Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-09
THE DUTY OF REPUBLICANS.
Springfield Times.

eve entertain no doubt of Trip carrying
the county by a good respectable majority.
We are determined to continue the fight UNI
til election day, and feel that our exertions
will be amply repaid by the number Of votes
which we shall gain for our candidate by
hard and unremitting labor. 1t surprises
me to count the number Of old republicans
who have in former years stood by the par
" through thick and thin. come out in the
support Of MI. Trip. They say that the
boasts that have been made by the time
servers that they would finally all be whip.
ped back into the ranks, will prove contrary
to their predictions when the vote is polled
and counted. All We hope is that the river
counties, Union, Clay and Yankton, will do
as we'll as Bon Homme, and / can assure
you that Trip will be elected by a majority
which he will not at all be ashamed Of"
The above is an extract from a letter writ
ten BY a Springfield correspondent to the
Yankton Herald, and published in that pa
per last week.
We presume it is owing to the extreme
modesty of tie aforesaid correspondent that
he does not see fit to aid and strengthen the
cause Of Mr.. Trip by placing before the
publiclhe names of those "old republican,
who have come out in support Of Mr.. Trip"
They say" is q very convenient scape goat
to use as a medium through whom all sorts
rise up to dispute them. If this ardent
Trip man really desires to help the cause
of his idol, let him proceed at once ito
count the number of old republicans" who
"have come out for Mr.. Tripp"i in this coun.
ty, and publish their names to the world,
that the people may see there is something
more than mere guess work or assertion
in this ALE ged general stampede of republi.
cans to the supportyo o Mr.. Tripp.
As to whipping republicans into the
ranks who have or may come out fol
Trip, that kind of talk is mere clap trap
If a republican has become convinced that
the principles of his party are wrong and
that those Of the democratic party are
right, no one will question his right to
leave the republican psrty and join the
democratic party and vote for Trip. In
fact, under those circumstances, it would
become his moral duty to do so. But if q
man be . republican, let him not deceive
himself with the erroneous idea that he can
support and vote for Trip and
still remain . republican. That would
be quite as preposterous and absurd as
it would have been for . man Who protested
to love the union andbe devoted to It's main
tenance and supremacy, to have Joined the
rebel army and still stoutly insist on his
loyalty to the old flag and the union cause.
No man can maintain. the principles of the
republican party and retain his identity
Herewith BY voting the democratic ticket,
any more than q union man could have
maintained his reputation fof loyalty BY
joining the confederate army and fighting
against the union; because the act itself
would give the lie to his professions, how.
ever strongly he might protest his love and
devotion to the union cause. It is the act
therefore, that establishes . mans political
status, and republicans, If there are such,
Who may be induced to throw aside their
love Of principles, and, drawing . dark veil
over the bloody record of the democratic
party, vote the democratic ticket We i'd
iiure Them to pause and reflect before per
hitting themselves to DO thus divorced from
those principles which have immortalized
Lincoln, Morton, Chase, Stanton and scores
Of other liberty-loving statesmen.