The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-13
Hints for Republicans.
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on the public mind by the conduct of
the Democratic House. But it is not
safe for them to forget that all their
energy and patriotism will be re-
quired in order to prevent the cleo
ton of Democratic majority of rep
resentatives this Fall. Patriotism
gill be needed to suppress those
wretched wrangles in the selection of
candidates by which strong districts
are sometimes abandoned to minor
ity. Energy and good sense will be
needed to bring home to every voter
the true issues of the contest, and to
check assaults upon the financial po-
sition of the party. Voters. will
not elect a majority of members of
Congress upon the question whether
Democratic charges of fraud are COM
pletely disproved. Practical issues,
largely of a financial and industrial
character, will have weight. The
efforts of the National, Greenback-
Labor, or Socialistic organization, to
secure support for its peculiar the
cries, will force these economic issues
into peculiar prominence. In con-
nection with these, to all Republican
voters, the controlling influence of
the South in the Democratic organi-
zation will appear fact ofthe gravest
importance. For every financial and
industrial question turns upon the
faith of the Nation with respect to its
war debt.
1t will not do for Republican
managers or candidates to blind
themselves to the fact that the Re-
publican party is responsible for the
present financial policy of the Gov
ernment. Here, the fact is an ele-
ment of great strength. In some
other parts Of the country, it is an
element of weakness, becau e that
policy has not been intelligently or
manfully defended, and is not rightly
understood by many voters. Yet no
course can be weaker, or more likely
to end in disaster, than an attempt
to ignore or escape this response
bility. Intelligent voters every
where, whether they approve or dis
approve the course of the Govern
ment, know that it was shaped in
caucus of Repu blican members of
Congress in the Winter of 1S74'75 4;
that it was DEVISED in great measure
by Mr.. Sherman, now Secretary of
the Treasury that it was most forci-
bly, sustained by President Grant,
and is now sustained by President
Hayes that it has been Endorsed by
conventions OF the party, and that
every attempt to defeat or overthrow
it has been thwarted in Congress,
mainly by the votes of Republican
Senators. If these facts are well
known to the intelligent, they have
with such voters less power than the
prejudices, suspicious. sectional jeal-
ousies and mistaken notions, so long
cultivated at the West and South,
have with large portion of the less
informed and comparatively unreas-
oning class. The Republican man.
ayers may rest assured that it will be
worse than useless for them to go be-
fore the people, in any part of the
country, with the plea that they are
not responsible for the policy of the
Government. To that responsibility
they will surely be held by the great
body of voters, and any attempt to
escape from it will only be construed
as sign of weakness. The safe
course, and absolutely the only course
which offers hope of success in the
Congressional elections, is to justify
that policy with vigor and zeal, and
bring the people to understand its
meaning and its merits.
In brief, the Republican party will
need to be true to Republican pledges
and principles, if it means to succeed,
and must take a great deal more
pains than it has dene for years past,
to make these principles understood
and to recommend them to the in
telligence of voters. If they rely up
on partisan machinery alone, they
will get beaten. If they rely upon
memories Of the bloody past, those
alone will not save them. If they
rely upon the blunders and crimes of
an opposition which has made itself
infamous by its crimes and ridicu-
lous by its plumbers, still the people
will ask, and with reason, what the
Republican party itself proposes. Its
record is the answer, as to the vital
questions. Those who seek to escape
from that record are only laying up
trouble for themselves.-NetC York
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