The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-09-04
VITAL ISSUES.
h of Hon. A1phonso TAFT,
at Cleveland, Ohio.


wv CITIZENS OF CLEVELAND: Unce
stand before the citizens of Cleveland
re the Republican truth as it applies to
ent hour. 1t so happens that I have
veral times assigned to Cleveland by
1bIican Executive Committees. Whether
It they have some inkling of my par
Or your fair city, or Of corresponding
mt on your part, / can not pretend to
y-citizens, in my Judgment the princi-
the Republican party were never more
mt than at the present time. The or
on has had great responsibility from
= time of it's origin. Every year has
with it some great and necessary duty
party to perform, and it is
lg to reflect that it has generally per-
those when and where they have been
anifest, and left the consequences to
,r of the Universe. Thus it happened
the last eighteen years the Republican
1 has been seen in the front of every
| this continent for human liberty and
yhts. 1t has been an emblem of knowl-
he ignorant and of hope to the down
1t has brought schools to the poor
.owly, and the dusky freedmen have
o to it for protection in the exercise of
Thought but perilous right to vote.
citizens, we cannot afford to lower
dard now. No! Let us rather raise it
ler, guntil the right to vote shall be
ecure in the town and in the country,
nth and in the North. It is a greater
defraud the voter of his vote than to
of his money. When the American
shall become convinced that honest
cannot be had, which God grant may
), faith in republican institutions will
9publican party has been positive
this country from it's beginning. 1t
} power only when it was wanted. 1t
4 of resistance to the extension Of
The irrepressible ambition of the
yer had affected all departments of our
ent
it triumphed by getting Congress to
lat was known SO the Missouri COM
When Missouri had become well set
slavery, and the time came forsettling
errtOrles and admitting other new
he South was no longer satisfied with
of the Missouri compromise which
slavery to the line of 81 deg. 80 MN.
itude. Aided by its Northern allies, it
ongress into the adoption of squatter
lty.
ly crossed the compromise line, and
tremendous experiment of subjecting
0 it's power. Finally, it mastered the
= Court OF the United States, and OBJ
10 bred Scott decision, by which all
lise lines were declared null and void,
dominion Of slavery was made cock
With the Territories of the United States,
North or South.
these mighty wrongs the Republican
ok its birth. Like the Goddess Minerva,
/, INTO being full grown and armed from
of it's birth. 1t elected Abraham Lin
hen came secession, and there was no
wer to put it down than this newborn
;an party The majority of the Demo-
re insurgents, or in sympathy with the
ton, and the minority were paralyzed.
publican organization, invested, as it
!, with Federal power, recognized the
the hour, Invoked the God of battles,
oppressed the rebellion. Nor did it
rom the performance of other duties
,cessary by the paramount obligation to
/ the Government of the Union against
and rebellion. 1t created the currency for
and incurred the necessary debt. 1t has
the war debt 1t has now reduced the in
l that debt by the issuing and selling of
MT bonds, saving thereby many millions
ey every year to the public treasury
! the Secretary Of the Treasury, under
killful conduct it was done, is entitled
ranks and our confidence. The credit
country under the Republican admins
has been preserved, and is now unsur-
md impregnable.
United States has had most, if not all,
eases of young nations, and has thus
the strength of our national constitution.
@ had party conflicts, fierce and strong.
Q had rebelllons, small and great, and
1uced them all TO obedience. We have
Continental money and our greenba cks.
re brought back our credit to a sound
olesome condition. We have created a
able national debt, and have funded it
isly, as powerful nation should DO.
o had our bonds in foreign markets, and
due time brought them home, and now,
of being, as the learned hnanciers of
have superciliously said, information
II, we have become, by their own rule,
.ionally rich. After having been
to have the balance Of trade
us, we have lived to see that balance
in our favor, and are now receiving
oroad nearly $500, 900, 600 year, as the
zee which foreign nations pay us in such
cations, in goods or in gold. We say
lid, when it has had the chicken-pox,
nps, the measles, and perhaps the scar
II, and recovered from them all, that it
air prospect of good health ana long
he United States has survived the want
llation, the want of domestic MANI
:, the want Of money and the want of
1t has survived insurrection, rebellion
eign war; and it now stands firm in it's
"S N hf0lAOAi NAoLA 1 pAOSPSSU SA E9AC~e
ity and perpetuity.
{ the auspices of the Republican admin
|, the resumption of specie payments
N accomplished, and every paper dollar
convertible into dollar of gold or sill
u the people have the same currency.
ldholders get no better money than the
manufacturers and workngmen.
what we have long waited for. Many
ed without the sight" We have lived
Ill the money of all the people equally
is not the Democratic party who have
is. AS party they have opposed it;
great financial question between that
I'd ours is, whether we shall go back
lrredeemablepaper or stand firmly by
rency Of gold and silver, supplemented
With conv ertible paper.
emen, our record is clear and consistent.
lod in which our party has controlled
mics of the republic has been the most
in it's history. We stand boldly on our
ecord. Before the war, in the war, aud
he war, our party has been direct and
; in its methods and purposes. It has
changed it's position, but has steadily
o perpetuate our Union and our Repub-
overnment. 1t isnot 80 with the Demo