Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-11-11
REPUBLICAN, PRESS COMMENTS.
COUNTRY ABOVE PARTY.

COUNTRY ABOVE PARTY.
Baltimore Sun: tits but natural that
republicans should feel and express a
deal of citation over the success of
their candidates. The country I'M
doubleday owes a great debt of graft.
tude to those republicans who at st.
Louis, before the nomination of Bryan
and against. as it was said at the time.
the wishes of Mr.. Mark Hanna and of
Major Mckinley, insisted that the plat
form of their party should contain an
uneQuivocal declaration in favor of
sound money, and against the free
coinage of silver Great credit must
also be acknowledged to be due since
Major McKinley's nomination to Mr..
Hanna and to those who have been
associated with him in the manage
ment of the republican canvass for the
skill. persistency and energy with
which they have pressed the campaign
for sound money.
Mingled with our natural gratifica-
ton over the decisive victery just won
for honest dealing and honest money
should be deep and reverent sense of
thankfulness to the omnipotent Ruler
of events that this great country has
been saved from the dangers and dis
asters which would unquestionably
have been brought upon us by the
triumph of the principles of the Chica
go platform and by the supremacy in
public affairs of reckless and politically
INSCRIPTIONS men like Altgeld and
Tillman. Those dangers were, in their
way, as grave and far reaching as any
which ever menaced the peace and
perpetuity of the republic The sue
cess of Organism would have been an
Unreasonable calamity to the United
States--an even more serious blow to
republican institutions than to its
business interest.
WHO WON?
New York Tribune: more than
twelve million voters cast their ballots
Tuesday. It was the climax of the
most important and most impressive
electoral campaign ever waged upon
American soil. It was mighty con-
fict, fifty crowned with mighty vic /,
tory. But who won?
1.-The people won. The plain PEG
Pile made sure that governments of the
people. for the people, by the people,
shall not perish from the earth The
| farmers won. They vanquished those
who sought to compel them to except
half price. in clipped coin. for the pro-
duce of their fields. The workingmen,
| the wage earners, won. They defeated
those who tried to cut their wages in
two. The thrifty depositors in savings
banks won. They baffied the schemes
| of those who would have robbed them
of half their savings. The holders of
life insurance policies won. They we're
victorious over thoseswho proposed to
force reputation Of half their policies
The army OF pensioners, wards of the
nation, won. They beat.the migrate
full consipirators who attempted to cut
down their little incomes by one half
Churches and schools and hospitals
and asylums won. They triumphed
over those who meant to rob them of
half their incomes. All honest indus
tries, business, society. won in the over
throw of those who conspired for de
preston, ruin and chaos Law and or
der won The Federal government
was vindicated against those who
denied its authority and sought to de
prive it of all power to maintain the
constitution and execute the laws. The
postal service was made victorious over
the revolutioqists who demanded that
the carrying of the mails should be
done at the pleasure Of the mob.
The courts, won, triumphant over the
abominable conspiracy to make them
political machines whose decisions
should be bought and sold at the bid
ding of some venal boss. The civil SER
vice won over the attempt to revamp
the old. corrupt spoils system. The
national treasury won over those who
would have made it counterfeiters'
den.
Truth won Righteousness won.
God won. The moral law was vindi-
Gated in affairs of state"