The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-11-10
Friday. November 10. 1893.
..OUT AT FIRST"

These are the days when the stalwart
Republican who has never wavered from
the standard of the grand old party feels
and sees a full justification of his faith.
The tidal wave of one year ago that bore
on its crest the idols of Democracy, and
seemingly planted them on firm founda-
tons for the alteration of the people, has
ebbed with even greater force and resist
lessness than characterized its flow. and
wherever it touched there is nothing left
to tell of Democratic pride and glory OF
the day before. That it could have been
otherwise no one would believe. but even
80, the most sanguine of Republicans
cannot but wonder at the celebrity and
completeness with which the Democratic
party has worked its undoing.
The Democratic press tell us that in
many cases where they suffered defeat
on Tuesday, it was on local issues that
the battle was waged, and that the re
suit has no significance. but granting
that opposition to Tammany methods
buried Maynard under an avalanche of
100000 adverse ballots, that opposition
vas expended there, and is not to be
considered as a factor in the vote that
gives the state to the Republicans by
$1,000 against $4,000 for Cleveland only
q year ago. In the northern district
II Illinois partisan politics were un-
doubtedly cast aside in the defense of
IN honest judiciary. and in New Jersey.
too, to a certain extent the respectable
Democrats joined with the Republicans
in uprooting a corrupt Democratic ma
chine. second only to Tammany, but
doesn't it seem somewhat significant
that these battles against anarchy and
judicial and political corruption are
everywhere fought and won under Re-
publican banners. But passing the re-
suit in those states and localities where
local questions may have been para
mount. what must be the logical conclu-
sion when the great manufacturing states
OF Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and
Ohio have in the first instance reverseda
stubborn Democratic majority. and in
b other two added overwhelmingly to
Republican figures? Pirate as you may
about silver and finance, the vote in
these pivotal states means but one thing:
Deserted factories must be peopled
again; willing labor must be given EN-
p%loyment. and this can only be done by
the maintenance Of the purely Ameri-
lean doctrine of protection to American
labor and industries.
No where was this decision of the PEG
pile so signally proclaimed as in Ohio.
where the acknowledged champions be-
fore the nation of the respective doc
trines of Protection and Free Trade
Mckinley and Neal-mct ou Il battle
ground peculiarly susceptible to the
great question at issue. What was the
Mckinleys popularity perhaps
entitled him to something like his plu-
rality Of two years age. but when he
quadrupies this, it simply means that
Tree trade Is condemned and protection
endorsed. \ political theory that
Y in bare anticipation can shake a
prosperous country intoa financial panic.
reduce hundreds of thousands to the +,
verge OF bankruptcy. stop the wheels
and discharge the hands in four-fifths of .
The factories in the country. is righte- {
condemned. :
The victory is too comprehensive to 9
admit of treatment in detail. So far as !
he contest extended it is vastly more v
complete than the democratic victory OF a
asst year. The republican party that d
ostentatiously consigned tothe grave
Or the 'steenth time by joyous demo
rats. marched through the lard on =
Tuesday with all the prestige of Lin {
olu, Grant and Garfield, never more ir-
esistable and scarcely ever more vic :
Drious. =