Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-17

leisure to enter unimpeded upon series
of internal reforms
The Republican party has, in fact,
ceased TO be separate political organiza-
ton, and embraces all who, under any
name or creed, desire the perpetuation of
freedom and the equal rights of all.
Many of its founders were known as Dem
ocrats, and others by different party
names. 1t is hostile to no sect, except
where sect endangers the peace of the
nation, nor to any race that is loyal to
freedom. 1t embraces all who are the
friends of reform, education, the develop.
ment of the national resources, of indus
try, peace and general ease; and hence,
from its action alone, can come those fur
ther Improvements in political morality
and public honesty that are demanded by
the progress Of knowledge. 1t has over
thrown that great center Of immoral in
fluence which, under the honorable name
of Democracy, preyed upon the city and
State OF New York, and spread its mala-
rious faint over the elections of every
part Of the Union. 1t has repressed cru
city and barbarism at the South. 1t Of
fers security to the immigrant, and the
means of free communication to the far
mers of the West. 1t has reduced the ma
tIonal taxes, yet scrupulously preserved
the financial honor of the nation. 1t has
pledged Itself to purify elections, elevate
the character of its public servants, ex-
tend the influence of the civil-service re-
form, and place in office those only who
are competent and trustworthy. Nor, we
believe, will any one who compares the
prosperous condition of our own country
with the less advanced progress of all 9th
ers, fail to see that Republicanism,
although somewhat embarrassed by the
common frailties of human nature, and
sometimes erring in the choice of its rep
resentatives, has already repaired to a
wonderful degree the necessary evils of a
period of disorder, has awakened higher
sense of public morality, laid the founda-
tons of a more thorough education of the
whole people, promoted all industrial pur-
suits, and raised the community to a con-
dition of general prosperity, toward which
all other nations have yet to make their
way in the path in which it has gone be-
fore.
To hope for any honest projects of re-
form, therefore, from the political factions
and leaders who have been the constant
enemies of Republicanism is idle. Expe-
rience has shown their falSeness. We
have Democratic conventions assuming
the name Of Reformers in Ohio, and Lib
eral Republicans claiming to guide the
policy of Pennsylvania. But the people
will trust neither faction. They have seen
the Liberal Republicans engaged in a
plot to carry the elections at the South by
violence; rejoicing over the prosecutions
of white and colored Republicans in
Georgia or Louisiana; eXultant over the
misdeeds of their cruel oppressors They
have heard the cry of the victims of Lib
eral Republicans, and will redress their
wrongs. There can be no honesty with
those who have a share in such crimes
That the Democracy should prosecute any
just reform is impossible Its whole
strength lies in that portion of the foreign
vote which is plunged in ignorance and
| ruled by foreign priesthood, and in that
portion of the Southern vote whose VIC
lence has sullied the fame of freedom Its
triumph would mean death to public hon
esty and national education We suspect
the people mean to take the labor of re
form into their own hands, and that they
will perfect it by enforcing those princi
pies that form the basis of progressive
Republicanism. The Republican conven
tons of New Hampshire and Iowa have
led the way in arousing the national con
science, and there is something of the
freshness of new impulse in the demand
from the Northwest that every honest cit
izen thould take part in politics, and
every Republican become reformer-
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