Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-08-05
Republican Prospects.

vigorous and successful Republican party.
From every quarter there comes the most
cheering intelligence Out of the shadow
that came over us in the general elections
of last year we see unmistakable evidence
of returning light and Of MONDAY efful-
gcnce. The dark cloud Of political insan-
ity which since then has seemed to hang
ominously over the nation is surely break
ing away, and the clear light of political
reason Is fastening its homeward fight.
Not only those who have all along been
Republicans, but truthful and honest men
everywhere have become conscious OF the
approach ofdanger, and that it must be
averted. They are fully alive to the ire
nendous importance of the present cam
paigp in the pivotal States, and they have
both the courage and the ability to COM
mand success. In Ohio and in Pennsyl.
vania, in Ohio especially, where the
fiercest battle must be fought, our friends
are marshaling in solid phalanx, with an
earnestnsss and enthusiasm that are
auguries of victory in every good cause.
The people, who, for various rca.
sons, were sluggish and fretful year
ago, are now awake to the fact that they
have some things yet which they hold
dear and which they are unwilling to sur
render. They we'll know that the time
has come when they must renew in earnest
the struggle with their desperate and un-
scrupulous foe; that the elections in Octo
Der and November next are something
more than ordinary skirmishes-tha they
are battles for position in the great con-
f1ict next year for the possession of the
National Government; and they do not
propose to permit the occasion TO pass
without administering to their enemy
such rebukc as their audacity and
hypocrisy deserve. 1t has not yet become
quite clear to their minds that il will be
safe to trust well-known and avowed enc
mics with all that is most sacred in life;
to drive from the grand old ship the crew
that have remained steadfast in the per.
Torrance Of their trust, through storms
and perils, through sorest trials and fierc-
est assaults, that pirates may plumber and
destroy her, Those who in oil seasons
have stood firm as y rock amid the sea
must not be supplanted by those who trim
to every passing breeze, steadfast in moth
ing but an eager desire to seize the spoils.
That the present omens are auspicious,
need not be surprising. Last year, for
various reasons, which no man could fore
see and no Government prevent. the people
were sulcn and supine, and showed their
discomfort by voting down their friends
and voting up their enemies, who have
either betrayed them or will do so ut the
first opportunity. There was then no
great national peril; but that little expert
ment has fully satisfied their prurient
curiosity. The friends of good govern
ment, Of the maxims and tenets Of the Re
publican party, are now, as they have
been since 1860, In the majority; and it is
absurd and illogical to suppose that in a
crisis they would surrender all the ground
they have fairly, yet so dearly, won. Ex-
perimenting with and trusting the Dem
ocratic party as now led and as 1t Is now
COMFORTING itself everywhere, would be
folly Of which we trust the nation will
never he guilty. To believe that, in
the light Of experience, and under
the sober teachings OF history, this
people could so far forget their duty to
themselves and their country as to de-
liberatcly reverse all their glorious his
tory and set the seal of idiocy upon all
their grandest achievements by ushcring
into power combination Of men whose
inspiration and hope are in the degrade
ton and betrayal of the nation would be
unworthy an American citizen, and too
absurd to find Judgment in any honest
heart. 1t takes long years Of tyranny
and oppression to reduce a great people
to q state Of indifference and to cause
them to look without concern and without
dsmay upon their ignominy and their
shame. 1t was only after long centuries
of shameless lawlessness and tyranny that
the once great Roman Empire could be sold
at auction 10 the highest bidder; and the
day is yet distant when this people will so
forget their duty and their honor rs to
set their seal OF condemnation upon all
their achievements.
This then is the time for all good citi.
zens To stand shoulder to shoulder; and
we believe that thousands who have not
yet affiliated with the Republican party,
and thousands more who, in 1879, fol-
lowed an old and trusted leader into a
crooked path whose termination would
be nowhere else than in the present So
called Democratic party, will now be found
in our ranks. And they are welcome!
Their hearts are with us, and let them
come. The party has yet bright future
before ii and il cannot afford to quarrel
with its friends over the past 1t has free
ly used the scalpel and the broad AK in
severing from itself the putrid excres-
ccnces and deformities which are incident
10 human government and it is now ready
and equipped for the campaign. -Repub!ic
Ha9aztae.
az The New York Tribune having re-