The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-07
SEATTLE, WEDNESDAY. MARCH =.
What Our Victory Means.

The reasons for the overwhelming de-
feat administered yesterday to the med
ley Of ill-assorted interests arrayed I'M
der opposition 10 the Republican party
" to ~ read a. though the voters had
written them upon their ballots. And
they are highly encouraging to the low
srs Of progress In the nation and good
government in this city
First Of all, 1t 10 a Republican year.
The masses Of the people OF this coun-
try are arrayed behind the Republican
party with solidity. determination.
an enthusiasm such as they have never
felt before. Men sometimes lose sight.
In the noisy debates In congress ana the
speeches OF peripatetic politicians and
perpetual candidates. OF the quiet peo-
pie. who do not talk but vote. These
men. oatdumbering all the others a
hundred to one. are deeply interested
In the prosperity OF the country and in
ali the great questions that stir Its life
As they spoke yesterday, so viii they
speak all over the nation In November
The people approve the policy OF the
Republican party and indorse Its sd-
ministration. They believe In honest
money. They honor the redemption of
pledges made by congress and the presl-
dent They have not forgotten the grea.
night OF 1895. and they will not fail to
stamp once more with their condemna-
tion the advocates of cheap money, dis
honor and financial ruin They love the
party because II has kept faith with
the workinsman, and restored industry
by establishing adequate protective tar
IN duties. Neither last nor least is their
devotion 10 the expansion principle
They have no use for towards faint
hearts or turn-tails They accept the
consequences OF the war with Spain.
they insist that the country shall retain
the Philippines and DO It's duty there.
and they spurn with immeasurable
soorn the opposition 70 the expansion
policy and idea.
Seattle In a Republican city. This is
the second reading OF this splendid YER
dsct. In the rapid growth Of our pop
alation u has been impossible to say
what might DO the political effect OF
such vast changes and additions. But
the people have declared themselves.
They hold fast 20 the Republican faith,
Through the darker DAYS Of the past
their fidelity was demonstrated. II Is
exhibited more abundantly now.
Whether on the grea, issues that divide
the nation. the policies that are to con-
tend for mastery In the state or the
problems 70 be worked cut by the eity.
Seattle raises the Repuolican flag 10
the masthead. and there It win remain
as surely as the stars ana stripes will
noat over the Philippines
The people % this city are in favor of
the reasonable and the practical "a To-
cal administration, They do not bask
In the pu,refying heat Of vice. as has
been charged against them. nor do they
believe in applying to a great and grow
Ing metropolis IN this day the methods
of puritan village two centuries ago.
They are practical people and believe In
practicable things. They want law ana
order maintained. life and property
made secure. and the hand Of necessary
repression and regulation laid upon vice.
But they have the wit to know that
these ends would not be reached by the
selection for office OF theorists and ex-
tremists. whose attempts. even II WELL
meaning. must be not merely abcrtive
but positively hurtfuL
A campaign OF SANDER and misrep-
resentation does not pay. Perhaps the
gentlemen who managed affairs for the
defeated parties are trIhe ashamed OF