The Republican journal., 1876-06-22
FOR GOVERNOR,
JOHN G. TALBOT,
OF EAST NACHIAs.
For Electors of President and Vice President
AT Large-JOSEPH TITCOMB,
CHARLES w. ROBERTS.
The Cincinnati Platform.

Inc cincinnati PLATFORM.
The declaration of principles which the
| assemblage of office holders and office ex-
! pectants recently put forth in national
convention is more remarkable for length
| than breadth. 1t intimates much more
| than it says, and says much more than ii
means. Like country guide boards, ii
points out roads that it never travels it.
self 1t says that in the economy of Prov
idence the Republican party came into
power to purge the land of slavery. We
suppose the idea that Providence aided
| that party into power is based upon Ben
Franklin's maxim. that God helps those
that help themselves" Certainly the Re-
pubicans helped themselves abundantly
as soon as they had chance. But that
1.-The economy of Providence' was at work
| in the matter is to finite understanding
very strange. An implicit trust in an
everything power can alone reconcile us
to such belief ''Whom He loveth He
chasteneth."
The resolution regarding a return to
specie payments, when considered with
reference to the prominence which the
party has sought to give to the question
in Congress and in State elections. is a
nullity 1t simply declares for "a contin-
uous and steady progress to specie pay
ments" That is indeed lucid 1t APP
plies equally well TO the progress of a
toad through a tar barrel, or a railroad
train across the country. A burglar drill
ing bank safe may be said to be max
ing "a continuous and steady progress
towards specie" After all the promises
for itself, and the Astounding denuncia-
tons Of Democracy. on this question, the
great national Republican party, that was
created out of the economy of Providence,
has come at last to this complexion. Can
the acutest ear perceive the jingle of n
silver dime in such declaration?
The great reliance of the party in this
campaign, as it has been in those imme-
diately preceding it, is the potency of the
bloody shirt The fifteenth and sixteenth
resolutions fling to the breeze this ensan-
guined garment, and like the murder
crazed Macbeth, picture ''gouts of blood'
that have no real existence The two
paragraphs are full of such stuff and non
sense as :" sectional strife, "imperilling
of national honor and human rights"
"sympathy with treason &c. Do these
men forget that the war ended eleven
years ago? DO they fail to remember
that the men of the South have acqui-
esced in the result, and declare them
selves citizens of common country, as
ready to defend it as its citizens any
where? Why, the members of the Con-
ventlon had but to look about it and see
delegations from every state of the South,
not one of whom had story of wrong to
rehearse. Such denunciaton as those re
olutions embodyi is the merest pop-cock in
the world.
The resolution that created the great
furore of the day, that in relation to nom
sectarian public school, is one that meets
with almost universal approval. 1t is the
spirit of the Constitution of the United
States, and the principle is incorporated
into the Bill of Rights of nearly every
state in the Union. There was scarcely
need of making hurrah over this matter
show that they could reject the candidate
and steal his thunder
There is one other resolution that should
have consideration, and for fear that the
reader may not have its language fully in
mind, we reproduce it here
| We rejoice in the quickened conscience of the
people concerning political affairs; will hold all
public officers to Il rigid responsibility, and en-
gage that the prosecution and punishment OF
all who betray official trusts shall be speedy,
| thorough and unsparing.
One can scarcely fail to smile at this
bald hypocrisy The conscience of the
| people never required to be quickened II
was always alert But it was the official
conscience at Washington that needed to
| be pricked. 1t was the Democratic House
that by its Investigations placed Goals Of
fire on these hitherto inert turtles, and
made them travel. Had there been nc
Democratic majority there would have
been no resolution about "quickened
conscience" And these resolvers are ready
to prosecute and punish, too those fellows
who apologize for Babcock, and whose Of.
fetal head at the White House removed
an attorney at St. Louis for prosecuting toe
vigorously the whiskey swind!ers Long
live humbug!
The Kennebec Journal can't suppress
good many wry faces at the defeat o
Blaine, but concludes that the party will
survive. and that Fighting for eternal
principles, will strip for the great polit
ical campaign just before u.s. let us
beg that it won't do that Keep youl
clothes on, for heavens sake.
Dana told the convention that no other
name than Bristow's was sure to save
Massachusetts to the Republicans. More
than likely. If Uncle Sam Tilden shall
be presented, the solid men of the state
will gather around him, to the rallying
cry of "Honest Government"
| Frye called Blaine "Maine's idol" But