The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-23
REASONS WHY THE RE
PUBLICAN PARTY
SHOULD BE SUSs
Tanned.

IA aNED.
1t embodies the larger part of the Il
aoral and religious people of the ma. y
ion. The Democratic party embodies J
he Catholic, the infidels, the imoral I
md the disloyal people of the nation.
Among the Catholics there are some /;
FOOD people. but as body they, if we
nay judge from their former deeds of 5
'yrany and prosecutions unto torture s
md death, are dangerous people, and !
# so, what they once did they will do
again, ifput into power. The history
Of France shows that an infidel gov
eminent Is not safe. Men who do not
believe in future state of rewards
and punishments, should not be trust
ed with power. It is not safe to put
immoral and disloyal men into power.
That there are some good men in the
Democratic party, is admitted; but
they are too few to have any control.
They are in bad company and ought to
leave it. That party did, during the
war with the rebels, Whist they could
to weaken the power of the govern
ment, and to give independence to the
rebel states. Democrats secretly ship |
ped arms into Indiana in order TO give
the state to the rebels. And who are
the "White Leaguers". and the "Ku- |
klux" who are numbering both the |
white and black men? They are Dem |
oerats.
In the Republican party there have
been and now are some bad men. No
very large party can be formed in this
depraved world without having some
bad men in it. Such get into churches
despite of the utmost care to prevent
them from coming into the sanctuary
of God. How much more readily can
they enter into political parties
There Is this differenc between the par
ties. In Che Democratic party there
are, and doubtless will be, bad men
enough to control it. In the Republic
can party there are good men enough
tu control it. We ought to remember
that it suppressed the rebellion, saved
the nation from dismembermenr.
They amended the constitution 80 as
u set four millions of people free, and
To give them the full exercise OF their
| rights. They have given to the nation
the best constitution in the world.
They have enacted the best laws ever
enacted in the nation. No party on
earth ever did, in SO short d time, SO
much to promote human welfare.
And never has the government been
better administered than it has teen
during the presidency of Grant. And
although he, like all other men, is liza
BILE to err, he has seldom failed to do
the right thing in the right place. No
other one man now living has done SO
much for the nation as President
Grant. This rising up against Grant
and the Republican party reminds us
of the folly of Israel in rising up
against Moses.
Now, we have two large parties
One was disloyal party, and encour-
aged the rebels during the war, and
now it embOdies the mass of the bad
men of the nation. The other party is
a loyal party, and embOdies the mass
of the good men of the nation, and il
saved the nation from dissolution and
has governed it well up to the present
time. One of these parties is destined
to elect the next president to govern
the nation. 1t is for religious anC
moral men to say which it shall be
The temperance party have given Ohio
and Indiana to the Democrats. at &
former election in Ohio that party II
one district was the means of defeating
the Republican candidate and of send.
ing habitual drunkard to congress
The temperance party cannot weaker
the Democratic party, hut they have il
many places weakened the Republic
can. All the temperance men C an d.
as political party, is to put US under
Democl attic rule. If all the partie.
who desire reform, will go into the Re
publican party they can control it fol
all good purposes. Good men have
DCAOLO i HAS uOuS
well, and better than any other polite.
al party eyer did. Let US, then, hold
fast to it and work inside of it, and
cause it to go on to perfection.
| l am now nearly eighty-two years
old, and have written this article tc
promote the welfare of the nation
From my boyhood have endeavored
to promote temperance. caused the
formatio'. of the first temperance soci-
ETY. that was formed on this side of the
Allegheny mountains.
There are more good men In the Re.
publican party than in any other polit-
ical party, consequently that is the
party in which all good men should
concentrate and work. We can effect
nothing to purpose by going out and
dividing into Changers, Reformers
and Temperance parties. "In union
there is strength" Inside we car
promote reformation tn greater extent
than we can outside.
JOHN RANKIN.
Emporia, Oct. 20, 1874.