Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-06
What the Republican Party Has Accom-
plished.


Now, as heretofore, the Republican
party relies for public confidence mainly
upon great services actually rendered.
IL has given the country prosperity and
progress never before witnessed. No
other claim to popular support can be
greater. Ii has overcome obstacles
deemed insupGrable. Difficulties and
dangers which, to many at home as well
as nearly all abroad, seemed certain to
overwhclm the Republic, have been
met and vanquished by the Republican
party. IL has earned this vast adj
vantage over every competitor; it does
not need 20 rely upon its promises alone,
b't can point 10 its deeds as its best
vindicatiun. Twenty years it has march
ed on Unlaterlng. Almost all the world
believed that disunion was inevitable.
The Republican party resisted and con-
qucred. Even close to the end of the
war the Democratic party solemnly re-
solved, as observers elsewhere began to
fear, that the war was failure; but the
Republican party persisted until rebel
lion was crushed, The problem of re-
construction seemed insOlub!e to many,
and there were wise men who predicted
fifty years Of anarchy and gueril-
In warfare but the Republican
party found means to force con-
quered aud sullen South to take an ac-
tive part in the Government which it
had tried to destroy. Never before,
since governments wore instituted
among men, had nation managed TO
restore the Talue OF an irredeemable
paper currency. But the Republican
party undertook that task also, and fin
ished it. The collapse of imitation
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
sSmward 70 financial honor and prosper
ity, and never lost the power TO carry
out Its measures.
This wouder-worlling party, for which
no task has yet proved too difficult, has
the right to point 20 the present condi-
tion OF the country as proof OF its lidel-
ity, courage and wisdom. When dan
gers have thickened, the party has
dared to do right and to trust the peo-
pie, and they have never fallod to meet
NIN7l WIN lluSI, w nero WOulu Lub
country be-, politically, financially, or
industrially, II dsunion had prevaiedP
IL Is for the Democrats TO say. Where
would il have been II Democratic
resistance to reconstruction had
been permitted to grow into a
guerilla warlarep What would have
been the condition of business now
II the Democrats, led by Mr., Pendle-
ton, had been able to pay the bonds In
greenbncks, as they proposed TO do In
1872 What would now be the state of
the public credit II the solemnly-prom-
tsed resumption had been defeated by
by Democratic success in 1892 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 single one who wishes that
Democratic hostility 10 resumption had
prevailed ut the last electionp What
the country Is to-day the Republican
party has made IL. What sane man Is
sorry that the Republican party has
conquered for twenty years, and so has
had the powerto mSSe the country what
II Is?
Virtually that is the question for
1880; is the country sorry that II has
attained the wonderful prosperity which
Il eniUIs2 Mistakes axe " be found On