The San Francisco call., 1896-11-04
MCKINLEY AND HOBART.

The people of the United States may
congratulate themselves this morning.
Republicans and honest-money Demo-
Gratis may be proud of the success
achieved by their union. A glorious
victory has been won for protection.
sound money and good government. The
defeat of the agitators has been over
whelming. We shall not have Bryanite
campaign again in this generation. Once
more the American people have proven
themselves to be the safest jury in the
world to which to submit questions OF JUS
tice and honor
The victory for Mckinley and Hobart
means so much 10 the American people
that it is hard to express i. in few words.
1t means protection to American indus
tries and good wages TO American work
ingmen. 1t means sound money and the
maintenance of the credit of the Nation
and its people. 1t means the enforcement
of law, the upholding of the powers of the
General Government and the preservation
of the Supreme Court as temple of in
violate justice.
1t means the defeat of m ischief- making
agitators, of demagogues who appeal to
sectional passions and to class hatreds, of
the repudiators OF honest debts, of the
violators of contracts, of the opponents of
the General Government and of the SLAM
derers of the dignity of the Supreme
Court. 1t means the overthrow of every
element that has thre atened National
prosperity and National honor.
We can now look forward to the i'm
mediate return of better times. Cleve-
landism has been rebuked and Organism
repudiated. There will be no more free
trade experiments. no more deficits, no
more increase of the National debt, no
more disasters in private business. There
will be no more cheap money agitation,
no more resistance to National law, no
more threats of discord and industrial
disturbance.
With the assurance Of the return to the
protective system, which will make
American industries profitable and pro-
vide an adequate revenue for the Govern
ment, the money question will settle
itself. The Nation will no longer have
to run in debt to maintain the gold
reserve. Mills and factories will open
for American workingmen; good wages
will be paid in good money, and industry
their reward. Never in our history have
great questions been so well settled as in
this case. Every danger that seems to
have threatened the Republic or its people
has been met boldly and overcome.
Certainly all good citizens may con-
gratulate one another this morning.
Every prospect of the time now promises
an immediate revival of prosperity. Sc
cure of good legislation at Washington,
capitalists can at once put their
money into circulation ana set about the
accom- plishment of great undertakings.
Men Who have long been unemployed can
| look forward to finding work for their
energies within a comparatively short
time and every trade in the country may
reasonably expect an immediate improve
ment OF business.
| The best feature of the glorious result is
the manifestation that the appeal to Sec
tional antagonisms and class batreds has
been in vain. By the vote of yesterday
| the American people attest that they are
one in interest and sympathies as well as
one in patriotism. They have most
effectually rebuked those who have en-
deavored to excite in them anything like
antagonism. They have shown by their
votes that they agree with Mckinley and
stand for country first, country last and
country with stainless honor all the time.
OURnN AFFAIRS