Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1898 — Senator Fairbanks’ Prediction. [ARTICLE]

Senator Fairbanks’ Prediction.

Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, sends this signed statement to the editor of the Philadelphia Press: ‘‘The result of the election is a very signal indorsement of the cause of sound money. The people fully realized that Republican defeat meant the loss largely of the fruit of the great victory of 1896, and that Democratic success meant the revival of the free-silver cause, which would prove a serious and standing menace to the country until again defeated at the polls. The people further expressed themselves in favor of the policy of the administration with respect to territorial extension. This policy was sharply challenged by the opposition; it was one of the most distinctly defined issues and the popular verdict cannot be mistaken. “The general result has been to increase confidence—which must inevitably promote a larger measure of prosperity throughout the country. With both branches of Congress in political sympathy with the President there is an absolute assurance that for years to come there can be no impairment of our monetary standard; no destruction of our protective tariff system, and that the grave questions arising out of the war with Spain will be wisely settled. “The country is about to enter upon a period of unparalied prosperity.