The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-11-21
NOW FOR PROSPERITY.
A Remarkable Demonstration of the
Reviva! of Business Has Followed
Republican Success.
Regular Correspondence WING.

Regular Correspondence WING.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. 1896
Had it been possible for the voters to have
seen one week before election the remarkable
demonstration of the revival of public confid-
eu"e which has come from every section of
the country since the election CT Mai Nc
kiuley, there is no doubt that Mckinley and
Hobart's popular majority would have been
million greater than it is. Republicans
bad no doubt that apprehension caused by
the fear of those who controlled money that
all our standards of value might be upset
had done more to paralyze business than any
other one thing, and they so told the people
from every stump and through the columns
of every Republican paper. They convinced
many, but if the starting up Of idle mills and
manufactures and the Inauguration of great
enterprises involving vast expenditures and
the employment of all the unemployed who
wish to be employed could have taken place
before the election a million more would
have been convinced and would have voted
for real prosperity instead of for a chimera
However, it was only by waiting until a
restoration of republican control, executive
and legislative, was absolutely assured, that
the great business interests Of the country.
the prosperity of which involves the pros
perity of all our people, could show to the
world the faith felt in the wisdom of the Re-
publican party. The Republican who does
not feel his heart swell with pride merely to
belong to an organization which can inspire
such faith must be cool-blooded indeed. The
news columns of the press since the election
of Mckinley and Hobart was announced
have, by just printing the cold facts about
the actual, not prospective, revival in almost
every part OF the country and in almost every
line OF industry and business, paid the
highest tribute Of praise to the Republican
party ever paid to any political organization
in any country in the history Of the world.
1t is now for the Republicans to show to
the world that this tribute was deserved. No
one who is familiar with the life and record
of President-elect Mckinley and of those of
the Republicans elected to the flfty-flfth Con-
gress and those holding seats in the Senate
can entertain doubt on that subject. With
President Mckinley to suggest and Speaker
Reed, the Republican majority in the House
and the hoped for Republican majority in the
Senate, to execute, the legislation will be
such as will expand and make permanent
the business boom which started the hour
that Republican success was assured, and
which will. it is confidently believed continue
to grow and grow until the country enjoys n
long era of the greatest prosperity in its
history. And one Of the good things about it
will be that the misguided popocrats who
tried so hard to prevent Republican success
will be equal sharers in the general prosperity.
1t ought to make them see things as they
really are, instead of as they are represented
by damagogues who try to trade upon "hard
times" and public credulity.
That some appointments of Importance
will be rendered to gold Democrats for their
assistance in the campaign is probable. but l
have talked with no Republicans who believe
that they will include a cabinet position.
The diplomatic service offers opportunities.
man has only to be a patriotic American to
represent his country satisfactorily abroad,
sympathy with all the policies of the head of
the administration under which he serves,
or he disarranges machinery which ought to
run smoothly to get the best results,
Senator Quay stopped in Washington long
enough while on his way to Florida. where
he will fish and rest until Congress meets, TO
express the opinion that there was Il prob
ability that the House Emergency Tariff
Bill, passed at the last session and held up in
the Senate by the refusal of some Of the Re-
pubican Silver senators to support ii unless
Il irce coinage amendment was attached,
might be taken up and passed ut the coming
session. Senator Quay did not enter into de-
tails hc seldom docs as to why he thought
the bill might be passed. II is supposed that
he thinks, rs many others do, that the Re-
publican silver Senator'S, seeing the absolute
impossibility of securing silver legislation,
will vote for the bill which would, If enacted
into law. provide the government with
revenue enough TO make the receipts more
than equal the expenditures. While Mr.
Cleveland has never said that he would sign
this BILL the impression is general that he
would not veto it. so that il passed by the
Senate it is reasonably certain TO become a
law.
Senator Butler, the Popuists Chairman,
rather rubbed 1t in on the Democrats when
he issued an address to the country putting
all the blame for defeat on them, and assert
ing that the populists will he the principal
Of Ia, IN, I,,
address has made the Democrats hopping
mad, but Butler thinks them of so little con-
sequ fence now that he doesn't care.
The heart is II loom, and it may weave
whatever it pleases. 1t may make life a