Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-11-07
THE POLITICIAN.
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
history of the republican party was
that won this week, when Mckinley
and Hobart received the largest popu-
lar vote ever cast for a Presidential
ticket; tremendous republican major
ity of the next House was elected, and
the control of sufficient number of
State legislatures which will elect Sena-
tors for the term beginning March 4,
1897, was secured to make it reason
ably sure that the Senate will have a
republican majority after that date,
thus putting the legislative and execu-
tive branches of the government under
control of epublicans, which will en-
able the administration of President
Mckinley to give the country the relief
it needs, by enacting laws in accord
with the policy of the republican party,
which, as Major Mckinley so aptly
stated early in the campaign, stands
for San 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 policy as expressed by it's plat
form and candidates, but singing re-
buke for the 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 tarn-
ish 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 anar-
chy. 1t was rebuke which should
serve to prevent such men as Altgeld,
the anarchist, Tillman, the socialist
blackguard, Debs, the revolutionist,
and Bryan, the inexperienced theorist,
ever again succeeding in dominating a
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 garb
IL may present ltSelf 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 great tri-
umph. Mr.. Hanna was 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 managers as
Senator Quay, but it was because he
had the proper conception of the task
before him that he surrounded himself
with able advisers instead of bootlicks
and cuckoos. Representatives Bah
cock, of Wis, and Apsley, of Mass, as
Chairman and Vice Chairman respect
iyely of the Republican Congressional
Campaign Committee, added new laur-
els to those won by them in 1894, in
the same positions, both as adroit
managers and as acurate forecasters of
results, in neither of which they have
ever been excelled. Chairman Babcock
sums up the results of the campaign as
follows: "The good sense and patriot
ism of the American people have once
more been displayed in 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
silver and fat money, the socialistic
vagaries proclaimed by such men as
Soyreign and Debs, and the anarchistic
leaning of Altgeld and his followers,
will now for long period to come, and
! hope forever, be eliminated from poll
tics in this country as heresies utterly
unworthyto be entertained in the minds
of patriotic people. So thoroughly has
the Chicago platform been repudiated
and denounced by true Americans that