New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-10-31
Dryy oFCOyNclENTlOUS T0TERS

DUTY OFCONNCILNTIOLS TOTERS.
INTELLIGENT conscientious, and God-fcaTinS
men will seriously consider to-day their duty as
citizens. Upon their votes next Tuesday may
| dcpcnd results of incalculajle importance to
the cause of justice morality, and true Chris
hanity Their votes MAJ greatly promote or
Ictald public justice, dccency, honesty good
government and the better civilization. True
Iclicion-the religion OF the free and enlght-
ened II md and the keen and tender conscience
may gain OF lose more than any man can lore
see, before tuesdays sun goes down. There
are bad men in both parties. SO there are in
sincere men in every church, and self-seekcrs
in every great reformlJOry movement. But
the conscientious man cannot fail to ask him
self to-day, IN which party is there to be found
the kecner sense of justice, the higher inteli-
cence to see the right, the stronger sense Of
duty to pursue the nght when seen, the larger
measure of answering honesty. He who can
answer this question to his conscience in the
light Of the past conduct and the present nomi-
nations of the parties. knows how he ought to
vote.
TO us, it seems that The Republican party is
in tie higher degree an expression OF the
public conscience and sense OF duty as applied
TO civil affairs. 1t has done much for justice,
for the emancipation and elevation of mankind,
for equal rights, and for public honor. II has
never made a pledge that was not honestly
meant, nor one that there has not beeI. an
honest effort to keep. Its declarations of
opinion now as heretofore, match closely with
the real belief and will OF the greater number
of its voters. Ii does not Try to deceive, by
promising one thing IN New York and another
in Indiana, but has had the fidelity to face de-
feat in cOnt6nding for the honest performance
of public Obligations Its candidates represent
its real opinions and aims. Caumny has as
sailed General Garfield with unprecedented
vehemence, but has LETT not a stain upon his
character Victorious or defeated, he has now
become so known that the whole world will re-
gard him after the election as a man of Iare
purity, up1ightness, and fidelity in the dis
charge of duty.
The professions of the Democratic party do
not correspond with its real opinions. Nor are
those opinions truly represented by its candl-
dates. In fact, its platform and its candidates,
if contrastcd with the past conduct of the
party, give evidence of a desire to deceive the
country as to its aims. The good faith and
honor of the country have been maintained by
a large majority of Democrats. Yet the Demo-
cratic party processes to be Jealous for honest
money, though it supports candidates like
Landers in Indiana and Ewing in Ohio, and
halls as a GLORIOUS result" the supposed sue
cess of Plasted IN Maine Ii lcan hardly be
slid that party is acting from sense of duty
or with honor whose professions and acts agree
so poOIlv 1t processes desire for fair ballot
and an honest count. But its conduct IN Ala
hama and other Southern States makes the pre-
tence glaringly untruthful. That party made
in Maine and defended elsewhere, q count
which was neither lawful nor honest; in
Oregon and other States, after the last Presi-
Dental election, the candidate ana other repre-
sentatives of the party attempted to gain cleo
toral votes BY corrupt means. CONSCIENTIOUS
men cannot overlook these evidences that the
Democratic party Is not sincere In Its prOfes-
sions, nor governed 10y high honor or Sense of
duty.
The Presidential candidate does not truly
represent the feelings or intentions of his
marty. A large part of his followers claim that
@tbe cause for which Lee and jackson fought
must yet be honored, though it involved main
tenance of human slay cry and the breaking of
oaths. Yet they select to represent them a
Union General FOur-ffths of the Democrats
earnestly desire "a tariff for revenue only"
and platform demanding this was unanimously
adop,ed. Yet they select u candidate who
shows that he has 10 conception of the meaning
of that demand, to which he formally pledged
himself, and he Processes TO be ProtectiOnist
The purity and honesty of the public service
never greater than during the past four years.