Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-09
1872.
From Harper $ Weekly,

/ Sign OF the teuuenCy Oi OplulOu III tuo
Republican party 1t sho ws that the
conviction of the denomination ofthe
President is so strong that gentleman
are willing to pronounce for him,
thereby prejudicing their chances
with any other possible candidate.
There is, indeed, no other serious
candidacy, and the reasons undoubt-
edly is that the administration of
General Grant is felt to be, upon the
whole, honest, efficient, and satisfac-
tory. 1t certainly has not lacked
criticism from its friends in which
We have born part: but its great
merits is that it has practically per-
suaded the great mass Of intelligent
| American citizens that it seeks unos
tentatiously and economically the
public welfare. A certain good sense
has presided over it throughout and,
attacked with rancor which from its
C xtravag ance has bee often ludicrous
it has yet maintained its even way,
and has quietly lived down a great
many imposing accusations.
Indeed, a feeble Republican admin
istration would be more trusted by
the country than any Democratic ad
ministration whatever. For the per-
manent fact in the political situation
which is universally seen and pom
dered is that the Democratic party is
| the party which sneers at the war
and the victory OF the Union, and
/ VII ,oI, etaaA.lr- tho or11
| the leaders of the rebellion. 1t is by
Democratic votes that General Blair,
w!.o would have relinquished the
victory in which he took part, is cleo
ted TO the Senate. 1t is By Demo
cratic votes that portrait of Gener
al Lee is ordered by the Virginia
Senate, and portrait of General
Thomas is declined 1t is by Dem
ocratic papers that General Long
street is decried, because he did not
persi,,t in the hostile attitude to the
government. ~It is by Democratic
papers, in fine, that rebels are extoll-
ed, and the great results of the war
are belittled. Meanwhile the leaders
of that party are seen to be substant
iallv unchanged. The old Copper
head element is supreme. Tho party
orators and papers cry out against
Republican extravaganza and corrap-
ton, while in the government of the
city of New York the whole country
beholds an illustration of Democratic
economy and honesty!
There is, therefore, and most Just
ly, in tie great popular heart of this
country, o profound distrust of the
Demo cratic party If a man thinks
the taxes heavy, he sees that the dom
inant party has both diminished the
debt and reduced taxation. and he
asks himself whether he can fairly
expect any speedier relief from the
party whose last declared policy was
virtually rcpudiation. He looks at
| General Grant in the White House
who, as General Blair told Us, would
undoubtly make himself Emperor,
and he asks himself whether the
country would have been more peace
ful and prosperous and stable if Mr.
Seymore had beed placed thcIe. He
sees everywhere tranquil and conf
debt industry, and such restoration
of order as no country ever showed
after so fierce 4 convulsion as that o.
| the war, and he asks himself whether
industry would be more tranquil and
confident, and order more assured, i
those who make the great and bloody
disorder should be called to contro
affairs. He sees that the intelligence
! the rural labor. the moral sentimen
ofthe country instinctively favor Re
publican rule, and he asks hinsel
whether the cause of individual LID
erty, of education, cf moral progress
of the general welfare, is likely to h.
more advanced bv a party to whicl
the ignorant and vicious classes natu
rally gravitate.
And this man sees that the Repub
lican cause, at once patriotic, and iul
of the glorious traditions of the pur
devotion and heroism and results o
the war, and progressive in the trues
American sense, the cause which i
that of all our best principles and o
our most legitimate hopes--is salts
factorily represented to the popula
mind by the honest purpose, til
sturdy coed sense and simplicity, O
General Grant. 1t does not max
him an ideal hero. 1t does not den
that it wishes some things might b
different in his administration, as
indeed, in every administration.
does not defend or praise every mea;
! ure; but it judges him by the cllarat
, ter Of his whole administration, au
: it declares that it finds him sensibI.
: sincere, upright: a man who doe
not believe that the old day of sla,
: cry was better than the new day {
liberty: who does not wish to tr
: how far he can venture to return t
ward policy which the country hs
|, rejected but who does wish to col
! firm and strengthen the country
its new and true policy ofequal right
for all men.
During Mr.. Lincoln's first-tern
and in the very crisis of the war, thel
were those who thought that it woul
be wise to try new candidate VIII
had not been SO severely criticise,
But those who herd the thrilliu
= Stout of unanimity with which he W:
renominated in Baltimore knew that
was the voice of that great popul:
: confidence, which was only the sur,
because it was blinded by idolatr
T. !, The good sense of the people renor
y mated Lincoln, as it elected Gran
- :, The same sagacity is now turning
: Grant. as man who has faithful
y y served the country, and whom Il
!" country heartily trusts.
z. AND now appears the commissio
ID ers of Allen County, and show an i
Is dehtedness of 80, 729,39 in Septemb
% last. and with meekness perfect
5 without PARALLEL they petition Il