Show TIlE RECORD OF REPUBLICANISM The Republican party of today is the spector of a frightful past It will not sufier the Nation to forget Turn which way they will and the people arc confronted con-fronted by this ghastly apparation known as the Republican party It is blind to the present and deaf to tho future It sees only that which is gone and hearkens only to echoes Its glance is ever backward Its vision is the vision of blood and its memory is the memory of tears Of these things is the birthright of the Republican party It is but the fulfillment fulfill-ment that is here As was the promise so is the performance From its inception the Republican party has been the party of the armed hand With it might has ever been right With it the lust of desire has ever been the yokefellow of brute force It has been a spoiler from its birth Cradled in blood its fierce and pitiless strength has drawn sustenance from the convulsions of the state In its savage infancy it revelled in the outrages of the Kansas border and in pitiless manhood it delighted in the fierce infamies of the carpetbag carpet-bag era in the South It has over been a party of sectionalism of hate of proscription pro-scription of political savagery and of public plunder Its campaign fund has ever been 1 a stern exaction and has been wrung from the people as a military tribute Overthrown at last by an outraged and indignant people it is still true to its record h still instinct with the spirit of its birth Of such io tho clinging cling-ing to the old wartaxes imposed byi1 i Ut its own aggrandizement of such e sectionalism and hate pro claiuiLil in the Springfield speech of John Sherrn of such is the St Louis Grand Anr dentIn dent-In infami success or in deserted de-serted iua n the same Republican Re-publican ch racteristics are displayed dis-played Resub vuism means only one thing nnd will mean only one thing forever for-ever Tlutok i tiling is a savage centralization central-ization 01 party pow > for selfish party purposes Progrtv advancement fraternal fra-ternal feeling the ations unity it knows naught of It ha only one idea and that idea ih self supported by the iron hand of armed sectionalism Tho Republican party organization eschews popular principles It is essentially a party of leader Taeso leaders alone wield the party power The party itself is a political dictatorship Republicanism Republican-ism can mean nothing ese but centrali sation and centralization is tyranny and oppression The Cleveland Plain Dealer thus voices the centralization record of the Republican Republi-can party For twenty years our Government Gov-ernment was controlled by men who would had they the power have wiped out the existence of our free institutions and formed < < a new plan ot government based upon the centralization theory with all that it implies During all these twenty years of misrule of the Republican Republi-can party not one law was passed in the interests of the people Every measure passed by the Republican Congresses that existed during that regime was instigated and passed directly in the interest of monopolies Tho evil effects of such legislation are seen on every hand The discontent of labor is traceable directly to its influences Where wealth was distributed before the war in proportions more nearly equal today it is centralized in the hands of the few some of whom use it as a means of oppression The great railroads of this country the millions of acres of public pub-lic lands tho peoples heritage and the great branches of industry outside of agricultural pursuits are in the hands of the few The whole tendencies of the Republican party have been in the interest of the few and against the masees Through tho doctrine of hate towards the south through race prejudice in the same section through threats of destruction to the business interests the country for years was held and systematically robbed and plundered by rapacious Republican freebooters The whole aim and mission in life of the managers of the Republican party today is to regain control of the national government with nothing but its past crimes and misdemeanors to ofler as a guarantee for the future The Republican party of today has no great principles to stand upon but it is grounded and founded upon mere pretenses pre-tenses and is living upon the vaporings of cheap demagogical politicians Until the Republican party can offer some principles arid stand for some great living issue it can never again expect to gain the confidence of the people it so ignobly forfeited for tho spoils of office and the misuse of power |