The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24
REPUBLICANS, READ.

of the county, which assembled at In |
dianopolis on September 10, issued the |
following string address to the Repub- |
licans of the country:
To the Republicans Of the linton:
We, the delegates of the Republican |
clubs throughout the United States, in |
convention assembled to promote by due |
organization, the purpose announced at |
Chicago in June last by Republican |
platform, and by the nomination of Gen. |
James A. Garfield and Chester A. Ar |
thur, solemnly invoke upon citizens |
who hallow the government which we
have received from its fathers, to muster |
at this critical juncture as a political |
militia in its defense. You are admon- !
ished that a Richmond congress has
crossed the Potomac and occupies your
national capital, that the same unhoiy
purpose which sought to destroy our
government in war is now shaping and
mining that government in politics,
that treason is wearing mask in order
to accomplish what it failed 10 compass
during bloody period of four years
without a mask; that il has sought to
starye the government as it starved
Sumpter; that it has withheld support
from your soldiery, which it could not
disarm in the field; that it has sought
by repeats IN congress and by wanton
violation in southern congressional dis
tricts of the same laws SO to enfeeble the
national authority and the guarantees of
the citizen as to challenge the anxious
and patriotic determination which dis
tinguished you in 1861. 1t is not enough
that you are paying the war
debt of these conspirators-you must
apologize to them in cash in the form
of war claims for having pounded their
rebellion to pieces. You must permit
an increase of the number of judges of
the supreme bench of the United States
in order that the two last amendments
to the constitution may be declared null
and void by reason of never having re-
ceived due measure of legislative sane
ton from the several states. You must
permit the whole results of the war and
restablished credit of the government to
be overturned and Punishment from
power of the party which the nation,
every man on its soil and every dollar IN
his pocket, paper or coin, has been
zealously defended. Four years alone of
Democratic rule would prove to your
cost and shame for half a century. 1t is
easier to arrest an enemy in his effort to
grasp power than to dispossess that
enemy of power, as was shown between
1861 and 1865. Now is the time to de-
clare that the national house of repre-
sentatives shall not be spendthrift of
the sacred monies of the government,
and declare that the consent of the
governed to the administration of their
government shall be Zealously maintain
| ed through the agency of the free ballot,
| and that murder and fraud for political
ends are dishonor to the American
people and an affroDt to the God of
| justice, without whose countenance we
cannot hope to ensure prosperous and
benifcent political system. A Repub-
lican government can only exist and be
maintained by the free expression of all
its citizens, openly declared and honestly
| counted; without these two factors
there is no free government. They do
not exist today in the sixteen states of
the solid south. 1t Is the duty of the
| Republican party, the duty of all men
| who believe in free government, who
believe that this is nation and unite for
the purpose of securing to the people,
the whole people of the south, the rights
of free thought, free speech, and an IN
trammelled ballot. This can only be
done through the success OF the Repub-
lican party, through a solid north as de-
termined in 1880 to assure the future of
| the republic as it was in 1860 to preserve
| it. A house divided against itself can
not stand; nation professedly free can
not exist with despotism in its midst.
There is despotism in the south more
absolute than any other in the world /;
that despotism deprives million and a
half of free American citizens of all that
our constitution was intended to secure
it arrogates and assumes sovereignty /;
now it attacks the north; it advances
| with serried ranks, an army with ban
/ tho fron institutions Of 10
northern states. In its insolence and
pride it proclaims that you, the freedom
loving people of the north, must bow to
the molOch it has enthroned. 1t threat
ems by fraud to deprive you of your just
control in governmental affairs. 1t de-
mands reversal of the verdict finally
rendered at Appomattox. Not only are
you called upon to restore freedom and
nationality in the south. but to protect
them in the north. A Democratic vic.
tory means the triumph of the princi.
throw of all the results obtained
by the war; it means the unques
toned rule of the rebel brigadiers
it means confusion, resulting in an
archy and ruin. There is but one
way to avert the threatened evil-tht
success of the Republican party means
the supremacy of law and order; il
means nation powerful to protect its
people at home and abroad; it means
equal rights for all, equal laws justly ad
ministered. Success can only be obtain
ed by organization, by unremitting la
Dor. Organize, then; prepare yourselves
for the impending conflict. Organize al
you did in 1851, when no greater evil!
threatened you. See to it that every Re
publican does his duty. March to this
battle and let your Republican ballots o
1880 supplement and secure what you
Republican bullets gained in 1865. w,
: appeal to old men whose Sons went fortl
to battle for the Republic; to the middle
aged who held aloft the banner of thei
{ country in its darkest hours; to tn,
! young men who are entering upon tn
8 stage of action to all who value the lit
e erty and prosperity of their country, =
D unite in keeping step to the music of thu
union. Rescue the country from Demo
!, cratic control, with its attendant evils
q the enemy relying upon no instrument
e alities save the rifles to kill men, tn
, money to bride men and the frauds {
D cheat men; the enemy with a wicke
e past and shameless future now cor
fronts you. Touch elbows all over til
union. Save it. Do your utmost for il
9 and remember it is never well defenfe
y unless defenued in every part and in e.
q cry man.
I The convention appointed a nations
committee of two from each state wit
q headquarters at Chicago. of which Franz
q lin McVeiw, of Illinois, is Chairman
Is and f. III. Nichol of Wisconsin, seer