Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-06-24

IRepublicanism of a majority of Congress
a set of inventive bureaucrats and a mice
in every drawer of the bureau. Let these
take their involved piece Of cabinet-ware
which they have named the New Nation
and preach upon it for text. The Re
pubiicans of the west have been true tt
their first conception. The members from
the State of Illinois have in general voted
solidly and intelligently for the free State
with a man in it, and there is scarcely one
of them who, according to his degree o.
power and light, has not distinguished his
day and generation. The Republicans o!
the State of Missouri and Iowa have, in
general, been equally true to the origin OF
their party. and Ohio and Indiana have
furnished several consistent examplars oil
the spirit of SO In Wisconsin and Michi-
gan the old mastadons of Whiggery have
risen up and sought in vain to realize the
time and the cline, but the effort has gen.
orally been too much for their vegetarian
stomachs. In those States the Republican
party is in clear majority, but the Re-
publican party has been betrayed in Con-
gress. Those men who have sold or misin-
terpreted the manhood of the West are to
come face to face with their constituents,
and it is no funeral of the Republican
party if they be elected to stay at home.
Let these questions be put to them:
l. How many bills have you favored to
take our homesteads and give them to rail
ways?
2. What protection can you give to q
man on the open prairie, menaced all
around by combinations of Indians, capt.
talists, tariffs and transportation monopo-
lies
3. How much has your vote ightened
my taxes and the cost of my salt, clothing,
linn thar iron and frniOhf9pn .
4. Have [, with my 100 acres and moth
ing else, been rs much condsidcred by
you and yours as the man with q steam
saw mill
5. Have you been taking care of me ac-
cOrding to my notions or according to tn @
notions of the gentleman on the other side
of the Alleghanies d?
6. Have you voted for any bsldy,
drawback, grant, foreign island, bounty,
increased tax or discriminating duty
7. Produce the record of your votes.
I venture the prophecy that in oil the
States where the Republican delegation
can meet these questions Republicans will
come back to the next Congress- And
where the delegation cannot answer them
disaster will fall upon them hike the Philis-
tines upon Saul.
The Administration, by which we mean
the Executive vernment-President and
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the Housewife have little influence upon
the election of the next Congress. None
of them have defined any position upon
the questions propounded. The President
has signed whatever railroad bills that have
got up to him. He has, apparently, very
crude and sophomore ideas Of what a
State ought to be. The Vice
President has been silent, and can there
fore be quoted neither for good nor evil.
The Speaker of the House would be low
tariff nam, even if he were n good poll
tician, but small is the help his committees
have given the Republican party. The
Cabinet has the merit of harmony, but it
has not probably filed the measure of ex-
pectation and has certainly failed to strike
the enthusiasm of the people, The con-
sequence is that the next election will be a !
election, pure and simple, every |
district selecting Congressman for itself, |
and concerning itself little about past
issues. Upon that next Congress will de- |
pend the fate of the Republican party in |
1872.