Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-03-10

A Glorious Record.
From the New York Tribune. ]

With the retirement of President Harri-
son and the reversal of political conditions
in the Senate an unbroken era of Rcpubli-
can policies has been brought to a close.
While there was Democratic administra-
tion dnrng President Cleveland's first
term, and while the House has frequently
been under Democratic control, those
policies have practically prevailed since
1861. For the first time in 80 years the
Democratic party is now in undisputed
control of the administration and both
houses of Congress.
One thing at least must be admitted by
even the narrowest Democratic partisan.
If there be a government left for the Dem
ocratic party to administer, gratitude is due
to the Republican party, which saved the
country from secession and disruption,
suppressed the most gigantic rebellion of
modern times and triumphantly reGstab-
lished the supremacy of national authority.
Thirty-two years ago the Republicans had
little cause for gratitude to the Democratic
party which, under the denomination of
southern slave-barons, had brought the
country to the verge of ruin.
The Republican party has retired from
power with the proud consciousness of
having neither betrayed the trusts nor neg
lected its opportunities in the generation
during which its policies have been in
operation. There is an undivided country,
an indissoluble Union, without ownership
or traffic in human souls. There is one
country with one flag, and that flag honor
ed in every quarter of the globe as an hon
est, untanished symbol of liberty and
progress There is a government with a
well-ordered system Of enlightened admin
istration a war debt scaled down from s., =
600, 100000 to less than 5000, 600. 600 dur
ing period when every national debt in
Europe has been increased; a currency
grounded upon the redemption of the ma
tion's plighted faith; banking system at
once stable and flexible and adapted to
the requirements of the people; the most
capable civil service the nation has ever
known; a tariff system which has multi
piled industries and diversified labor
homestead and railway legislation under
which the country has been filled with an
industrious population from ocean tC
ocean; and all the conditions of progres,
and development which have made Ameri
can civilization the marvel of the modern
world
Neither the Federalists, nor the Jeffer
son Democracy, nor the jackson Democ
racy during their prolonged periods o
power left any record that can be compar
ed with the Republican policies of tn,
last 32 years. The country owes at one,
its prosperity and its continued nationa
existence to the patriotism, courage, en-
lightened statemanship and progressive
tendencies of the Republican party. Will
a record for a generation more gloriou
than that made by any other political part,
in this or any other country, no American
witnessing the transfer of the power an,
responsibility at Washington needs Il
stammer when he proudly ecxlaims, "I an
a Republican," On March 4, 1861, whel
Buchanan's imbecile and reasonable ad
ministration came to an end, no American
who loved and respected his country
could have said without flinching, 81 am
Democrat"