Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-23
M'KINLEY SWAMPED.
THE NAPOLEON OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY OvERTAkEN BY DEFEAT.

Victory for Free Trade Won by the Fair
est Fight Ever Seen in a Presidential
Battle-Harrison Beaten Because He
Represented the Protection Doctrine.
Major Mckinley has prided himself as
being the Napoleon of the Republican
party. Election day was the Waterloo
for Mckinley and McKinleyism. Moth
ing could save Mckinley from the ditch
digged for him, soberly, silently and re-
morselessly, by the people who pay the
taxes, and who believe that revenue is
tax, and a tax for anything but the
honest expense of government is an un-
warranted hardship. In that ditch Nc
Kinley will probably be left by the party
he has brought to such disastrous defeat.
If the party is to survive it will have to
choose new leaders and return to its
older and better faith. McKinleyism is
dead.-Chicago News-Record Qnd).
Now perhaps we may hear more
truth and less humbug about Mckinley
prices and Mckinley wages, American
tin, Peck's statistics, Frick's Democracy
and British gold.-Buffalo Courier
Oem.).
The victory has been won by the fair
est fighting ever seen in any presidential
battle. From start to finish the strug-
gle has been free from personalities. Mr..
Harrison is beaten simply because he
was representative of Republican doc
trine in its intensest form. 1t is not a
personal but political rejection. This
defeat should leave no sting and excite
no resentment. Two lines of policy were
distinctly defined during the campaign,
and the verdict is given with a clear I'M
derstanding of the merits of the case.
We rejoice that the decision has fallen
on the side of tariff reform.-New York
Herald Qnd.).
What are the causes of this defeat of
the Republican partyp One does not
need to go far to seek them. 1t has not
yet recovered from the popular preju-
dice against the Mckinley bill which
two years ago, just after its enactment.
rose like deluge and swept away the
Republican majority in congress which
had enacted it.-St. Paul Pioneer Press
Dem.).
The people of the United States have
declared in favor of the Democratic can
didate, and presumably of Democratic
principles, and so the United States is
to have an era of free trade for at least
two years and possibly four. All good
citizens, no matter how much they de-
plore the result, will bow to the public ver-
dict, but we venture to make this predic~
tion--that if this country shall have four
years of free trade or of tariff for reve.
nue. only there will not be another
Democratic victory for half century,
San Francisco Chronicle Rep).
McKinleyism, the force bill, bread
and butter politicians, civil service
abuse, pension frauds, billion dollar ex-
travagance, jingo foreign policy, nepo-
tism-these are few of the products of
Republican misrule that were over
whelmingly repudiated and rebuked at
the polls yesterday The American peo-
pie can be trusted to correct abuses in
its governments Paul Globe (Dem.).
The quietest presidential campaign
known closed with the heaviest vote ever
cast. The people had made up their
minds to vote and knew exactly what
they We're going to vote for. They had
been thinking for four years, and did not
need the stimulus of fireworks displays
and the beating of drums to awaken
them to the Importance of voting accord
ing to their convictions. - Cleveland
Plain Dealer Dem.).
The labor vote is largely foreign and
ignorant of the extent of its prosperity.
1t has been misled by demagogues and
has revoted against the best conditions
it has ever known. Its mistake will be
seen when the prosperity on which labor
has thrived as never before receives the
inevitable shock through legislation
based on the platform ON which Cleve-
land is elected. A majority of the vot-
ers have decided to put their labor on
an equality with that of the cheap labor
of the countries of the old world.-Port-
land Oregonian Rep.).