Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-29

what it was eight years ago, when
had the honor to preside over lik
Convention called fora a like pul
pose with that for which you are a:
sembled today / think it was o
!. the occasion of the nominatlo
of Mr.. Brough as the candidat
for Governor in 1868, to whicn Inov
? refer.
We were then, as you will remem
in the midst OF terrible war. Th
bopeso of the country were less buoy
ant than they had been at almos
} any other period of that strife; tn
{ public credit Of the country wa
less strong than it had been at an,
period of the war, and when indee,
there seemed to be an apprehension
more or less, pervading the Who'll
country in regard to the results o
that war.
We now meet here to-day, nv fel
low citizens, to congratulate eacl
other and the members of the Re
publican party throughout tn
length and breadth of the Unite'
States, that the changed condition
from war to peace, from disputed
to universally recongnized author
ity of the nation, is attributable, il
4 large measure, to the Republican
THAT party which saved the na
ton in the midst Of the war, and i:
now supporting the nation in all thu
consequences of the war. Ap
plause - E' -
But my congratulations, my fel
low citizens, need not To be confined
10 this: not only was it to the elfort
of the Republican party in and on
of the Democratic party who raj
lied to its support in the field-not
only was it to this Republican part,
| say, that we owe the crushing OF
the rebellion and the re-establish
ment of the unity of the nation
hut IL is To the snnrn party that we
are indebted for the happy and
prosperous condition of the scoun-
try to-day, for the large reduction OF
the public debt; for the lessening OF
the taxes, and for all the ameliora-
ton of the condition of the South
ern States, as well as for the gener-
al prosperity in which all of us are
SO bountifully sharing to-day.
/ congratulate you, my fellow Re-
Ipublicans, upon the fidelity with
which the Administration has per
formed all its promises to the coun-
try, applause as well as upon its
success in everything that it has un-
dertaken in behalf of the interests
of the country. It-ih- s.
There will be, before you finally
separate and leave Columbus,a pub
lie occasion when topics like this
can and will be discussed at great
er length than on the occasion on
which l am now addressing you.
And whatever may be said by the
opponents of the adminintratlon
whatever criticisms may he made
upon the conduct or policy of the
administration,we stand here to day
with the record before lis of prom
ises performed, pledges redeemed,
the country prosperous, its future
even more prosperous in prospect,
under the administration of Gener-
al Grant. Lond applause
And now, my fellow Republicans,
| will only add to what l said, that
we meet here today as we met a
year ago, and as we met 4 year be-
fore, not to announce any new prin-
ciples for the conduct of the Repub-
Republican party, but to reafiirm
those principles that underlie the
organization ofthe Republican party
Those principles we seek to .estab-
lish-political equality among all
men, en-handed justice to all men,
which are the fundamental princi-
Piles of the Republican party. At
the same time, my fellow citizens,
the Republican party,I trust, is now
as it will be ut any indefinite period
hence-a party always ready to
the actual situation and wishes of
the country. If there be errors in
the administration, if there be any
improvement to be made on the
legislation, there will be no need of
a third party to accomplish that; for
the Republican party will be ready
always to apply the proper remedy
by adapting its policy and its meas
ures to the rcctilication of what
may be wrong, rs well as the recog-
milton always of what isright. [Ap-
plause H'i-.i-
. If you, therefore, tell me that
there should be 4 thorough reform
in the civil service of the country, /
say you are right, and the Republi-
can party is the party under the adj
of Gen. Grant, who
has so auspiciously commenced it,
to make that civil service reform.
If you tell me You want to lessen
taxes and reduce the public revenue
in behalf of the great industries of
the country, tell you the policy of |
the Republican party will attain
that, if you will let it perform the
legitimate purposes OF its existence.
SO in regard to all such points. We
need no new departure of the Re-
publican party. Applause
For if we should haveit, we should
lave tive should be departing from
,he basis of political right and po-
ltical morality, where we intend to
stand and to leave the Republican
,arty as long as the organization
hall exist. If our political oppo-
tents propose new departures,
whether in the direction of the
republican party, or in any other
Erection, think l should have to
congratulate them and only express
ny regret that they hadn't departed,
wenty years ago. Laughter and
pplause u II
And now, my friends, speaking of
his new departure and the platform
4 the Democratic party, which l
NIL not attempt to discuss at this
lme, because you are in no condi-
ion here to discuss, but whether |
hey are sincere, | only want to say G
regard to it, that when they say
hey will acquiesce in the enforce
lent of the constitutional amend
,ents the 18th, 14th, and 18th, q
ope that they are sincere, or not, !,
re say to the Democratic party of