The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-12
TILE democracy founders amid
 the debris and hurtling bould- CTS Of the republican landslide,

WV the debris and hurtling bould-
 w CTS of the republican landslide, all eyes are turned in admiration to sturdy Grover Cleveland. What does that weather. beaten mariner of the polit- ical seas 5o after the storm is over? Does he pine and shed salty tears over the foundered ship of democracy? Does he proceed to tell who was to blame and what Judge Parker ought to have done? Not bit of it. He goes out to Rocky Hill. New Jersey, in company with two chosen nimrods. and brings back sixteen quail and seventeen rabbits. Thus does the veteran of two victorious assaults on the White House turn the shafts of the triumphant republicans into feathers of the air. The Hon. c. Cleveland is what Col. smathers would term "a wise old hoss," and he is not going to let the paltry matter of a republican landslide upset the even tenor of his way G. Clevelands aim was just as true the day after the election as it was the day before. In fact G. Cleveland has set an example of philosophical resignation that might be followed by other democrats of renown who are not so well poised.
 In the n)tsam and jetsam of the cleo ton the details of a novel election bet are gleaned- The matrimonial election bet Is about the most risky wager it would be possible to make, but it has al- ready gone on record. All young women who became brides the day after Roose- welt was elected are now accused of los- ing on Judge Parker Of course it is possible that a great many young women wed on that dolorous day simply be- cause they wanted to and did not in- tend that lomocratic woe should post pone their own happiness, but it has been dis covered that at least one couple are now married as result of an election bet If the would-b, groom had bet that Parker would win and the would-be bride that Roosevelt Vt uld win, there would still be a marriage no matter which one of them lost. In fact that Is about the safest way to make a matrimonial election bet. If both parties really want to get mar ried, they should hedge" but if neither pines for matrimony they ought to stake houses and lots or other collateral not so valuable as matrimonial bliss.
 Among the few rays of light discerned by the democrats along the murky hor- izon the election of Joe Folk to be gover- nor of Missouri is one of them, and the election of W. l.. Douglas to be gover- TOT of Massachusetts is another. Joe Folks plank was honesty and he won on it in what the turfmen call "canter'
 His victory was not so much a victory of 1 democracy, for Missouri has now become republican, but victory of the man who has stirred the state to its very founda- 1 tions with his courage and his determina- ton to drive out corruption. Honesty is
 not a new doctrine by any means. It is as old as the world but it is sometimes forgotten in politics and the candidate V ho proca'ms it from the house tops comes as one who breaches a new faith Honesty has won the day in Missouri.
 With that trust-busting snirk that has become familiar through the efforts oi
 Frederick cpper Philander c. Knox ha'
 announced that Its a sin to laugh ovel | it." The senator was referring to the
 national election and not to his smirk
 Although he thought 1t was wrong to in.
 dulge In smile at the expense of ths l discounted democrats, Mir. Knox never
 theless permitted a grin to escape him