The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-18
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To THE EDITOR OF THE suS-sfr. Now that
some days have elapsed, tho smoke has cleared
away from tho battle Of Nov. 2. and the CON
tending forces have boon enabled to figure up
their losses and gains, it Is possible TO survey
tho deld dispassionately and devise plans for the
prosecution Of future campaigns. The Republican
party was whipped at every point; there Is. no
question about that; no more Is there any quos-
ton that tho party was not defeated by Tam
many, but rather by disgruntled members OF its
own family. So-called Republicans, assisted by
Cleveland Democrats, downed the organization
and Tammany got the spoils.
Where the Citizens Union reaped any benefit
does not appear; three Asscmblymon are but
cold comfort. 1t has been, so far rs the Cts
were concerned, q case of biting off ones nose TO
OF tho two small boys who quarrelled over u
walnut, ench claiming the meat. An older boy
apbitrament. Hc divided The shell equally be-.
tween the smaller boys ond-put the meat In his
1t was. apparent to every observer that the
Citizens Union was playing directly into the
for hSn a con,innance Of the Strong TSnGs brand ,1s do OF NUM-.
cipal government, were but poor blinds from
behind which to take a shot at senator Plat
and the Republican. organization. People real
! lied this. yet the babes in swaddling clothes
from the nursery on Morningside Heights sue
ceeded in fooling large numbors OF otherwise
loyal Republicans into voting for the candidate
with tho halo, and against the candidate of tho
party which has for nearly half a century been
the rock of the nations safety.
Tammany was shrewd in promulgating its
platform. 1t realized that whereas 1t cut Its own
might this year win through r~eticence on Its
own part as to its present position In national
P POL tSso SIa BY allowing Witt i1s 9 nPoR,Sjsr M to do ss "a
openly as to the effect Van Wyck's election. or
defeat might have upon tho Congressional cleo.
tons of next year and the Presidential election
of 1900. the leaders OF the silver propaganda
were clearly on tho anxious seat. Had Gen;
Tracy been elected they would have skunk of
into their corners with not u word, or at most
with a statement that the. New York elections
would have no particular bearing upon tho cam.
happenedf Van Wyck was elected, and fol
hours the telegraph wires were workod almost
to incandescence In hcralding the glad news OF
q Democratic landslide in the very hotbed of the
influence on Col. watterson in his giving up the
fight for the preservation OF the Palmer.Buck
What is to be donei The first requisite is tc
save the pieces. As when, after q battle ir
which an army IL all cut up. the first duty Of tn
and disintegrated ranks, SO the various f%actionl
Of the Republican party must get together. bur!
stragglers, instill n patriotic and partisan en-
thusiasm into, the hearts Of the lukewarm, gran
amnesty to the rebels. close up, the ranks ant
present a front to the enemy that shall be in
vulnerable to attack. and invincihle In the
charge. The spirits Of outlawry and revolution
down any more than would the spirit OF rebel
lion which dominated the South Carolina Con
vention in 1860. The latter had to be crushed
to be ground into the filth from which 1t sprunI
by the stcel-clad heel of tho Federal Government
Four long bloody years Of intcrnecine strife. with
out n parallel in history. were needed to crust
the life out of tho rebellion. A republican Ad
ministration, supported by the honest and fail
minded Democrats OF the North. put an end +
the Instruction. To-day the same gallant oil,
Republican party. wearing the scars of many
hard-fought struggle, faces a new Democrac
scarcely less dangerous than It's prototype o
forty years ago. The Republican party is cape
Bile of doing its duty in spite OF foes without an
traitors within. The Democracy of to-day mus
be crushed; when that happens the Democrat
party will once more become respectable, an
the followers of Samuel J. Tilden, Andrew Jacl
son and others of their calibre will then have II
cause to blush for shame at the prostitution {
their party.
There is nothing in the triumph of Tamman
to dishoartcn Republicans in particular and tn
war was ever waged in which one side WAS vi,
torious from the beginning; wrong In the en-
succumbs to right: after tyranny, Justice; attt
Saul. David; after Draco. Solon; after The
mopyle. Salamis: after Charles l.. Cromwell
after Lexington and Bunker Hill, Saratoga an
Yorktown; after Bull Run, AppomattoX: aftt
Marongo. Arcola. Austerlitz, WnEram-Wate
loo and the end Of the Napoleonic despotism. A
at Marengo, kellcrnan by q bold stroke turne
defeat into victory for the French arms, SO nu'
the R"publicans OF the city Of New York snatC
the newly won plumcs of victory from the WI
bonnets of the Democracy. The election OF No
2 was but an exchange Of shots on the pick,
line: it bears no greater relative Importance.
BROOKLYN, Nov. Is. A A. DlMoCK.