Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07
The Republican Party.

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tinctively anti-slavery Senator was elected
p. Hale had served in the lower House as
a Representative from New Hampshire,
having been elected by Democratic con-
stituency. For opposing the annexation
of Texas he was read out of the com
munion of that then powerful and intol-
Grant political organization, Franklin
Pierce, afterwards President, officiating as
the communicating priest. 1t seemed
to most men, and doubtless 1t did to Mr.
Hale himself, that his political fate was
sealed, and all reasonable hope of attaining
position as political man forever blotted
out 1t was no light matter, in those
days, to be ostracised by the Democratic
party. The Wings were then SO near of
kin to the Denlocracy-we mean the
chief managers of the party that a
Democrat of anti-slavery proclivities
could hope for no important place
among them. But Mr.. Hale was not
allowed to remain long in retirement. By
coalition of the anti-slavery elements Of
the different parties, he was chosen to the
Legislature of his State, and afterward
elected to the Senate. He stood in the
Senate for two years without single pO-
all place on the Committees of the Senate,
a humiliation we believe never before nor
since offered to any member of that body.
He was tainted with standing alone" to
which he bravely responded that his con-
stituents sent him there to do just that
thing He avowed that he should con-
continue to stand alone, just as long as he
was sure his feet were on good and firm
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witty debater, and conciliated many of
those who were politically his foes. He
seemed to be peculiarly fitted for the part
assign ID him in the drama of politics then
being performed.
In 1849 Ohio sent Salmon p. Chase to
keep company with Mr. Hale. In 1851
Massachusetts sent Charles Sumner. In
1854 the Kansas Nebraska struggle neces-
STATED the organization of the Republican
party. The attempted secession of eleven
Southern States in 1860 gave this party of
small beginning and slow growth ma
jority in both Houses of Congress, and
from that day until now it has fought with
slavery, treason and corruption in high
places, and still holds the reins of govern
ment and the confidence of the country.
The Republican party has controlled
the two Houses of Congress without inter-
mission longer than any other party has
ever done. 1t was betrayed by johnson,
bot the majority in Congress was all the
more fixed and constant in the way of re-
form on account of his obstinacy. f'i I.
~ Democrats charge that the Republican
party uses its power to prolong it's do
minion. That may be true, but, if so, it
only follows the example set by Democrats
In the day OF their prosperity. A party
has right by fair and honest means to
provide for itself. The history of the Re-
publican party shows its strength and hope
to consist in fearlessiy carrying into effect
righteous principles of reform. In oppos-
ing reform the old Democratic politicians
persisted. Of all the Democratic Senators
who t1ourished in the high old days of
Pierce and Buchanan, only Salisbury, of
Delaware, remains in his place. Many of
the men who tainted John P. Hale with
standing Alone" and left him off the
Committees because he belonged to no
healthy political organization" now stand
impaled in history as traitors to the gov
eminent which once honored them. The
changes of the past ten eventful years tell
a significant tale to the effect that all who
oppose the way of reform lay up an in
heritance of political misfortune for them
selves.
The prospects of the Republican party
were never brighter, nor those of the
Democracy darker, than now. The Re-
publlcans have an able and faithful Presi-
dent, and there is as much harmony exist
ing between the executive and legislative
branches of the government as ever exist
ed between any President and Congress.
The party gained its power by brave
battle for truth and the rights Of man. 1t
can retain power by reforming the abuses
fostered and aggravated by selfish and
corrupt Democracy. By this sign it viii
continue to conquer. There is no reason
in the situation of our politics why it may
not retain its power for another decade of
the present century. This, at least, is the
prospect, if we read Alright the signs of
the times. Toledo Blade.
What becomes of old shoes? They
are cut up in small pieces, and these are