Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-11-30
BENDER & MlLLlKAN, Editors and Publishers.

weakest citizen shall be defended against
the moet powerful conspiracy at home, as
he would be against the most arrogant or
powerful empire abroad and by the whole
power of the nation wherever the exercise
of that power becomes necessary, that all
the Democratic arguments against the
Ku-Klux legislation of the Republicans
have not only fallen so pointless, but, re-
coiling, indeed, on their authors, have
proved to them SO Enthusiastically an ele-
ment of weakness
Nor is this>all that has tended to sap
the strength and blight the hopes of the
Democratic party. THERE'S danger
Gus class" North as well as South, which
the people feel itwould not be safe to in
stall in power, in the persons of its IA
yorites or apolegists. q ofrt0
Go into any of our large cities, East or
West. Ask any of its citizens of any party
this question: In the quarter of this city
where vice and evil reign supreme; where
everything that is good and just is tram
pied under foot, and everything that is
wicked and vile and iniquitous is doni
nant; where you would not-dare to let
your wife or daughter walk after night
fall unattended; to which party do its deni-
zens cast their approving votes? And the
answer you are sure to receive is to-day
the weakness of the Democratic party.
With the dangerous classes, North and
South, as plainly illustrated as it has been
of late, the thousands OF votes our oppo-
nents receive from them are more than
offset by tens s.of thousands who refuse to
cast their votes in the same direction, and
thus to be found fraternizing with them
at the polls.
But, though the inevitable defeat which
Democratic leaders see awaiting them, if
| they place Democratic nominees before
the country on Democratic platform,
may be avoided by the kali-k kari PROPOSE
ton now under discussion against them
Republicans must not close their eyes to
the fact that such campaign may be more
dangerous to .hem as an organization
than the open field on which they have so
often met and defeated their opponents.
b. exactly such a policy was Republicans
ascendanee overthrown in Tennessee and
Missouri And, though it would be diff
cult to play the same game in the broader
arena of the whole nation, and its results
in the future might be far more disastrous
to the party which sought political res
| direction through apparent suicide, the
fact tl.at such plan is contemplated at
all should impel action this winter which
would place the Republicans on impreg-
battle-ground. First of all, unity. With
thorough concord and jealous energy
New York could be carried now as surely
as Ohio or Pennsylvania; and the nation
in 1872, as surely as the state elections, o
1871. But, next and above all, meeting
the new and living issues of to-day take /;
brave and living party of faithful, patriot
ic, and argehearted men.
With a hearty endorsanaant of tho re
forms attempted to outline in my articl
of last Il onth on the Pathway to Vic
tory"-with generous reductions of taxa
: ton, and especially treating taxes on tea
: coffee, incomes, etc, as war burdens, It
! be dispensed with in peace and reserves
, for the monetary eXigencies of war-witl
Athoroagh and searching retrenchment an
feconoEly in every branch Of the service
proving Republicanism to be the party {
genuine practical reform, of philanthropi
principles, of even handed justice, and {
healthy progress the newest departure {
the Democracy, whatever shape it ma
finally assume, can be made confusio
Of tongues for it, resulting only in d
, feat which will shatter it as a political o
ganization hereafter, and become, at las
only winding sheet of all his futu
hopes.