The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-03

more the 1ole0O convention.
Political parties grow out of issues;
not issues of political parties. The
more direct the bearing of such issues
upon the welfare of humanity, the
grander the success of the party cham
pioning the cause of the people, For
success, however long delayed, inev-
itably crowns the efforts of any party
that seeks to lift the down. trodden
from the darkness OF oppression into
the bright sunlight of better days.
Two instances in point will suffice to
illustrate this fact. One transpiring
in France during the.closing year of the
past century; the other occurring in
our country, is part Of contempora-
neous history.
Years Of tyrannical oppression,
onerous taxation and official social
corruption, formed the political social
in France, the putrescence of which,
nurtured into existence a thing SO
fearful for bad men to contemplate,
that language, taxing itself to find a
word expressive of an outraged peo-
pie exacting vengance upon their ty-
rants, has called it the Terror.
In our country, and in our own time,
the question os African slavery loom
ed into protentious Importance, fixing
the attention of men, agitating their
minds, and finally leading up to one
of the most gigantic wars of modern
times.
Of this issue was born the Republi-
can party; and so long as ought re-
mained to be done to secure the set
tlement of the principle at stake, or
the full acknowledgment of that set
tlement, the Republican party was
inevitably vistorius.
Now came the paradox; for the
masses who so enthusiastically joined
the crusade to free the black race be-
came, in the hands Of designing men,
the unwitten forgers of the manacles
which their oligarchical leaders have
so deftly clasped upon the wrists of the
white race in this country.
The people, finally realizing this
danger, sprang into the arms of the
Democacy, hoping in that political
negotiation to find relief. How that
hope was met is best answered by
pointing to the existence of a viorous
National party.
Right here the analogy begins and
ends. For, making due allowance for
the difference in tine, and the oppo-
site characteristics of the tive peoples.
the present situation of our own land
bears a close resemblance to that of
France during the latter part of the
preceding century.
But instead of a Jacobin party with
its measures Of blood, the necessities of
our times have envolvsd a party,
which, grasping the needs of the peo.
pie, has clothed them in language and
incorporated them in a platform of
principles.
The instrument is now in the hands
OF the toilers, to be used by them for
the advance OF the American revolu-
tion, which will move in stately pc
riods, under the Constitution, to a
safe and triumphant conclusion.
There isanother fact which may be
considered in connection with this
subject, SO full of hope and encourage
ment, that We cannot conclude without
eongratulating the country upon it.
Inauguration. We refer to the ap.
proaching census. Its pages will teach
the American working men how vast
is the strength of his arm and his vote
They will also show that the seat O.
power has acceded from the Atlanti,
and Gulf, inwardly, west and north.
No longer shall the bsuded none,
power of the East control the destinie
of this people in Congress, by packin,
committees in their own special inter
est. electing speakers, who, whethe
Republican or Democratic, are al
ways their tools. and by shaping tn
course oflegislation through channel
that always find their outlets in thei
own pockets; for a certain eventual
ity upon the publication of these na
tional statistics will be the readiust
ment of representation.
Then shall the agricultural and pro
dueing interior, uniting with the work
ers of the manufacturing sea-boar'
give US a government of the people
for the people, and by the people,
instead of the aristocracy of privilege
classes that now practically "rules th
roast"
Ohio, the stronghold Of the Greenbac
Party, which has stood 30 nobly to he
guns, under the most seathing fire, and ne,
er struck her flag; whose battle CRY was o,