The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-08-13
A REccaD TO De rrcUD CT.

relies for public confidence mainly upor
. great services actually rendered. It ha,
: given the country prosperity and progress
never before witnessed. no other claim te
popular support can be greater. 1t has
overcome obstacles deemed insuperable
Difficulties and dangers which, to many al
home as well as to nearly all abroa i seem.
: ed certain to overwhelm the Republic have
been met and vanquished by the Republican
party. 1t has earned this vast advantage
over every competitor it does not need to
rely upon its promises alcne, but can point
to its deeds as its best vinlication. Twenty
years it has marched on unfaltering.
Almost all the world believed that disunion
was inevitable. The Republican party re-
sisted and conquered. Even close to the
end of the war the Democratic party solemn
ly resolved, as observers elsewhere began to
fear, that the war a failure but the
Republican party persisted until the rebellion
was crushed. The problem of reconstruc-
tion seemed insoluble to many, and there
were wise men who predicted fifty years of
anarcy and guerilla warefare; bnt the Re.
publican party found means to force a con-
quere and sullen South TO take an active
part in the Government which it had tried
TO destroy. Never before, since Govern
ments were instituted among men. had a
nation managed to restore the value of an
irredeemable paper currency But the e.
publican party undertook that task also,
and finished it. The COLLAPSE of initiation
caused tremendous losses, and the struggle
for resumption caused immense sacrifices
Never before had any party, in free Gov
ernment, dared to propose such struggles
and sacrifices without submitting to tempo
rary defeat. Yet the Republican party led
the nation onward to financial honor AMI
prosperity, and never lost the power to car
ry ont its measures.
This wonder-working party, for which no
task has yet proved too difficult, has the
right to point to the present condition of
| the country as proof of it's fidelity, courage,
| and wisdom. When dangers have thicken-
ed, the party has dared to do right and to
trust the people, and they have never failed
country be, politically, financially, or indus
trially. 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 in
to guerilla warfale? What would have
been the condition of business now if the
Democrats, led by Mr.. Pendleton, had been
able to pay the bonds in greenbacks, as they I
proposed to do in 1872? What would now
be the state of the public credit, if solemly-
promised resumption had been defeated by I
Democratic success in 1876? Every capital
ist and every workingman in the country
knows what grand prosperity has resulted
from the resumption sof specie payments
eighteen months ago is there single one
who wishes that Democratic hostility to re
sumption had prevail ed at the last election
How many of our mills and factories how
n"ny of our furnaces and mines, would now
be in operation, if the bind hostility OF
Democrats to the present form of tariff had
in causing sudden, radical, and
change, three years ago? What
he country is to-day the Republican party
las made it. What sane man is sorry that
he Republican party has conquered for
wenty years. and so has had the power to /.
make the country what it is? :
Virtually, that is the question for 1880
J the eountry sorry that it has attained the !
prosperity which it enjoys? Mis-
axes are to be found ON every hand, as in
u human Governments, and errors In the :.
eeord OF every year. Butth country knows !,
nat IN all the greater mattersit owesits pres !,
Mt condition to the courage wisdom and tiflel :.
y OF the Republican party, and it will hes
ate long before it decides to change. ANY :,
.her party can promise. The Republicans i
ave performed. Every pledge ever made 10y :,
lat party it has kept, even to the doing of I,
'called impossibiiities, such as the sun. r,
'essioli Of rebellion, the pacifcation of the /.
'untry, and the resumption of speeie b
lyments- 1t promises now 70 go forward le
Its work to press still further reforms in
hich 1T has begun, and to promote still fur q,
er the prosperity of the country The tr
Drk is III the hands of men who have given II,
oof OF the wisdom of their plans. Ii they
We done well thus far. SO that the country
richer, and granler than ever before. will
e people turn over their affairs to d party
aich has only promises to offer:
II Democratic promises were proof of
purposes, it would be rash Il, III
ange hcnmpete ence and inexperrance
cn do more mischief than downright m
avery. as the last Democratic f.onors Iii
shown But it is a notorious fact that
Democratic party has not respected its III
'mIses, nor made any e!,ort to redeem ha
sni Its successive declarations of .eter-
principles for the last twenty years. if on
together, wonlsl make the most absurd NJ,
noie OF contradictions ever known. The
rty mas been true to nothing except its "a,
kiety for office. It proposes. even now. r,.I
tear mp the tariff under which thousands
factories have been built and hundreds
thousands of wurkmen have found EN-. :.
yment and yet the votes of Democrats
Congress show that the party has not the :.
htest idea what system of taxation It
lid adopt instead. Il proposes hard =,
ney, and yet the votes of nine
tbs of the Democrats in Congress show !
the party does not wish gold dollars ,'s''
tn one hundred cents if it can get silver las
ars worth ninety cents. Conservative ="