Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-10-16
The Usefulness or the: Republican
Party.
CFrOn he Chicago In,sr-ocs.n.1

iron The Chicago Inter-0eean.)
One of the silliest charges that tn
Columbus Pharisees made is con
tanned in the resolution copdemnin,
the Republican party, and declare
that 1t has outlived it's usefulness
because a minority of its represen
tativts voted for the salary bill
On many of the questions that ARCS,
during the rebellion a minority o
Repul licans voted against the con,
vlclions of the party, and sumetimet
on matters vital TO the country
Did that make the party failure
Had it "Outiived its usefulness" be.
cause Of this Did it alter the great
doctrine of equal and exact justice "a
all men, or the principle of the pre-.
servatiou OF the Union for which il
was struggling. because a minority
chose TO vote against the party
Why, q minority OF Republicans Oh.
posed coercion; q minority opposed
the Proclamation of Emancipation ;
minority opposed the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments min
orlty opposed the reelection of
Mr.. Lincoln Had they been power
tul enough to succeed by the help of
the Democrats the result would, no
doubt, have been disastrous but il
would not have changed the justice
OF the mighty principles for which
The majority contended, and would
not have proven that the party had
outived its usefulness. But behind
stood. not only majority of Con-
gress, but twenty millions of people,
aud this great army marched on, re.
CARELESS OF the treason, timidity, or
mistakes of the few.
The Republican party has unde.-
taken reform 10 the civil service :;
it has inaugurated an enlightened
and conscientious foreign policy it
has well nigh secured settlement OF
the old issues of the war upon a bas~
is of political rights to white and
black, and impartial suffrage. Where
the slightest indiscretion might have
involved us in disastrous foreign
wars, the country is at peace.
Where a weak yielding to popular
clamor might have thrown us into
an extensive and bloody Iudian war,
careful policy has saved us from
1t. Where undue harshness or weak
ness might have made of the South
vast field of bloody strife aud con-
fusion; frmness and wisdom have
given it the first quiet in decade.
The Republican party, true to its
traditional reputation, goes forward
to other reforms. Having liberated
a race, enfranchised the enslaved,
saved the nation, aud brought about
domestic tranquility, it turns its at.
tention to other wrongs, and with
VigOr unrelaxed directs it's ponder
GUS blows at the new evils that
threaten the country from the COM
bination of monopolies. And it will
succeed as it has ever succeeded
While weak men are crying aloud at
1t in the old absurd fashion, it goes
straight on in its mission of REFORM
~ 0hOthOi Cai ubuNO, anu UbIOFt
these id!ers IN the vineyard shall
have ceased their foundations. il
will have placed the people once
more under a debt of gratitude for
its devotion 10 their interests.
Are not the maintenance of the
blessings already secured and the sue
ess OF the work upon which it has
just entered ample reasons for main
tanning it's organization ? Has it
outIived its usefulness because an in.
number of its vast mem.
bership voted contrary to the popu
lar viii? Can the Democratic par
ty, majority of whose representa-.
tives voted for the salary increase,
hope to become useful by changing
their name, while millions of Repnb-
Iicans sink into helpless inactivity
because a few of their number did
so? 1--WE beg our discontinued"
Liberal Republican and patched and
revampe1 Democratic friends not to
lay this fiattering JUNCTION to their
souls.