The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-11-19
WHAT THE VICTORY MEANS.
An Ending of Danger Elements in the
Body POlitiC.

Body Polite.
McKinley's lead in the electoral col
lege will be 113. 1t ought, of course,
to have been 213, or 413, for there is not
a person in this country who can give
n good reason why Bryan should have
got an electoral vote at all. Still, the
113 majority will do. It is longer
lead than any presidential nominee has
gained since 1872, except that won by
Cleveland in 1892. Cleveland had plu-
rality in that year of 132 over Harrison,
end majority of 110 over Harrison and
Weaver. Hayes had a majority of 1,
Garfield of so, Cleveland in 1884 of 81,
and Harrison in 1888 of IS. Mckinley
has much larger majority than any of
these, while his Endorsement in the
popular vote will be more impressive
than any other candidate ever gained.
The immense popular majority, sup
plementing the big electoral majority,
makes the recent victory one of the
most notable and decisive in American
annals. Some wild vaporing will be
heard for few days among the Ait
gelds, the Bryans, the Faulkners and
the Joneses about 1900, but this will be
dismissed with smile by the people.
There will be no 1900 for the elements
which have just been overthrown.
Theirs is now seen to be the most thor
oughly disreputable and discredited of
all the lost causes which have ever fig
ured in national politics in this coun-
try. 1t is entirely safe to say that fully
third of the men who voted for the
Chicago ticket will, long before IL
months more pass, be ashamed to ac-
knowledge their folly.
There is no menace to business in
these howls of Altgeld. Faulkner and
Jones, and in the fantastiy pledges and
threats of Bryan. The follies and vii
lainies which these men represented
will never be SO potent again rs they
were in the crusade in which they have
Just been crushed. All the elements
of danger to representative government
which political philosophers at home
and abroad have been for century
warning the country against were
united under the same banner in the
contest just ended. The honest but
ignorant and credulous persons who
formed the main body of the Bryanite
forces, and who always fall an easy
prey to the smooth demagogue, were re-
enforced by the faddists and cranks of
all sorts who think that any change in
the social regime will be for the better;
the impracticables and the shiftless, to
whom life under any kind of conditions
would be failure; the malcontents, the
social Ishmaelites and the anarchists
who are opposed to government in any
shape, and who would try to pull down
Organism if it were ever established,
and the criminals of all classes, nation
alities and castles whose hand is against
all sorts of authority, were gathered to-
gether under the same leaders in the re-
cent assault upon the government. This
looked like formidable coalition, and
1t was. but it went down to eternal
smash when the virtue, the intelligence
and the patriotism of the country COM
bined against it. There is not the
faintest probability that all these ele-
ments can ever again be brought into
the same camp at any one time. The
enemies of governmental honesty and
order have done their worst, and have
failed. That 113 electoral and the S00,-
900 or 100000 popular majority for
Mckinley proclaimed to the country
that the fetters placed on business by
the popocratic peril are smashed for
good.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.