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Show LOCAL EVEK. The Times is a republican journal. It believes with all its soul and heart that the great principles underlying the party that saved the country from secession se-cession and treason and bankruptcy are the guiding sturs by which the American Ameri-can ship of state must sail into the port of security and potency. In the face of fraud, falsehood and foul alliances, The Times is still republican, re-publican, unflinchingly, unfalteringly, and unyieldingly republican. The temporary tem-porary advantage gained by an unscrupulous un-scrupulous enemy docs not dismay it, but serves rather as a spur to stronger endeavors in the future. The sulking and snarling of half hearted soreheads find no sympathetic ocho in these columns. The party that gave to the world Jthe Declaration of Emancipation; the party that saved the Union; the party that leut undying prestige to our form of government for other nations to emulate, is not on the wano. So long as a single soldier of the inspired host that followed Grant and Sherman and Sheridan and the other great leaders lead-ers into the deadly fusilades and the poisoned marshes and the cruel prisons of the gouth survives; so long as sophists, and traitors aim a fatal blow at the industrial prosperity of this country; so long as a whole race because be-cause of its color can be disfranchised; so long ns the bull whip and shot gun remain potent campaign arguments in the solid south; so long as ignorance confronts intelligence a:id the saloon the school, so long will the misssion of the republican party not be fulfilled. , Let the cravens that shrink before a passing storm falter in their duty; tho country in the main is loyal as it was in the days of deeper gloom and doubt. Let the cowards and tho kickers go. The principles of the republican party are the principles of humanity and right and must prevail. There is no need for alarm, no cause for crimination.. The party is still in the ascendency and the national administration admin-istration In patriotic hands. And thus both will remain. Loyal men will take a lesson and not fright from the returns re-turns on Tuesday. Let us be loyal ever, and on to victory in 1892. |