Year: 1869

Tne PeOple's Victory.


From the Chicago Daily Tribune, Nsv. q,
At the election in this city, yesterday,
the people took hold Of their municipal
and local affairs with an eye single to the
business in hand. The issues Of national
politics were discarded, as they ought to
have been, and every man voted just as
he pleased, and seemed to relish his liberty
in doing SO. The result is an unparalleled
triumph for the Citizens ticket and tre>
mendous rebuke to the corrupt and incur
able primary SYSTEM" by which the city
and county have been ruled by irresponsi.
BILE persons, as with a rod of iron, for
nearly ten years.


The Citizens ticket yesterday received
the votes of majority of the Republicans
and majority of the democrats of Chi,
cago. The people voted en- masee for a
new deal and fresh start. They yindica-
ted their power and proved their intelli-
gence in a manner that is surprising even
to themselves. They have shown that the
great cities of America are capable of
self. government. They have given a YER
dict in favor of Reform which will be felt
from one end of the land to the other.
The echo Of this great Citizens victory
will reverberate all the way from Chica-
so to New York, and will not cease to be
heard until even that foul nest is cleansed
of its denominations.


Chicago sends forth to her sister cities
the glad news of a thorough and complete
renovation in all branches of her local
government. It is not Republican nor a
Democratic victory, but victsry for the
people. 1t is the victory of honesty over
chicanery of economy over reckless
waste: Of accountability ever irresponsi-
blity of the public over usurpers, Of
! retrenchment over the extortionate salar-


les and expenditures, and of the tax'pay>
ers over the tax-consumers. Eight years
| ago, under similar circumstances, the peo-
pie Of this city and county had to take the
control of their government out of the
hands of professional politicians, and to-
day Chicago sends greeting to the country
that she has again rescued herself from
the domination of a ring Once more the
prosperity, the growth, and the credit Of
Chicago have been confirmed and assured


by the independence and sagacity Of her
citizens. We congratulate them heartily


upon the result, and we promise them that
the Tribune will insist that every pledge
made to the people by the incoming gov
ernment shall be faithfully and honestly


kept. And if any man elected yesterday


shalt prove false to his pledges, or recreant


to any of the principles of honest govern


ment, we shall be among the first to ex-


pose and denounce him to the public indig.


nation which yesterday fell like lightning


upon the ruling dynasty. We shall not


be afraid of "injuring the party" by tel


ling the truth about it's officeholders. Nor


shall we ever doubt the capacity of the


people, at any time, to cure all the evils
which may beset their government. "But
how will these Republicans get back into
line ?" is a question which will, perhaps,


be asked in other parts Of the State. Our


answer is, that they have not been out of


line. They have voted at this election as
!. they would vote at stockholders meet.
ing-for that which they believe was for
!, their interest. Chicago is a corporation
:, having business to transact in dollars and
: cents. To transact such business by peo-


pie asking each other whether they We're
;, in favor Of the last war, is too absurd fol
comparison. The Republican party was
!. organized to promote certain principles


and those principles are as sacred to-day
to the Republicans of Chicago as they
ever were. They will be sustained by
, them with as much ZEAL and with ever
!. greater efficiency, now, than they could


have been if the party were made longer


responsible for the "evils and abuses
= which even the Library Hall Convention


adverted to and deplored.