The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-09
THE PEOPLE RULE.

The patriotic people Of the Union cast party
| lines to the winds yesterday and spoke mill
ion-tongued to maintain the integrity Of the
republic. They did not scotch the snake of re-
quotation; they killed it, and henceforth the
| degradation of our currency, the degradation
| OF public and private credit and the degra-
! dalton OF honor between man and man will be
a. lost cause OF American politics.-Philadel-
| phia Times.
1t shows that very large proportion, If
not majority, Of the agricultural producers
OF the country have not been deuded by the
theory that their condition would be i'm
proved by debasing the currency.-Omaha
Bee (Rep).
1t Is a resstless Mckinley avalanche. The
great representative Of national honor, public
and personal honesty, sound money and
American protection sweeps the country by a
magnificent popular vote and by an almost
unequaled electoral majority. it is the grand
est peaceful uprising in our national march
OF progress.-Philadelphia Press Rep).
The gospel Of hatred, the public policy Of
attacking credit, depreciating the currency
OF the nation, and interfering with business
prosperity, has been buried under such an
avalanche of votes that it have no hopes
of resurrection to again vex the present gen
Grafton Pittsburg Dispatch (Rep.).
The vote which elected Mr.. Mckinley was
the silent vote of which we have heard SO
much during the past few weeks and to
| ly bewildered. 1t was the vote of the think
| ers the quiet, patient workers the yeomanry
| the bone and sinew of the land-the vote Of
sturdy men who wanted nothing of parties
| or politicians, who answered the promptings
| Of their consciences without external
| aid, who thought OF their country first and of
themselves afterward. - Washington Post
| (Dem).
! Thank God! In the name Of a long tried,
sorely suffering people. thank God-that God
We n hI1O anti U nd rid
| the storms of nations-who planted the foun-
dations of our democracy in the eternal gran
lite of its hills; who gave to the builders of
the national structure thereon the wisdom
to build for the future as we'll as for free
dom; and who endowed their sons, and sons
of sons, with the same hardy spirit to pre-
serve, which in the sires had been strong
to construct. Thank God for the triumph,
and thank God for the travail too. For with
out the trial such a triumph could not have
been; and until such triumph was achieved
by our people we could never have been sure
Of one Of the pillars of our governmental
fabric, because it had never been tested
COurier-Journal (Dem.).
In the face of it all, how heeting feeble
and puerile appears the attempt to transform
this government! 1t dashed against the rock
of the sound sense and the stern integrity
of the nation, and it dissolves as the froth of
the waves of the ocean. The deluded men
engaged in it have been taught useful les
son, and the demagogues who sought to lead
them astray have found that the soil of our
republic furnishes no field for their folly
or their machinations.-Boston Herald.
The Republicans have come into power on
the pledge that their success would guarantee
return to prosperity. This being the pledge
on which thew won, it is to be hoped that il
will materialize. They have promised to re-
store bimetallism by international agreement
and the people will now have an opportunity
to test their sincerity; In the meantime there
is but one thing to do, and that is to accept
the result and watch velopments.-Atlanta
Constitution.
The revolt of the best men in the Demo-
cratic party called attention to what the
Chicago platform stood for, as nothing else
could have called attention to that. The
victory at the polls on Tuesday was victory
of patriotism more than a victory of party
Iowa Register (Rep).
The Republicans have elected their candl
date; but let us in the midst of our rejoicing
remember that the Republicans have had ear
nest, constant, patriotic allies in the sound
money Democrats. Let us be manly and
truthful and admit that 1t was the sound
money Democrats who turned the scale for
victory in parts of the field where the battle
ragged the f1ercest.-Buffalo Commercial (Rep.)
1t is no mans victory. 1t is no party's
victory. Under Divine Providence it is the
American peoples triumphant assertion Of
eternal principles Of right and truth.-New
York Sun.
Inc common sense OF the people mas tr1-
umphed. and the flag has been SIS bravely
defended as it was at Antietam. We have
had our military AppomattoX; now comes
the Appemattox. of politics. To. the people
of this country, the common people as they are
falsely called, is due the honor of both
achievements--New York Herald Dem.).
For the past thirty years there has been
party of imitation in the United States.
Yesterday for the first time the people had
q chance to vote yes or no on the question:
hnrTn ~
face in gold? Their answer, by a heavier
vote. a larger number of states, more over
whelming majority than have ever before
been known in the history of the republic, is
no.-New York Times (Dem).
The people won. The plain people, made
sure that government of the people, for the
people, by the people, shall not perish from
the EARTH" The farmers won. They van
quiShed those who sought to compel them to
accept half-price, in clipped coin, for the
wage-earners won. They defeated those who
tried to cut their wages in two. The thrifty
depositors in savings banks won. They
baf1ed the schemes of those who would have
robbed them Of half their sayings.-New York
Tribune Rep.).
The election Of the Republican candidate
means at least four years Of protectionism,
four years rule and four years growth of
predatory powers injurious to the common
weal.-Winnipeg Tribune.
They cannot keep up the agitation, and
free silver with all that it implies, pre-
scented in the Bryan platform, has fought its
first and last battle in the United States.
Canadians will not regret this conclusion any
more than the sober majority of Americans,
for prolonged agitation could only result in
keeping business in a continued state Of
Observation-Disclosures Free Press.
There was no halfway business about 1t.
The people, North. East, South and West,
voted yesterday to sustain the public credit;
to keep untarnished the national honor. It
was a vote for the gold standard. 1t was a
vote of confidence and support for the finan-
cal policy of the Cleveland administration,
and at the same time a vote of rebuke for
both parties in failing to assist in the effort
to maintain gold payments.-Philadelphi
Record.
The present is not time for pessimism or
depression. In Colorado, indeed, it is time
for hope The tension of the campaign is
over. In the hills Of the state nature still
holds her treasures. From the fertile valleys
and on the productive mesas wealth beckons.
The sons and daughters of Colorado today
send to the East their greetings and wishes
of good whichever Times.
The Democratic party Of this country need
ed a lesson and has been taught it. So sharp
is this lesson that the history of American
politics may be searched in vain for par
allel Hopelessly split in some sections, deci-
mated in others, weakened in the very states
which forced Populistic ideas upon the party.
the Democracy has plunged to the most sig
nal defeat it has ever Observation-Disclosures
Post Dem.).