The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-11-09
Why the Republican Party Claims
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Support.
Once more the party of public
faith appeals to the people. With
full trust that they are honest, it has
not shirked its duty as to money and
the public debt. With full faith that.
the people care for equal rights and
free speech, the Republican party
has demanded only an honest vote
at the South. With full faith that
no constituencies conspiracy to rob
the people can long hold together, il
has exposed the league of Tamrnal
ny, its ballot-box suffers and its
horde of hirelings paid from the pub
lie purse, with a Solid South and It'll
enormous jobs and war claimll
amounting to hundreds of millionsI.
With scorn for the shameless hypos
critics who have tried to hide the
great crime Cf 1876 by cries of
Fraud" the Republican party has
torn the mask of "Reform" from the
infamous buyers Of votes. The coun-
try will now judge. On one side is
the party which saved the Union,
and now defends its honor, On the
other is the party which tried to de-
strOy the Union, which Tow seeks to
dishonor it by bad faith, and to
bankrupt it by opening the Treasury
to Tammany spoilSmen and South
ern jobbers, and which has already
trampled under foot the guarantee
of equal rights, and disgraced the
country by an attempt to buy the
Presidency as one would buy BUSH
ell of wheat or a bale of cotton,
l. The Republican party stands
for honest money, real prosperity
through honest dealing, and good
faith toward those who saved the
Nation by their loans in its time of
need. With every new phase OF the
issue, the Republican part, graVi-
tates to the right as surely as the
Democratic party to the wrong, For
the party of the North will never
rob those who trusted the Union, but
the party which is ruled by the
South will never freely vote to pay
the cost of putting down rebellion. If
shaken ever, the Republican party
has but to think what those really
mean who call for soft money or fiat
money. The Greenback party cries,
"Never more borrow a dollar"-even
to put down rebellion. Burn every
United States bond," it cries, for the
bonds sent food and powder to the
Boys in Blue. "Pay all bonds in
greenbacks," it demands, that the
Nation. forever broken in credit may
have no power to put down the next
rebellion. ''Do this, or we strike for
the reputation of every bonded OBJ
legation of the Government" say
Greenback men and Democrats
both. But the Republican party an
swers, Those who failed to destroy
the Union by bullets shall neither
destroy nor dishonor it by ballots.
Steadiast fidelity has brought US
through great trials and sacrifices
and perils. Already the boat touches
the shore of Resumption. We have
but to step out, stand on the solid
rock and advance to sure prosperity,
The people are not fools, and will
not push back the boat again into
the wild waves and thick perils from
which they have escaped. They are
honest, and will not vote to cheat
each other for the comfort of broken
gamblers, the satisfaction of vindic-
tive rebels, or the convenience of
raven )us demagogues.
II. The Republican party stands
for free speech and equal rights at the
South. 1t came into being because
freedom was thrOttled in Kansas.
Worse deeds are done to-day in
South Carolina, Florida and Louisi-
ana, and other Southern States and
now. as in 1856, Democracy defends
every crime perpetrated to get Dem
ocratic majorities. The country was
told that if troops were removed the
Southern Democrats would obey all
laws, but they trample upon the fun
damental laws of free government.
'Put Democrats of the South upon
their honor" it was said. They
have had fair trial. No sabre has
clanked for defence of enfranchised
men to whom the Union guaranteed
equal rights. What are the results :?
United States officials have been shot.
Armies in red shirts have dispersed
Republican meetings. If in any To-
cality thousands of Republicans have
hoped to out-yote hundreds of DEM
ocrats, tax laws have disfranchised
them, or false registration has robbed
them of their rights; or, when all
else failed, "firing began, and TWEEN
ty.six negroes were killed" The
South is solid. Districts in which
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