Show THE GRAm > FINALE VI e k Reflections After the Election d Triumph t a t A BRIGHT OUTLOOK AHEAD I 1 Admin Tie New Element in the New I istration Will Prove the Salva 3 < Uon of the Country r Y if > For the HERALD t t The count is over and Grover Cleve i the Presidency by all land is conceded I < 1 concerned He will be inaugurated March t without resistance on the 4th of Ji J f next Thus after twentyfour years of struggling for supremacy the Democratic 1 Demo-cratic party will return to power and i rs possession the after twentyfour years i i Republican party will surrender a vast J i i empire to its most deadly enemy To ourselves and our system of government f 1 ai govern-ment this event is precious It will make stronger our belief in free institutions 1 i stability it is a c of il It is a guarantee crowning triumph to the qualities of the Jj Constitution and the solidarity of the Union The overthrow of the Confederacy 11 Confed-eracy saved the Union but it left the Constitution in a precarious state i i suspended as it were in the air The reconstruction j i re-construction measures of the Republican 1 i party somewhat strained the system 1 and an election vividly remembered as t the 8to7 contest came near bringing about civil war The electoral commission commis-sion rescued the country in 1876 1 I j and now the government has proven r conclusively its flexibility and power I i j The radical change which has caused l ihe Republican corruotionists to reign m qlong we acknowledged was brought about by the war of secession The j 1 success of the Union arms is the exact t 1 reason of the past futile efforts of Democracy to regain its wonted power It would be exceedingly strange if thee the-e l character of the south answered the description honestly believed and t t maintained by muay good people at i 1 the north But to speak sincerely it i does not There has been and there is i z mqrpl no less than aphysical revolu i i vtion in both the old sections of the i t country neither is what it was = i 1 In many respects their condition 1 iy politically and materially are vastly improved There remains no longer y l f any bar or breach to perfect union I Tfiat season of civil strife misunderstanding 1 l misunder-standing and misadventure is particularly t par-ticularly in the south over The men I who advocated and led the secession ranks are fast passing away The rank and file is now being filled with young ideas in Sunny Southland A new set oft able politicians are rapidly taking t f the places of the grey haired statesmen t or ante bellum days i 1 These young men who are now being entrusted with the countrys interests are not at all responsible for their parents error i yet we claim for them 4 loyalty to their fathers memory and motives whilst there is not the least possible chance that they will in any jwise defend that which they have no mind to repeat The north has mistaken mis-taken a manly and filial sentiment in J = the south for a covert and treasonable political design The south will now 2 IjRve that cheriblied opportunity 1 I to dispel this case of mistaken identity t i i Its will prove itself a conservative j 1 bulwark to the administration both in 1 1 Congress and the Cabinet The southern south-ern people sincerely love their country land are devotees to free institutions s 1 They feel sharply the stigma which to their chagrin has been made rest ont on-t tl them so long i and their present great reJOlC1l1g1fiprmgs from a sense of moral emancipation The recent conclusions J t are only a manifesto from the pi t peoplo claiming once more their J t own In the belief that the Republican z i position in the national government I was impregnable many abuses have I entrenched themselves Everything con 1a necteitwith the count was fair every f I opportunity was accorded each part to probe for fX ldjf it entertained that 1I 1 such be tne case So all patriotic people I throughout the United States should take a bheerful view of the situation t All the different political parties had f their free and unbiased vote The major f ity elected Cleveland Mr Blaine ac j t x cents Jt 3r Logan accepts it All is = over and flIt is well Let us then ask t t it slim who guides ihe destinies of nation I to protect us and our beloved country i J i i |