The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-11-07
THE BATTLE OF THE BALLOTS.

The patriotism, intelligence and con-
science of the American people won re-.
markable victory on Tuesday.
We say the American people, because it
was not the victory of one party alone, or
the triumph of any one individual leader,
but the spontaneous and we'll considered
act Of the masses and classes of the entire
nation.
Nor in saying so, are we belittlng the
leaders, who stood in the van of the great
army of voters, on whose banners were in
scribed the notices of patriotic devotion
to the nations honor.
AS in 1861, country-loving Democrats
stood side by side with loyal Republicans
in defence of the nations life, so on Tues
day, men Of all parties, inspired by the
highest ideals of patriotism, stood side by
side III defence of the nations honor and
the nations credit.
AS Americans, not as Republicans or
Democrats, they resented at the polls,
the uniustiiahlc attempt of Mr. Bryan and
his porocratic associates, to array the in
dustrial classes of the country against TIE
property holding classes OF it, to ncite by
imprisoned appeals the passions of the
masses OF our people to a reign of anarchy
and misrule in which demagoguish appealy,
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the nations credit, defed the sovereignty
of her laws, and sought to bring into public
contempt, the independence and dignity Of
the nations judiciary.
To their everlasting credit, they put
party behind them, and administered to
the nations enemies well merited rebuke,
by the silent but no less effective weapon
the ballot.
They broke down the unpatriotic and
mario" barriers u pas tizanship for nober
and higher purposes, the maintenance of
national honor, the supremacy of law, the
independence of the courts, and the majesty
OF the will and the power of the people.
Thus inspired, by common purpose as
manly as it was patriotic, Republicans and
Democrats alike marched under the McKin-
ley banner, and indicated their claim to
be recognized as the opponents of an intel
ligent and enlightened American citizen
ship.
unwelcome as such an issue may be in
the popular recognition Of the dangerous
purposes of Mr., Bryan and his Populistic
followers by their undisguised attempts to
array in political and social warfare citizen
against citizen; yet the result Of Tuesday,
exhibits the vitality and power of Ameri-
can citizenship in affo:ding the American
people-the masses and the classes alike
the opportunity to subordinate partizan-
ship to citizenship, when political emer-
gencics arise that so severely test the
stability OF our institutions
As intelligent Americans they apprc-
ciated the present as well as prospective
| evils Of Organism, in the surrender of the
| Government into the hands of men whose
| public declarations as we'll as official acts,
| had shown them to be revolutionary and
biIitcs Of power.
AS lcading contemporary forcibly says,
these evils were on Tuesday ayerted by "the
! intelligence and patriotism of the Ameri-
can people when they voted for Mckinley
and Hobart, for the honor Di the nation,
for public morality, for all those @rtit. PC
litical principles, upon the success of which
depend the prosperity, the liberties and
welfare of the people. 1t was the people
who won the triumph, and OF whatsoever
party they were, theirs is the honor and
theirs will be the reward in the assurance
of national integrity invincibly established,
the awakening of enterprise, the revival of
industry, the restoration of public and pri-
waite credit upon the enduring, solid basis
of honest, sound money; the activity of trade
and the just profits of capital and the fair
wages of labor. The intelligence and the
conscience of the people have recorded the
nations verdict against national dishonor,
against all the political and social evils
which the victory of Organism would have
carried with it. So, to-day, let as all re-
verently say, as Lowell taught us to say:
Bow down. dear Land, for thou hast found
release
Rly God, in these distempered days,
Hath taught thee the sure wisdom of His
ways.
And through thine enemies hath wrought
thy peace
Bow down in prayer and praise
MARYLAND TO THE FRONT.