The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-01
From Forney'S Press.
The Republican Party.

iai 90 'he huell'y vi lneu 10 partles Is
concerned. As long as a certain order
OF active and energetic men are per-
mitted to enjoy the fruits and the
sweets of Office, they are content to sup
port those in power having this patron
age to dispense. But the moment you
deprive these individuals of such CON-
Portable enjoyments, instantly they cry
Justify for change, by which they
mean that the ms shall be removed
from place and the outs (themselves)
put into the vacancies thus made. If
this is not at once done, an agitation is
begun to break up the party which
dares to refuse thus to be reformed.
1t matters not in which direction one
looks, the same aspect of affairs in this
particular is presented in every dircc-
ton. The history of the English peo-
pie, from the period of the Norman con-
quest, is full of illustration of what we
mean, each successive reign being a
conflict Of the outs aud the inns, in
which principle was often bent to serve
personal ambition as it rose tc berefit
the nation, and during which conflicts
however the claimed advance of
civilization may have been secured
the price which the common mass of
men paid to realize such triumphs was
full of blood and suffering. And we
can come still closer to the present, in
the condition of a people thus suffering
and contending, and fnd in the fight
now waging in France a fine specimen
of this str ug2le between the outs and
the inns. The Bondpa;tiS!S, represent
ing the wasteful and extravagant Em-
pire, which was real oppression to
France, have been Intriguing every
since tie Republic was established to
overthrow and destroy it. This faction
is composed Of the old oflice-hollers of
France, who are now the outs, aud who
care only for Office and its emoluments
They desire power, not for the good of
France, but for the enrichment of them
selves; and they intrigue for the over
throw Of the Republic to accomplish
this. Ia this conspiracy the Imperial
lists have gathered to their ranks the
bad men Of all parties in France, who
can only secure reward from the success
of a bad cause, as they have forfeited
ton.
There is similarity in the con-
diuon Of the Republic in France and the
Republican party in the United States
at this present time, which is well wor-
tiny Of consideration. For two years
the Republicans Of France have had
fierce and bitter struggle. Every evil
influence that could be invoked has
been hurled against themj they have
been deceived by those whom they trus-
ted; cheated by those they elevated to
power, and often disgraced by their rep
resepta:ives, until at last they have COM
pletely triumphed over ali obstacles, and
the French Republic is to-day estab-
iisbed on a foundation where it seems
destined to survive for many years.
Here is precisely the condition of the
Republican party in the United States.
There never has been party in the
Union which has withstood so many
and such persistent internal efforts to
destroy it. There never has been a
party in America that has defeated and
Frustrated so many well-laid plans on
the part of its professed, discarded, and
disgraced a6herents, to sell it out anu
to destroy it. There were times when
it was regarded as ready to collapse, but
just as its foes were prepared to trample
on its fall it rose to greater strength
and grandeur than it ever presented to
the country. 1t has been betrayed by
individuals, forced to the auctioneers
block by combination and factions, but
it has never yet been brought to the
ground where i: could be shackled. If
it has suffered reverse, it was only
temporary, from which it gloriously re.
covered at the very first opportunity
that was presented. Take the election
of 1874 and that of the spring of 1875
as evidence of this. In the first we
were defeated because we were careless
and over-confdent In the last we re-
covered, because we organized for vic |
tory, had good men for candidates, and |
aroused the confidence of the people by |
going into the campaign on our record |
as party.
We need not remind the observer OF
politics in Pennsylvania that there are
new combinations being formed in all
parts o. the State to secure the defeat
of the Republican party at the next
November election TT IL tho old aid |