Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-07-23

Pon"
expressed at the
ballot box this fall.
at is often fippantls said that all these
crimes and horrors are past, and it is alb,
surd to attempt to maintaina political
party on the memory Of them. Perhaps
so. But would it not be insane To trust a
political party that could so readily for.
get themf 1t is not %magnauimous, il is
indeed hardly manly to p~erss,ute men
for sins Of which they have really rspen-
ted. But that is not repentance, it is
Hypocrisy, which processes to repent of
sins and does not forsake them, but ems
braces worse ones. Such is the anoma-
lous repentance displayed by the Demo-
cratic party. 1t never ceaseSto d%enounce
the Republican party for what it has done
OR is trying to do, but it straightway thun.
ders with fierce denunciatious of what the
party has not done and is determined shall
not be done. The moment Democrats
forget to decry Republican policies they
begin to belle Republican motives. For
twenty years they deemed it sufficiently
opprobrious to call Republicans Grads
cals,' now they claim to be radicals them>
selves and denounce Republicans as ras>
Gals.
DEMOCRATIC PROMISES.
Since the early part of 1872 they have
been diligently seeking to suborn rene-
gade Republicans to turn states evidence
and to swear that all political virtue is in
those discounted forces which resisted the
progress of the last decade, and all vii
lainy is in the forces which marshaled
that progress. To such witnesses they
have lavishly offered honors, offices, digni.
ties, presidencies, everything which could
be made the subject of a promise.
To answer to any name to profess every
creed to follow any flag; to sleep in any
bed to fr~aternize with all factions; and
to offer q salve for every sore-such is the
mission Of the opposition to-day. Never be-
fore in politics was a lie enacted 50 trans
parent and SO audacious as that paraded
by the Democratic party in 1872, when
they gravcly introduced Horace Greeley
to the people as.their representative man,
1t is not possible such "sigus and wonders
can deceive the elect" So far they have
failed to deceive even the electors.
If that party feGls it to be unkind to
remind it Of its past career, how must it
feel to be reminded Of its present attitude?
ELECT REPUBLICANS.
You are about to select Representatives
to a new Congress. We earnestly entreat
you to send the truest and ablest Repub-
lican you have. But we cntreat you to
send Republicans and not Democrats.
You viii send one or the other. No mat
ter what the individual may call himself,
or what disguise he may wear, he will be
Republican or a Democrat. There is
at present no room for any other style in
our politics. If you do not mean to re-
trace the past you will select Republicans
and not Democrats. II you mean to 60
forward in the future, you will select Re-
publicans and not Democrats.
OUR MISSION NOT ENDED.
It is sometimes said the mission Of the
Republican party is accomplished. If by
that no more is meant than that the party
has discharged every trust heretofore CON-
mitted to it. we admit it. 1t has been
thought when one was found faithful over
a few things that was q good reason for
trusting him with more things. Can you
do better than be instructed by such an
example? Especially since you must en-
ploy either the party which you say has
fulfilled every trust, or employ that only
other party which has betrayed every trust.
The occasion for political effort has not
passed. American progress is not ended.
Other labors lie before you, lighter per-
haps, but not light.
Fnst. You have to sec that what is
done shall not be undone. Republican.
ism offers you the best security against
r~etrogrcsSon.
Second You have to see that the
work Of reform goes forward Three
great lsbors demand your present consid>
GRAFTON.