The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-19
REPUBLICAN WILES.

THOSE parts Of the resolutions adopted
by the republican congressional conven-
ton on Thursday last, which refer to the
past record of the republican party as q
guaranty for its future good conduct,
and to its defense Of the government.
against every element of disintegration,
must appear farcical to all whose recol
lections include the events of the last
few years. No one can deny the repub-
| lcan party that species of courage which
IS appropriately termed audacity. Its
late record is well known, and being
known it would seem that an attempt at
palliation rather than glorification would
be most fitting. But the deliberate COM
mission of crime does not seem to weigh
upon the spirits of this elastic party.
Nay, sit calls its evil good"
To attain its ends tie republican party
has shown an entire disregard of law,
justice and integrity which is the life of
a nation. It recognized the supreme
court Of the United States for the sole
purpose Of reversing a decision which
was based on the constitution. The le-
gal tender character of the greenback
was matter which came before the SUI
preme court before it was Initiated by the
manipulation of republican politicians.
The decision was adverse. There was
no higher court to which an appeal might
lie made, and the republican party went
to work Systematically to corrupt q trib-
unal which should be placed on plane
inaccessible to passion, expediency or
trickery. How does this record consort
with the claim that the republican party
IS opposed to every tarnish upon ma
tional honor!" The supreme court of
the United States to-day has not that
reputation for answering honesty with
out which It cannot command the conf
dence of the people.
During the excitement of the last
presidential election, the republican par
| ty by its corrupt practices and by its
violation of precedent and law clearly
/ showed that it placed party success
above national integrity. At that time
if the republican panty occupied sec
ton Of the United States, if it were
concentrated in contiguous states instead
Of being scattered from Maine to Cali
| fornia, secession would be threatened
and attempted in the event of a failure
| 10 seat its candidate. The principles
| which the southern people cherished, led
| them to no extreme at which the repub-
| leans would have hesitated to seat their
/ candidate on the 4th Of March 1877.
/ The justices of the supreme court, show
| ed the inevitable effect of being appoint
! ed for the purpose Of reversing former
decision of that court Bradley was true
TO those principles which earned him a
seat on the bench. lie knew what was
/ expected of him. He bad been weighed
! before, and had not been found light
4 decision without evidence is what the
republican party demanded. A decision
without evidence was what its creatures
on the supreme bench rendered, and
still the past grand record OF the re-
publican party is our guaranty for its
! rUsuu,~ s,o-1 >>~,--I-~-L,'' al - - q marty
! opposed to every element of disinte-
grafton" Verify, things are not what
they seem.
Given, a republican congress in the
year 1881, ana it matters not what ma
! jority the democratic nominee for pres
ident may have, there will be deter
mined effort to ''count in" the republic
can candidate The fall of '76 and the
winter of TT have taught us what we are
to expect from republican supremacy.
The question of finance is an insignif-
cant one compared with that of eternal
right. No danger more serious than the
continuance of the republican party in
power ever threatened the Union. They
bend all their efforts to keep in power
and use unscrupuously the power they
have for its perpetuation.