The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-11-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Iron Our Regular oorrsspondsos.l
WASHINGTON, D. O, Nov, 6, 1895.
Ring the bells, blow the horns,
Let the glad tidings be told!
Bryan wears his crown Of thorns,
And n nnder hin cr0aa NJ w0ld

ana - unQef DIE cross OF 80lo.
The greatest national victory in the
history Of the republican party was that
won this week, when Mckinley and
Hobart received the largest popular
vote ever cast for Presidential ticket;
a tremendous Republican majority Of
the nexth House was elected, and the
control of sufficient number of State
Legislatures which will elect Senators
for the term beginning March 4, 1897,
was secured to make it reasonably sure
that the Senate wifi have Republican
majority on and after that date, thus
putting the legislative and executive
branches of the government under con.
troll of Republicans, which will enable
the administration of President McKin.
ley togive the country the relief it needs,
by enacting laws in accord with the
policy of the Republican party, which,
as Maj. Mckinley so aptly stated early
in the campaign, stands for IAN honest
dollar and the right to to earn it by
honest toll"
The action of the great majority OF
our country's voters was not only an en-.
dorsement Of the Republican party and
it's policy as expressed by its platform
and candidates, but stinging rebuke
for the men who sought to climb into
power by trying to repeal the Moral
Law; to tarnish and garble the Consti.
tuition of our fathers, which has served
the country through its every crisis, and
to replace "Old Glory" with the red flag
Of anarchy. It was rebuke which
should serve to prevent such men as
Altgeld, the anarchist, Tillman, the
socialist blackguard, Debs, the revolu.
ZIONIST, and Bryan, the inexperienced
theorist, ever again succeeding in do
minating National convention Of any
political party. And it was . notice to
the world that the American people can
always be counted upon to oppose dis.
honesty no matter how enticing q garb
it may present itself in.
Republicans do not forget to give
ample credit to the men who by their
superb management of the campaign
enabled them to win such q great tri.
umph. Mr.. Hanna was new man in
National politics, but no one who watch.
ed the able manner in which he hand.
led the National committee work would
have supposed it had it not been known.
True, Mr.. Hanna had an able corps OF
advisers, among them such successful
and veteran managers as Senator Quay,
but it was because he had the proper
conception Of the task before him that
he surrounded himself with able advis.
ers instead of bootlicks and cuckoos
Representatives Babcock, of Wis, and
Apsley, of Mass. as Chairman, and Vice
Chairman respectively of the Republican
Congressional Campaign Committee
added new laurels to those won by them
in 1894, in the same positions, both a:
, adroit managers and as accurate fore
casters of results, in neither of which
they have ever been excelled. Chair
man Babcock sums up the results of thu
campaign as follows: "The good sens,
and patriotism of the American peopl,
have once more been displayed in I
great crisis, the like of which hiss MOI
been known since the election Of Abra
. ham Lincoln in 1880. I believe that BY
!, this great victory over the populisti'
.. ideas Of free silver and fiat money, th'
socialistic vasariss proclaimed by sucl
men - Sovereign and Debs, and the an
,, archistic leaning Of Altgeld and his fol
lowers, will now for long period II
. come, and hope forever, be eliminate,
from politics in this country ~, hsrssis
, utterly unworthy to be entertained il
the minds Of patriotic people. SO thor
oughly has the Chicago platform beel
.. repudiatsd and denounced by tru'
Americans that NO party can have tn
! efftontszy to place it in whole or I'm par
before the people again for their endorse
!. mont"
Mr.. Cleveland declines to express an,
!. opinion Of the election of Mckinley an,
,, Hobart, for publication, but his feeling
.. may be read between the lines of hi
Thanksgiving Day proclamation, issue'
since the result OF the election wa
. known.
: The Washington Star, the leading in
dependent paper o.. the National Capi
tai, thus editorially speaks of the cleo
, ton: "The country is Q thousand pe
cent stronger today than it was yestel
: day-stronger in its own eyes and in tn
eyes of all the world. A serious crisi
!, has been passed and passed triumph
8 antly. Popular government has neve
. been so thoroughly vindicated Th
! people are the sources of the creates
and best power, and they will enio
now prosperity which must follow g
I signal step toward the restoration q
/ confidence and good will among men.