Show THE REPUBLICAN PARTY I There had been closhlngs between the North and South on the subject oC slavery for many years The country had slowly grown there was no wealth In the modern sense of the word but a Nation oC homes had grownup where I all by Incessant work had been able to make themselves comfortable They The Incessant were a sterling race The toll had made them patient and strong they loved their homes and when they lifted thelreres rom their own little possessions which they loved so well for they had been their own creations they had hearts warm enough and souls exalted enough to appreciate native na-tive land and their patriotism was as I broad as the boundaries of the Republic Repub-lic The discovery of gold California was an epoch Tho eastward flow of i that golden river soon began to have its effect It vitalized business Hall roads began to swiftly extend through the land on the sea such ships appeared ap-peared as had never bpen been before and the thoughtful who watched said It is the beginning of a transformation transforma-tion The Democratic party with two or three brief interims had been in Rower Row-er for sixty years The party in the Southern States had controlled it partly part-ly because Its members the Southern States had more very able men than the party In the North partly because be-cause they were more aggressive partly part-ly because they worked in perfect harmon har-mon and partly because when a Southern South-ern demonstrated his ability he was kept In position while the North was given to frequent changes With the beginning of the transformation transfor-mation a sort of madness took possession pos-session of certain Southern leaders The slavery which they had defended on constitutional grounds and because it had come to them as an inheritance they suddenly declared was not only permissible but was a divine institution institu-tion and that there could be no perfect 1 I per-fect civIlizatIon and high enlightmcnt without it It was then that the Republican party sprung into life even as Minerva came from the brain of Jove and Its natal cry was No further extension of slavery over the Territories of the United States There could have been but one result re-sult The election of a Republican president was the signal of secession No need to follow what then ensued except to say that in the awful upheaval up-heaval slavery was ground to atoms und the whole land was consecrated to freedom But in the awful i sUc f stress of that war the Republican party was not unmindful unmind-ful of the high trust which it had assumed as-sumed It provided to have the East and West linked together with steel It leveled the mountains and exalted the valleys and made a smooth path over which unsolled the delicate sandals san-dals of civilization might advance It THul nnL 00 c JUJ VA a iiuiimaivau JLLW giving to every earnest searcher a home and by the great through highway placed the pioneers pio-neers home in mid wilderness within three days of a market on either oceans shore I It passed a protective tariff jaw which enabled the toilers to prosper oven while the great warlike glacier was grinding grind-ing down the peaks of prejudice and hate and preparing a soil ror the new civilization which was to be Its handling of the business of the country took every obstruction from the path of effort and opened every opportunity to the free aspiration of the people It wos careful all the time to preserve free speech and a freo press inviolate to guard every man property rights and wherever It has had control there the ballot has been free the voter has been protected and has been certain that his vote would be honestly counted Under this benign direction the land has advanced as no land ever did be fore the schoolhouse Is everywhere the newspaper Is everywhere labor Is employed as never before every opportunity oppor-tunity la still open to the earnest searcher everywhere there Is protection for life for property and everywhere the ballot Is held sacrdd A week from today the people will again decide whether to give this party a renewed vote of ont confidence or whether they will decide to try ono more experiment This is the strangest of campaigns Tho party through which these miracles have been wrought and these blessings secured Js all at once put In the pillory and accused of high crimes and manifold misdemeanors Among the charges ore a desire to pervert the I liberties of the country to rob the poor to oppress the weak to found an empire em-pire to enter upon a career of conquest and God knows what more And Its accusers think of them The Tlllmans come in from negrokilling and hiding their shotguns in the brush 1 begin to weep over the woes of tho Philippines and between sobs read I pathetically that government without I the consent of the governed Is tryanny Whenever a speaker has been mobbed lor a ballot box stuffed there the I participants are crying out lest their liberties be endangered I built out I Tammany has palaces of stealings there is profound horror at the corruption of the Republican party The murderers and incendiaries of northern Idaho arc crying out for a broader liberty that they may pursue their devious ways without obstruction from the courts Tho Democratic candidate hopes to win by Inciting the prejudices of the < < masses against the party that has brought such blessings as norland ever enjoyed before and by appealing to class hates and race hates And as attorneys for the prosecution there is Carl Schurz with all the gathered kinks of a lifetime of discontent discon-tent because he is not better appreciated appre-ciated And there Is Bourke Cockran whose soul dissolves in contemplation of the spectacle of enforcing the laws I in the Philippines but who would hail with delight an invasion of I Canada and a war with the foremost empire of the earth And there is Webster Davis the disconsolate who is always being pursued pur-sued and never appreciated And there Is Croker the prophet who I as the master of a den of thieves I laughs at the laws and all the decent restraints of society There too Is Alt geld and Pettigrew and Wellington There are plenty more What will the people do What answer will they make this day week To Imagine that any such sinister combine will win would be to doubt the I Intelligence of the American people and I the Justice of God I I |