Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-11-07
Friday, Nov. 2.
THE RESULT.

The general result of Tuesday g
election is known, though there are
Individual cases which have not oeen
In the north everything
ia Republican, in the south everything
is Democratic. 1t is unfortunate that
there is a sectional line of this charac'
ter drawn across the country, but the
north will not yield or vary from Re
publican SIN, and the south seems as
tenacious in its holding on to Democ-
racy. There are no surprises, at least
none to us, except the surprise at
Coler's vote in New Y ork. That was
much larger than we anticipated.
The House is said to be Republican
by small majority, but as many OF
the so called Democrats are gold men
the House may be said to be Republi-
can by large majority.
AS we greatly prefer the election OF
a straight Republican to that OF a
renegade Democrat, we do not rejoice
in the election Of any such Democrats,
no matter from what part OF the coun-
try they come. There has been great
diversity eff opinion as to whether it
would strengthen the Democratic
cause for 1904 to have majority in
Congress. To say that it would not
is to say that Democrats cannot be
trusted. True there is risk IN having
control because control carries with IL
responsibility, and responsibility be-
gets danger. 1t would seem, there
fore, after summing up the results
that the Democrats have nothing to
cry over, and nothing to shout over,
consequently no roosters wave their
plumage in the SPECTATOR this week.
The State of Maryland which was once
Gibraltar of Democracy, has two so
called Democrats and four staunch
Republicans to represent her IN the
next Congress, thanks to the Balti-
more Suns efforts in 1896. That State
has become so deeply Republican that
the position she once enjoyed in the
esteem of her sister states of the south
has changed and they look On her
much as they do on Vermont, Connec-
ticut or Massachusetts, as not mem
Der of the brotherhood. Baltimore is
changed as by a magicians' wand and
that fraternal feeling, that pleasure
which once we experienced in discuss
ing national affairs with our brethren
there, when we were all of one accord,
one sentiment, has departed and De is
not the place of old. The bare men
ton of Bryan, whose nomination in
1896 was as strictly regular and Dem
brings upon the person mentioning it
in that city shower of anathemas,
whilst one takes chances of personal
difficulty If he expresses real and prop
er views, not mplimentary of course,
on Palmer and Buckner and Grover
Cleveland. A Southern Democrat
who has been guilty of voting for the
regular Democratic candidates for
some years past has but little now to
take him to Baltimore or make him
proud of Maryland. He shuns the city
and state because his old friends have
become his most Indifferent enemies
Pennsylvania and Ohio have not
changed from their we'll known major
ties any more than Texas, and possibly
never will. The Ethiopian will sooner
change his skin or the leopard his
spots.
In Virginia there is every reason to
congratulate the party. The most |
decent election held since Underwood |
imported his Yankee ideas of secrecy
and fraud into the State, was held on
Tuesday, but it was held when Under
wood and his saturnalia of corruption
and the blight of the carpet Dagger and |
scallawag had been wiped off the map
of the State.
The trusts have done well ). they have
shown their power and renewed con-
fidence in their ability to rob and
plumber the people. and take care of
themselves. The coal operators have
gained decisive victory, because this
election in Pennsylvania and New
York vindicates their methods and
establishes them in public favor. All
in all the result has fully sustained
about all that is bad in government, it
has applauded the wisdom of high tax
alton, the righteousness of our war, the
strides We are making toward imperi-
alism, and the Thousand and one I'M
Iulties which if practiced in most any
'ther country would have already pro-
.uced revolution. We can see Cleve-
and smiling behind his hand, and We
AN hear many others who have Toasted
vt the Democratic board chuckling
'ver the result. II every renegade
Democrat in the United States had
,een defeated we would have chuckled
! little ourselves. as it is we are not
angling Or enjoying it, we are in
lifferent. One thing is certain there is
10 lesson to be learned from the result.
Schwab, the president of the steel
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