The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-08-08
Republican Union State Convention.
THE SUNDAY QUESTION.

Liz SoppctHCdts DcmOCIdCy are cTdF-
ing after Office. 1t is long time since
they have had bite from the public crib
and they are getting desperate in order
to obtain the much desired crumbs that
fall from the public table They advo-
Gated the extension of slavery for no
other purpose than to keep control of the
Government and thereby be enabled to
squander the peoples money, and after
that failed numerous other measures were
incorporated into their party platforms,
and all with the same end in view. Now
how to restore their party to power has
been, and still is, very grave question
with the leaders Of the Copperhead Dem
ocracy, especially of this State, and moth
ing will be too foul for them to engage
in, if it will only restore them to the
much sought after positions of trust
They have hunted the political hen coop
all over, and think that they have at last
discovered the hen that will lay the gold
en- egg for them In the coming politi-
cal contest in the state, they seek to make
''Prohibitory Laws part of the issues
to be decided at the polls in November
next. Already their leading organs are
talking about the barbarous infringments
which the Republican party seek to make
upon the rights and liberties of the peo-
pie. But not one of which has any
foundation whatever. In their usual pos
tive way they are telling the people that
the Republican party is going to enact
Sunday Laws and compel every man,
woman and child to go to church and
have the law books prescribe what each
and all shall drink and eat. They seek
to make this a political question and
thereby hope to devide the Republican
vote and be restored to positions of trust
But fortunately the class of voters whom
they seek to gather under their banner
are intelligent and not easily to be de-
ceived. They know modern democracy
too well. and will not believe what they
say until they have the most positive
proof of the truthfulness of their asser-
tions They also know that the Repub-
lican party is the only party of Liberty
and Freedom-which it has shown by
consistently and continually advocating
its measures until crowned with success
and that a vast majority of this same Re
publican party are opposed to the enact
ment of stringent Sunday Laws, or to
bring them at all before the people as po
litical questions They believe that this
is the work of the ministry, and that no
law compelling man to observe the
Sabbath will ever make christian of him.
Whatever his convictions on religious
matters may be, they have, no doubt,
been formed after mature deliberation,
and no law on the statute books will ever
change those convictions. The Democ-
racy, and they only. seek to bring Sab
batarian Legislation before the people,
and on which they hope to slide into of
flee and again be enabled to plumber the
public treasury. But they will fail in
this. The people well know that not
platform of the Republican party has
ever favored the enactment of Sunday
laws. and the one under which the COM
ing political contest will be fought, will
also be free from such clause There
Is no question but that the ranks of both
parties contain men who favor prohibito-
ry laws, and perhaps the Republican par
ty has a few more than the other, but as
long as the party platforms do not en-
dorse such measures, the party is not re-
sponsible. The democracy hope to de-
ceive the foreign vote in the Republican
party, by telling them that the enactment
OF Sunday laws is part of their creed
No matter how groundless their charges
may be, they will continue to harp upon
them from now until election, hoping to
deceive a sufficient number of Republi-
cans to again get control of the State
Government and plumber the treasury as
in the days of Barstow Their past re-
cord is bad and they are not to be relied
upon.