The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-11-24
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER "a, 1870.
PRESENTATION OF PA.rrE..

We have no idea that the great Republican
party is in process Of dissolutios, any more
than we know that the fragment Of the once
powerful and controlling organisation called
Democratic i On the line of rehabilitation
We do know, however, that the nation in its
rapid changes toward complete realization
Of the principles of free government neces-
sarily brings the minds which give i its
upward impulae, into contact with, and con-
trovery over new questions, and with old
ones also, which present new phases and
interests. Strong combinations may effect
temporary and local Reorganization in the
otherwise compact party Of advance. These
combinations, like ibis one which
recently: triumphed in Missouri, are
usually organized BY the active and in
auential parties to it, Tor solely selfish ends
for the qualification Of penonal enmities
and personal ambitions, without any earnest
convictions upon the vital questions raised,
and without any deliberate and well consid-
cred purpose of taking ths1nRlves snd their
Republican follower iaso The nnks, as .
permanent force, Of IL pas,y, whieh now
and is henceforsh to be socourased to action
and perfectly controlled BY the manufac-
turing, monied and aristocratic masnates of
foreign countries.
II was very clear to the mind which vas
capable of making practical inferences from
open, speaking facts, two years ago, that the
old Democratic party. scattered, demorali1ed
and hopeless as it was, would in the near fu-
ture become the potent fundamentally of the
monied aristocracy Of England and Europe
lhrcd h which to gain control of the legisla-
ton of this country and then over the labor
interest, reducing The laaser, BY the force of
laws, which win give them absolute posses
SION of our markets, the absolute determine
iion of the question - to what industries
shall be pursued BY our work people, to an
exact level with the starvation limit of that
in theirs.
We have the utmost fifth in the intelli-
sence, right mindedness and high minded
ness of such Republicans a. have been in
duced by personal regard or admiration for
candidates, straying into the ranks of the al
lies of the foreigners 10 secure the gratifca-
ton Of their lustful ambition. They have
not acted 20 long With this great party
Of liberty and progress withous being impel-
led BY the higher motives which come from
intelligent convictions, to desire its domin-
ancy and the most perfect success of it, mis-
sion. 1t is unnatural that they should not
return to it and close up it, apparently broken
ranks, when they recur to the vital issues
that are imminent, q they will; thst personal
friendship or admiration for character and
talents, can weigh nothing against the full
discharge Of their duty ~ citizens of gov
eminent Of the people, ruled By the people
only for the people," The n'os who may be
candidate is not to Be considered, unless he
represents your political principles, when
YOU come to vote, however warm your friend
ship may be for him. Neither is he to be
considered If he have brilliant abilities and
you admire him for the endowment, if he is
over againt: you. We base our
perfect confidence in the ;continued
integrity of the Republican party, upon the
superior education and enlightenment of its
members. The hest evidence of the sound
ness Of this latter assumption il seen in the
history Of its conduct during the war, and
during the confusion Of the two years fol-
lowing its close. The Government was in
chronic state Of uncertainty, and, perhaps,
there were all the conditions favorable to
dissolution. But the sharp, vellde6ned
and promptly expressed thought of this great
party kept the vista open, and directed the
servants of the people the way to go. The
mer ~ho compose it know we'll that its great
mission will not be fulfilled until this govern
ment shall be rs perfect . Free One as the
hands and heads Of men can build.