The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-11
THE POSITION AND CLAIMS OF THE
OPPOSING PARTIES.

Suo AsOpNbAAOeHA PeiIJ huNO ebo bOou OAoiLt w
the support of wise and patriotic citizens.
The Democrats have been foundering in a
series of failures for dozen years, and during
that period they have not, as national organ
ization, done single creditable thing. They
have, meanwhile, perpetrat ed scores of blum
ders and crimes, and so thoroughly offended
and disgusted the masses of the American
people that at the last Presidential election
they were defeated by an overwhelming ma
iority No new issues have since arisen on
which they can Justly claim reversal of the
long line of condemnatory verdicts recorded
against them, and they display their
usual stubbornness in assuming in some
States, and notably in Pennsylvania, by their
platforms, that Democratic victory now
will be an endorsement of all their exploded .
heresies 1t is true that great efforts are
being made by the more astute Democratic
leaders throughout the country to divert the
attention of the people from the national
issues on which they have so often been de-
servedly beaten. They are pretending to be
all things to all men. In Mississippi they
have styled themselves National Union Re-
publican party; in Texas they support A. j.
Hamilton, one of the earliest and most en-
thusiastic advocates of negro suffrage, as their
Gubernatorial candidate; in Virginia and Ten
nessee they sought power by marching under
so-caled conservative Republican banners;
and in Pennsylvania their Gubernatorial can
didate, in his letter of acceptance, totally ig-
nored national issues. But it is not difficult
to perceive the insincerity of these specious
pretenses, or their desire and determination
to save, amid the general wreck, all that pos
sibly can be saved of the obnoxious cargo
and the obnoxious crew of the old line De-
mocracy And every voter should consider
well this aspect of the campaign before he
decides upon voting for Democratic candi-
dates.
The general policy of the Republican party
too strongly commends itself to every patriotic
man to need an elaborate defense Suddenly
called to combat the most extraordinary diff
culties and obstacles, it has surmounted them
all; and it is at this moment finishing up the
adjourned work of the war in a satisfactory and
masterly manner. 1t has achieved success
sion of grand triumphs where its adversaries
deemed defeat and disgrace inevitable, and
after crushing the Rebellion, establishing
liberty throughout the land, reconstructing
the tainted Southern State govern
ments, and maintaining the national credit in
spite of unprecedented demands upon
the national Treasury, it should
be permitted to adorn and COM
plete its labors with the crowning glories
which are destined to restore to the nation an
era of greatness andprosperity unparalleledin in
the annals of mankind. Already the South,
in spite of the ill-judged action of many of
her politicians, is feeling the beneficial results
of Grants election. Nothing can do her
greater injury than a revival of her rebelllous
impulses, and nothing can do her greater
good than the protection of property, liberty,
and life in her most obscure hamlets The
emigration and capital, as well as the con-
tinuous labor, which she imperatively needs
for the development of her resources, can
only be secured by the establishment of uni
versal confidence in the maintenance of peace.
order, and justice within her confines; and
every vote given to strengthen Grants admin
istration directly promotes this important end.
Every reputable Northern business interest
is dependent for its prosperity upon the
preservation of the national credit. What
would be the full extent of the injury in
hicted by series of Democratic victories at
this juncture no man can accurately foretell;
but that they would cloud the future with
doubts and uncertainties, and cause much
financial ruin, is painfully manifest. A large
portion of that party favors either direct or
indirect repudiation, and they differ mainly
in the degree of their fanatical devotion to
various plans for acting dishonesty in refer
ence to the public debt. If they are allowed
to tamper with the public credit, they will
necessarily soon destroy it, and its destruc-
tion would produce in the country such
scene of financial ruin and convulsion as the
world has never witnessed. noble con-
trast to their paltry and iniquitous
policy is presented by the course of
the national administration. 1t holds the
national credit as sacred as the national honor
and is rapidly preparing the way for the only
sure and safe relief from present burdens, by
making legal and just reduction of the rate
of interest practicable. Warning with marked
success against the whisky ring on the one
hand, and reducing the national expenditures
on the other, it is paying off the debt with
great rapidity, and by giving to the national
securities their rue rank in the money mar
kets of the world, it is rapidly creating a
willingness and desire among capitalists
to loan the Government money at low rates
of interest for the redemption OF its bonds.
If the people show by their votes that this
policy is cordially sustained, they will ma
farialIv ,,ro,,,ofa oil honest in If thew