The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-11-05
-tory for Sound Money and Sound



Speaking editorially of the great
victory for sound money in the Uni
ted States on Tuesday, Yesterdays
Baltimore San, says:
The result of Yesterdays election
leaves no doubt of the sentiment of
the people of the United States upon
the leading issue of the campaign.
| The attempt to fly in the face of com
mon sense and common morality by
declaring fifty cents to be one dollar
has been rebuked and repudiated as
it deserved. The specious argument
of the advocates of free coinage have
failed to mislead the voters of the
country, who have brushed aside
these sOphistries and once more put
themselves on record on the side of
sound business principles, fair deal
ing and general good government.
1t is in the highest degree creditable
to their strength and integrity of
character that they were not swerVed
from the path of right and sense by
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the appeals to their prejudices and
their cupidity. The answer which
they have made to these appeals
should convince the professional
politician and demagogue for the
future that honesty is the best policy
in dealing with the American peo-
pie.
Sit is a subject Of just national pride
after one of the most exciting cam
paigns in the history of the country
yesterdays election should have been
attended by no serious disturbances
in any section of the Union. COnsid-
ering the tremendous strain to which
the public temper has been subjected
during the last few months and the
increasing tension upon public feeling
and apprehension, the bitterness en-
gendered by the contest and the
momentous interests involved, the
quiet, orderly and peaceable manner
in which some twelve million or more
of voters delivered their verdict upon
the issues before them is SO remarka-
BILE as to challenge both admiration
and establishment. This superb
manifestation of calmness and self
control constitutes the highest tribute
that could be paid to the American
people and to American institutions.
1t is not too much to say that no
other people in the world could have
displayed such moderation under
such trying conditions. They have
fully demonstrated their right to po-
litical sovereignty by showing that
they can govern and control them
selves in the face of the strongest
temptations to passion and excess.
Now that this extraordinary cam
paign it happily ended, it is most
earnestly to be hoped that the per
sOnal and social divisions and dissen-
siOns that have been created by it
will be forgotten and forgiven. In
tense bitterness of feeling-leading
even to social ostracism in many
eases-was produced by struggle
which arrayed old personal and polit-
zeal friends and associates against
each other and which developed
charges and counter-charges well cal
culated to irritate and offend. But
Americans should have too much
sense, as well as too much manliness
to bear malice against each other or
to remember with bitterness the
words which have been uttered in the
heat of the battle. What people of
all parties and all sections should re
member is that we are all Americans,
citizens of a common country of which
we all have reason to be proud and in
whose prosperity we are all equally
interested. Whatever differences of
opinion we may have entertained or
may still entertain on the prominent
issues of the campaign, we cannot
afford, as patriots, to perpetuate i'll
will or bad feeling. AcquieScing in
the result as the will of the majority,
we should pat away all personal ami
mosities and clasp hands again with
the former friends from whom we
may have been separated or toward
whom we have grown cold during
the political conflict just ended.