Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-03-15
REPUBLICAN ADDRESS.

bJ lls lHcetluR III DAN rTdIClscO on w Gu
nesday, March 9TH. 1t is worth a careful
perusal:
FELLOW REPUBLICANS, Once more
| The demands Of patriotism call US to
action. Once more the importance Of
securing the control OF the Government
in the hands OF those true and tired ele-
ments of party which have preserved the
national life, established the national
credit, a3d accelerated the national pro-
gress, impels us to address you.
The coming campaign in our State is
Of no ordinary moment. 1t involves the
dominance OF our glorious party in the
House of Representatives, and may carry
! with il the election of the next Pres ident
| Of the United States. An entire State
! ticket is to be redeemed from Democratic
rule. Great as are the objects of the
campaign they are easy of attainment.
| Accustomed TO victory when united and
! led by men in whom the people have con-
! ldencs, the Republican party is master
of the field upon which it enters. The
| times could not be more propitious for
that party to recover prestige and power,
with The Empire State Of the Pac iic as
the field Of battle, The Democratic army
has lost half its rank and file by desertion,
while our grand organization, crowned
with so many h0nors in the past, presents
an unbroken front and is composed of
such material that much can be conf
IDENTIFY assured Of it in the future.
We had hoped, in taking council together
| to congratulate each other that the great
and absorbing problem of the day had
| been solved; that Asiatic hordes, like the
plaques OF Egypt, were no longer to
swarm upon US and polute land which
we have determined shall be preserved
as n heritage for our children; that the
| Industry and morals Of our own race
were to receive the cares and protection
| from the National Government which we
had right TO expect. The dsappoint-
ment is great, but the language of the
veto message of the Pres dent and the
signs of the times are full Of hope. Tho
! President recognizes the right Of Con.
gress To terminate the treaty with CHINA,
and his language, privately given to
Cailornians, is that he is profoundly i'm
pressed with our situation and only d illers
with our representatives as to the mode
OF relief. We can wait and bids our
time. The influence Of popular sentiment
on the Pacific Coast is travelling east
ward with majestic strides. 1t has reach
ed the grea. lakes. Chicago and Cincin-
natl sends us noble words of cheer. 1t
will soon reach and cross the Alleghsnies
and will Hence the sickly sentimental
lists on the Atlantic. Let us bo patient.
Upwards of four thousand Chinese have
lett our shores since the first Of July 1873,
being more than have arrived. The tide
of their immigration has been temporar.
lily checked. Republican sentiment here
is such, and such is its daily intensiica-
ton, that we are in no immediate danger
of an alarming influx Of Mongolians. Our
cause is rising up friends for US in the
popular East The chvalrous Blaine,
whoss voice is worth thousand cunnons
in battle, is enlisted for the war, and tri-
umph is in store.
VIII any Republican desert the party
because tpe President has seen fit to veto
an net which has been 80 heartily indors-
ed by the Republicans Of Californn, but
to which he sees an objection? True Re
puolcans are intelligent and will com
mit no such error. Where would they
go, and for what? Have not the Repub
ican Senators, Sargent Booth, Mitchell,
Jones and Sharon. and the Republican
Representatives, Davis, Page and Wron,
done all that mortal man could be ex.
pected to do on the Chinese question? ?
IheV are the eXponents and representa-
tives OF the Republican party on the Pa
cilic Coast on this question rather than
the President. No mah of reflection |
would commit such poltica! suicide us to
abandon the Republican party Tor any |
other now in existence. The Chinese
problem will soon be solved. Will any |
Republican desert his party and 90 else.
whore? What would he gain by the |
change? win he affiliate with the dis
turbing elements of the country? What |
influence would the representatives of |
such elements in Congress from the Pa |
ciic Coast have in a body composed of
Republicans and Democrats? None |
whatever except for evil. 1t would be
calamity to our cause TO be misrepresent- !
ed by such party in the American Con
gress. 1t would be to cut loose from the
sympathy OF powerful party friends in
the popular States, and postpone the day
Of our deEiverance from the presence of !
the demoraiiHng Asiatics.
The disturbing elements Of society
here, the threats, imidGt!ons and vio-
leEt declarations of ignorance and de-
pYavity, coming from men whose IDEAS
are crude but whose sufferirgs are real, |
have alarmed our Eastern brethren with |
prospective views of riots and bloodshed |
and have thus retarded the cause which |
we have at heart. 1t is for tho Republi- |
can party, with the rens of power in its |
hands in this State, and with a strong
bond of pol itical sympathy in the halls of
Congress, to bring about the priceless
results for which we long and pray. The |
success OF any other party will prolong |
the day of deliverance and may plunge |
us into difficulties which We dare not
measure or contemplate.
Fellow Republicans! this is no time for
inaction. Do you ask for reforms in |
political life? Ask yourselves where |
are the intelligent, progressive minds |
which uphel the aegis Of our country in |
its perious hour. Lot your voices be
heard with tho men who possessed of
that intelligence, moderation, and vir-
tues on which any Republic must secure
ly rest. With the help Of every true
hearted Republican everything is posi-
BILE; and with such help we shall un
doubtedly see the standards Of our enc,
mics trailing in defeat.
Why recount to you the peerless deeds
which our grand old party has done!
A nation saved from disruption and dis
grace: the on y Republic on earth, with
liberty as its dover, preserved in its full
est integrity and its most glorious posi-
bllitles: four millions Of human beings
delivered from slavery and made equai
to all by irrevocable laws: an American |
Nationality established as everlasting as
the continent on which it rests: nation
al credit founded as enduring as its mex |
haustible an ines of gold and silver: every
promise is kept to pay the debts of the |
nation in honest money; IA resumption of !
specie payment and elevation of all the |
curroncies Of the country to one standard:
the nation feared, respected, and ad>
m l. ed throughout the habitabe globe. |
The world has produced no names more
illustrious than those of Lincoln and |
Grant. Cal to your recollection, if you
can, in all tho pages Of written history, !
ancient or modern, from the dawn Of |
civilization down 10 this hour: cnnil;ra IN |