Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-10-25
CAMPAIGN NOTES.

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srse thought and free labor. 1t is the
champion of human rights, and has done
more for the substantial advancement of
liberty and civilization than all other par
ties together. 1t believes in the church
and school house as the best defenses of
the Republic. 1t is the party OF right,
Justice and truth. To defeat so grand a
nower for good would be an act OF Ma
iional suicide. Republic Maga-ine,
ry KATY. Gen Williams, who has
returned to Washington from thorough
canvass of the State of Oregon, expresses
tine opinion that that State is as sure for
tbe Republicans in November as the State
If Maine The entire Republican ele-
ment in Oregon is working in complete
harmony, and, from the fact that the
Democrats have heretofore only succ eeded
because OF a lack of cohesion in the Re
nubican ranks, it would seem that Mr..
Williams predictions are well founded.
rg~ A party which loses ten members
of Congress in two stoutiy contested
states cannot plume itself upon its federal
success because it has elected its local
ticket in one of those states by small
majority. The Republicans have secured
tv0-thirds of the representation of Ohio
and Indiana Ii they do as we'll in the
other Northern States the outlook for
Democratic majority in the next House of
Representatives is not brilliant, even if
the Democrats secure solid delegation
from the solid South.-N. \. E0enang
Post.
~ Through all the vicissitudes of the
war we were Republicans, and why. If
q Democrat, honOring me with his pres
fho e T
plv, 81 grant it, but is the Democratic
Of the war? 1t stands where it stood; it
stands organized, as organized it stood
then, and therefore we are Republicans"
If Democrat asks me why now am l a
Republican? ] answer him, - am Re-
publican because believe in maintaining
to the last blow the equal rights of every
citizen of the United States, in Iowa,
California, Georgia, New York and South
Carolina; and am a Republican until l
know that the rights of my fellow-citizens
in these State threatened not by me or
by the Republican party but threatened
only by those who call themselves Demo
crats--I am a Republican until the poor
est black man in the remotest corner of
Georgia can 20 to the ballot box and drop
his vote with the same security that | can
60 a few rods and drop my vote on the
It'll ofneXt November. "-Ge0rge W. Curtis.
sY~I 1t has been well remarked that the
Republicans started into the late campaign
with four objects in view: To elect a
Secretary of State in Ohio, to elect Gov
ernOr in Indiana, to overcome the Demo
cratic majority in the Ohio Congressional
delegation, 10 overcome the Democratic
ms IN In .iop al
delegation. 1t has succeeded IN three out
Of four OF these objects, and failed in
only one. Two more things remain to be
done-to give the Electoral vote of Ohio
to Hayes and Wheeler, and to give the
Electoral vote Of Indiana to the same can
didates. There is no doubt as in regard
to Ohio. a gain of sixty votes in each
county of Indiana will secure her fifteen
Electoral votes to Hayes, and place his
election beyond all doubt. Can that
many votes be securedg The recent cleo
ton in Indiana was more of a struggle
between the two great party organizations
fighting for State and local offices and
Home-Rule' mastery than contest on
Presidential candidates. II is nonsense
to say that Tilden or his S.. Louis plat
form are popular with the Hoosier Dem
ocracy. They may have felt an affection
for blue jean breeches, dirty shirts, and
Stogy boots but it does not follow, there
fore, that they are equally enamored of
Sham Tilden, the railroad wrecker and
taX-swindlei. The Gubernatorial contest
was one between "brains and breeches,"
and the latter won; but the next contest
will be between Honest Hayes, of Ohio,
and Sham Tilden, of Tammany Hall, and
it will be very strange if all Blue-J Jeans
supporters are found voting for the Tam
many candidate. -Chicago Tribune.