Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-11-11
FROM WASHINGTON


hHoOto SS HAS tttucu w cOnyratutate
itself for.
This is the time for democratic
jubilation and elation. In every
state where the democrats made
the attempt they either defeated
the republicans or cut down the
majority in such manner as TO
givs encouragement to every dem
ocrat in the land. Only i'm the
single state of Ohio were we de-
fcated worse than we expected to
be. No democrat in the country
expected Tom l.. johnson to be
elected governor. He did not ex-
pect it himself. He was fighting
for the Legislature to defeat Mark
Hanna for the United States SEN
ate. He made a gallant fight and
with right principle. He preach
ed the gospel of humanity to the
people of his state, the gospel of
the peoples rights as against the
rights Of the corporation, and it is
a gospel that muslin the end pre-
vail or the people not alone of his
state but of the entire nation will
have sacrificed their birthright ON
the altar of corporation greed.
His defeat and the defeat of the
ticket and the principles he repre-
sented must be attributed to the
detection in the ranks of the dem
ocratic party in Ohio and to the
lavish use of money at the polls
and before the election. Some day
thQse people i'm the state of Ohio
will see ard know the truth and it
will be a democratic state. In the
meantime the only thing those
patriots in Ohio can do is to pick
their fiints and keep their powder
dry. There will be another battle
next year and the indications from
the battle of the Bird of this month
presage glorious victory.
IL is the consensus of democratic
opinion here among the clans of
gathering democrats who come to
the assembling of the Fifty-eighth
Congress, that the democrats have
much in the election at which to
rejoice. We more than held our
own in the state of Massachusetts,
we kept our own in the little state
of Rhode Island by re-electing our
governor; we carried the state of
Maryland not only for the state
ticket but for United States Sena-
tor; we carried kentucky by an
increased majority which eternally
puts the lSibosh on republican assas-
sinnation in that state; we reduced
the majority in the rockribbed re-
publican state of Iowa by at least
10000, and we made clean sweep
of the great city of New York.
The latter was a great victory for
more than one reason. 1t was a
victory for the great common peo-
pie, for home rule, for democratic
methods, and defeat for hypoc-
ricy, false pretense, the rule of the
corporation and the aristOcrat, a
cold bath for the bootlicks and
sycophants who whine about the
knees of predatory wealth.
To witness an election in the
greatest state in the nation and es-
pecially when the people have won
great victory, is sight never to
be forgotten and privilege. |
was In New York and saw the
thing. 1t far surpasSes anything
in the line of election excitement
that | ever saw or ever expect TO
see. Imagine 10000 packed in
the space covered by twenty acres,
all gazing intently at the bulletin
board, and when the news comes
they have been hoping for and
waiting for, there is an explosion
and pandemonium breaks loose
and reigns supreme from that time
on until tired nature refuses longer
to submit. A sea of humanity and
every man either yelling or blow
ing fish horn, which is an inyen-
ton of the devil, is a variable
Niagara of noise. That crowd was
volatile vortex and vocal volca-
no. The people forming the crowd
had been to the ballot box earlier
in the day, and they were rejoicing
over the work they had accom-
plished. They had good right
TO howl. They had that day
stamped their feet on the necks of
the rankest gang of rotten repub-
leans posing as reformers who ever
worked the "con" game on the
honest people of any city in the