Year: 1879

~ inc OaiiIOTuia 1uu Moino h'oo'AVno


Every loyal man and good citizen viii


hail with joy this auspicious hour.


TIE Republican Party the Hope o.


the Nation.


The back bone of the Gr-enb back move


ment was broken in Maine on Monda,


where the Republicans alone and single


handed became the executioner. In NJ


State of the Union did the pueril'


movement to form great Greepbach


National party receive more encourage


ment than in Maine. 1t completely


Swallowed up the great bulk Of thu


Democratic party, leaving Garcelon, the


straight Democratic candidate for Gov


srnor, with only 20, 900 votes Of men o


honor who showed that they would


rather stand defeat and maintain theii


principles of manhood and honesty than


to be successful by q sacrifice Of what


ever there was Of virtue in all their


previously professed principles. The


result OF this remarkable and exciting
campaign Just ended in Maine SO ad.


vantageously to the Republicans, will
be to 80 dsmoralizs the mixed conglom-
Grafton Of voters, called party, that it
will hereafter bs incapable Of making a
successful contest, and Maine will lapse
back again into the hauds Of the Re


publicans, who will regain their old
superiority without half the effort put
forth at the present election. The Re.
publicans Of Maine have really made q
splendid fight, and they have effsctual-
ly cut up the Greenback plant Of that
State by the root. The latter party may
yet linger in feeble resistance longer
in Massacb nsetts, New York and few
other States, but its power for harm has
been nippsd in tho bud by both the
California and Maine elections. The
principal losers in the movement are the
Democrats who finding no chance for
their own party, throw their influence
and their money into the Gresnback
party aud all have been swept away
together by the great Republican Sep
tember equinoctial wave. The victo-
ries in Maine and California are decisive
enough to mark the direction Of public
sentiment in all the Northern States
where elections are free and untram-
melsd, and where all parties enjoy the
full liberty of agitation, nomination or
ganization and general action. We
learn still farther more important les
son from the Maine election. 1t was
there fully shown that no local issue,
not even the more general one OF fnan-
css has more influence upon the masses
than the violent and revolutionary at
tempts of the rebel Democratic leaders
in Congress to establish nulifcation as
democratic political power in national
affairs. If there could be any doubt
about the policy Of resumption. the
funding measures, the currency or
finances in general, the people
would easily dispel that doubt now in
the face of the general prosperity which
has sprung up all over the country.
This all stands out in strange contrast
to the predictions Of the financial disas
ters, and the general ruin predicted by
the Greenbackers and their coadjutors,
the Democrats. The Democra have be-
come alarmed at the situation and are
seeking to undo the mischief wrought
by the extra session, hence we find
Wallace and Randall becoming recon
ciled in Pennsylvania in the main eff.
fort to carry that State over to the
multiplying rebel Democracy, and the
"World," Democratic paper of New
York, trying to establish peace between
the Tammany and anti Tammany fac
tons of that State. But the people
have heard the news from Yazoo and
are wonderfully demonstrative in an
,wering the news in their own peculiar
way by voting against the party that
,ondous murder and apologies for
Thus California in the
lar West answered, and thus Maine
seconded California's vote last Mon
lay in an emphatic manner. These
victories come with the
more telling effect because they were
Unexpected. 1t is useless to attach any
Importance to the elections now in the
south, because that region is not &C.
essible to the free discussion and agi-
alton which are indispensable to the
ormation and maintenance of whole
ONE public sentiment. The approach
ng great political battle must be
ought wholly in the north and west,
nd when they are firmly united and
notification will be settled
fectually. These are times when the I
oval people who crushed rebellion |
must stand harmoniously together in
lefence Of the national government, and
# the personal liberties guaranteed to
IL classes by the provisions of the
Constitution. The issue is