The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-29
Tba c,mpugu is rapidly drawing to close


and it is now time that every Republican should
step into line and go forward with the s. old
gusrdn TO the achievement OF the grandest and
most decisive victory ever wrought out in the
annals OF politics. This struggle has been, IN
some respects, the most remarkable in the his
tory of the country. The public mind has
seemed to osclllate from one side TO the other
| Of tie great Issues involved When Gen. Gar
country seemed for a time to accept the work
OF the Chicago convention as settling the Pres
dental contest Then came the nomination or
General Hancocb, accompanied by the most
vigorous ana mascious assaults upor the pub
lie career OF the Republican nominee from all
along the Democratic line. The enemy, North
and South, at once inauguIated campaign OF
Islander and mud-throwing. 1t howled "Credit
Mobllier," g." DeGolyer pavement contract" and
is salary grab" from one end OF the country to
the other, and defaced the sides OF buildings,
fences and side walks in every city, village and
hamlet in the land with $780, 1t rldiculed the
efforts o. Republican campaign speakers, and
claimed the election of every candidate run
ming on its ticket from President down. Then
came the Maine election which, contrary to the
most sanguIne expectations of the Republicans,
almost resulted in fusion victory. This, al
though if a victory at oil was victory for the
Groenback party, set the Democrats wild with
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hackers IN consequence Of what they supposed
to be an expression by New England State of
condemnation OF the Republican candidates and
Republican principles. The Greenbackers re-
specially declined to go to bed with any such
disreputable characters. Even Gen. Hancock
sent congratulatory dispatch to Plaisted, the
Greenback candidate for Governor OF Maine,
thus endorsing the platform OF the soft money
party, although he himself was running en-
bard money platform. All OF these things
seemed to set the tide in favor Of Democratic
success and coTrespondingy discouraged and
depressed Republicans. But there soon came
time when the pendulum swung back to the
Republican side again. The results in Chic
and Indiana Knocked the Democratic party
higher than "Beecher's life OF Christ" The cleo
/ tions there demonstrated that the people in
the great commercial States Of the North were
fully sensible or and awake TO the danger OF
the ascendancy to power Of that party which
embraces all the bad elements in the country.
These elections also demonstrated that the
people are fully aware that the Democratic
party is dominated by that bad element. When
Wade Hampton said at Staunton, Va, to a
Virginia audience, Consider what Lee and
Jackson would do were they alive. These are
the same principles for which they fought for
four years." he meant something. 1t opened
the eyes Of the loyal North especially when
considered in connection with the Committees
as at present constituted in both branches OF
a Democratic Congress-seventeen OF which
having Confederate Brigader for Its Char
man, and the whole % Committees OF the
House having majority OF Democrats upon
them, and a majority OF that majority beng
ex-rebels from the Solid South" 1t also
Treasury in the Cabinet of President Hayes
challenged to fight duel by this same traitor,
because ID a speech at New York city tho Sec
rotary stated what everybody knows to be true,
that Hampton, and others from the South, held
their seats in Congress by force, fraud, muir
der, and the use Of tissue ballots.
The elections in Ohio and Indiana mean that
the loyal North are not ready to turn this gov
eminent over to the absolute control Of a party
that Is dominated by this solid South which
hangs like a mill stone about its neck, and
which will as certainly carry it down to tue bot
tom OF this tempestuous political sea on which
we are now being buffeted; and when it shall
have gone down. as it surely will on the End
day Of November next, never again to rise,
then the sea will become tranquil, and peace
and security in life, property and civil rights
will come to every American citizen, wherever
he may be under the old flag.
Before the next issue of this paper the great
upon every voter who believes in Northern
ideas, Northern institutions, and Northern civ
ilization, to step into the ranks o: the Republi
can party and share with us the glory that is to
perch on our victorious banner on Tuesday
next. We have a splendid ticket. Our candi
dates are sef-made men-men who have, IN
der our institutions, by their own exertions,
risen from the farm and canal to the proud en-
inence they now occupy men who, when
elected, will administer the government OF
the people, by the people, and for the people,
in such way as to do the greatest good to the
greatest number,-entlrely devoid OF an aris- |
tocracy which favors he few and who claim to
have been born to Iule.