The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-30
TO REPUBLICANS.
.Iddress of the State Central Committee.
TIE OLD ENEMY AT OUR FRONT.

REPUBLICANS OF MICHIGAN Once
more you are called upon to ratify your
brilliant record, made in the history of
this State for the last twenty years ; to
defend the principles of freedom which
created the Republican party and have
given it in Michigan series of unbroken
triumph since its first organization at
jackson in 1854.
The party which plunged the country
into civil war, which decimated the
young men of our State, and entailed Il
taxation of millions upon the people,
stands upon the same reasonable ground
it occupied before the commencement of
the Rebellion. Its leaders and press,
both North and South, are ready to re-
open all the controversies which only
two years ago they declared had been
settled by the war and by the aid of
its Southern ally, the former Slave
Power, the Democracy now seeks to re.
gain power in the State and Nation.
Let it not be forgotten that the Dem
ocratic State platform denounces all at
temp,s to enforce justice and equality in
the rebel States as an infamous alliance
of carpet baggers, scalawags and bay
onets."
Let it not be forgotten that Robert
Toombs, of Georgia, hailed with delight
this expression of sympathy by the De-
mocracy of Michigan with Southern
traitors and rebels.
Let it not be forgotten that it is the
aim and purpose of Democrats to control
TIE Lower House of Congress, in order
to thwart all attempts of the Govern
ment to secure the ights conferred upon
all citizens by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Constitutional Amend
mentS.
Let it not be forgotten that this same
Democratic platform favors Free Trade
and the destruction of the great manu-
featuring interests of the Penipsular
State.
Let it not be forgotten that we are to
meet on November third, the same men
who opposed the emancipation of the
slaves; who stood ready to sue for peace
at any price in 1854 ; who maintained
a cowardly " fire in the rear upon our
brothers and sons who were fighting
battles for the Union. This party never
has had utilization with or sympathy for
the principles ia which we believe, and
to-day it has no claim to The vote of a
single Republican in Michigan
Coming out of the grand campaign of
1872 with majority of 10000 for
President, our danger to-day is in
relying upon this unexampled victory.
No Republican should fail to thoroughly
perform the ten days work remaining
before election.
Expecting defeat on the State ticket,
the Democratic party seeks victories in
special legislative districts, and aims to
defeat one or more of our members of
Congress-. For this and every other
object is to be sacrificed, every other
candidate will be " cut" by Democrats,
if thereby an unbroken Republican del
egation from Michigan can be changed.
In view of this scheme of the Dem.
ocratic party, which by it's former 16
years misrule has proved to be utterly
unworthy of any claims upon the people,
let the Republicans of the whole State,
especially in those counties where local
difficulties and sectional feeling threaten
us with defeat, now unite in the same
noble spirit which controlled us in the
eight last general elections, to sustain
aud triumphantly carry into power the
candidates placed in nomination.
In possession of the State govern
ment since 1855, the Republican party
of Michigan has well proved its claim
to public confidence. 1t has admin.
istered the government honestly, faith
fully, economically and justly, and to-
day the only censure cast upon it by the
opposition is that it has large balance
ia the State treasury. In other words,
the money has been too carefully kept
With State debt little over 81 $685..
900, Michigan has a credit excelled by
no other State in the Union, and her
bonds now command premium in every
financial center.
Under Republican rule, education
has been fostered our State charitable
and refo-motorv institutions have he.