People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1896 — Abide The Result. [ARTICLE]

Abide The Result.

Rensselaer, Ind. Nov. 20, 1896, Editor Peoples Pilot.—lt ought to be a source of gratification to all the people that the election is past and an end to the excitement that usually marks the closeing days of the campaign. All who believe in majority rule will bow to the will of the people and abide the resuet with the same readiness, (even though the decision was contrary to their wishes,)that they would expect of others had the result been reversed. Speaking from the stand point of a Democrat, it is np time to pout or to indulge in a buse of methods that td me may have seemed wrong, but to act as becomes an American citfeen, and by our every act show that McKinley is no.t the president of a part, but- of all the people of the United States,

and inasmuch as the prosperity of the people ought to be mutual let it not be said of aDy democrat or populist that if the incoming administration is a successful one, that it was so in spite of our opposition, but that it succeeded with our assistance. Nothing is more plain than that if the policy of McKinley’s administration is good for republicans, all of whatever political faith, will share in its. benefits In reviewing the contest those, who have stood for the coinage of silver, have no cause for discouragement, for, if one should be allowed to anticipate the legislation of the next fou;r years, we may with reason expect that an effort will be made to procure bimetalisim by international agreement, and, if in this we are successful, the advocates of silver have won a victory, for no doubt it i&.a fact that the plank in the republican platform, pledgeing the party to the bimetallic policy, which ic did, was largely forced upon it by men in the party who fovored the reinstatement of silver to its rightful place in our monetary system, and it will not be denied that the money question was not the issue of the republican party by choice, but that the issue was forced upon it, and, being forced to take' a position, the people may with reason demand that it make its promises good, and in the event that efforts are made for international bimetalism and they results in failure, the people will then know on whose shoulders to lay the blame. If the blame be with the republican party it will then be brought to the bar of judjment in 1900, and if the people learn that international bimetalism cannot be had then will they assert their independence and secure it for tiie-u selves.

Those, who have been told that a high tariff was the one thing needful to restore prosperity, are very likely to be disappointed, as even among republicans, there are but few who favor the reinstatement of the former McKinley law, acknowledging as a fact that that law was in some instances so high as to be prohibitory, and a failure as to the procuring of revenue. Then too the people have learned that the benefit of a high tariff is almost entirely in the interest of manufacturers and corporations, who have already grown rich under the system while the laboring people have been but little benefitted, if any. The people will look with suspicion on any effort, to legislate in favor of the moneyed class, for they already are suspicious that McKinley is indebted, largely, to that class for his election, as they gave liberally to the campaign, and but few can be made to believe but that they expect a return, in some way, for favors shown. It is a fact, much to be regretted, that we have among us a class of people, who expect unreasonable things of the party in power, and, without considering the circumstances, become dissatisfied if they do not realize all their expectations. While all should now hope for a revival of , business, it would be unfortunate for it to come as a boom and of sufficient magnitude to satisfy the average crank. It would be by far better that it come to us gradually and continue, than to come with a bound and then go back as rapidly as it came. It will become us all to be patient and hope that the people’s choice was a wise one, and let every one encourage our president all he can, and'then if he fails let it be not our'fault, but the fault of the principles in-

augurated, and then can we set ourselves to the correction of them in the next campaign. W. R. Nowels.