The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-11-14
A browning Victory.

l. hO lCClSCblun VI W lAAAebA
is the browning triumph of struggle
that began Immediately after the ter
rible blunder the American people
committed, ia moment OF political de-
lirium. in the Ational election of 1892,
to repair the disastrous consequences
of that fatal error. The decisiveness
of the Republican majority in the cleo
ton of Tuesday, its cumulative force
and strength, is a wholesome sign al
the sincerity of the repentance OF pc
litical sin, aud the depth and earnest
ness of the convictions of the American
voters on the questions at issue, both
the old and the new.
Sunrise of Nov 8, 1892, began to dii-
close to the American people--all too
late-the fatal nature of the mistake
they had made, or that constitutions
majority had made and in its disas-
trous consequences had involved the
whole country. Orders for merchan-
disc and machinery began to be coun-
fernandez, enterprise began to sus-
pend its energies and contract its lines.
All the forces and agencies of material
progress and commercial development
which had been halted during the can
vass of that year began to retreat or to
prepare for retreat. Mills began 10
close, railway construction to stop, pro-
duction in nearly every line of industry
began to hedge, and this condition of
suspended animation became more and
more the settled condition of things. 1t
became cumulative and ended in
paralysis. Laborers began to be idle,
and at the zenith of this reign of indus
trial terror the little g:oups of the I'M
employed became great armies of hun
CRY men behind whom were families,
but just now living in comfort, suffer
ing for the want of food and fuel and
raiment. Charity was laid under heavy
contributions.
The tall elections of 1898 indicated
that disilusionment and repentance
were coming, and in 1894, in the No
vember elections, the storm angry men
had raised, the result in some part OF
their own folly, but in larger part of
the teachings of demagogues and false
political prophets, swept every State
above the historic line of Bourbon
Democracy and invaded the regions
below that line.
When the time came, in 1896, TO
strike the authors of industrial ruin and
domestic misery, and GUST them from
the seats Of national power, every per-
son of any years remembers how effect
lively The work was done. The guilty
leaders marshalled their forces under
false and misleading banners and in
dustriously laid upon others the respon-
sibility for the woes the people were
suffering. But the demagoguery of the
crown of thorns and the cross of gold
the sheen of the silver issue, or any
other pretense, were unavailing. Stern
retribution came at the polls in No.
vember. The old policies of rspubi-
canism, and the renewed assurance of
industrial resurrection and fnanci al
health, were vindicated and redeemed
in a very signal manner. Prosperity
returned IN full tide, in fuller mea-
sure than this counHy had ever before
known, the idle were employed, thei
hire increased, and comfort and con
tentment, full dinner pail and all its
cheering accompaniments, made will
derness of discomfort and suffering q
paradise. The error of 1892 had beer
redeemed.
The new issues injected into polite
by the war with Spain, war for tn
emancipation of a neighboring peopl
from the brutalities of medieval des
potism, furnished the party whose pc
litical notions and administration O
the,government had severely oppresse
American labor and capital with pre-
text for again intrusting the manage
ment of national affairs into its hands
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