The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-10-29
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE'S
INTERPRETATION OF RE-
PTTRTIGAN SUCCESS

/. Republican success means that the
present prosperity OF the country, re-
sultng so largely from Republican leg
islative and executive action, shall not
be interrupted.
IL That the present honest collection
Of the revenue, so faithful that but one
third of one per cent. out Of every 81 600
collected has been lost, when Sill Of
each 81, 900 collected was stolen under
Van Buren,, shall be unchanged.
III. That every mill and factory shall
be kept in operation, and every home in
dusiry fostered, so that mechanics and
laborIng men may continue TO be paid
liberal wages. and the nation be made
independent Of foreign powers in times
of both peace and war.
w. The continuance and permanenee
of the national banking System with its
stable, rcdeemable currency of uniform
value throughout every territory and
state, whose full value Is sucured by the
deposit of bonds beyond the possibility
of loss.
v. The enjoyment OF absolute freedom
of conscience and of speech in every
state aud community, north and south,
and the ceaseless protection of free
speech by the courts and by every officer
and every department of the govern
ment.
| VI. Perfect protection TO all Ameri-
can citizens IN the uncontrolled exer-
else of the right of suffrage, SO that the
fountain of power in republic shall not
be corrupted at its source.
VII. The ample guarantee of protec.
ton to human life every hour and every.
where, 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 imperative duty Of a govern
ment.
l VIII. The payment in the currency o.
the world of the whole Indebtedness o.
the United States, as pledged by congress
implied by contract. and required by
universal civilized usage.
TX. The faithful fulfllment of al
pledges and obligations to tie defenders
of the Union and their families, and thu
prompt payment of whatever pensions
may now be or may hereafter becom'
due.
Y. The elimination from American
politics of the fatal heresy of state soy
ereignty and its legitimate offspring
, secession, and the crOwning of our ma
tionality by the judicial proclamation O
the fact that the only sovereign or inde
international or constitutional law,
, the Republic itself.
XI. Greater permanency IN ever
branch of the civil service, so that office
q may be filed not for the benefit of ind
I viduals, but for the greatest good of th
\ greatest number, and the public bushes
9 transacted by those best qualified b
E knowledge and experience to tram
, act It.
| XII. The preservation InviOlate Of tn
results Of the war for national existence
that the cause represented by Lincoln b
: deemed eternally right, and that repr
scented by Davis everlastingly wrong; tn;
patriotism be preferred to treason, an
). the Republics defenders to its destro.
ers.
, XIII. The elevation to the chit
magistracy of scholar. a man Of lear
Ing and trained statesman of eightee
years continuous congressional servic
who was three times the choice of h
party in congress for speaker, the
. unanimous choice for the electoral cor
mission, and who, by nature, cultul
= and education, is the peer of any cand
= date for any party for the presidenC
since the foundation of the governmer