Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-09-26
THE .sALMOsT rERSUADED' RE.
PUBLICANS.

THE .sALMOsT PERSIA DEED. RE-
PUBLICANS.
This is a good year, and a good time in
the year for you to become fully per-
suaded, and come over to the Democ-
racy without further hesitation or delay.
If your only desire is to be on the win
ming side, you can surely see that the
winning side is not gong to be Republic
can-''by q large majority" If there
were any doubts about it, Maine has
settled them. That State, which Repub-
licans thought was as certain for them as
Massachusetts,, has gone the other way.
This event, as unexpected to Democrats
as to Republicans, is the Handwriting
on the WALL" telling that the days Of
Republicanism. as a dominant power in
the nation, are numbered, and that the
sceptre will pass from Republican grasp
in November. If you do not believe u
Interpretation of the Maine business, be-
lieve this:
Senator Blaine said that he entertained
q thread of hope that Davis would be
elected, and that IF HE WAS DEFEATED
HANCOCK WILL BE THE NEXT PRESI-
DENT.-GSpecial Dispatch to the Globe
Democrat.
If you are governed by principle in the
matter, and do not want to leave the
party with which you have acted so many
years, you ought to know that the Re-
publican party has long ago left you;
that is, if you are a Republican of the
Lincoln, Seward and Sumner school.
Not a vestige of that party remains.
The Southern policy which Lincoln in
augurated, and intended to carry out,
was repudiated before his corpse was cold.
Long before Seward died he was prac-
tically excommunicated, on account OF
conservative opinions, from the political
church which he did more than any
other n man to establish; and you do
not need to be reminded of the Republi-
can persecution, led by Grant, which
fastened Sumner to his grave. Where
are the ''old line" Republicans of 1850
65? Where are Trumbull, Palmer, David
Davis. Charles Francis Adams, John
w. Forney and four-ffths of the
other Republican leaders whom you
were once proud to follow? In the
Democratic ranks, as you know.
Who is the most active and inAuen.
tial Republican leader to-dayi John Lo.
gan-the ''dirty work Logan" whom you
loathed in l656-6l. Who is the mar
Logan tried to nominate at Chicago,
and who is still the idol of . majority Of
your partys Grant; who, as he said just
after the battle of Shiloh, 'if he voted
At all in 1860. voted for Breckenridge"
II the old Republican leaders have left
that party, where are the Republican
principlesi Where is that profound re.
spect for the constitution and the rights
OF States, that purpose Of reform in all
departments of government. that fidelity
to public and private liberty, that su.
preme reverence for the verdict of the
people as expressed by the ballot box-so
loudly protested in lS56-61f Look at the
history of the last nineteen years and
see. Read Republican editorials. listen
to Republican speeches, and see. The
Republican party Of to-day has nothing
OF the Republican party you knew except
the name. 1t has been completely trans
formed by the process Of its own cor
ruption. It has rotted itself ''into some-
thing new and strange" with which you,
a. q patriotic American citizen, can have
no sort Of sympathy.
Then seek Democratic salvation at
once. before it is eternally too late, that
IL, before you perish in the swift-coming
and inevitable Republican destruction.
The voice Of Maine is the voice Of an
other Jonah, crying, "Yet forty days and
the Republican Nineveh shall be de-
stroyed !" Stand not upon the order Of
your leaving, but leave ~instanter. If
you stay you will 60 down with the
Republican ship. with small hope of ever
coming up again. Why be ssburied in
q wet jacket" when q single step will
put you on board the noble old iron. clad.
Democracy, with a gallant captain and .
gallant crew, colors flying. band playing,
and guns firing q salute for the victory
already in sighti Come, ye almost Der.
suadsd." get aboard for a four years
cruise at least, and then If you don't
like it you can depart in peace.