Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-11-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrOm Our Special Correspondent,
WASHINGTON. D. G. Nov. 0 ,a8.

WASHINGTON. D. O., Nov. o, '96.
Ring the bells, blow the horns,
Let the glad tidIngs be told;
Bryan wears his crown of thorns,
And is under his cross of gold.
The greatest national victory in the
Republican party was that wen last
week, when Mckinley and Hobort re-
ceived the largest popular vote ever
cast for Presidential ticket: a tremen.
dous Republican majority of the next
House was elected, and the control
OF a sufficient number of State Legis-
latures which will elect Senators for
The term beginning March 4, 1897, was
secured to make it reasonably sure
that the Senate will have a Republican
majority after that date, thus putting
the legislative and executive branches
OF the government under control of
Republicans, which will enable the
administration of President MCKINLEY
to give the country the relief it needs.
by enacting laws in accord with he
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 earn it by
honest toll"
The action of the great majority of
our country's voters was not only an
endorsement Of the Republican party
and its policya as expressed by its plat.
form and candidates, by singing re-
buke forthe men who sought to climb
into power by appealing to the worst
elements in human nature, by propos.
ing to repeal the Moral Law; to tarnisi
and garble the Constitution of our
fathers, which has served the country
through its every crisis, and to replace
"Old Glory" with the red flag of an
archy. 1t was a rebuke which should
serve to prevent such me as Altgeld.
the anarchist, Tillman, the socialist
blackguard, Debs, the rev%olutionist,
and Bryan, the Unexpected theorist,
aver again succeeding in dominating
a National convention of any political
party. And it was a notice to the world
that the American people can always
be counted upon to oppose dishonesty
no matter how enticing a garb it NAV
present itself in.
Republicans do not forget TO give
ample credit 10 the men who by their
superb management of the campaign
enabled them TO win such a great tri-
umph. Mr.. Hanna was a new man in
National politics, but no one who
watched the able manner in which he
handled 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
as Senator Quay, but it was because he
a the proper conception of the task
before him that he surrounded himself
with able advisers instead of b%ootblacks
and cuckoos. Representatives Babe ock,
OF Wis.,, and Apsley, of Mass, as
Chairman and Vice Chairman respect.
lively OF the Republican Congressional
Campaign Committee, added new
%laurels to those won by them in 1894,
IN the same positions, both as adroit
managers and as accurate f~orecasters
of results, in neither of which they
have ever been excelled.
Chairman Babcock sums I'D the re.
suits OF the campaign as follows: 1.-THE
good sense and patriotism of the Amer
lean people have once more displayed
In a great crisis, the like of which has
not been known since the election of
Abraham Lincoln in 1860. | believe
that by this great victory over the
populistic ideas of free sill yer and fiat
money, the socialistic vagaries pro.
claimed by such men as Sovereign and
Debs, and the anarchistic leaning of
Altgeld and his followers, will now for
a long period to come, and | hope for
ever, be eliminated from politics in
this country as heresies utterly un
worthy to be entertained in the minds
OF patriotic people. So thoroughly
mas the Chicago platform been repudi-
ated and denounced by true Americans
that no party can have the ~effrontery
to place it in whole or in part before
the people again for their endorse.
Mr.. Cleveland declines to express
any opinion of the election of McKin-
ley and Hobart, for publication, but
his feelings may be read between the
lines of his Thanksgiving Day procla.
nation, issued since the result of the
was known.
The Washington Star, the leading
independent paper of the National