Huntsville gazette., 1893-12-02
A VICTORY OF RIGHT. Il
The Republican victory : Triumph Of
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The verdict was against democratic
policies and practices. 1t is cold COM
fort for the party in power to detect
scanty successes here and there. Bare
majorities Ghere overwhelming tri-
umph was customary, not less than
stunning defeat where victory was
thought certain. admonish the demo-
cratic party that its purposes and its
practices are resented by the people.
The change of public feeling within
one short year is as startling as
the change in the condition CT 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
kindle the resentment of respectable
citizens. just what that party may
have saved from the wreck by its frauds
and dishonest apportlonments cannot
yet be said But nothing can be palmer
than the fact that there has been tre-
mendous revulsion of public feeling
against the party which was intrusted
with power SO generously only a year
ago.
Fraud cannot always prevail. The
lawbrealxer who was selected by DEM
ocrats for the highest judicial Office ap-
pears from present returns to be buried
under adverse majorities and a heavy
loss of votes which man capable of
feeling rebuke would feel most keenly.
If it is not complete victory for the
right, it is such a 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 arc moro 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 a revelation as well,
and with undoubted good intentions he
managed the struggle badly, and won
only'by republican votes. His surren-
der to the worst elements of his
party, as in failing to raise his
voice against Maynard, and in
debaucliug the diplomatic service
by appointments which even his friends
traced back to heavy gifts during the
campaign, has alienated the very ele-
ments by which his last nomination
was made possible
Beyond the baleful influence of Tam
many hall, with its daring frauds and it's
corruption fund supplied by vice, the
republican party has achieved gains 50
great as to show plainly what the peo-
pie think of the fruits of last years
election. The grand victory of Gov.
Mckinley 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 Brough
during the war. His victory means one
thing which the democrats may well
heed, that in western as well as in
eastern states the champion of foreign
against American industries is not the
choice of the voters. While a repub-
hcan victory of old-time proportions in
Pennsylvania was not unexpected, the
same lesson is taught by the defeat Of
John E. Russell in Massachusetts,, and
the election of sturdy republican by
a large majority. In other states also,
as far as the returns now show, the
same resistless uprising of the people
against the democratic policy and
methods is indicated. All along the
line, the 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.