Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-10-21
What Republican Success Means.

l. Republican success means that the
present prosperity of the country, re
Sulting so largely from Republican leg
islative and executive action, shall moi
be interrupted.
II. That the the present honest collec
ton of the revenue, so faithful that but
one-third of one cent out of every $1,000
collected has been lost, when S1l II OF
each $1,000 collected was stolen under
Van Buren, shall be changed.
!. III. That every mill and factory shall
be kept in operation, and every home in
dustry fostered, 50 that mechanics and
laborers may continue to be paid liberal
wages, and the Nation be made indie
pendent of foreign powers i'll times of
both peace and war.
". The continuance and .permanence
of the National banking system, with its
stable. redeemable currency of uniform
value throughout every Territory and
State, whose full value is secured by the
deposit of Government bonds beyond the
possibility of loss.
V. The enjoyment of absolute free
dom of conscience and of speech in eve
ry State and comm unity, North and
South, and the ceaseless protection of
free speech by the Courts and by every
officer and every department of the Gov
ernment.
VI. Perfect protection to all Ameri-
can citizens in the uncontrolled exercise
of the right of suffrage, so that the
fountain of power in Il Republic shall
not be corrupted at its source.
VII. The ample guarantee of protec-
ton to human life every hour and every
where with the whole force of the Army
and Navy, if need be, to sustain the civil
authorities in the discharge of this first
and most imperative duty of a Govern
ment.
VIII. The payment in the currency of
the world of the whole Indebtedness of
the United States, as pledged by Con-
gress, implied by contract, and required
by universal civilized usage.
TX. The faithful fulflment of all
pledges and obligations to the defenders
of the Union and their families, and the
prompt payment of whatever pensions
may now be or may hereafter become
due.
X. The elimination from American
politics of the fatal heresy of State Sow
ereignty and its legitimate offspring, Sc
cession, and the crowning of our ma
tionality by the judicial proclamation of
the fact that the only sovereign or indie
pendent State on the continent, known
to international or constitutional law, is
the Republic itself. ----
XL. Greater permanency in every
branch of the Civil Service, so that Of
fees may be filled not for the benefit of
individuals. but for the greatest good of
the greatest number, and the public bus
mess transacted by those best qualified
by knowledge and experience to transact
it.
XII. The preservation inviOlate of the
results of the war for National exist
ence; that the cause represented by
Lincoln be deemed eternally right, and
that represented by Davis everlastingly
wrong; that potriotism be preferred to
treason, and the Republics defenders to
its destroyers.
XIII. The elevation to the Chief Mag
istracy of scholar, a man of learning
and trained statesmanlof eighteen years
continuous Congressional service, who
was three times the choice of his party
in Congress for Speaker, their unanimous
choice for the Electoral Commission,
and who, by nature, culture and educa-
ton, is the peer of any candidate of any
party for the Presidency since the fOun-
dation of the Government.-[New York
Tribune.