River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-05

ity True, but it has most powerfully aid
ed it by giving us that confidence which is
impossible without stable money values and
a sound currency system. And what 4
prudent man would risk these great results
by turning over our financial policy t. the
hands of party which, as / have shown,
is the refuge of all destructive elements
threatening new uncertainty and confus-
ion?
Indeed, not only in the traditions and
good sense of the republican party do YOU
find the best security there is at present
for the sancity of our national faith as well
as a successful management of the finan-
cial policy; YOU find equal security in the
known opinions and principles of its can
didate, James A. Garfield His convic-
tions on these subjects have not found their
first and best proclamation in the platform
of his party or in his letter of acceptance.
His
RECORD OF NEARLY TWENTY YEARS
of congressional service is not a blank ON ,
the great questions of the times, like that
of his opponent. There is not phase Of
the question Of our national obligations;
there is not point of the financial policy,
from the first day that the subject was con-
sidered in congress since he became a mem
Der of that body to the present hour, that
he has not discussed with an ability and
strength a lucidity of argument, ampli-
tude OF knowledge and firmness of CON
victions, placing him in the first ranks of
the defenders of sound principles.
And now appeal to the conservative
citizens of the republic, to you who desire
the public faith sacredly maintained, where
will you 90? Can you, in view of present
lonely To tho
democratic party? You will indeed find
there not 4 few men who thinks as you do;
but with them you will find closely allied
III party interest all these elements TO
whom our national obligations are the
football of momentary advantage. You
will find on that side every state that has
repudiated or spoke of repudiating its pub
lie debt; you will find there all those
who decried the public creditor as
the public enemy, and whom no loyal
tradition and impulse attaches to public
honor. You will find there party, inside
of which the public faith has still to fight
a battle with its enemies, without any GER
tainty of its issue Is that your place Or
will you go to the republican side, where
the loyal maintenance of our public faith
has become fundamental principle, uni
versally adhered to with unswerving fdel-
ity, in spite of the gusts of adverse public
sentiment in former days? And YOU who
desire to preserve the fruits of the success
gained in the abolition of the curse Of an
irredeemable paper money and the re-es-
adjustment of specie payments, where will
you go? VIII you go tothe democratic party,
where again you will find some who think
as YOU do, and vet with them, as powerful
and perhaps the most numerous compo-
nent part Of the organization, welding
commanding influence in great many of
the states subject to its control, the great
mass of the inflationsts and fiat-money
men who were gathered under the demo-
cratic banner by a seemingly Irresistible
power of attraction, and furnished many of
the acknowledged leaders of that organiza-
ton, and who even now, when the pros
peritv of the country has been so long
magniicently aided by a sound tiancial
policy, would be ready to subvert it all and
throw the country back into the
WILD CONFUSION OF THE FIAT MONEY MAD
NESS?
Will you, business men, farmers, manu-
facturers, merchants of the country, find
the safety of your interest there? VIII
you help a party to power, the battle of
sound system and an irredeemable paper
currency is still perdlng, and Will you trust
the earnings of the poor rs well as the
fortunes vi the wealthy W vi
its use? Or will you go to the republican
side, where great victories for the cause of
good money have been achieved; where
sound sense and patriotism have won every
fight so far decided, and where we may
with certainty look for the same sound
sense and patriotism to solve the problems
not vet disposed of? And YOU who desire
the administrative business-like way by
honest and capable public servants, where
will you go? Will you go to the demo-
cratic party, which has no other reform
idea than an eager desire to take the whole
administrative machinery Of the govern
ment suddenly to pieces, and to fill 1t as
rapidly az possible with politicians de-
manding offices as spoils? Or will you go
| to the republican side, where you have the
assurance of a civil service which, in spite
| of shortcoming and mistakes, has already
on the whole proved itselfcapable to trans
act your business honestly and efficiently
and where you find all those elements that
are faithfully and theoretically working
for more thorough and permanent re-
| form?
In few months you will have 10 make
your choice. | know that when party
| has been SO long in power as the republic
can party, many citizens may be moved by
a desire for a change. In not few cases
it may be desire for the sake of a change.
| While the impulse is natural, it should
not be followed without calm discrimina
ton Prudent men will never fail to CON
slider whether the only change possible
bids fair to be change for the better.
1t is true that the parties are apt to degen-
crate by the long possession of power. The
| republican party cannot expect to escape
! the common lot of humanity; but no can
| did observer will deny that within late
period the republican party has shown
| signs rather of Improvement than deteri-
Grafton; and that it possesses the best share
cf the intelligence, virtue and patriotism
of the country. In matters of most es-
| sential moment to the public welfare it
can be safely better counted upon for eff
cient and faithful service, while its oppo-
nent opens only prospect OF uncertainty
and confusion.
The democracy may in the course of
time gain the confidence of the people;
but that should be only when the repudi-
ationists and the advocates of unsound
money have ceased to be in its ranks
powerful aud influential an element a.
seriously TO threaten the great economical
interests of the country; V hen by cnerget-
ic and successful action III protecting the
rights of the voter whether white or black,
whether republican or democratic, in all
parts of the country and by the suppression
of fraud at the ballot-box through healthy
and irresistible power of public opinion
within itself, il will have won the right to
appear in its platforms az the protector of
the freedmen and purity of elections, and
when it will find il no longer necessary to
discard the ablest of its statesmen and to
put general of the army. who has never
been anything but a soldier, in nomination
for the presidency, to make for itself GER
tifcate of loyalty to the settlements Of the
great conflict Of the past.
And for all these reasons, in my opin-
ion, the interests of the republic demand
the election of James A. Garfield to the
presidency of the United States
A Georgian Mandarin.
Agusta (Ga.l Chronicle
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