Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-06-24
No. 81
a TRUE REPUBLICAN VICTORY.
TChjcarO Tribune.

| OF the many Republican victories and tri-
umphs in its history, from the day in May
| twenty years ago when it nominated Abra-
| ham Lincoln, it has gained nothing more glo-
rious and magnificent than that accomplished
| yesterday at the National Convention. Words
! must not tail to describe its far-reachipg con-
sequences. 1t is like the suppression of the
Rebellion and the abolition of slavery,-a vic
| tory over insolent usurpation, and the eman-
cipation of the Republican party from a
thralldom that threatened the annihilation of
| free thought, free action, free speech, and
free voting.
The Republican party in National Conven-
tiOns has deposed the sell. constituted propr-
etors of the party. 1t has stripped the Tr-
umyirs of their self-appointed powers; 1t has
declared that the Republican party is q
party of the people, by the people, and for
the people, and not a mere organization of
slaves to be manipulated and disposed of by
close corporation of office-brokers and Office
mongers. 1t has declared the Republican par
ty to be National organization representing
the Republicans of the Nation, and not a
mere aggregation of subordinates TO the will
and direction of few individuals 1t has de-
clared that the Republican party is free and
independent of Roscoe C0nkling, Don Cam
eron, and John A. Logan, and that declara-
ton has been emphasized by the overwhel-
ming reputation of the unit rule, the doc
trine of obstruction and affirmance of
the Republicans of the Union to meet and
appoint their own delegates to represent
their own Congressional districts in their
own National Conventions. Liberties thus
won and thus wrung from these usurpers will
never be surrendered.
But the great victory of the Republican
party is rendered more complete by the ami
hilating blow by which thir6-termism was
forever silenced in American politics. Never
was there more impudent, arrogant de-
mand for the overthrow of one of the most
time-hOnored and sacred traditions of the
Republic than this attempt to use the Re-
publican party TO- establish third term as a
possible institution of the American people.
Never had the Republican party a severer
test of its patriotism than in the struggle with
the engineers that advised it to override the
National history and confer upon man of
to-day honors which George Washington had
refused because perilous to National liberty.
In the rejection of another term of Grant,
and in the defeat Of the Bosses under whose
patronage he was presented as third-term
candidate. the Republican party gained
victory for itself and for the country which
will pass into history as National judgment
of reprobaton and condemnation which no
other men will ever attempt to reverse.
The action of the Republican Convention
will be hailed by the American people as a
glorious yindication of National purity and
Intelligence 1t has placed the irremovable
ban of condemnation upon an absence of in
tegrity, upon all schemes and combinations
of fraud and corruption by men in office, and
upon all partnership with frauds on the
Government by officials with men out of Of /
fee, and upon ali protection by Executive
power of convicted and unconvicted plunder-
ers of the National revenues. The Repub-
llcan party, while extending charity and
silence to the past, has in the most emphatic
and determined manner refused to condone
for the past by a renewed afiiiation with
those who have betrayed their trust and scan
dalized the National honor.