Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-11-12
WASHINGTON LETTER


Ring the bells, blow the horns,
Let the glad tidings be told!
Bryan wears his crown OF thcrns,
And IL under his cross OF gold.
The greatest national victory In
the history of the republican party
was that won this week, when Nc
Klnley and Hobart received the larg-
est popular vote ever cast for . pres
idential ticket A tremendous re-
publican majority of the next House
was elected, and the control of suf-
fficient number of State Legislatures
which will elect Senators for the term
beginning March 4th, 1897, was Sc |
cured to make It reasonably sure that |
the Senate will have republican
majority after that date, thus put
ting the legislative and executive
branches of the government under
control OF the Republicans, which
will enable the administration OF
President Mckinley to give the coun-
try 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 IAN honest dol
lar, and the right to earnit by honest
toll"
The action of the great majority Of
our country's veters was not only an
endorsement of the republican party
and its policy as expressed by its plat
form and candidates, but singing
rebuke for the men who sought to
climb into power by appealing to the
|, worst elements In human nature, by
proposing to repeal the moral law;
to tarnish and garble the cOnstitu-
tion of our fathers which has served
the country through its every crisis,
and to replace sold Glory" with the
, red flag of anarchy. 1t was a rebuke
which should serve to prevent such
. men as Altge!d, the anarchist; Till.
man, the socialistic blackguard; Debs
the revolutionist, and Bryan, the In
experienced theor;st, ever again sue
J. ceeding in dominating q National
g convention of any political party.
= And it was notice to the world that
= tho American people can always be
4 counted upon to oppose dishonesty
!. no matter how enticing garb 1t may
s present itself in.
Republicans do not forget to give
ample credit to the men who by the,
n superb management OF the campaign
It enabled them to win such a great
Is triumph. Mr.. Hanna was new mar
o in national politics, but no one
j. who watched the able manner IL
e which he handled the National com
}, mittee work would have supposed II
had it not been known. True, Mr.
Hanna had an able corps OF advisers
among them such successful and vet
% eran managers as Senator Quay, bu
J. it was because he had the proper con
E. ception of the task before him tina
y he surrounded himself with able ad
- visers instead of bootlicks and cuck
10 COS.
IT Representatives Babcock, OF Wis
W consin, and Apsley. OF Massachusetts,
'e as Chairman aud Vice Chairman re
n spectively Of the Republican Congres
Dr. sional Campaign Committee, addet
ID new laurels to those won by them IL
Is 1894, In the same positions, both a
20 adroit managers and as accurate fore
casters of results, in neither Of whicl
they have ever been escelled. Chair
man Babcock sums up the results O
= the campaign as follows:
II "The good sense and patriotism O
&c the American people have once NOR
y been displayed in great crisis, tn
y like Of which has not been know
u since the election of Abraham Liz
coin in 1860. 1 believe that by thi
great victory over the populisti
:. ideas of free silver and fat money
:. the socialistic vagaries proclaimed b
such men as Sovereign and Debs, an
the anarchistic leaning of Altgel
=, and his followers, will now for lon
- period to come, and 1 hope for ever
:. be eliminated from politics in thi
country, as heresies utterly unworth
=. to be entertained in theminds of pat
riotic people. So thoroughly has tn
Chicago platform been repudiate
aud denounced by true American
II. that no party can have the effronter
tie to place it in whole or In part befor
ly the people again for their endorse
AZ ment."
of Mr.. Cleveland declines to exrres
ne any opinion of The election of M,
Ter Kinley and Hobart, for publication
~ but his feelings may be read betwee
the lines of his Thanksgiving da
proclamation, issued since the resul
of the election was known,
The Washington Star, the leadin
ne independent paper Of the Nation,
EN- capital, thus editorially speaks Of tn