New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-07
THE WORK TO BE DONE.

canvass 20 as 1t Is now gong, ana Iney VIII "aho
ND early next November to knowledge that,
though they have made good fight welled their vote
beyond any precedent carried thirteen or fourteen
States and almost carried or two Others winch
would have given them aNatonaltriumphh they had
carried them, &C., &c, yet-by some Plaquemine
voting. some enormous and culpable expenditure
of money-the Sham Democracy have carried Penn
Nlyania, or Indiana, New-Jersey ard Illinois,
and have elected their President. And that is just
the result to which we tending at this moment,
and which no frantic exertions next September ana
October will suffice to avert. If we are 10 WIN al
all we must make the decisive impression upon tue
public mind between this time and the lst OF May
next There will be work enough to be done after
that. but the great mass of farming population
do their reading in the Winter and early Spring,
and little impression can be made on them between
planting and the irgathering of the later harvest,
thew being then engrossed with their daily round of
labOrs and cares.
But suppose the Republicans ready to work,
what shall they do We answer:
/. Form County Club, composed Of all 'oho are
milling 10 contribute me ms or efforts to elect Rcpub-
icon President this gear. Fix day, give ample
notice. and hold meeting to which all are invited.
Get every live, working Republican in your County
to oin this or an auxiliary club in his own town
ship Establish rule that officers in each shall be
chosen monthly, so as to give each chance to
show what work is in him. Bring f rward young
men as much as possible, and give them opportu-
mites to prove their efficiency and worth There
is MANY iourneyman blacksmith or carpenter,
chopper in the pine woods, stage-driver or mill
tender, who can do more effective work IN poll
teal canvass than the judges, colonies and squres
who are usually supposed to organize party and
carry an election. Let wealth and prominence, or
the want of both, make no difference, but value
and honor each according to his actual worth.
| II. Begin rork by getting some Republican
| journal into ecery household so far as possible
Documents are very well; but the rolling fire that
never ceases does the work Two-thirds of all 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 natural focus and distributing reservoir of
| Democratic influence; the Newspaper holds like
| relation TO the Republicans. There may be Re
| publican grog-shops, as there are Democratic
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 the sure
| foundation of Republican triumph. Ifyou have
| local journals of real force ard worth, favor
| them as much as possible; but get Republican
paper into every family if possible, even though in
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| ii gratis.
| III. Proride for a general circulation Of doeu-
| ,ntuts There are at least One Million Voters to-
| day in the Free States who know nothing of the
views and objects of the Republican party but
| what our adyersaries choose to tell them. In the
| Slave States we of course have no hearing, no
chance to set public opinion right; but it is other
wise here. Thousands are opposing who would
help If they only understood us. And the best sin
gle step toward opening their eyes is, in our judg
ment, the circulation of documents which show just
where the two great parties stand on the vital ques
| ton of LAND REFORM. Put into every farmers
| hand the Central Committees tract on Land for
the Lar dless" (you can find it verbatim in THE
TRIBUNE ALMANAC for bs6O. just issued), aud let
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of Congress persistently tried to do last Winter
with regard to the Public Lands, and how
| they were defeated; and, if he only reads
| it, he will not be likely ever again to babble
the grog.shop slang that We are ga negro party,
"one-idea party" and that we have no sympathy
for any sufieriDgs but those of slaves. Your Mem
her of Congress, if Republican, will send you as
many Of the tracts as You will send him = per
hundred for; and if they are generally distributed
and read, you will soon see strange faces in your
meetings. There is not shOemaker's shop in
America much less machine-shop or foundery,
in which that tract alone will not make votes for
the Republican ticket, provided there be any voters
| there who are not already Republicans. For a
poor man who can read, and knows enough to go
| home TO dinner not to favor the Freedom of the
Public Lands seems moral impossibilty But
| for mob violence and outrage, we could carry
Slave States for the Republican ticket the Land
issue alone.
OF course this little tract is not all that ia needed
II merely shows what the Republicans are trying TO
do with regard to the Public Lands, and how the
Democrats prevent them. But circulate this first,
and there will soon be demand for more and that
demand will insure its own supply. We ought to
have tract at least twice as large, showing briefly
what Land Reform is, why it is needed, how il will
help the Laborng Glass in the Old States well as
in the New, and what has been said by Jefferson,
Jackson and nearly all great generous thinkers, in
favor Of the principles which underlie this Reform.