Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-25

| NOlCCu lduy WIN TOuG III HIS
coach during that time, often with an
intense longing for a sight of the face he
craved-it never came. Out of the heaven
of his life that star had vanished forever,
and nothing was left him but a soiled
photograph, and tear stained letter,
worn with frequent folding and unfold
ing.-0Uerldnd Monthly.
The Republican Party and Reform.
THE Nation observes in a recent article
that the Republican party can not be
turned into reform party in the proper
acceptation of the term, because a very
large portion of its members are not re-
formers, and do not believe in reform,
and did not enter it or labor in it for the
purpose of reform" The significance of
this remark depends upon the sense in
which the word reform is used. The truth
is that the Republican party was organ
lied as reform party, and has effected
the greatest reforms in our history. Not
only has it restored the administration of
the national government to the principles
upon which 1t was founded, the principles
of liberty and justice, from which it had
been under long Democratic ascendency
wholly perverted, but it is the only party
which has ever seriously suggested a re-
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of administration known as the system of
ly not completed, nor will it be for a long
time. But it has been proposed and 1t
will be attempted by Republican Ad-
ministration. If, however, the word IS
meant to describe, not the funeamepa
reform of principle which the Eepuh,Oan
party has accomplished, but certsn sp1 :,
eihc measures known -, 1911
such as revenue reform. civil setslee ;. re
form, etc., then the politSaI sLtuatlIh
offers this practical 4ueston, 10 INC piuu, W,
ability of such reforms greater WIN the
Rennblican oroanizatvn or with a new
marty comnosa5 cbiey or Democrats
The character aId tendency of a new
marty viii of cdrse, be determined by
the 9renonderalng element. The Repub-
iicap rartv w.s composed chiefly of old
WHO'S wit, body of anti-slavery Dem
oerats Jut the Whig party had gone to
pieces .pon the slavery question, for it
conta ned the political anti-slavery ele-
me,G, and that element directed the poll
G. of the new party Now does the
Democratic party contain the seed of
greater purity of administration The
question in politics is generally an al.
tentative. Shall /, upon the whole, pro-
mote the public advantage more by vot-
ing for this candidate or for that +? Do
the general character, tendencies, tradi-
tions, purposes, of this party or of that
promise most for the country and its well
fare =? Granting that there is here and
there an unworthy officer of the govern
ment, is it the rule that unfit men are ap-
pointed? Granting that this or that
measure is MISTAKE, is the general course
of the Administration erroneous and
perilous? These, and such as these, are
the questions which every voter should
ask. 1t is, of course, the business of
papers and orators in the opposition to
magnify single acts and represent excep-
tions as the rule. But that is not the de-
sire nor the conduct of independent and
| patriotic men.
Those, therefore, who wish to see the
accomplishment of certain specific reforms
will ask whether they are more probable
from new party, constituted as it must
now be, or from the Republican party
And the first thing that will be observed
is that the success of such a new party
implies the defeat and the destruction of
the Republican organization. In the
present condition of the country is such
a result desirable? In regard to the Gin
cinnati Republicans and others we wish
to utter no invidious comparisons, or ex-
pressions, or suspicious. The motives of
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may be fairly supposed to be as pure as
those of the adherents of the Philadelphia
Convention. But is there single object
which they have at heart-except some
personal preference which is unworthy to
be named in such a discussion-which
they really believe is more attainable by a
Democratic alliance than by the Republi-
can organization
1t is true that parties change, and that
a man is not to be forever condemned OF
avoided because he has been a supporter
of false principles and fatal policy. But
if this is urged as an argument for a new
party, the reply is very obvious and con.
elusive. 1t is not four years since those
with whom the new alliance must be
made, and who will furnish its working
force to administer the laws of recon.
struction and of recognition of equal
rights, declared the whole Republican
policy upon the subject to be revolution
ary, unconstitutional and void. Did they
believe what they said? If they did not
are they, the same men, to be trusted
now? If they did believe it, but have
now acquiesced in what they opposed,
are they safer men to administer those
laws than the men who made them, and
who believe in them? We speak of what
these men said four years ago. But in
this very session of Congress, Senators
Sumner and Schurz have seen the steady
disinclination of the Democratic Senators
to concede the protection of equal civil
rights; and regularly every Monday in
the House the representatives of those who
are to form the new alliance with Mr.
Greeley successfully battle by filibuster
ing every effort to secure complete equal
ity of rights to all citizens.
If, then, it were true that the Republi
, can party could not be turned into a re
form party, are the prospects of reform
any more promising from the practica
union of a few Republicans with tn,
Democratic party? This is not to say
that there can never be a reconstruction
of parties, but only that the time for il
has not come. Not only would every
specific reform" be endangered, but tn,
general confidence, which is the basis o
the present activity and sense of stability
in every industrial interest in the country
would perilously shaken by the restora
ton of Democratic ascendency in tn,
government. The popular vote, indeed
has for dozen years steadily condemned
the Democratic party. The people of th'
United States do not forget the unspeaka
BILE shame of slavery, nor the preciou
blood in which it was washed away from
the nation. Thank God for that instinct
for it can be trusted to the end. Blu
those people know that the deep and rea
/; results of that long thralldom of the pa
/ tional mind and confidence can not safely
be disregarded because of theory tina
old issues are settled; and they see tina
the Democratic party, sorely smitten as /
is, and, as we believe, unto death, still re
/ tains its organization, and disputes th'
control of the government. Can that part!
be turned TO reform party, even although
it could elect an old Republican for Pres
, ident against the candidate of the Repub
: lican party.-Harper's Weekly.
JOSEPH T. BECKETT, of Meriden, Con
necticut, recently returned from the Yves
with several specimens of iron ore in hi
7 pocket, one of which had a peculiarl,
/ magnetizing power upon his watch. A
times the watch would start off at the rat
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