The Irish standard., 1894-11-10
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1894.
NO CONFIDENCE!

vote the people in the nation, state,
county, and city have eald to the Demo
cratic party,-no confidence! After q
great contest, that is the simple verdict
rendered by the greatest tribunal hui
man law knows. We have confidence In
the wisdom of the people aud believe
that they decide matters right. With
out yielding a single principle which We
have advocated in the past and expect to
contnne to advocate, without retracting
a single word uttered in support OF any
candidate and without offering any
eouivocal stat aments for our defeat, HE
IRISH STANDARD congratulates the people
because the great majority of them are
now satisfied with the result Of Tues
days work. Our efforts have been par
tison because we are partleans IN belief
and to partisan result we most humbIy
submit. We are not in the number OF
those who would change tho result in a
single respect. Believing that all things
work to ultimate right we place our CON
titlesce 10 the American people to do She
fair and just thing. The Republican
p~rty is to day as much elated &c was
the Democratic party Two years ago
But it must not claim the victory as its
own work. as ratification by the people
OF it's principles. Circumstances and
conditions were such that the Republl
can candidates were bound to win. The
result is as great house. cleaning for
the Democrats MS it is a victory for
the Republicans. AS long as Grover
Cleveland il president what the Deuao-
Gratis have acc olnpIished will not be lost,
and in the next two years Democratic
leaders and organizations will have time
to master the lesson set before them and
learn that the voice of the severe gn peo
pls speaking to it's servants must be
obeyed and respected. The American
people are Intelligent, they are think
ing people and they will not submit to
double dealing. 1t will be great thing
for the Republican party if they have
learned Shat lesson, but if they believe
that the result of Tuesdays balloting is a
ratification Of the doctrine Of protection
they will be as much deceived by the re-
suit az the elections of 1894 as they were
by the elections of 1885. Thousands of
Democrats all over the country have aid
cd the Republicans IN order to punish
the men whom they have grown to hate.
70 those Democrats the words ''no con-
ddence" came on Tuesday night in the
right light. No confdence That It'd
ing does not mean that the people have
abandoned the principles advocated by
the Democratic party for they are the
essential principles upon which the Re
public is founded, It means that they
are tired of those men processing to be
Democrats who advocated principles be-
fore the election of 1892 which they took
occasion to defeat when presented in the
Senate of the United States. 1t is easy
to understand the result, yet already our
Republican contemporaries are talking
about the death OF the Democratic party.
The result of Tuesdays election never
whispered Of that event. The Demo
cratic party has merited defeats before
and survived, it has won victories in the
east and will do so in the future. Let
us study the significance of the words
"no confidence Let us unload the un-
necessary burdens which we have car
RED in the past and fight Democratic
battles for Democratic principles with
i Democratic leaders and u 8 Democratic
manner. l.S .5ss
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