Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-06-21
Grant, Wilson and Republicanism.

THE standard-bearers and the platform
of the National Republican party are now
before the country. The Philadelphia
ConYention did its work well. 1t laid
down platform which, unlike that con-
cocted at Cincinnati, speaks out plainly
is not a mere rhetorical flourish of
"glittering generalities, empty and mean
ingless-no cowardly evasion of great
issues by ''remitting" them Ito the peo-
Pile of the Congressional districts"-no
bidding for the votes of rebels in one
breath, and an expression of love for the
soldiers who fought the rebels in the next
no attempt to mix oil and water; but a
bold, distinct, unmistakable enunciation
of exactly what Republicans and the Re-
publican party believe, and arc ready TO
hight for and vote for.
The platform is strong and a manful
one. 1t gives the political creed of the
earnest and patriotic men of the country,
who appreciate the peoples interests, the
nations needs, and the Governments
honor and duty. All who voted for Lin
coin upon the platforms upon which he
was nominated and renominated-all who
supported his Administration through the
eventful years of war in defense of the
Union and in its benefcient measures in
the cause of national and human justice
all who, in that time of popular disgust
with Andy Johnsons betrayal of Repub-
lican principles, and of national gratitude
to the brave and successful leader of our
armies, voted for General Grant for Pres
ident in 1S68-can stand together in earn
est sympathy and unison, upon this plat
form, rallying for the continued success
of the same good old cause to which their
support has been given in the past, and
feeling that victory is as great national
necessity now as ever before. They see
that the same old adversary they have been
fighting so long and vanquished so
often, although now piping gently as a
cooling dove, is still in the field, eager for
power and dominance in the Government;
and they appreciate the vital importance,
the sacred duty, of all loyal and true men
to be loyal and true still to the principles
and the doctrines they have fought for in
bloody war, and established through
that instrumentality of the peoples
power-the ballotbox. There is no turn
ing back now-no giving, up of even a
vestige of the nobly-earned results of past
struggles. Together the friends of the
national welfare will continue to stand,
ON a common platform and around a com
mon standard, until every principle they
are pledged to shall have been so firmly
rooted in the great heart OF the nation
that no power of treason or demagogism
will dare to assail them.
The standard d-bearers-Ulysses s. Grant
and Henry Wilson-are altogether in ac.
cord with the platform upon which they
have been placed. Their devotion to
those principles have been too often and
too strongly illustrated in the history OF
their public acts, to need additional as
surance that they will be faithful to them
in the future. They are, both, men of the
people-patriots, earnest men, practical
statesmen. Their election is popular
duty, and we believe that that popular
duty viii be grandly performed. Chicagc
Journal