The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-09-27
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
What Il Has ACCOMPLISHED.

know that it has made blunders; what
human organization has not? Tt is not
characterized by infallibility, but it is
characterized by one thing that no other
political organization on Gods footstool
has ever exhibited-a disposition, will
and courage to correct it's own errors,
and to purify its own constitution.
Within and Of itself it is to work its own
reformation; we don't propose to hand
that work over to the devil. I know our
friends talk largely about reform. 1t
was IN 1876 their platform had, in capt.
tai letters, the word " Reform fifteen
times, and, after the election was over,
you heard very little said with regard to
reform. AS Madame Roland said with
regard to liberty, sob, liberty what
crimes have been committed in thy
name r well might have been said
sob, reform, what crimes in thy name
were committed on the ballot-box. +"
They reform in non essentials, never in
essentials; very much like the good old
Irishman who was brought home drunk
one night. The doctor, being called in,
thought to scare him little, and said,
g Patrick, if you ever come home in
that condition again, it will serve you as
it did Dennis O'Leary down here"
How was that, doctor ?" "Why, he
was attempting to blow out the candle
before going to bed and his breath be-
came ignited and he was blown into
10000 atoms, and they could not gather
up enough Of him to hold a wake
over" SIS it true, doctor, what you
tell me ?" "True as gospel" "He
was blown up, for fact, doctor ?"
"Blown up, as I told YOU" bridget.
wife, bring me the Bible" She brought
it. In the name of the Most High, I
solemnly swear-and, doctor, was he
blowed up?" cit blowed him up. in
fact" SIN the name Of the Blessed
Virgin Mary and the Most High, I, Pat
rick O'Donnell, do soiemnly swear
doctor, in fact did he blow up % "He
did" I" / solemnly swear in the pres
ence Of the Most High, and Of the
blessed Virgin Mary, that Patrick
O'Donnell will never, never, so long as
I live, again blow out a candle
while I am drunk" fear that will be
the case with the reformers.
[ repel the imputation that the Re-
publican party has Intentionally OPP
pressed the labor or the industries OF
your country and my country. The Re
publican party was born to promote the
interests of humanity. If it had ambi-
tious designs, it might have united it's
fate and fortunes with the cavalier and
chivalry and hot aristocracy of our
Southern domain but the Republican
party was born for another purpose. In
the interests of mankind. and the indus
tries of mankind, it rolled back the tide
of human servitude that sought to over
whelm the lands that had been dedicated
by the ordinance of 1888 to be free
homes for free men; by it's energy and
its determination and the resolute front
presented to the cohorts of human bond
age, it preserved the dignity of labor in
this broad domain, and secured to the
industrial classes freedom and free homes
under the Homestead act, which the
Democracy while in power had always
persistently and forever refused to af-
ford. Actuated by motives to Cypress
the laboring classes! Great God
Didn't it strike a mountain of shackles
from the limbs of five millions of
laborers emancipate and restore
to them the lost image of their
God and elevate them to the dignity and
M If
The Republican party turn about and
Cypress, by cruel and wicked policy,
the 100000 of it's wards that it had
emancipated You know that it had no
such motive, and no interest to strike
hands with wickedness. Instead of be-
ing actuated by the spirit that drags
angels down, it stopped to elevate the
loVly mortals. Oh, no; but, by It's blows,
dealt thick and fast, it secured to itself
the ability, which is resolutely exercised,
to incorporate into the fundamental law;
finally, the glittering generalities Of the
Declaration and the actual results of the
very truths therein set forth of universal
freedom to all mankind. Not content
with that, they in the second incor-
porated that other and further provision
whereby the denizen Of the humblest
cot was secure in all the rights of him
who occupied the lordly palace, equality
of rights before the law, so that to-day
the laboring man, the industrial man,
may invoke for the protection of that
humble tenement the whole power of
the nation, naval, military and civil,
to the same extent and with like eff
feet as he who controls his mill
ions; and that was brought aoout as
the second great work of the Repub-
lican party. Not only that not content
with that, in third struggle forward in
this great fight for humanity, lifting the
humble from lower conditions to higher
planes and higher places, it incorporated
In your fundamental law that other pro-
vision, which clothes all mankind upon
the continent of America in equal politi-
cal rights of freemen and citizens, so
that now, no matter of what kindred,
cline, race, tongue or nationality, who.
ever has declared his intent and purpose
to become citizen Of the United States.