fraud cannot always prevail. The lawbreaker who was selected by dem ocrats for tho highest judicial office ap- pears from present returns to be buried under adverse majorities and heavy loss of votes which a man capable of feeling rebuke would feel most lSeenly.
 If it is not complete victory for the right, it is such shaking of the castle walls of wrong as they have not had for years. The hold of the democratic party upon great body of voters has been broken by its own character and conduct, and in coming years the loss of these votes will mean much. When the national issues are more directly involved, and the full republican strength brought out, the democrats know that they will miss the support of thousands who have imagined that they could be democrats and yet be honest and decent men. President Cleveland himself has contributed to public education. His long delay in calling an extra session was a terribly costly error, and revelation as well, and with undoubted good intentions he managed the struggle badly, and won only by republican votes. His surren- der to tho worst clements of his party, as in failing to raise his voice against Maynard, and in debauching the diplomatic service by appointments which even his friends traced back to heavy gifts during the has alienated the very ele- ments by which his last nomination was made possible
 Beyond the baleful influence of Tam many hall, with it's daring frauds and it's corruption fund supplied by vice, the republican party has achieved gains so great as to show plainly what the peo- pie think of the fruits of last years election. The grand victory of Gov. in Ohio, the faithful states man whose name is given to the latest and best republican tariff. ap- pears to be by majority unprec- edented in recent years Indeed, it seems doubtful whether it has ever been equaled except by John Trough during the war His victory means one thing which the democrats may well heed, that in western as we'll as in eastern states the champion of foreign against American industries. is not the choice of the voters. While a repub- llcan victory of old-time proportions in Pennsylvania was not unexpected, tho same lesson is taught by the defeat of John F. Russell in Massachusetts, and the election of a sturdy republican by q large majority. In other states also, as far as the returns now show, the samc resistless uprising of the people l against the democratic policy and is indicated. All along the line, tine voters who have learned by sad experience what change actually means, and what consequences demo. cratic rule involves, have manifested their desire to stop that kind of change as soon as they can.-N. Y. Tribune