The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-08-19
THE WHEELING DAILY TEIGENoER THURSDAY
What RepublicaniSm Has Done
Tor Ahe Nation.

What RepubIieanISm Has Done
Tor Ahe Nation.
From the Cleveland Lsader.l
In the midat Of this canvass, Vhenlthe
Democratic orators are raiding over Ohio
flinging their mud and me9dRcity at the
Republican party, and while Fernando
Wood Is denying to Republication the
credit OF any genuine existence a. party,
it may be timely and proper 70 record
briefly what it has done for the United
States since 1860.
And first let us begin with Governor
Aliens testimony, that here at home, in the
State Of Ohio, the Republican party was
so pure that in the record Of the nearly
twenty years that It held control Of the
State Government, the Democrats have
been able to find, "aiter the most careful
examination, not single case Of official
coFruption.R Thisi the unqualified, I'M
solicited testimony Of a political oP;
ponent. Il covers the whole ground, and
above all, it is true.
In the broader field Of National affairs
the Republican party and administration
suppressed the great Democratic slave
holders rebellion, the most powerful and
determined revolt against popular gov
ernment in history.
1t gave freedom and equal rights to all
citizens Of the Republic, and broke the
shaCkles Of slavery from race which un.
der democratic rule would have been en-
shaved forever.
1t established the best system Of bank
ing and currency thenation ever enjoyed,
enabling the Government to sustain the
enormous cost OF the war without the OK
haustion Of its resources and the immedi-
ate relapse OF It's prosperity which 80 Of
ten succeeds protraoted and expensive
wars.
1t introduced the convenient and labor
saving system OF free mail delivery, and
has completed negotiations for the most
rapid and complete interior mail trans
portation in the world without increasing
the expense over the cost OF ordinary
speed.
It has introduced and perfected the
Bureau Of Storm Signals and Weather
Reports, thereby saving immense annual
losses Of life and property to the merCan.
tile marine and giving to all classes Of
people the convenience Of accurate pre-
dictions rs to the probable weather.
II has built the Pacific Railroad, unit
ing the Pacific and Atlantic groups Of
States and bringing the whole country
into more thorough unity and sympathy.
Itrcvived the beneiiCent system OF river
and harbOr improvements which had
been discouraged and abandoned by the
Democrats during their lease Of power
from 1850 to 1861.
II has paid On-including unsettled
claims At the close OF the War--nearly
one thousand millions Of the National
debt, and by Its honest, consistent man
agenent Of National finances, has raised
the foreign credit Of the American Re-
public to point never before attained in
our national history.
BY u judiciOus system Of protection, ii
has fostered and built up in the last ten
years, since tho war, many times more
manufactures than were created during
the twenty years Of Democratic rule be.
fore the war.
by cOnsummate diplomacy n Republi-
can Congress and administration brought
England to a peaceful settlement of the
Alabama difficulty, by which Great Brit.
ain paid to the United States Treasury
sixteen and a half million in currency for
damages done to American shipping by
Anglo rebel pirates.
They also secured the relinquishment
Of British claims to the Island Of San
Juan,and established an equitable bound.
ary between the Federal and BRITISH ter.
ritory, an achievement which tlleN.Ad-
ministration Of Buchanan undertook but
Signally failed to accomplish.
They disbanded the Union armies i'm
mediately upon the close Of the war, with.
out disorder or decentralization to civil
society, and reduced the regular army to
n smaller proportion tharit had ever be.
fore borne to the entire population.
Finally, the Republican party has been
from It's Inception, the guardian and pro.
mOter Of popular intelligence and educa.
ton. II has been the steadfast friend Of
free education; II has fostefed immigra-
ton, and spared no exertion in the direc-
ton Of National progress,
1t says that the debt OF the Nation
shall be honorably paid; that the plighted
faith Of the Government in respect TO the
integrity Of the currency shall be kept
inyiolate, and that MS soon Ms consistent
with the exigencies Of business, the cur.
renCy Of the Republic shall be raised to
n par value with coin, and become part Of
the machinery Of the universal commerce.
Compare this record with that Of the De.
moCraCy that once fostered slavery and
now advocates initiation, and Judge which
Is the party Of the people and the future.