Show AS republican i why I 1 men should lili be 1 republicans at a late meeting of the fifth i fifth ward republican club I 1 presented a few low of the many reasons why intelligent men should be republicans since the mee meetings I 1 have been lel e I 1 by borne some ot of those who were present to reproduce pro duce my remarks in print with your permission m assion I 1 will now do EO so 11 accor according rr in t to 0 the beet best of my recollection I 1 eaid said 1 I bare have been an ardent enthusiastic 6 republican ever since ibe the oriz organization aniz of the party in the year 1856 a period which antedates ante dates the birth of many in this ball I 1 joined tha the KB ito i y publican parly party bee because a use I 1 believed it to be the party of progress pro gresa and intelligence because it wag was the party which fence I 1 believed was destined to make our count country g great reat glorious and sad prosperous 17 because ca u be it was the party which I 1 believed was destined to confer the greatest good upon the greatest num her ber of my fellow citizens and because I 1 believed in the principles enunciated by the party ibis was thirty flye years ago and I 1 have not yet seen the moment when I 1 bad cause to regret the action which I 1 then took T the he records of tha the great national par ties make the history of our country and he the conr country is practically i cally the records of the great national I 1 part carlies es Is it not then fair right and eminently proper that the I 1 grea great parties republican and damo cratic should be judged by hist history 0 r y the record of that which they have q done and that which they have left 1 undone in the party must be the beat criterion to form an estimate of what the same p parties a atlea will do or will leave undone 1 in I t the b efu future ture II 11 you will hear bear with me for a few 1 moments I 1 will give you a brief but 4 1 truthful outline of a part of those records when tha republican parly party ca came me into power our country was apparent app arent ly on the eve of disruption the democratic par arty having practically I 1 decla declared r that we were not a ration nation that we were simply a concede confederation ra tion of states state a v who ho bad entered into a limited p partnership and that the national government had no power to protect or defend itself ite elt was resting supinely allowing traitors to tear to pieces the fraud grand fabric erected by the lathers father of the 1 I I 1 republic le p u b I 1 I 1 0 the arms and maniti munitions one I 1 of v war r t the 0 property c of I 1 the country bad had been tu turned over to the traitors 1 to be ua UFO I 1 against aira inet the life of the nation the national treasury was wa I 1 empty the credit of the co country ws was a at tso such cid low ebb that ibe the de democratic mo cr a lie I 1 secretary of 0 the treasury the traitor i howell cobb had signally failed to I 1 a email small loan at even 12 per cent oar country was looked upon by the great re at nations of europe in much I 1 the same light that we consider tha the petty warring republics of south and central america our oar eor currency rency was wag in ench such a deplorable condition that the bank bills leaned issued in one state were almost useless in another of the thousands of 5 co so called banks then in existence all of which were floating billt billet t there here I 1 was not nota 1 per cent whose bills were looted at t par per they ranged at a discount of from 5 to 95 per cent no 7 I 1 qa 1 bill was alien taken without examining eza minin a bank note detector to ae ascertain certa 1 a i its t value and even then a man 1 w was afraid to pot put it in hie his pocket packet for the chances were that the bank of issue would fail before ha he could take it out again but above all when the republican party came into power the black etain t ol 01 slavery disgraced dic graced the escutcheon ol 01 the republic over human be rigs were held in bondage within the boundaries ot of a nation whose proud boast is and was that all men are born equal this is the condition to which the democratic party had reduced oar country by its acts of 0 commission commis aion and omission during a period of over half ball a century let us now glance at the other bide side ot of the picture today to day we are citizens of the grandest grao deet nation Isa tion on the face ot of the earth nation spelled with a great big republican nl N not the democratic concern ot of thirty years aeo a nation honored and respected C ted by by every other nation in the world id and lod mark me there is not a nation dation on the face ace of the globe so powerful that it dare refute to honor the flag of our country the glorious stara stars and sad stripes that we all love and speaking of love of that flag let me bay may to you young men that you do not understand that you have yet to learn leara what the flag of our country means to us old soldiers eul diere who have seen our comrades falling on all sides of 0 us freely pouring out their hearts blood in its defence our love tor for the flag of our country nils fills our hearts to overflowing until in its very fullness it brings the tears to our eyes the credit of the united SJ states tates stands BO so high that capitalists the worl I 1 over are glad to get our bonds at a 3 per cent and within the last few weeks when our Ke publican ican secretary of the treasury notified the holders that be prop proposed oved calling in the 44 aa per cent bonds they said renew them and we will accept 2 per cent or even 1 aa per cent our e currency ar reacy like everyl everything bIng else in this erand grand republican country ia to the best in the world with it you can travel from portland oregon to portland maine and from the gull gulf of mexico to the borders of canada yes and into canada and I 1 into oto Sl mexico exico even throughout europe they are glad to receive our republican greenbacks green backs yon you can put the national bank bils b ils Us into your pocket and not care a picayune whether the bank of issue tills falls or not the bills have been secured by de debost in the hands of our republican government thirty years aeo ago our population was w as in round figures one seventh of whom were slaves articles of merchandise subject to be bought and rold sold today to day our population is over and oh think ot of it I 1 there is not one being that is deprived of his liberty save only for crime the 4 of bondsmen bon demen have been M I 1 reed the black stain of slavery was removed from our escutcheon by the republican party looking back on the thirty years which have elapsed since the republican party ele elected ted its first president the man s ant nt to us ug b an overruling over ruling providence abraham lincoln is there a republican living who can feel aught but pride in the achievements of the grand old party the party of progress wd and intelligence the party itch has made our country great glorious and prosperous the party whis hai lais conferred the greatest good upon the greatest number of our fellow follow citizens the party whose principles principles lody today lo to dy day are aa as pure and 6 found oun as those enunciated by it thirty five years ago when i I 1 first joined the then young party 11 it 11 II G 31 MISTY ogden july 26 1691 |