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Show PILITICAL PARTIES. Kor llfty years the republican party has been in existence, and during that time has done more more for the United Uni-ted States of America than all other parties combined. After the Revolutionary war closed and tho nation was left to go Its way without dictation or Interference from Ktirono the people of the new nation naturally differed as to policies. Men oiuld not all seo alike. There has bo;n no time since when this has not been tho case. Half a century ago when the repub Ilcan pirty presented Its ticket and platform to tho people for the tirst tlmo a crisis had ai rived If this party par-ty had not appeared, or ono having thosamo policies, there would be no United States of America todiy, stretching from Canada to the Gulf and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The bonds of brotherhood which hid held the states together until ' then, were becoming more and more hx Diametrically opposing Ideas were being advanced and insisted with sucli vehemence that the cords of union uni-on were breaking asunder. The democratic theory of our union was that each state of the union was a separate power In tho world merely associated with the others to repeal foreign Invaslonsand to give moral support to the other, The republican Idea was that each state was Independent In Its purely local a Hairs and that the dcclulon of a majority of the states was binding on all the states. When the Rebellion of the Southern States broke out the democratic administration of Buchanan Buchan-an doubted the rights of the majoilty of the states to interfere, and It let the South sclc the forts, arsenals, ammunition, supplies, etc , of tho United States. When the republican administration of Lincoln took up tho reins in 1801 it did not doubt or hesitate hesi-tate but could see that the union of States must be preserved if our country coun-try was to be tlie land of order and of liberty. Tlie ('nltcd States would long aRO have been swallowed up by Knglaud or Germany or France, if the doctrine of the domocratlc party icgardlng "states rights" had prevailed, or, worse still, our country would have fallen into the habit of Insurrection and rebellion, like the Republics of Central and South America In those Rcmibllcs they have elections elec-tions and the party which wins takes the oath of olllce, while the members of the defeated patty sei.o their guns and kill the ones who were successful at the elections. In the United States wo have our different opinions, doctrines, theories and wishes, but when tho question Is submitted in conventions to the delegates dele-gates assembled and to the people themselves at the polls, the side having hav-ing the gieatcst number of votes prevails, pre-vails, and the defeated ones say, good naturcdly, "Well friends, we will beat you at the next election." Tho history of tho republican party I dining tlie last llftv years is the history his-tory of the United States ol America. |