The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-23
What Republican Success Means.

l. Republican success means that
the present prosperity of the coun
try, resulting so largely from Re.
publican legislative and executive
action. shall not be interrupted.
Ii. That the present honest col
lection of the revenue, so faithful
that but one-third of one cent out of
every 81 900 collected. when Sill of
each 81 900 collected was stolen un-
der Van Buren,, shall be unchanged.
Ill. That every mill and factory
shall be kept in operation, and every
home industry festered, so that me-
chanics and laborers may continue
to be paid liberal wages, and the Ma.
tion be made independent of foreign
powers in times of both peace and
war.
~. The continuance and perna,
nence of the National banking sys.
tenn, with its stable, redeemable cur.
:rsncy Of uniform value throughput
every Territory and State. whose fun
value is secured by the deposit of
Government bonds beyond the pos
sibility of loss.
V. The enjoyment of absolute
freedom of conscience and of speech
in every State and community,
North and South, and the ceaseless
protection of free speech by the
Courts and by every officer and eve
ry department of the Government.
VI. Perfect protection to all Am
erlcan citizens in the uncontrolled
exercise of the right of suffrage, so
that the fountain of power in Re-
public shall not be corrupted at its
source.
VII. The ample guarantee of pro.
lection to human life every hour and
everywhere 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 i'm.
peratiye duty of Government.
VIII. The payment in currency
of the world of the whole indebted
ness of the United States, as pledged
by Congress, implied by contract and
required by universal civilized usage.
TX. The faithful fultilment of all
pledges and obligations to the de-
tenders of the Union and their fans
lilies, and the prompt payment of
whatever pensions may now be or
may hereafter become due.
X. discrimination from American
politicts of the fatal heresy of State
Sovereignty and its legitimate off
spring, Secession, and the crowning
of our nationality by the judicial
proclamation of the fact that the
only sovereign or independent State
on the continent, known to internal
or constitutional law, is the Republic
itself.
XI. Greater permanency in every
branch of the CIVIL Service, so that
Offices may be filled not for the benefit
of individuals. but for the greatest
number, and the public business
transacted by those best qualified by
knowledge ana experience to transact
it.
XII. The preservation inviolate of
the results of the war for National
existence that the cause represented
by Lincoln be deemed eternally
right, and that represented by Davis
everlastingly wrong that patriotism
be preferred to treason, and the Re-
public's defenders to its destroyers.
XIII. The elevation to the Chief
Magistracy of scholar. man of
learning and trained statesman of
eighteen years. continuous Congress
sional 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 foundation of the Government.
N. Y. Tribune.