Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-09-04
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

Twelve years Of trial, of hloodsned
and of triumph has placed the Rcpubli-
can party higher in the estimation of the
people than any political Organization
ever stood before, and why should itnot
continue to stand where it now does
1t has justified 10y lis acts the confidence
of the people, and fulfilled all its pledges
during its entire history. 1t has given
bin ii to measures that have largely in
creased the streng ii, wealth and iDfu-
ence of the nation 1t has faced and
overcome greater difficulties than any
other Parry ever experienced, aud II. has
peyer failed to suppol. and car ! out
every Improvement which the needs OF
the people made desirable. 1t is, always
has been, and ever will be, the pa ty OF
progress and the protector Of free instt-
tutions. There can be no such thing as
such a party outlasting its usefr Pess
when tits consta atly receil ug new blood
into it's veirs, and adopting every i-2-
provement in politics which the people
Iecoe aize.
When the farmer plants and Guilt
Yates his corn and harvests it into his
storehouse, he is through with that crop,
but lie has new duties that require his en-
ere, les aud he lives on in new work as
useful and as active as ever. So with
the Republican party; it put down the
Rebellion and freed the slaves; il
crushed the Rebellion and reconstructed
the defuuct state governments, but with
those mighty works it only opened the
way for a nobler career and more earn
est work. 1t now has before 1t the
publication of official l!fe, the adya ice
ment of public morals aud the elevation
of the people in the scale of social, poll
teal and Industrial progress. To ac-
complish and carry out the great work
now ON hand and prepare itself for the
coming issues, it now becomes imperi-
tive that its teachings should be correct.
and that it shall elect none but honest,
upright and capable men to office.
We have carefully watched the PFC :
| gress of all the State conventions of the
party thus far held, to see if there was
| the old watchfulness to be always right
that characterized 1t in itsyounger days,
and we find, usually, that no mistakes
are made, and they continue IN the front,
| to harmonic the relations between cap
ital and labor, TO secure q just aud equit-
able system of transpoI sation and ex-
change, to prevent injuries from cor
| porate monopolies, and to adopt all Ju-
dicious measures of progress and relief
relative to all subjects that perplex and
iniure the people. 1t takes eai nest
measures to expose and punish official
frauds and corrupt legislation, whether
in land grants and subsidies to railroads,
in Credit Mobilier or in the management
of the Revenue.
The yigor shown by the pa; y in its
condemnation of dishonest Legislators is
refreshing and gives confidence in its
integrity, and when the Wisconsin State
Convention unanimously resolved that
they disapproyed and condemned the re.
cent measures of Congress which allowed
additional compensation to its members
for past services, the people loudly
shouted, amen, and the heart of the ma
ton will respond with equal aiacilty t
their demand that the provision OF thf
act whereby Congressional salai .es were
increased shall be promptly and nncon
ditionally repealed, and that a constitu
tional amendment should be at once pro
posed that shall forever prohibit any
Congress from increasing its own com
pensation. With these declarations TIT
party should steer clear of polltlca
tricksters and only elect men of sterling
honesty to make and administer laws
We need something more than ability
and must be consistent, and while W.
condemn the grab we must also condemn
the grabbers. The surest way to pre-
serve the purity of politics is to place
none but worthy men in nominations
Let us have no Ben Buffers nor Jane
Platts, Jr., but honest men OF pure lives
LEICESTER. - John Swinington, o
: Leicester, in company with Dan bueil
q of Orwell. left Leicester Junction, tn