Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-03-23
The Work to BE Zone.

la We have already expressed our finn con
viction that willie it is perfectly within TIL
power Of the Republicans to elect the mex
( President and Vice Presidcpt, they viii fai
to do it unless they 20 to work promptly
heartily, and systematically. Let the canvas
go on as it is now going, and they will wax
up carly next November to a knowledge that
though they have made good fight, swellot
then vote beyond any precedent, carried thir
teen or fourteen States, almost carried one O
two others, which would have given them
National triumph if they had carried them
&c, &C., yet---by some Palaqucmine voting
some enormous and culpablc expenditure q
money 1.-The Sham Democracy have carried
Pennsylvania, Indi1na New Jersey and Eli
nois, and have elected their President And
that is just the result to which I'VE are tend
ing at this moment and which no frantic ex
erticns next September and October will suf
;;co z, 3, ..vert e we are to win at all, w
must make the decisive impression Upon ths
public mind between this tine ard the first
of May next There will be work enough te
be done after that; but the great mass ofour
farming population do their reading in the
Winter and early Spring, and little impress
sion can be made on them between planting
and the incothering oYtbe latter harvest thev
bcinr then enprossed With tIe;r d,ilv rounds
Of labors and cares. DIT
But suppose The Republicans are ready to
work. what shah thcv flop we answer:
i. Form Counfu Chi conposed of ali
uho are williag to contribute m ans or efforts
to elect a Republican President this gear. -
Fix a day, give ample notice, and hold a
meeting to which all are invited. Get every
live Republican in your county to Join this or
an auxiliary club in his own township. Es-
tab,ish rule that officers in each s,all be
chosen monthly. SO as to give chance to
show what is in him. Bring forward voz,,q
men az mich az possible and rive them on
portunities to prove their efficiency and worth.
There is many ;ourneyman blacksmith. or
a carpenter. a choppcr in the pine woods. a
stare-driycr. Or mili.tender. who can do more
effective work in q political canvass than the
Judges. colonies and so,,ires who are usually
supposed to organize 4 party and carry an
election. Let wealth and prominence, or the
want Of both. make no difference. but value
and honor each accerainss 10 hrs actual worth.
2. Begin aeorI by getting some Republican
Journal an crery household, so far as possible.
Documents are very well; but the rolling fire
that never ceases docs the work. Two-thirds
Of the men in the United States who take
newspapers will vote the Republican ticket
next Fall; while the great majority of all who
pick up their politics at the grog- shop will
vote against us. The grog-shop is the natu-
raj focus and distributing reservoir of Demo-
cratic influence; the newspaper holds a like
relation to the Republicans. There NAV be
Republican grog-shops. as there are Demo
cratic newspapers; but the general truth is
as we have Stated. To diminish the influence
of grog-shops and increase that of newspapers
is to lay sure foundation for Republican
If you have local journals of real
force and worth; favor them as much as pos
sible; but get Republican paper into every
family if possible, even though in some cases
you should have to pay for it, and send it
gratis
8. Pveide fer a general circulation of
Docuaneats. -Thore are at least One Million
Voters to-day in the Free States who know
nothing of the views and objects of the Re-
Publican party, but what our advresaries
choose to tell them. In the Slave States, we Of
course have no hearing, no chance to set pub
lie opinion right; but it is otherwise here
Thousands are opposing who would help if
they only understood US. And the best sin
gle steps toward opening their eyes is, in our
judgment, the circulation of documents which
show Just where the two great parties stand
on the vital question of LAND REFoRM. Put
into every farmers hand the Central Com
mittee's tract on Land for the Landless,"
(you can lind it rerbatim in the Tribune Al
manac for 1862 and let him see what it is
that the Republican Members of Congress so
perslstently tried TO Go last winter with re-
gard to the Public Lands; and how they
We're defeated, and, if he only reads it, he will
not be likely ever again to babble the grog-
shop slang that we are !" a negro party" and
that we have no sympathy for any sufferings
but those of slaves, Your Members Of Con-
gress, if Republican, win send you as many
Of the tracts as you will send them 81 per
and if they are generally distributed
and read, you will soon see strange faces in
your meetings. There Is not a skse-makers
shop IN America, nach less a machine. shop
or foundry, IN which that tract alone will not
make voters for the Republican ticket, pro-
vided there be any voters there who are al
ready Republicans. For "a poor, man who
can read and knows enough to go home to
dinner, not to favor the Freedom of the Pub
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