The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-10
THE REPUBLICAN, LANDSLIDE.

political events, the magnitude of the
Republican victory ON Tuesday is not a
surprise.
The result of the stupendous folly of
undertaking to change the fiscal policy of
the country, had already been foreshadowed
defeat of the Democrats the country over.
That expectation has been more than
realized in the result of Tuesday.
The reputation of tariff reform-which
meant ultimate free trade-is not Il sudden
popular caprice, it is the deliberate and
dispassionate judgment of the American
people.
The elections this week, present one
solid and unbroken sweep of Republican
victory, throughout the entire country north
of Mason and Dixon's line.
There is not IA State, or even a Congress
ional district in which the reaction against
the destructive industrial policy of the
Democrats has not been felt The reactivc
political tide has even over-tlowed into
the solid South, where the most tai
entcd and influential champions of the
free trade propaganda have been powerless
to stem its resistless sweep.
The popular protest has been absolutely
resistless: it has swept away every possible
pretence for a present continuance of tariff
discussion.
Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia
have been swept from their Democratic
moorings, while Kentucky, Tennessee and
Missouri show unexpected Republican gains
The House of Representatives will be
overwhelmingly Republican, and the Sen
control.
Grover Cleveland, the stupcndous polit-
cal sphynX, like his Egyptian prototype,
serene, but sorrowful, looks out over a
barren waste of party desolation and defeat.
Wherever Il free trade head has shown
itself the people have punched it, while
Wilson $ and Springer's and Bynum's and
Tom Johnson's and Jerry simpsons polti-
cal scalps all danglc at the belts of the big
chiefs of American Protection.
For the first time in the political history
of the country, free trade champions have
been stricken down in the South
In Eagldnd the ne,rs wiU be rcccircd wM
protoaad regret.
But America and American workngmen
will rejoice because the popular blow given
free trade must demoraliZc and dishcarten
its self-deceived advocates
Viewed in all its effects, the most graft
flying result of the protection victory is, that
it makes tariff agitation absolutely power
less for mischief in the next two years
\ Republican House of Representatives
at Washington will stand an efectual
barrier against anymore Wilson bills.
The industrial vexations, the business
embarrassments, the trade hindrances of
the past eighteen months are now impossi-
bic, and the harmful Democratic strife can
no longer atilict an industrial nation in a
time of peace.
Business confidence and commercial tran
guilty now await us as a nation, since the
disturbing ghost that sat at our national
board has been exercised.
For some time to come, thanks to the
wisdom and good sense of the American
people the country will not be menaced
either by the splenetic blunderS of the
Southern Democratic leaders, or the finan-
cial lunacies of the Western Populists.
The American people have put Mr..
Cleveland under bond for his good behavior
on the tariff question, until his final exit
from power.
They have not only commanded indus
trial peace and commercial tranquility, but
by the mandate of Tuesday, voiced through
the ballot box, they have cleared the
atmosphere of brood of noXious issues,
social and economic which have cropped
out all over the Democratic party since it
struck hands with the Altgelds and the
Waitcs Of the West.
The first duty Of the Republican party
will be to use the fruits of victory with
moderation.
1t has the conservative business elements
of the country behind it, and it should heed
their voice.
Confidence in Republican leadership was
never 50 strong as it is to-day, and the
election Of Il Republican successor to Mr..
Cleveland, will continue to be uppermost
in the minds of majority of the people
until that contamination most devoutly to
he wished, shall be realized in 1896.
MARYLAND-ONW
Not since the late Hon. J. 4. J. Creswell