Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-10-19
..lNDEPENDENr.''

In pOlNIC9l WA<teIt,s ~ Ill. ES0CIMl sNuU
there u constant tendency tot
toEa lowering Of the standard,
and this tendency serves 10 lessen the
party strength, and to impair the cfficien.
cy Of its action. Those persons who are
loose in their party morals, excuse Them
selves and their derellctious by declaring
that they are "intlependent." They say
I'VE are republican, but we don't like all
that republicans do, aud we can't support
all the men whom they nominate" See
here, good friends! If you are republi.
cans, you are such from honorable con.
siderations, are you not! You think the
dcmoc ratio policy bad, aud the democratic
administration Of public affairs worse, do
you not! You know that the country
lately passed through the red sea OF re-
bcllion, begun and carried on bv demo.
Gratis; that the popular branch Of Con.
gress is now under control If rebels who
were recently in arms seeking the de.
struction Of this government; that today
the southern states are an unit in support
Of the democratic nominee for the prcsi-
dency; that Acknowledgement Of the union
and financial destruction seem inevitable
In case the democracy succeeds; that the
hope Of the downtrodden and oppressed
Of all nations, and Of the good every.
where must be banished forever, if Amer.
ica's experiment with free government
shall fail, and yet with all these fearful
consequences shadowing the land with
the portent Of their gloom, you assume
that you have the right IL act ''independ-
entity" and in The exercise Of your assunnp.
ton you countenauce some boltiong move
ment inaugurated without principal, with
out real intelligence, without reference to
the advancement of any public interest,
but for purposes purely personal. and in
most instances mal,ciously personal. II
you arc republican you should cherish
your party faith, and permit It to control
your POLITICAL action. What if you don't
like all the candidates.! Other people
like them if you don't Everybody cant
be suited. "Do they fairly and honestly
represent those grand principles which I
cherish as essential to free and prosper
Gus government? This is the question
that every honorable republican should
ask himself, and it he can answer affirm.
atively, such answer should compel cor.
dial support of the ticket. That man
who will organize faction, or bolt o
nomination. or split ticket merely to
spite some one, or for purposes Of revenge
is unworthy to be called a republican. 1t
is happy circumstance that there are
but few such men in the nation, but un:
happily those few find great many who
arc blind enough to follow them. Nine
ten,hs OF all the meanness that is perpc.
tratcd,-of that scuundrelism which is 81
hcinous in itself as to excite the contempt
OF the good Of all classes, but which is
nevertheless Of kind of which the Law
takes no cognizsnce, exists under some
rr~text ofpublic in,e,est,or for the d, +: e
OF some principle or the protection VI
some sacred right. The real animus is
kept concealed beneath the prelext, and
thus many men who are loyal and patri
Otto are induced to give their support 10
what seem to them laudab!e and necessary
enterprises, when in fact they are inta.
nous scheme. born Of hatred and prose.
cuted to destroy. Republicans, there can
be no independently in politics. II you
do not work aid vote with your party,
you work and vote against it. The masses
OF The penpla are honest and their impals
es are right, and it is safe to do their bid.
ding, and this is as true OF county matters
as vi state or national. Every man owes
allegiance to his party, as every citizen
does to his country, and that republican
who calls himself an "'indcpendent" is i
traitor 10 his political faith, and morally
is as guilty Of treason as was Aaron Burr
or Benedict Arnold. To be an 'independ
ent" is to be u ss,rehead, and to prefe,
personal revenge to rational prosperity
That 10 an unworthy preference.