The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-09-08
A RECORD TO BEPROUDOF.
Why the Republican Party heri's 'n'
Confidence Of the People Oh
this COuutry-Rspuoli-
can Performances
and Democratic
Promises.


and Democratic
Promises.
Now, as heretofore. the Republican party
relies for publie confidence mainly upon
great services actually rendered IL has
given the country prosperity ana PrGslv,a ~
never before witnessed. NO other q a. "
popular support can be greater IL has
overcome obstacles deemed insuperaoie'
Difficulties and dangers which, TO many a.
home as we'll as to nearly all anrosui
seemed certain to oyerwhelm the repuplio'
have been met and vanquished by the I've.
publican party. 1t has earned this yas'
advantage over every competitor 1t uoes
not need 10 rely upon its promises alone, put
can point to its deeds as its best vindication'
Twenty years it has marched on unialter,
ing. Almost all the world believed toat
lisunion was inevitable. The Republican
party resisted and conquered. Even close
to the end of the war the Democratic party
solemnly resolved, as observers elsewhere
began to fear, that the war was iallure
but the Republican party persisted uh'ii
rebellion was crushed. The problem OIL
reconstruction seemed insoluble to many,
and there were wise men who predlcted
fifty years of anarchy and guerilla warfare
but the Republican party found means 10
force a CONQUERED and sullen South to take
an active part in the government whicn IL
had tried to destroy. Never before, since
governments were instituted among men,
had nation managed to restore the VaIue
of an irredeemable paper currency. but
the Republican party undertook that task
also, and finished it. The collapse OF IN
lation caused tremendous losses, and the
struggle for resumption caused immense
sacrifices. Never before had any party, IN
free government, dared to propose such
struggles and sacrifices without submitting
to temporary defeat. Yet the Republican
party led the nation onward to financial
honor and prosperity, and never lost the
power to carry out its measures.
This woodworking party, for which no
task has yet proved too difficult, has the right
to point to the present condition OF the
county as proof Of its fidelity, courage and
wisdom. When dangers have thickened,
the party has dared to do right and to trust
the people, and they have never failed to
meet trust with trust. Where would the
country be, politically, financially, or in
dustrially, if disunion had prevailed? 1t is
for the Democrats to say. Where would it
have been if Democratic resistance to re-
construction had been permitted to grow
into guerilla warfare What would have
been the condition of Business now IT the
Democrats, led by Mr.. Pendleton, had been
able to pay the bonds in greenbacks, as they
proposed to do in 1872? What would now
be the state of the public credit, if the
solemnly. promised resumption had been de-
feated by Democratic success in 1876 ?
Every capitalist and every workingman in
the country knows what grand prosperity
has resulted from the resumption of specie
payments eighteen months ago; is there a
single one who wishes that Democratic
hostility to resumption had prevailed at the
last election2 How many Of our mills and
factories, how many of our furnaces and
mines, would now be in operation, if the
blind hostility Of Democrats to the present
form of tariff had succeeded in causing a
sudden, radical and sweeping change, three
years ago? What the country is to-day the
Republican party has made it. What sane
man is sorry that the Republican party has
conquered for twenty years, and so has had
the power TO make the country what it is ?
Virtually, that is the question for 1880;
is the country sorry that it has attained the
wonderful prosperity which it enjoys? Mis-
takes are to be found on every hand, as in
all human governments, and errors in the
record of every wear. But the country
knows that in all the greater matters il
owes its present condition to the courage,
wisdom and fidelity of the Republican
party, and it will hesitate long before it
decides to change. Any other party can
promise. The Republicans have performed.
Every pledge ever made by that party ii
has kept, even to the doing of so-called i'm
possibilities, such as the suppression OF re-
bellion, the paci6cation Of the country, and
the resumption of specie payments. 1t
promises now to go forward in its work to
press still further reforms which it has be-
gun, and to promote still further the pros
perity of the country. The work is in the
hands Of men who have given proof OF the
wisdom of their plans. If they have done
we'll thus far, so that the country is happier
more powerful, more prosperous, richer
and grander than ever before, will the peo-
pie turn over their affairs to party which
has only promises to offer?
If Democratic promises were proof oil
Democratic purposes, it would be rash 10
change. Incompetence and inexperience
often do more mischief than downright
knavery, as the last Democratic Congress
has shown. But it is notorious fact that
the Democratic party has not respected its
promises, nor made any effort to redeem
them. Its successive declarations OF
eternal principles" for the last twenty
years. if put together, would make the most
absurd tumble OF contradictions ever known
The party has been true to nothing except
its anxiety for office. 1t proposes even now
to tear up the tariff under which thous ands
Of factories have been built, and hundreds
| Of thousands OF workmen have found EN-.
ployment; and yet the votes of Democrats
in Congress show that the party has not the
slightest idea what system of taxation il
would adopt instead. 1t proposes "hard
money" and yet the votes of nine-tenths OIL
the Democrats in Congress show that thu
party does not wish gold dollars worth on,
hundred cents if it can get silver dollars
worth ninety cents. Conservative mer
know what sort of government we shall
have, if the Republican party retains tn,
power. 1t has been tried, and it leads to
grand prosperity. wages are ample. BuBl
ness is active, and the unemployed are few
Investments are safe, and the public credi
is high. The banks repose full confidence
in the integrity of the government, and tn,
depesitors and holders Of insurance policie
know that funds invested in government
securities are safe. Men know that tn
Republican party means to promote ant
increase this solid prosperity, which glad
dens the hearts both of rich and poor, o
laborer and Of employer. But who cal
guess what may happen, if the Democrat
party should have power to enact and carr,