The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-05-08
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/ s,The republican organization must dlsOa4 ~.
The life is out of it. It's doom Is hzeu. 10
place of sepulture is chosen. Its CONN i Vi
ed It's grave clothes are made. IL IS ueaD'
We clip the above prophetic manifesto from
tho Milwaukee Ners 1.-THE Editor OF that pa
rar had not 50 often proved himself a false and
1viro nrophet, we might be disposed to attach
sor,a imnortance to such an apparently candid
ona no,itive assurance of what has, and what
i 50 soon to take place But that same Editor
has DELIGHTED his partiZan readers with the
anne positive assurance, every lew rnonths ioi
the mast six years. He has had the " Repnoh-
can organization dead and buried, as much as
. dozen times within the past three or four
years, and yet all that time it has gone on IN
ereasing in vitality and power, until 1t has ia
ken control of every Free State OF the Union
The most intensely democratic States, cities
and counties of the Union uncursed with sla-
very, have one after another repudiated the cor
rnpt, rotten, soulless and specious humbug mod
ern sham Democracy, alC adopted instead the
patriotic, loyal and truly democratic principles
of the great National Republican party. And
tins graf change which has taken place within
the past six years, in the politics OF the Ere e
States, has not been without practical results
Corruption, peculation, aud political stock
iobbing have had to yield to an honest admin
istration of the government, wherever that
change has taBan place, whether in State, city
county or town. Our own State is fair illns
tration of this fact. With population doubled
and with all the extra expenses of raising and
fitting out and putting into the field an army
Of nearly -, 600 men, the expenses of the state
administration for the past year have been lesi
than during the last years of democratic rule,
when there was nothing for which TO expenC
money, but the simple carrying on of the stat,
government
In this small city Of Kenosha even, the sans
state of things exist. Three or four years Q
only partial Republican rule in our city, have
reduced the annual city expenses from $3,oOl
or 10, 900 to three thousand dollars Such fact
as these are what give durability aud perma
Dence TO the Republican organization. Thu
people may occasionally give themselves up t.
The rule of demagogues, traitors, political noun
tabanks and pretenders under the stolen namt
OF Democrats, but that rule Of corruption vii
be short. The people viii be true to themselves
and the incubus Of political corruption will b.
shook off
We may talk of the Republican party in con
tra-distiuction to tie Democratic party, but i
is only for the convenience of designations
The Republican Party is the People aroused t.
an appreciation of their rights and their du
ties. The Republican Party is the honesty, the
Intelligence, the patriotism and the real con
servatism Of the country. rising against the dis
honesty, the ignorance, the prejudice, the dis
loyalty and the disintegrating corruption of th'
country. In short, it is the health, the life Civ
ing principle of the great body polite combat
ting with and throwing off disease, corruption
and decay.
Therefore, when the Republican organiza
lion" is dead fits grave clothes made anC
I'll hat sort of thing that the Ne,cs talks s
e!ioly about, will be when truth and homes y
loyalty and patriotism. have died out in til
coountry snd left only debased slaves on th
one hand, aud corrupt, soulless, iaithlsss ruler
an the other. Bur 80 long as there is honest
left TO combat dtshonesty-Ioyalty to comba
Iireason-truth to combat fasehood and error
life to combat corrupsiou and decay-so lon
will the Republican Party exist aHd exert
Iecverninc and asaviug influence in this govern
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