The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-21

years more. Then to see them quiet
ly go about their work and without
thought of protest on the part OF the
defeated, submit quietly to the will
of the majority. Nowhere sign of
rebellion; nowhere a thought of dis
obeying the recorded mandate of the
people. Where was 20 grand a sg t
ever witnessed among a people 50
numerous, in a country SO large and
amid such varied and oftimes clash
ing interests? So soon as the decision
was known beyond any doubt the de-
feated candidate, despite his almost
superhuman efforts for election, sent
a telegram of congratulation to his
victorious opponent saying: 1--WE have
submitted the issue to the American
people and their will is law" The
chairman of the Democratic National
| Committee, who had worked indefati-
gably for a different result, issued a
proclamation acknowledging defeat,
closing it with these words: True to
that great Jeffersonian principle, all
must bow to the will of the people as
voiced by majority of the electoral
college,"
Had the victory been the other
way we may safely predicate the
same conditions of acquiescence with
the result. Now is it not something
for which all may rejoice, something
of which all may be proud, that we
have a nation obedient TO law, max
ing its own laws and reverencing
them, submitting to the yoke of legal
restraint with such a rare self con-
troll? In view of this, whatever land
our feet may tread, on whatever for
eign shore landed, we may say as one
of our greatest boasts, 81 am an
American citizen"
AS We rejoice, nay all partisan tri
unph be swallowed up in sense of
the countrys veal and the good of
all people. May we gather from
these events frmer trust in the in
tegrity and sound sense and self
control of the American people, SO
that all our fears of the failure of
popular government may be allayed.
So may we come to the faith ex-
pressed in these grand words of
James Russell Lowell, spoken in 1884
on assuming the Presidency of the
Birmingham and Midland Institute
at Birmingham, England, when he
was the representative of this gov
eminent at the court of st. James,
and which breathe a serene conf
dence in the stability of our demo-
cratic institutions: II have grown to
manhood and am now growing old
with the growth of this system of
government in my native land,
have watched its advances, or what
some would call it's encroachments,
gradual and irresistible as those of a
glacier, have been an eye witness to
the forebodings of wise, and good,
and timid men, and have lived to see
those forebodings belied by the
course of events"
Let us therefore, enter upon an
other four years of national existence
and party rule without fear. Let the
party in power remember it is to leg
islate for the interest of the whole
people, following the words of their
chosen leader in recent dispatch:
"Let us" says Mr.. Mckinley, "as
Americana, straightway devote our
selves to the upbuilding of America
to the peace, honor and glory of our
common country. Party discussions
should no longer rack the public
mind nor the zeal of temper of either
side deter any citizen from patriotic
devotion to the good of all"
If the victorious party will carry
out this policy, at the end of four
years we may all rejoice in its tri
umph. In that faith may we cry in
the words of our text, ooh, visit me
with thy salvation, that [ may see the
prosperity of thy chosen, that l may
rejoice in the gladness of thy ma
tion."
OAK PARK, ILL.