The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-05

H!io"H oEAll1ollS anu principles CT Its can
didate, James A. Garfield. His conyic
tions on these subjects have not found their
hrst and best proclamation in the platform
Of his party or in his letter of acceptance.
His
| RECORD OF NEARLY TWENTY YEARS
OF congressional service is not 4 blank on
the great questions of the times. like that
OF his opponent. There is not a phase of
the question OF our national obi cations;
there Is not point of the financial policy,
from the hrst day that the subject was con-
sldered III congress since he became q mem-
Der Of that body to the present hour. That
he has not discussed with an ability and
strength, lucidity of argument. amnl;-
tude OF knowledge and tirmness of con-
victions, placing him in the first ranks of
the defenders OF sound principles.
And now | appeal to the conservative
citizens of the republic, to you who desire
the public faith sacredly maintained wherc
! will you 80? Can you, in view of present
circumstances, conscientiously 90 to the
democratic party? You will indeed find
! there not few men who thinks as Won do:
but with them you will find closely allied
III party interest all these elements to
whom our national obligations arc the
1oot-bal of momentary advantage. You
Will find on that side every state that has
repudiated or spoke Of repudiating its pub
Tic debt; you will find there all those
who decrled the public creditor as
the pubic enemy. and whom no loyal
tradition and impulse attaches to public
honor. You will find there a party. inside
of which the public faith has still to FIGHT
battle with It's enemies, without anv GER
tainty Of its issue. Is that your place? Or
will you go to the republican side, where
the loyal maintenance of our public faith
has become fundamental principle. uni
versally adhered to with unswervinq tidel-
lty, In spite of the gusts of adverse public
sentiment in former days? And you who
desire to preserve the fruits of the success
gained in the abolition of the curse of an
irredeemable paper money and the re-es-
adjustment Of specie payments, where will
you go? Will you go to the democratic party,
where again you will find some who think
as YOU do, and yet with them, as a powerful
and perhaps the most numerous vompo-
nent part Of the organization, welding
commanding influence in a great MANY Of
the states subject to its control, the great
mass Of the infationists and fat-monev
men who were gathered under the demo-
cratic banner by seemingly irresistible
power of attraction, and furnished many OF
the acknowledged leaders Of that orsaniza-
ton, and who even now, when the pros
perity of the country has been so long
magni6cently aided by sound fiancial
throw the country back into the
WILD CONFUSION OF THE FIAT MONEY MAD
NESS?
VIII you, business men, farmers, manu-
tacturers, merchants of the country, find
the safety of your interest there? Will
you help party to power, the battle of
sound system and an irredeemable paper
currency is still perding, and will you trust
the earnings of the poor as we'll as the
fortunes of the wealthy to uncertainties of
its use? Or will you go to the republican
side, where great victories for the cause of
good money have been achieved; where
sound sense and patriotism have won every
fight so far decided, and where we may
with certainty look for the same sound
sense and patriotism to solve the problems
not yet disposed Of? And you who desire
the administrative business-like way by
honest and capable public servants, where
will you go? Will you go to the demo-
cratic party, which has no other reform
idea than an eager desire to take the whole
administrative machinery of the govern
ment suddenly to pieces, and to fill it as
rapidly as possible with politicians de-
manding Offices as spoils? Or will you 80
to the republican side, where you have the
assurance of a civil service which, in spite
of shortcoming and mistakes, has already
on the whole proved itself ca pable to trans
act your business honestly and efficiently
and where you find all those elements that
are faithfully and theoretically working
for more thorough and permanent re-
form?
In a few months you will have to make
your choice. [ know that when party
has been so long in power as the republic
can party, many citizens may be moved by
a desire for a change. In not a few cases
it may be desire for the sake of change.
not be followed without calm discrimina-
ton. Prudent men will never fail to con-
slider whether the only change possible
bids fair to be change for the better.
1t is true that the parties are apt to degen-
crate by the long possession of power. The
republican party cannot expect to escape
the common lot of humanity; but no can
did observer will deny that within late
period the republican party has shown
signs rather Of improvement than deteri-
Grafton; and that it possesses the best share
Of the intelligence, virtue and patriotism
Of the country. In matters of most es-
sential moment to the public welfare it
can be safely better counted upon for eff
cient and faithful service, while its oppo-
nent opens only prospect of uncertainty
and confusion.
The democracy may in the course of
time gain the confidence Of the people;
but that should be only when the repudi-
money have ceased to be in its ranks so
powerful and influential an element as
seriously to threaten the great economical
interests of the country; when by energet-
ic and successful action in protecting the
rights OF the voter whether white or black,