The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1877-10-31
VOL. H..
Election.

There seems to be quiet prevailing il
this county, over the approaching election
that amounts almost to indifference on the
part of the people as to the result. As far as
the town is concerned, but little is said
except when some gentleman from the
country occasions the Inquiry as to the
excitement in the country. AS far as We
are personally informed, the gentlem On
nominated upon both the Republican and
Greenback tickets are personally unsxcep
tionable, as to character and good stand
ing in the community, and doubtless
whoever of the nominees are elected, will
prove efficient officers 1t sometimes oc
ours to our mind that party lines should
be ignored in county matters, and the
man considered alone; but as a rule, this
would prove a suicidal policy to the in
terests Of e party, and such course in
the end, results In dismemberment of the
organization.
| Parties are intended to be based upon
principle, and an honest voter or member
of any party, allies himself with such
party for the sole and only purpose OF
maintaining and carrying out his views of
government. Now, if the perpetuity OF
an organization based upon certain theo-
ries, depends upon continual and un-
divided support, desertion of an advo-
cate of the principles, is desertion of the
party, which is not consistent if one pre-
tends to be partizan through principle.
1t is one Of the beauties of this form OF
government, that difference of opinion
can be tolerated and an honest and con-
slstent belief is to be respected, however
foreign such belief may be to that of
some other person; but when persons
identify themselves with and participate
in the organization of a political party,
the charitable presumption is that he has
done so through an earnest desire to fur
ther the interests of the principles upon
which such party is based.
And in that light we must view the acts
of the gentlemen who are movers in the
Greenback organization that has been
formed inLincoln county. As gentlemen
of intelligence and some prominence in
the community, we can as an individual,
respect them none the less because they
differ with US upon some questions OF
finance.
But to the Republicans-to those who
Joined the ranks when the life of our gov
eminent ~ Republic was threatened,
and who have stood by in its dark hours,
when to be = Republican was almost
danger, At least social ostraclsm, We ap-
peal:
Has the object, for which the liberty
loving, banded together. been attained Are
the principles as developed Of less weight
than when hrst announed9 Has the lapse
Of few years obscured the diamond so
that strange gods outshino, aud new paths
allure with tempting fruit? Has the clap
trap, and unreasonable assertions Of de-
signing trlcksters, who secretly are en-
deavoring to undermine all we'll founded
principles, for the furtherance of their own
selfish aims, been rung in your ears until
deafened by their clamor you are tempted
to leave your old allies and seek new
household?
That many honest and sincere men have
switched off and become ramblers after
supposed worthy object is true, but pin
the ortginators Of these new schemes
down to the bod rock of their theories,
and stripped of the veil that ingenious or
ators and writers have woven, and see its
true form through the mirror of reason,
the man who was Republican for its
real merit and not for selfish motives, will
give 1t a wide berth.
Republicans! You are needed now more
than ever: the unfortunate dissensions in
our own ranks, the rabid desire for posi-.
ton, and the opportunity afforded sorc-
heads and'unapprecisted men in all parties,
has formed nucleus around which these
selfish designers are securing rally,
which if it receives your accession, will
totally destroy your own party and build
up in the flash excitement an institution
that if founded upon no stronger reason
than we have seen advanced, would scat
ter a more broad and deeper depression
throughout the land than now exists
Change, Reform, has been rung through
the land, until men have became desper-
ate and oh schot change, ,ohat reform,
since the great reform party came, into
power in Congress. Now another sohg-
another cry is heard and people are told
that their condition is like, if not worse
than serfdom, and the wrongs OF Ireland
are recited rs your parallel
And all this terrible condition is attrih-
utabls, says the agltators, to the financial
condition Of the country, which :he Gov
| ernment is called upon to relieve by food
| ing the country with Greenbacks to be
| made legal tender You, my dear friend,
| who are flsttered with the delusive hope
| that the new party will accomplish SUCH
great things, is there not enough money
already in existence to buy all you have
to sell? Should thousand million new
crisp Treasury notes be issued and should
the resumption bill or act be repealed aud
the National Banks be swept away and
Government do all that is asked as to its
currency, how much more of that curren-
CIV would the Lincoln county farmer have
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