The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-29
FHE LAST
Address Of the Republican State
Central Committee.
HpoGs. RKP. STATE CENTRAL CoN1nTTER,
Sr Tor-Ya Mo Nny Ql 1STo

HpQHs. REp. STATE CENTRAL CoNlnrrEK,
ST. LOUIS, Mo- Nov. q, 1872.
FELLOW REPUBLICANS: The great
struggle for political supremacy in
the United States has just closed. and
the principles and policies which we
have contended for in the past are
again triumphant. Those members
of our party who vainly endeavored
to array the honest men of this coun-
try against q soldier who had saved
its national life, and a President who
had honestly and ably administered
the government, have been rebuked
by the withdrawal of public conf
dence, and npon us for the next four
years rests The grave responsibility of
repaying the American people for
their faith in the personal and polit-
ical integrity ofthe Republican party.
The result in this State, though
casting a shadow on the glorious ma
tional victory, could not be avoided.
Missouri was the initial point of
the combined movement against the
Republican party. the headquarters of
the systematic defamation alluded to:
and the leaders of the two parties to
the combination in a desperate strug-
gle to maintain the ideas forced upon
them by the Cincinnati and Baltimore
Conventions, as well as vindicate their
individual sincerity and integrity,
have succeeded by 8 1000 votes, while
it is some consolation to recollect that
the greatest sinner of them all, after
the Cincinnati Convention, unhesi-
tstingly claimed Missouri by 0,OOO
majority.
We trust, fellow Republicans, that
the facts presented in the canvass in
regard to the spirit ofunchecked law
Iessness in our midst, the condition of
the State Treasury, the depression
existing where prosperity should
reign supreme, will not be lost upon
the honest representatives of the
Democratic party. We pray that you
will not only bow to the viii of the
sovereign. people of Missouri, but to
urge your representatives to all! every
effort that NOV be made by the State
Administrator and legislative bodies,
TO protect the property and advance
the best interests oftke people of the
State. I'm thus doing we viii not only
have performed a high duty, but set
an example worthy of imitation by
Republicans in sister States, who.
IKE ourselves are III q minority.
ihe time has come wheH il is tho
imperative duty of all classes and
parties to pay more attention TO the !
extraordinary mineral wealth of orr |
rich agricultural State, and TO wake
up to tho fact that such a combination
Is that of productive FARMING lands
surrounding incalculable mineral
wealth forms the true basis for in.
which. In their extent, if
properly fostered, cannot have a rival
many years even i'll England or Bel.
s1unl. Wealth thus created will be-
stow blessings and independents upo,,
classes, aid it is Cur great pyiyi.
eye to go earnestly into the work of
av!ng the foundati0n-stones, while
he spirit ofprogress which now per-
AIDES tie world is still in all its power
md strength.
There is another duty which we
to the State, and TO the country
large. II is TO foster educational
and so work in harmony
as to insure 20 the present, /,
nc la:sed 70 generations to come, ]
nose insstimabie blessings which {
Drfng from minfs enlightened by !
:hools Of Iesrniug. Education, be !
'snred, is thc great ciyilizer. and
It's advantages organized ig- a
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" sIi dep1s'd % tse proper edyea. :
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